This is a German film about World War II from the perspective of five good friends. Among them, two brothers went to the front together, a girl went to a field hospital to work as a nurse, a German Jew escaped and lived a partisan life, and the other girl became a female singer in Germany. Everyone has different personalities and different roles in the war, showing life under war from many aspects.
The first was brother William, who held a certain position in the army and was in charge of a team. In a battle to capture the telegraph station, he clearly knew that his team could not conquer it, and that blind execution of the mission would only wipe out the entire army, which was meaningless, but under military orders, he tried to attack and failed. In the shells, he survived by luck, he was desperate for the military order, he knew clearly that it was impossible to win the war, he chose to escape the war and live alone in an abandoned wooden house. Unfortunately, he was discovered by German soldiers and was sentenced as a deserter to carry out tasks such as carrying corpses and burying mines in the 500th Probation Brigade, which had a very low survival rate.
The second is my younger brother. I think he is the one who was most affected and changed by the war. At the beginning of the war, his younger brother would hold a book in the army camp. He was very resistant to the war. He could not bear to kill the Soviet soldiers, and the guerrillas could not bear to take away Jewish girls. He even set fire to the Soviet army in the trenches to let the Soviet army find out where the German army was. place. But as the war continued and his companions fell one by one, he realized that if he did not kill each other, he would only increase the risk of death for himself and his companions. During an advance, the younger brother proposed to let the guerrillas replace the German army to investigate landmines. The older brother cast a surprised look at the change in the younger brother, but the younger brother's eyes and expressions did not waver. He no longer feared life, only for himself and his companions. Survive. In an attack, the younger brother thought that his brother had been bombed to death, he threw everything, including his own life, he took up his gun and strafed the Soviet army straight ahead. When he captured the telegraph station, there was a dilapidated scene everywhere, just for This, sacrificed his brother, sacrificed the entire team. Later, the younger brother returned to Germany due to wounds, but returned to the battlefield. After going to the battlefield again, the younger brother seemed more indifferent. There were two scenes, one was hanging the residents and the other was shooting the little boy. He seemed to be accustomed to this, no longer thinking that the object was a life, but just mechanically executing it. Task. Until Germany was about to be defeated, he led a team of teenage young men. He asked the names and ages of the young men beside him, picked up a small notebook to record, and then walked to the Soviet army alone. , although he was holding a gun, he did not pull the trigger. Maybe he wanted to end the crimes brought about by the war with his own life. For him, the war was meaningless. Life has no meaning anymore.
The third is Xia Li, who worked as a nurse in a field hospital. This character is more about the suppressed feelings between her and William. William felt that his life and death on the frontline was uncertain, and he couldn't make a promise to Charlie, so he was slow to express it. And Charlie may be based on the subtlety of women, and she has never revealed her heart to William, and the two "missed" during the war. About Charlie, stories with Jews and Russians are also told. One was Lilia's chosen assistant. When Charlie learned that she was Jewish, she reported her privately, but when Lilia was about to be arrested, Charlie regretted it, during which Charlie asked her, "Why are you Help here?" Lilia replied, "We are all the same people." When the people in the hospital in the war zone fled, Charlie was captured by the Russian army, but was rescued by Lilia, when Charlie asked again, "Why did you save Me?" Lilia replied, "When is the time for retribution."
The fourth is Victor, a German Jew. The Jews were ill-fated during World War II and were regarded as the object of hatred by all parties. The relationship between him and Greta became more difficult because of their identity. Victor escapes on a train to a concentration camp and joins the partisans with a Polish girl. In the guerrillas, Victor also had to hide his Jewish identity. In a mission to intercept a German train, because he released a car of Jews, his identity was exposed, but in this mission, Victor Taking himself as a bait for the team won the victory, and also won the recognition and trust of the captain, Victor was able to save a life in the team that hated Jews, and the captain let him go.
