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Demarco 2022-03-23 09:03:06
The specter of totalitarianism
A short sentence summarizing this film I think is "German version of World War II, the Dead Poets Society without the captain"
This is a story that happened in a school where Germany provided future young members of the SS during World War II, and is similar to "The Destruction of the Empire",... -
Kiley 2022-01-17 08:02:57
The weight of life
This is a movie with a very unique shooting angle.
It seems that as long as it is a blockbuster, it can be involved in World War II or the Jews are rarely unpopular. Although Napola is one of them, it obviously has a deeper reason: it is from the eyes of the young elites of Nazi Germany to reflect...
Tom Schilling
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Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!
Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!
Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!
Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?
Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.
Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!
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Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."
Vogler: Albrecht, stop.
Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.
Vogler: Albrecht, stop.
Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.
Vogler: Out!
