Firebird: When Love Can't Be Divided 🎥720

Firebird is a 2021 romantic war film directed by Peeter Rebane, based on the memoir The Story of Roman by Sergey Fetisov. Set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War, the film tells a true story of passionate but forbidden same-sex love between a private and a fighter pilot.

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Sergey, a young private struggling in the army, counts the days until the end of his military service. His life is turned upside down when Roman, an intrepid fighter pilot, arrives at base.

Affairs at the base have formed a beautiful friendship between Sergey, Roman and Luisa - the female secretary of the base commander.

Driven by curiosity and lust, Sergey and Roman gradually teeter on the edge between love and friendship. Later, they fell in love passionately.

Their love is subject to stalking, and intimidation by the commanding officer in the base. According to the regulations at that time, soldiers who are found to have same-sex relationships would be sentenced to 5 years in prison. This troubles and scares Roman because he wants to pursue his professional military career.

After being discharged from the army, Sergey pursues an artistic path. FireBird is the name of a ballet that Roman took Sergey to see for the first time in his life, which sparks his passion for art.

Roman is married to Luisa but still secretly has feelings for Sergey. Both Roman and Sergey are tormented by their hopeless love affair, until their love triangle is painfully decided by fate.

Aside from Tom Prior (as Sergey) who is British, most of the main actors in the film are of Eastern European origin such as Ukrainian Oleg Zagorodnii (as Roman), Russian Diana Pozharskaya (as Luisa), Estonian Margus Pragel (as Major Zverev).

Firebird was screened at many LGBTIQ+ Film Festivals in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong… and at several International Film Festivals.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Firebird has 88% positive reviews, with an average review score of 7.70. The rating on IMDb is 7.5/10.

[Firebird] Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman, Tom Prior ... Sergey

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Tom Prior ... Sergey

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Tom Prior ... Sergey

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman, Tom Prior ... Sergey

Margus Prangel ... Major Zverev

Tom Prior ... Sergey, Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

Diana Pozharskaya ... Luisa

Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman, Tom Prior ... Sergey

Tom Prior ... Sergey, Oleg Zagorodnii ... Roman

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Seal Team Season 4 Episodes 1 and 2: Aries is in a Forever War 🎥

In the first 2 episodes of Seal Team Season 4, "God of War" and "Forever War", Bravo Team collaborates with Romeo and Echo to carry out a mission named after Aries to eliminate the leader of Tahara terrorist network Al-Hazred.

@ The episodes can be watched on CBS, Paramount or as per the link near the end of this article.

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As introduced in previous posts, because of the airing time occupied by the 2020 US Presidential election show, Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 4 were rescheduled by CBS and merged into one with a duration of 1:20'.

In this episode, intelligence determines that Al-Hazred's base could be located in one of three locations in the mountainous Spin Ghar. As per the Aries operation, each team will approach one of the locations and whichever team determine that their location is the base of the terrorist leader, they will notify the other 2 teams to mobilize there and coordinate the attack.

The difficulty for this mission is not only the complicated terrain, but also the limited surveillance: only one AC-130 bird to serve all 3 teams in different locations.

Ahead of the mission, Jason proves to be mentally unstable, he keeps reminiscing about a mission many years ago when he was in the position of Bravo 2 - the same position as Ray now. Under great pressure, Jason strictens the disciplines and requires the team members to focus on the mission, and that creates some dissatisfactions, reactions and complaints among the members.

In mission, the location that Bravo Team covers is determined to be the area of Al-Hazred's base. Teams Romeo and Echo are caught up in skirmishes with Tahara gunmen at their respective locations, so it take almost 2 hours before they can move to Bravo Team's location for reinforcement.

While waiting for the other two teams, Bravo Team is tracked down by the enemy and fiercely attacked. The dog Cerberus suffers panics by the sound of artillery, so she gets panicked and runs away quite far, Jason runs after her and he is unluckily hit by the explosions, rolling down the mountainside.

At this time, the AC-130 plane is away for refueling, so there is no information for Havoc base to support him. Jason is heavily wounded and most of his gears were lost. He is also isolated from his teammates and constantly attacked by the enemies. Jason has to deal with the enemies all alone with only a shotgun before being rescued by his teammates.

Finally, the two teams Romeo and Echo also arrive in time to join force in attacking Al-Hazred's base and chase the main target into a cave. In this moment, Jason flashes back his previous operation: because of his negligence, his teammate Cujo (then Bravo 2) was killed in mission. It's also revealed that Jason used to met Al-Hazred years ago when the terrorist was still a boy who is the son of the target package.

In a talk with Jason after the mission, Agent Mandy expresses her fatigue after years of participating in the war on terror - she says the battle is vague and endless. Maybe in the next episodes there would be a change in her career path.

The person who wrote the offensive letter to Ministry of Defense has been identified as Ray; however, Clay Spenser pleads guilty and the guy is now in risk of being disqualified from the STA-21 Program nomination.