Before the Nazis, German youth had launched the "migratory bird movement" against the established system, they believed that "the religious beliefs of parents are hypocritical, politics is bragging and insignificant, economics is shameless and deceitful, education is old-fashioned and lifeless, and art is bland. Boring and sentimental, literature is false and commercialized..." Comparing it with the mental outlook of the German youth in this film, it is not difficult to find similarities. Most of the young people in the film are from the middle class, and they can be said to be extremely rich in material. Every day in addition to picking up girls, they take drugs, but at the same time, they are extremely bored and bored mentally; didn’t the boy in one of the protagonists say that, he can already imagine the future What it's like for decades: work an ordinary job, marry an ordinary girl, and have three or four children. Everyone will eventually surrender to this increasingly materialized society, but people always have to look for even one chance of rebellion before surrendering - the
right-wing military centralization drives everyone to the battlefield, no matter if you are aristocratic. , whether the minister's son must fight side by side with the common people, so as to achieve class equality; the left-wing communist centralization campaign to eliminate the wealthy, so as to achieve economic equality! And as long as a person is dissatisfied with the status quo, it is possible to follow any kind of command and join the cruelest political party in order to change the status quo!
There is no need to be right or wrong, and there is no need to be vigilant. As long as the human characteristic of dissatisfaction with the status quo is not eliminated, any political system may be overturned! This film only illustrates the possibility of such a turnaround on a small scale.
It's a pity that the film was not made more in-depth, and the characters were inconsistent. Except for the student who regarded an experiment as the value of life, everyone else was lackluster. Is it sad to swallow a gun? If he had been born in the forties, he would have been the most heroic SS soldier, so it is really sad that one cannot be born in the age that suits him!
Let’s make a dark guess: The director just didn’t dare to go too deep into the film. What if he incites the audience in front of the screen as well? Well, maybe...
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