After watching three episodes off and on, I cried back and forth several times. Friedhelm hated war the most from the very beginning. Before the war, he said that "war will reveal the evil side of man". However, in the war, the person who said this was brother Wilhelm. After that night, Wilhelm also chose to flee. He dared to admit the reality and would not deceive himself and God like Charlotte's nurse friend. I remember that after Friedhelm was wounded by his comrades, the pain of not being able to fit into the group completely overwhelmed him. His ingenuity also began to show, and what impressed him most was undoubtedly the fact that he let civilians cross the minefield. A man who paralyzed himself in the war appeared. He just obeyed orders, not a murderer of evil . Arendt called this "banal evil". After returning to Berlin, he could not bear the domestic public opinion, and chose to return to the battlefield. As a machine, justifying his actions may be the only way to support his heart. I don't know if it was because he met his old friend Viktor, who was a Jew, on the battlefield, or because he learned that his brother was alive as a deserter, and he shot and killed the evil officer and the "mediocre" who supported him. evil". "Suicide is the most subversive 'tragic' resistance," Foucault said. "I had never been able to understand suicide before, and I read "To Live" before thinking that it was trying to tell us about the pain of life, but it was actually highlighting the importance of being alive. human courage and energy. However, at this moment, I fully understand Friedhelm's suicide, which is a man's defense of his own life's dignity and conscience, and also "the most tragic resistance".
Wilhelm's defection and the clear lines of his facial features are too attractive to me, my brother is a person with a real conscience. He said: "In the beginning, we fought for Germany; later, we fought for the people around us. When everyone around us is gone, what else can we deceive ourselves with? (Can't remember the exact words, probably This means)" It not only recognized the evil of mediocrity early, but in the second stage, he was already psychologically disobeying the order to kill and die. After the battle in the Soviet Union, he chose to live as a "human", but unfortunately Captured by the Germans as a member of the death reprieve. In the end he killed the German officer and embarked on the road back.
Charlotte is also redeeming her life. In the beginning, she was proud of being a German and wanted to become a nurse and fight for the glory of Germany. However, in the face of the Jews who helped her, she denounced her. This brought her the pain of endless repentance. In the third episode, facing the little nurse in Russia, in order to protect her, she misses the opportunity to evacuate the hospital. Just when she was about to be enslaved by the Russians, the Jews she had betrayed saved her. War exposes evil and identifies hypocrisy and conscience.
The story of Greta and Viktor is the most regrettable. Greta was imprisoned amid contradictions. On the one hand, she was willing to be a mistress and wanted to become a celebrity. On the other hand, she obtained a visa for Viktor to leave Germany on the pillow. This is what most people look like. , also looks like a real person. But in prison, facing life and death, she is not without a chance, she can help the German officers to whitewash, but she also chooses to die. In a sense, Greta and Friedhelm's death are somewhat similar in that they both gave up their struggle for life. Viktor is an innocent image of a victim from beginning to end. It is really pitiful. Not only the Germans want to kill the Jews, but the Poles also want to kill the Jews. But what struck me most about Vikto was that he never hated or hated someone because of his identity label. His emotions are all focused on concrete, real people, whether they are German or Polish.
I have just been reading Western theories recently. The reflections of Germans on reality are always so profound and sobering. When will our country be able to face our history so profoundly and truly?
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