I have seen a lot of movies related to Germany during World War II, among which there are many German Nazi perspectives, such as "The Destruction of the Empire", "Hitler's Boys" and so on, but the special thing about "Our Fathers" is that it says It is the experience of Nazi soldiers, nurses, singers, Jews, and several different types of ordinary people during World War II. The story lines of the five former good friends are independent from each other, but tightly intertwined. Before I watched it, I felt that there were three films, the top, middle, and bottom. This movie was too long. After watching it, I didn’t fast forward for a second, because I felt that everything that happened in the movie was very real, and the transformation and joys and sorrows of ordinary people during the war.
There are no tears in this film, not because it is not sad, but because in such a big game of chess, they are really too powerless as ordinary people.
I really didn't like Miss Nurse Charlotte at first. She had a silly and joyous smile on her face, full of longing for everything, and full of enthusiasm for serving the country. This naive and ignorant state made me very disgusted. From her face, I can't see any understanding of what the war means. She is just a silly girl who got good grades for herself and can serve the country. So she collapsed on the first day, and the knowledge she had learned was completely useless, and she was in a hurry amid the blood and the screams of the wounded. Her belief in the country at the beginning also reminded me of the former Red Guards general, who actually didn't understand anything, just a kind of naive and ignorant blind obedience. And I've always felt that the most dangerous evil is the good evil, the evil done by the unthinking "good" rabble. But after she reported the Jewish nurse Lilja who had helped her a lot, she began to suffer and doubt, and a steady stream of wounded soldiers kept testing her soul. In the end, she became a strong and excellent nurse, able to remain calm in times of crisis. At the same time, she is becoming more and more skeptical of the beliefs she once held firm. Charlotte's love road is also very bumpy. She has always had a crush on Wilhem. She thought that Wilhem died and cried in a low voice and then turned to go to the doctor to vent. It was really sad. And Wilhem, who she later met in the deserter camp, collapsed and shouted I love you, which was super heartbreaking. But Charlotte still has her innocent side, she became friends with the prisoner of war nurse (seems to be Ukrainian?), when the Soviets called, everyone left the immobile wounded soldiers and ran away, she was still stubborn, even Some naive people stay in the hospital. She was no longer a little girl who knew nothing about war, but she still made this choice.
Greta was the furthest from the war among the five, but was the first to die. The pain she endured was called pain in our generation and "well protected" in theirs. Put on the air of a singer in the war zone, and finally the plane flew away and no one waited for her; in a bar, among a group of men who hoped to work for Germany, he said that we can't win; What if you are pregnant with someone else's child. The part where Greta asked Charlotte to help her go back to Berlin, but Charlotte loudly ordered her to come and help lift the wounded soldiers, very clearly shaped how different the two girls who were once best friends had become now. Greta was reluctant to shake hands with her inmates in the cell at first, and finally hugged her when the inmates were sent to be executed. The gleam in her eyes faded little by little, and by the time she was finally shot, she looked like a walking corpse.
Viktor is the biggest European emperor in this film. As a Jew, his girlfriend Greta helped him at first (although he didn't help anything), then a Polish girl helped him jump off the train, and then the guerrilla captain let him go. The German soldier who pointed the gun at him turned out to be his friend Friedhelm. Although he was very lucky, but the side reflects that at that time the Jews had to die to escape the heavy pursuit, and Poland was more anti-Semitic than Germany.
Wilhem and Friedhelm are brothers. The younger brother is a literary youth who likes Jung and Rimbaud. At the beginning, the younger brother said a famous saying "war will only expose our worst side". The older brother is a soldier with a strong sense of honor. He is very disgusted by the killing of women and children. Killing the surrendered Soviet military commission also makes him struggle. As the monologue of the whole film, my brother actually had high expectations for the victory of the war at the beginning, but he was not a fanatic. The golden body is possessed and God bless Germany. At first, the younger brother's behavior of hiding behind everything he encountered made it difficult for the elder brother as an officer to do it. After all, at the beginning of the war, the younger brother looked like "destroy this world", but the world-weary younger brother was completely in a shelling Changed (the Soviet plane flew over, and his comrades told him to put out the cigarette, he did not extinguish it, and continued to smoke indifferently, as a result, the trenches and comrades were bombed because of his behavior). Since then, my brother has changed into a person, a cold-blooded killer who is either you or me, so I must live longer than you. He went from a pacifist trying to save little Soviet girls from the Germans to a Nazi soldier who let Soviet farmers go ahead to help them clear mines and kill women and children without blinking. The recruit Danzi asked him how he could live until now, he said, "I hope other people around me die", and asked how he became like this, he said, "Don't treat yourself as a human being." And his brother became more and more vulnerable in the repeated defeats of the German army. He finally chose to become a deserter, playing cats and fish in a small house by himself. (Brother and younger brother are so handsome ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ~) The younger brother almost burst into tears at the end. He used suicide to tell the recruits who were only 12 years old and still dreaming of the Third Reich to give up their illusions and hurry up with the Soviets. Surrender and save your life. He was pierced by many bullets and finally fell to the ground, looking at his troops. The veterans had long been numb in the war, and the new recruits who had never seen blood were shocked by the bloody scene in front of them. In the end, they all obeyed his words and chose When he surrendered, he smiled and died with a faint smile. The younger brother knows that he has killed too many people in the war, and the once gentle literary youth has turned himself into a war machine. I think when he returned to the battlefield, he had no idea of going back alive.
There are also a couple of interesting characters that are not the main line, Lilja and the head of the Gestapo. Lilja appears to be a Soviet spy. Charlotte thought she had been shot by the Nazis for being reported by herself, but in the end Lilja appeared in front of her wearing a Red Army officer uniform and saved her from being nearly raped by the Soviet Red Army. She told Charlotte it was time for retribution. And the head of the Gestapo who took care of Greta showed the other side of society. Not every war criminal will be punished. Some don't even need to flee into exile, and still live there happily.
There are also some very impressive scenes in the film:
Wilhem's five-person photo fell out of his pocket, and he hit the bullet casings on the old photos of five friends;
The captain of the security team shot the little girl with blood splattered on his neck;
Brother roars that so many of us are for this half street;
The older brother met the badly burned Soviet man in the tank;
The younger brother thought that his elder brother was dead, so he went all the way into the telegraph station and collapsed, saying that we are here for this? ? ? ;
The three of them reunited in the former tavern, and replayed the pictures of the five people chatting and dancing happily before the war.
Very worth seeing!
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