The fifth is Greta, who became a singer in Germany. She and Victor were a couple, but because of anti-Semitism in Germany, Victor was trapped in Germany and could not leave. Greta obtained a "pass" through an officer, but did not expect it to be a scam, and Victor was taken away by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. And Greta was also caught up in fame and fortune. In one episode, Greta was angry with the officer when she found out that the officer was with his wife and daughter, but the officer said that he would provide her with a chance to tour, and Greta changed instantly. In a joyful manner, intimate with the officer, here is a vivid portrayal of Greta's loss of self under the lure of fame and fortune. It wasn't until Greta was sent to the front line to perform for the soldiers, met Charlie and the others, and really saw the real situation on the front line, that she suddenly realized that the information she received in Germany was false and that Germany could not win the war. In the end, Greta was also sent to prison by the officer and executed.
There are so many things that can be discussed in the whole film, the first one is war, why should human beings cause it? national interest? Religious beliefs? The people at the bottom who are most affected by the war are the people at the bottom. Their children have to go to the battlefield, they have no fixed place to live, they face the plight of lack of food, and they even face the death of war bombing. The leadership decides to launch a war in the name of the interests of the nation and the country, but can you think about the life of the people of the country trampled by the war? Human beings should be a community and move in a common direction, but this may be idealism. In reality, countries compete for resources and power for their own interests. Since conflicts are unavoidable, independent third-party organizations have emerged, but the decisions made by third-party organizations are also deeply influenced by countries that have the right to speak. How to solve the dilemma caused by national conflicts? How to make the human community develop in a better way? This is a tough question. Looking back at the current epidemic from the war of gunpowder smoke, he also looks like a war, a war without gunpowder smoke. Under this war, human beings face the problems of shortage of materials, the risk of virus infection, and the turmoil of people's hearts. Decisions affect the lives of tens of millions of people. How to make people trust the government? How to get the people to support the government? The government should take active actions to ensure basic people's livelihood issues, formulate operational and scientific epidemic prevention policies, and implement the implementation. Besides the virus, I don’t know whether the new coronavirus is man-made or natural. If it is produced in nature, humans should not regard it as an enemy. We should reflect on the impact of human behavior on the natural world and how to better coexist with nature; if the virus comes from human hands , pessimistically say that human beings will eventually destroy themselves.
The second is the implementation of military orders. It is a principle for soldiers to strictly enforce military orders. Even if the military order runs counter to the values they agree with, they must implement them. Every mission is an integral part of a military plan. Only execute. Therefore, the formulation of military plans is the core, which requires that the decision-making of the military leadership should be in line with the people's hearts, follow the law of development of things, and must not lose the foundation of the people's hearts, but only be driven by interests. At the same time, as a leader at any level, if you want to lead a team with centripetal force, you must make scientific decisions, consider each member of the team, grasp the primary and secondary issues, and give members a certain degree of autonomy for non-major issues. , and excavate the characteristics of each member, give play to their strengths, and make up for the team's shortcomings.
The third is fame and fortune and dreams. Greta has a dream of being a singer, she has the talent to sing, she can go step by step to realize her dream. But there is no doubt that the realization of many dreams also depends on opportunities. If you can seize the opportunities and tap your potential, you will have the opportunity to realize your dreams. A dream is a beautiful thing, with goals and motivation to move forward, but in the process of chasing dreams, don’t be tempted by additional things. The most realistic thing is fame and fortune. Surrounded by fame and fortune, people will gradually lose themselves. Indulging in intoxication and being intoxicated, the pursuit of dreams is quickly replaced. This is the trap of fame and fortune. Once this dreamlike bubble of fame and fortune is pierced, it is like falling into a corpse like a walking corpse from an ethereal fantasy. Fame and fortune are vain, cannot last, let alone strengthen the heart, and only corrode the inner soul of the self. He is like opium, gradually addicted, but constantly consumes his body and spirit, so for fame and fortune, don't be coerced by it, don't trapped in it. What we really need to do is to keep the heart of a child, pursue our dreams, be down-to-earth, seize opportunities, and experience ourselves.
The core of this film is to tell about the war itself. It tells about a series of problems brought about by the war from the experiences of five good friends. It is also Germany's reflection on itself, the courage to face history, and only wish for world peace and friendly coexistence between human beings and nature.
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