There is really less than an hour and a half of the film. The story of this film is very restrained. Although I didn't fully distinguish who the characters are at the end, it didn't prevent me from being awe-inspiring after watching it.
Under the crushing of war, everyone is a victim. If the Nazi attack on other countries is a kind of aggression, is the oppression of the people of the defeated country by the victorious country another kind of aggression? And this kind of "aggression" is also covered under the so-called "natural" logic of justice. When the Germans laid mines, they had to be removed by German soldiers. "A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye", "Homomorphic Revenge Law" is the world's first code "Twelve Tables Law" provisions. Look how barbaric the war is. Human civilization has developed for nearly three thousand years, and once returned to ancient Rome.
There are many anti-war movies, and this "anti" can refer to opposition or reflection. We must oppose the use of force to solve problems, and we must reflect on the relationship between the collective and the individual. Nazis are guilty, but what are these young boys? In the end, why should they use their lives to atone for the motherland?
War is abstract, but revenge is concrete; nations are abstract, but soldiers are concrete. The stronger the collectivism, the more serious the kidnapping of individuals. When there is a conflict between the collective and the individual, please stick to your own thinking and judgment, even if you have to pay for it. Because many people are powerful, but they are not necessarily correct, and the truth is always in the hands of a few...
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