- feeling after
watching "Counterfeit Maker" Before reading "Counterfeiting Maker", I expected to write an afterthought, but when I When I read it, I couldn't make up my mind to hit the keyboard.
Suddenly I have a strange idea. When a counterfeit paper money is placed in front of you, if it has only one side that is realistic, and the other side is blank without a pattern, as long as people with normal behavior ability can identify its authenticity. Fake. And if there are patterns on both sides of the counterfeit banknotes, and they are almost genuine, if they are not professionals, they are often regarded as "real". I put this weird idea into the logic of filmmaking, if the characters in the film are just blindly good or blindly bad, just acting as one of the binary oppositions, then the film looks very "fake", and if the film The characters have mixed personalities, sometimes cunning and hateful or even cold-blooded, sometimes naive and kind or even tearful, so we generally think that such characters are full and real in the movie. But just like counterfeit banknotes are fake money after all, and movies still need to be fictional, they still can't get rid of their "pseudo" fate. However, kind-hearted moviegoers still have to be moved by this "pseudo" and show their real emotions, because moviegoers find their self in the real society in the movie, or find the darkness hidden in their hearts.
Because they can print counterfeit banknotes for the Nazis and attack the financial systems of Britain and the United States and other allied countries, the "enemies" are at a disadvantage in the war. These "Jewish pigs" have soft pillows and white sheets in the "golden cage". Washing, weekend vacations and even playing table tennis, living a life no less than the treatment of ordinary SS soldiers, of course, freedom and life are still under the strictest control of the Nazis, and at best they are "white-collar workers" among slaves.
The "white-collar workers" lost everything except their lives. The only value of life is to print counterfeit banknotes for the Nazis from hostile countries, and the hostile countries are their liberators and saviors. What the slaves did was to delay the pace of the liberators coming to them, and they were also destroying the hope of their own life; not cooperating with the Nazis, and stopping helping the tyrants would be a dead end. The only difference is that the former is a chronic suicide, and the latter may cause life to evaporate immediately! Under such a predicament, the inner torment can be imagined, and the spiritual struggle is tormenting myself like boiling water.
The communist who was distributing anti-fascist leaflets on the street with his wife still hoped in the "golden cage" for the "prison revolution" to happen, but the idealist tied the lives of other inmates to Atop the chariot of his revolutionary ideals, the last of his inmates' lives was nearly destroyed by his fiery passion. He has the right to preserve the passion in his heart, but he cannot let innocent people make inaction sacrifices. When I saw the plot here, I naturally thought of that ridiculous sentence: shout your own slogan and let others sacrifice! That is to say, no matter how great a person's ideals are and the reasons are, they should not put others' Life is tied to his own slogan!
Sally, the counterfeiter who lived a sensual life before the war, is cunning, sophistry, and even looks wretched, because he is a Jew without a pure Aryan blood, and was killed by the Nazis after the war began Unequivocally, he was taken into a concentration camp, and he died in prison because of his painting ability to fool the Nazi officers. Moreover, because he was a master of counterfeit money making, he was valued by the Nazi officers with his skilled skills and was transferred to the "golden cage". ”, and was entrusted with the important task of becoming the head of the counterfeit banknote manufacturing factory. This rank has been verbally promised by the Nazi officers to “save their lives”. For this alone, it is not exaggerated to give him the title of “Golden Collar Slave”. Before he was imprisoned, Sally was rebellious. After he was imprisoned, he seemed to be working hard for the Nazis in order to survive. In fact, Sally's servility to the Nazis was really helpless. Otherwise, Sally and his "workers" would have will be executed. It is impossible for Sally to be like that idealist, who only has ism without problems. In Sally's view, how to successfully produce counterfeit banknotes and save the lives of dozens of "workers" is a real problem. What other "isms" "Revolution" is bullshit in the face of living human life! The reason is very simple, only by the continuation of life can the ideal be continued and realized.
Just like the weird idea I started this article with, is Sally really just living a life without any dignity? A good director would not make such a low-level "single-sided counterfeit" mistake. When Sally was mopping the floor in the toilet and was insulted by the Nazi officers showering his head with urine, Sally was annoyed, and even crushed and smashed the sink when washing the dirt, I think he must have thought of the idealist before. A mockery and advice to him: What's the point of life without dignity? Live only to make counterfeit money for the Nazis! And the irony is that this was also said from the officer who urinated his head, and I think it was the officer's words that angered Sally because the cellmate said this There is also a layer of advice wrapped in it, and it is the purest insult and disdain that Sally was forced to serve in the mouth of the Nazis. Sully took the risk to make a deal with the Nazi officer, in exchange for medicines to treat the young inmate with tuberculosis, but at the same time as getting the medicine, the young inmate was discovered by the Nazis and ended easily on the grounds of preventing infection. He only lived 20 years. Years of life, Sally saw all this secretly, and cried bitterly with the medicine, which can be said to be tear-jerking.
The idealist is also not a "single-sided counterfeit banknote", nor is he only a cold-blooded person who is only docile and inhuman. Due to his passive slack in work, the use of the domestic term is "witly fighting the reactionaries in prison", which prevented the smooth flow of US dollar counterfeit banknotes into the financial markets of the Allied countries, resulting in no major fluctuations in exchange rates, thus indirectly helping the liberators. The war was on edge until they freed themselves. This can be regarded as a small realization of the idealist "ideal". The director is still flesh and blood, so the characters are also very full.
This film is full of contradictions, struggles, inner conflicts and impulses, which is a true portrayal of human nature. I like this movie because there are too many cases of "single-sided counterfeit banknotes" in China.
Xifeng beautiful
color2008-10-15
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