The most exciting thing in this drama is the choices made by the officers of the Axis powers in front of their interests and the secret fights with their internal colleagues to seize the territory, and the secret wrestling between the Axis powers is logical and close to reality. There are also Deputy Captain Jochen Smith’s wandering and self-doubt and the wavering of values between family, friendship and national policy conflicts, Rudolf Wegener’s reflection on himself, and his and Tanakami’s choice of national interests, but Later, for the sake of his family, he chose to abandon national interests and chose to go against his own political interests to assassinate the head of state at the risk of a war between Germany and Japan. The two important ministers, Tanakami and Ichito, did their best to prevent the outbreak of the delayed war and abandon their personal gains and losses. The "villains" have become plump and flesh-and-blood under the director's portrayal. Compared with the frequent logical loopholes, the lower emotional intelligence, and the monotonous characterization of the main story, the main story is much more exciting. I think after watching the full season, it’s also time to take out the high-ranking official lines of Axis for a concentrated appreciation. In fact, there are original novels of PKD, and it is difficult to make bad films there! The real imperial Japanese intelligence agencies, secret agents, military police and intelligence agencies of other countries in the same period did not differ in their ways of doing things. Just as Prussia invented the staff headquarters system and other powers followed suit, after a successful system has been verified in practice, all countries and groups will follow suit, which of course also includes modern spy agencies. There may be many differences in the organization according to the social and cultural environment faced by the intelligence agencies of various countries, but the specific methods of performing tasks are similar, such as monitoring, arrest, torture, search, development of informants, and spreading fear. In fact, the intelligence system of the victorious countries that known as the free world and resisting tyranny took shape earlier. The rising star Japan was only a student in front of them, but because the victorious country won the victory and mastered public opinion, it also paid attention to the outcome of the victory in propaganda. The propaganda of inhumane, cruel and dirty means of victory and the extensive declassification of official documents that the defeated countries will destroy in the future have led to the general perception that "Allies are the divisions of benevolence and righteousness, and Axis warfare means. Brutal" In fact, the methods used by both parties in the specific competition are the same dirty. When it comes to characterization, the city prosecutor of the gendarmerie is also quite clear. He didn't intend to kill the male lead and his sister's family. It was because the suspect was caught too late, which caused the male protagonist to fail to clear the responsibility in time, and he had to make a decision. When the suspect was captured, he came forward in time to stop the killing and successfully rescued the male protagonist, but it was too late to stop the murder of his sister and his family. Faced with the extremely angry and irrational male protagonist, he did not continue to pursue it. And in the end, when we caught evidence and arrested the scapegoat, it was the second time that we faced the male lead’s face-to-face collision and just took a laissez-faire attitude and did not further trouble him. As for his unscrupulous access to intelligence, in other words, anyone in his position will make the same decision, and the world, especially the allied espionage agencies, will do the same. The way the espionage agency operates has also been mentioned earlier. It emphasizes resources, resourcefulness, and efficiency. As for whether it is brutal or not... This is not important, and it is probably not the intelligence requirements of the espionage agency. It can be said that he knows nothing about intelligence work. Unless your mission involves walking fear/counter-subversion propaganda. What’s even more commendable is that under such a great pressure and failure to commit suicide by cutting abdomen, the City Attorney General can still act calmly and deal with it ably. Instead, most keyboard prawns have long been in order to serve the country (actually to save their lives!). Losing his reason and being embarrassed and turning into anger and killing him, he might be more brutal then! Moreover, when we say that the Japanese army is brutal, we generally refer to the Japanese front-line combat units, not the spy agencies behind them. Moreover, inferring from the age of the veterans participating in the war and the age of their offspring, it has been nearly 20 years since the end of the war. The suzerainty treats the occupied territories to develop the economy and maintain the foundation of ruling, rather than waste labor through meaningless massacres. Large-scale atrocities are generally concentrated in wartime, and the world in the play has enjoyed peace for nearly two decades. Let us refer specifically to the bloody battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Even the people could hardly escape. After the war, reconstruction work began to restore order. Nanjing even soon became the capital of Wang Jingwei's new National Government. Therefore, according to the historical background of the drama, there is no opportunity to show the so-called "cruel", and the non-crew or the original author does not restore history to defend totalitarianism. To take a step back, in the first episode of the first season, the Tegaoke/Gendarmerie shot and killed the female protagonist’s sister in the street, forced to interrogate the female protagonist/videotape, and involved the family of the male protagonist’s sister. The prisoner was tortured to extract a confession. The prisoner was not eligible to be buried. The social atmosphere where the gendarmerie cannot participate in social activities such as martial arts when summoned by the military police ), isn’t all this enough to explain the horror and brutality of the secret service? In other words, let netizens brainstorm ideas and talk about how to shoot, which not only reflects the so-called brutality of Japanese spies, but also does not exceed the scope of authority as a spy agency, and at the same time, it is perfectly integrated into the plot without losing its rationality? As for the chief prosecutor of the city (and the minister of trade, Tanakami), he has a righteous mind and a clear distinction between public and private. Let’s refer to the tenth episode of the first season. The chief prosecutor of Kioto would rather risk being unable to give Tokyo an explanation, facing the consequences of amputated suicide, very calmly chose to destroy the evidence of the Germans, maintain the surface unity of the Axis powers, and do everything possible to prevent the outbreak of the war between the two countries, and knows Takami’s cover suspects escaped the country, concealed information, lied and did not cooperate, and even recruited female protagonists to cover the subversion suspects (this is almost equivalent to publicly provoking the city attorney-general!) to be able to (temporarily) toss the suspects and face the righteousness of the country They confessed to their political opponents, and finally received thanks and reconciliation from the Minister of Trade. The two abandoned their personal grievances and reached a temporary alliance in the face of greater interests... To be honest, good officials like the Minister of Trade and Attorney-General Joto are simply good officials. It can be unquestionable. This gendarmerie inspector of the Great Wall household, together with the portrayal of John Smith, the deputy SS captain, I think is the most personal in the whole show!
In addition, some people even said that the depiction of the occupying forces was not cruel enough. The occupied area was not full of anti-explosive gun battles like the film and television broadcast. The situation in the Japanese-occupied area is actually no different from our daily life. Most of the mass killings took place. In some areas where resistance is relatively fierce, in the early stage of the occupation, the search for the remnants of the Kuomintang and the anti-Japanese non-governmental organizations may have a small period of chaos after the end of the fighting. However, with the arrival of long-term occupation and stability maintenance, the whole situation tends to be stable. Especially from the time of the play, the war has been over for more than ten years, and it should have stabilized long ago. The administrative resources of the Japanese scattered in the occupied areas of the world are also limited. They will not shoot and kill people and arrest people when they are idle. The Japanese soldiers maintain law and order and train and adjust defenses on a daily basis. It is impossible to kill people every day. The relationship between the occupying army and the locals is also tending to normalize. Japanese soldiers often take to the streets in small groups to buy things with the local Chinese people and listen to theaters. They will also pay for things. The Japanese military and police still maintain law and order on a daily basis. Compared with the Kuomintang rule, everyone still buys things, works, cooks and lives. There are not so many stories to speak of. It's not so much that the depiction of the villain is not cruel enough, it is better for you to reflect on yourself whether the left media has seen too much?
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