In a less interesting and coherent form than a class note, this review will review how a modern "Nazi group" such as the Tide was established on campus, how it operated and evolved, and how it eventually got out of control. No professional perspective, purely personal opinion.
The background of the Build
"dictatorship" activity week obviously played a catalytic role. The coercive power of the school curriculum itself, as a teacher's own position in the hearts of the students, made it clear that the intention to reproduce the autocracy, the teacher Rainer became the leader. The process of contract establishment is not very laborious. However, the contract was very loose at first, and some people even dropped out of the class, and then it was maintained and strengthened. The students' willingness to participate in this "game" at first was largely just because of "fun", and the various practices of Reiner in the first class were also within the category of "teaching skills", but this "interest" was also An attention-grabbing process, and this collective concentration of attention slowly solidifies the contract. The charisma shown by Reiner directs this attention to himself, cementing his role as a leader.
Reiner used a clever method to introduce and reinforce the concepts of "discipline" and "collective". For example, cheating is described as a kind of group solidarity, group stepping interferes with the anarchism class downstairs... How to make members start to value the group they are in, it is very simple - give them a common enemy. And dealing with the enemy requires synergy—discipline creates strength.
The role of uniforms: excluding differences and manufacturing differences. To exclude differences is to obliterate individuality, and to emphasize common will and collective strength from the appearance. Why not wear a white shirt? Because I don't like white! ——It is this personality that the uniform kills. To create a difference is to create a difference from other groups. When there are no other groups, it is to create a difference from "ordinary people", and then to create a sense of superiority. Of course, this sense of superiority is not created by a uniform, but by the huge collective behind the uniform, so that the uniform itself not only represents identity, but also represents a kind of power. The logos sprayed everywhere show the impatience of the tide monster for expansion and the bragging rights of its own power.
Out of Control
So, how on earth did Tide break free from Reiner and transform into a beast?
The reasons are manifold: the idiosyncrasies of the members themselves, the loss of leader control, the biased and distorted understanding of ideas, and disorderly expansion.
Explosive expansion is the most obvious manifestation and warning of a runaway wave. We can see the impact of the above factors from its expansion process.
There are four iconic nodes in the expansion of the wave: graffiti at night → bonfire party → water polo competition → final rally.
Who are the main players in this process? Athletes, punks, etc., are uneasy about the status quo, eager for change, and ambitious... The first personality traits of these Inspur members are the important reasons that lead Inspur to another development direction. Of course, this is only a general statement. The needs are different, like Tim who is weak and hungry for identification and a sense of collective belonging, Marco who wants to be noticed... And the interesting thing is precisely that the somehow wave boils down all these individual motivations and needs to be consistent with their own expansion. In the direction of the film - each character represents a type of person in the film, and can be analyzed in detail, which is another topic.
Reiner did not control the tide very well. What he did was to instill ideas in the classroom, but he did not see the students put these ideas into practice, which led to the distortion of ideas in practice. For example, the meaning of collective, "many people are powerful", is by no means mindless to include no matter what kind of people into one's own group - disorderly expansion.
And just like that, the tide started to spiral out of control.
What does the attraction
wave rely on to attract members?
For its original members, it was about its philosophy. Such as mutual respect and equality. That is, those elements in the early days that can consolidate loose contractual relationships.
Then there is its appeal as a "career" that gives these chaotic students a purpose, a clear meaning in life, and a sense of achievement, which in turn add to each other into a great passion and impetus .
In the subsequent stage of rapid expansion, the main reason why more people joined is because of the power that the wave has gradually expanded, and the huge pressure caused by the virus-like spread—voluntary or involuntary.
The role
is indeed, the German nation itself has some characteristics that breed dictatorship, active, enthusiastic, ambitious... I am afraid it is not easy to set up an organization like Inspur in a Chinese university. I don't know that Reiner is facing a group of people who are completely uninterested in answering his questions. Or sleeping or staring at him in a daze is how to build a nazi organization.
Caro: "The Misfits", "The Leader", "The Opponent", "The Revolutionary", a sense of independence.
Marco: "Sober", "Reformer", "Marginal".
Tim: "The Zealots," "Extremes," Tragedy.
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more ordinary members: "foolish people", "P people"...
So, which one are you?
Common Will
In fact, what really controls and guides the people is not the leader itself, but such a common will, or a Principle. Once leaders have created this power in the first place, they can no longer fully control it, but can only guide and utilize it to a certain extent. On the other hand, this will also has an impact on the leader himself. At the end of the film, Reiner turns into another Hitler is just acting, but the tide really makes him forget his original intention and become a fanatical Nazi. Is there a possibility? The answer is very yes. Obviously, Reiner enjoys the feeling of being watched and surrounded, and the delay in ending the wave is not because he doesn't smell the danger brought by the wave, but it may be this feeling that makes him hesitate.
Because this power of collective will has been detached from the leader to some extent, if the leader tries to deviate from and completely reverse this power, the result is likely to be the loss of its absolute position and the loss of control after the collective will loses its direction. This is also the reason why Reiner did not directly announce to stop the wave, but played a little trick. He tried to make everyone realize the nature of their own behavior and free themselves from this self-hypnosis, which is a good buffer. , but it is far from enough. Such a powerful force of common will must not and cannot be stopped abruptly, otherwise it will be an outbreak after being suppressed, and the only way is to divert and divert (why is the uncle of the People's Liberation Army thrown to the northwest after the war) Land reclamation?) When Reiner said that he wanted to PUT AN END, the result was already doomed. Even without a radical character like Tim to intensify the situation, the members of the wave would never be willing to return to boredom after walking out of that door. ordinary life.
But is there really no way to force termination? Actually there is. Because at the end of the film, the wave has really been terminated, but it is not Reiner's speech that achieves this effect, but Tim's death. It is foreseeable that no member of the wave will want to continue after this. The huge blow shattered the still unstable common will. Everyone's independent consciousness was stripped from the common will and began to think independently. The individual things were stimulated at the moment of the blow, and everyone began to think when they were pointed at the gun. To yourself, consider what the hell is going on. And then the common will falls apart.
However, it is the "unstable" common will. If this will is mature enough to withstand the threat of death, how can it be shattered? ...like, the fiasco of a world war?
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