What impresses me most in the film are the two shots of Charles XII marching through the pub and the one shot of the German soldiers kissing and changing drinks with the female bartender in the Swedish tavern, and after the Germans won World War II, they used similar torture to medieval bronze bulls. The scene to please the officer. The first and third scenes are the dreams of the melancholy salesman in the film. The first scene reflects Sweden's transformation from a European power into a second-rate country during the reign of Charles XII. The flattering Swedish female bartender is also a metaphor for Sweden, which was known as neutral in World War II but was very biased towards Germany; the officer standing in the center in the third scene was the officer who was sitting in front of the soldiers in the second scene, and the salesman The officers became the bartenders who poured drinks for the officers. These shots are all the author's satire on Swedish society. In the war, they helped the tyrants and abused them just to survive, but in the end they still didn't get good results. And these are interpretations of "1943" and "Charles XII".
The interpretation of "Homo sapiens" in the film is that at the end of the film, a person said, "Today should not be Wednesday, today should feel like Thursday.", and everyone around him began to refute him immediately, "You can't rely on your feelings. To determine what day of the week today is, you have to record each day that you have passed to determine the day of the week today and tomorrow, yesterday was Tuesday, today is Wednesday, and tomorrow must be Thursday.” Indeed, we strive to record every day. One day, and try to learn from it and grow, as if one day we will change from apes to Homo sapiens, but the process of life is not the accumulation of strength and the final leap into the sky to complete the evolution, the process of life is like a step by step, and finally Where to go is decided by the god of death, which echoes the three scenes of encountering death in the title, did they eventually become Homo sapiens? I think it should be no, one died in loneliness, one died in miserliness, and the other died later despised. Life is good enough, we shouldn't think about when to become a Homo sapiens every day, it is the true meaning of enjoying every little satisfaction in life, just like the couple in the film who are in debt by a salesman, although they are penniless, but every day Smoking a cigarette in the morning can make him sigh the beauty of life.
PS: This movie is really difficult for people with face blindness to understand. I also watched it twice before I could understand it. .
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