The sacred cross represents love and redemption, and these collapsed "oblique crosses" are indifference and numbness, and the blood-red mark seems to drip the blood of the undead they have watched every moment. The contingents watched the humiliation and death of their compatriots. They just waited for the breath of life to disappear and the struggle to survive ceased to come to the "land of death", or gas chambers, or mass graves, indifferent A bloody body was dragged away, incinerated, and its ashes reclaimed in the sea. Saul and his teammates on the task force never directly participated in the creation of death, but just watched the passing of these living beings. , numbly living in the world.
The collapsed cross on their bodies is their protective talisman, giving them the refuge they can survive as Jews; it is also the countdown to their lives, and the humiliation of betraying their compatriots like this is only exchanged for more than four months of servility. life. They watched death, and they had no love for life. Once they escaped, the collapsed cross would become the target of the Nazis, killing them with one blow and ending the nightmare.
In this way, Sol was selected by the "devil" and became the target of this "lucky". When he watched people go step by step towards the hell of death, the moaning on the verge of death still made him feel uneasy. He had no choice, but he didn't want to face the unresolved souls that he had pulled away from his hands. Finally, there was a boy who seemed to have been chosen by God, survived the poisonous gas, and lived alone among hundreds of bones. Sol stared at him in astonishment. This was the cross that God gave him to straighten his heart, to redeem his own child! Although the child was eventually executed by the "devil", giving him the Jewish burial he deserved was also a kind of redemption given by God to Thor.
With this obsession, he risked his life to ask the doctor to keep the boy's body intact. He desperately insisted on finding a Jewish rabbi to preside over the boy's burial. He resisted survival and abandoned the uprising carefully planned by his teammates. The boy chosen by God to redeem himself, "His Son".
The uprising fails and the people flee; the rabbi deceives and Thor fails. Until the boy's body floated away in the river and could no longer be buried, Saul knew that he could no longer complete the burial for the boy and the redemption for himself. The nostalgia for life that remained in his eyes was no longer there. As he watched thousands of deaths, the cross behind him finally collapsed. Survival is death without humanity on the sidelines, death is final judgment without choice, life is a sinister hell without hope, and the world is a doomsday edge without faith.
War is not scary, because justice will eventually triumph over evil; what is scary is despair without faith, like Thor, the redemption that cannot be achieved even with awakening, like the members of the task force uprising, even resistance can not be obtained freedom, just like those who are indifferent and numb, even if they live in the world, they will not be able to experience the beautiful life they yearn for.
Saul may be every one of us, every one of us who is accustomed to bystander, who cannot be redeemed even if he awakens. We are accustomed to an indifferent life and a numb abandonment of faith, because the cross behind us has collapsed.
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