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Thomas 2022-06-10 16:24:49
The birth of crazy fascism
It feels that there is no specific dictator, but a collection of many dictators. The director himself said that he wanted to talk about the birth of crazy fascism during the Treaty of Versailles. Although this movie is not a four-hour black-and-white movie (how does the director know everyone’s...
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Bethany 2022-06-10 18:59:09
An overhead sense of historical nihility
Although the director has done a lot of investigation and refinement of the childhood stories of many dictators, and also has true and rigorous exquisiteness in historical details, this seemingly heavy debut has constantly revealed a sense of emptiness and historical nihilism, which is difficult...
Jeremy Wheeler
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The Childhood of a Leader quotes
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Charles: The tragedy is not only that Pontius Pilate betrayed his self but that hundreds in the crowd before him did betray their selves. And that's what I wrote was the tragedy of war. Not that one man has the courage to be evil but that so many have not the courage to be good.
