The noble and the mean are only one step away

Lois 2022-04-19 09:02:32

Sally is the perfect person who can counterfeit money, enjoy life, and be carefree. After being taken into a concentration camp, in the face of the brutality of the enemy, he still insisted not to betray his friends—his only weakness was that he compromised with the enemy. And that staunch communist Adolf Borg, while enjoying life, never gave up his ideals and his ruthlessness toward his enemies—his only virtue was that he never gave up spiritually.
When such two people face each other, I, as an audience, have been troubled several times. Who is the right choice? In that extreme environment, of course, there was nothing wrong with preserving himself, plus Sally also preserved other people, like Coria, who had tuberculosis, the railroad workers who dared to sneak into the team, and even Borg himself. However, what he did in this way was essentially aiding Zhou, and the narration at the end of the film explained it very clearly. Fortunately, the time of the dollar was delayed, otherwise. . . . . . Then, Borg is the biggest contributor. But when Borg's revolutionary declaration of "We will resist, we will destroy" is accompanied by the constant gunfire and whipping in the concentration camps, I think many people will think that Borg is too "reckless", despite this. The "consequence" is to live a life, that is, to have no integrity.
I think the best thing about this movie is the duel between the noble and the humble. In this duel, no one is the winner and no one is the loser. And I, this ordinary person, found out that I must not be a hero.
Also, hero, heroism, is it really good?
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The Counterfeiters quotes

  • Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.

    [I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else]

  • Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Only by surviving, we can defeat them.