The Fake Captain is a film about Germany during World War II, based on a true story. The movie is different from "Schindler's List", which generally depicts innocent people who were brutally slaughtered by the German Nazis, and is not like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Pearl Harbor", which spare no effort in depicting the war scenes that are raging and displaced. . It's just from the end of the war, when the Nazis were about to die out, starting with an ordinary deserter and introducing how his fate changed completely by relying only on a captain's uniform.
At the beginning of the story, the protagonist Herold was just a deserter who was afraid of war and death. He stole food from the villagers, just to survive and not be discovered by the German captain who teased them with hunting. But things took a dramatic turn afterward when he found a captain's uniform in an unmanned military vehicle. Perhaps at the beginning, the only thought was to wear more clothes to live better, but when he found out that a handsome captain's uniform brought him a change in temperament and the respectful respect of a deserter, his mentality changed. Now, whether true or not, he is already a captain with a class hierarchy.
Not worrying about food and clothing, cheating, showing off his power, these are the advantages given by the uniform, and he can live well if he goes on like this. But at the moment when he met the search team, if he was found to be shattered by the lie, it would be enough to kill him. But his thought of being alive saved his life: "to be given the name of Hitler". The name of the Führer was enough to establish an image among countless Nazi fanatics. In the camp, the class hierarchy changes again. The slaughter of deserters really made him a fanatical Nazi.
Uniform is power, even if life and death are uncertain at the moment, there is even goodwill. But in the hands of a person who was in charge of life and death immediately after he was out of danger of death, he also slashed the butcher's knife on the same person as himself. There is a detail that Herold, even with his surviving goodness, covered the fallen compatriots with clothes before he had no uniform, and revered the dead with the respect of war. Compared with the fugitives in the crazy slaughter camps that followed, human nature is just a thin layer of paper in front of power. Even in the name of faith and civilization, he kept putting himself in the framework of the dark system, stepping on the bones and walking towards the highest point of the system. Where is the dark kingship and society not like this?
Humanity bows down to power and everything else is worthless. To walk in darkness by virtue of darkness is destined to be swallowed by darkness.
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