Director Verhoeven treats the SS captain, whom Rachel Stein fell in love with, as an anti-war, and she herself is very loyal to the organization, so, from a politically correct point of view, is impeccable. BLACK BOOK refers to the "notebook". For Rachel Stein, who is regarded as an enemy by both the enemy and allies, only by obtaining the black book can she prove her innocence. Can she succeed?
Since "Instinct", adding erotic condiments to explore human nature in a thrilling and suspenseful atmosphere is director Verhoeven's forte. Compared with Lust, Caution, The Black Book has a faster rhythm, interlocking links, and sharper contradictions. The leaders of the underground resistance organization are eager to save their children, and they don't hesitate to let Rachel Stein bet her body and life. It's a bit confusing. Your son is important, but other people's dignity and life are not important?
The assassination of a Nazi officer's eyeliner could save some Jews in the dark, but there would be retaliation, and captured resistance fighters (including the resistance leader's son) would be killed. So, with both sides realizing that the war was about to end in Germany's defeat, the Resistance and the SS made a private agreement that neither would kill each other again. For Rachel Stein, whose whole family died at the hands of the Nazis, Obviously unacceptable. Who is right and who is right, in the special environment of war, it is impossible to use common sense.
The Nazi general made a hilarious speech: "Your struggle against terrorists is our struggle, and we will fight with the Führer for a free Europe." This is obviously a satire on US President Bush's counter-terrorism strategy.
There is a classic scene in "Black Book": the heroine sitting on the back seat of a bicycle lifts her skirt when passing by a German patrol——In 1968, when the Soviet army occupied Prague, local young people kissed, Short skirts tortured the lust of Soviet soldiers.
In 2006, the German film "Sophie Sauer: The Last Days", which also showed resistance to the Nazis, made a big splash in the world cinema. In June 1942, the 24-year-old Hans launched the underground resistance organization "White Rose" at the University of Munich. It is the most shameful thing for those in power who are responsible, driven by dark motives, to rule themselves.”
If there is no freedom in criticism, then praise is meaningless; there is progress through friction, and freedom through opposition. If the government leads the people to disaster through information blockade and fascist rule, it can only resist. For the German youth at that time, resisting the Nazi government was undoubtedly the greatest patriotic act. The fourth leaflet of "White Rose" reads: "We will not be silent, we are your conscience.
" The difference is that youth never compromises. In any era and in any country, the young generation without baggage is always the one who resolutely and bravely launches an attack on darkness, backwardness and ignorance. The only thing that youth fears is that they lose their way, and they have no impulse and passion to resist in the face of injustice.
After the war, Rachel Stein was considered a spy who betrayed the interests of the motherland and was liquidated. The victor's humiliation to the traitors of the motherland was shocking, and drew an angry condemnation from the Allied commander: "You are no different from the Nazis!" In fact, similar situations abounded in continental Europe at that time. "Black Book" is thought-provoking: the purpose of eliminating fascism is to treat everyone, including the enemy, in a humane and legal way, and revenge in the way of fascism does not mean the arrival of justice.
As a freak of human civilization, war unleashes the evil of human nature to the greatest extent possible. The scum in the Dutch colluded with the German army to kill the Jews to obtain property, and there were also profit-seeking double agents in the resistance organization. While pointing directly at the darkness of human nature, the director Verhoeven praised the human desire for freedom and light without hesitation, and the face of it. Evil, courage and sacrifice in an almost hopeless environment.
"Black Book" is a chicken soup for the soul that Verhoeven sent to the Chinese people in the New Year. It pays tribute to the beautiful youth that does not succumb to tyranny: darkness is eternal, and light is eternal. (Xinmin Weekly)
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