Don't test humanity

Graciela 2022-04-20 09:02:55

German reflections on World War II have always been serious and in-depth, so the film is unsurprisingly high quality. This is a film with a single protagonist, and the whole film lacks the reconciliation of female colors, the tone is strong, and the lines are more cold. After watching the whole movie, the general knowledge of the hero should be crazy, but he is not sick from the beginning, and he also knows to stay away from the scene near the end of the movie. Because it is based on real events, this detail magnifies the real evil infinitely-anyone put into the movie has a certain chance of doing similar deeds to the protagonist-the evil that can be replicated is obviously even more impressive shudder. After the movie started, the protagonist, who was a deserter, got a captain's officer's uniform inexplicably. This episode has a funny feeling of a child wearing an adult's hat. The protagonist probably also clearly recognizes this, so he chattered like a drama actor. The appearance of the first deserter is just right, and therefore has a strong symbolic meaning. It is the protagonist's test of the chaos of the world after changing his clothes: when entering the restaurant, the protagonist is at the table, and the deserter is at the door, concerned about the escape route. The kitchen after that is very delicate, the deserter's hunger for food makes the owner have some kind of guess, and the protagonist's cleverness allows him to temporarily get out of the crisis, and he responds physically with a nearly perfect social eating method, but His real inner world was at another dining table, and it was too late to lift his head. The deserter captured by the shop owner who was shot in the middle of the night came suddenly but reasonably, and this is also the prophecy of the protagonist's goodwill swaying to the end. He executed the deserter in front of everyone's eyes, fulfilled the owner's request, and returned to the room with fear. He secretly swallowed the trembling after the murder, and it was the deserter who represented his kindness who brought the candlestick to illuminate him. But the protagonist's eyes finally fell on the military uniform, and he began to realize the pleasure of life and death to seize power, so he could not stop sliding into the abyss of evil. This goodbye was unexpectedly heavy, and the director probably felt angry or depressed about the direction of the event, so the title of the film was chosen here, and the background music was dull but harsh, as if the rust-covered curtain was slowly opening. In fact, at this time, it was already expected that the protagonist would shake hands with the demon, so the second deserter with symbolic meaning—representing the protagonist’s evil thoughts—soon appeared in sight, but the director gave humanity a chance: When the camera repeatedly cuts to the farmer who is resting at the head of the bed, the protagonist's closed lips try to project his struggle to break with kindness, but he is finally satisfied with the thing called power, and he covers the farmer's with a thin blanket The body also knocked the first nail on his coffin. The evil of human nature, once the floodgates are opened, is difficult to close, which is really best illustrated by the male protagonist - at least it is difficult for me to tell how many of his threatening conversations are when I meet the gendarmerie captain on the road. Divided into different colors - at least not more than encountering the captain named Cook who had hunted him down. But after all, he has not yet reached his battlefield. The director just opened a corner of Pandora's box, but the gloomy cold is enough to make people feel cold. Saying that Germans love to speculate, there may be suspicion of racialism, but as far as this film is concerned, the director's performance in this regard is too hearty: the hero who has obtained the power of interrogation enters with his own good and evil thoughts at the same time. In the barracks, facing deserters who had made the same choice as himself, the protagonist left evil thoughts and shut the door of good thoughts. This is a self-torture, and the answer the protagonist needs is "they are dead". I don't know if Satan said this line will be so heavy or light, but the male protagonist is really terrifying and outrageous at this moment. From this perspective, many ketchup dramas are like jokes. When he said these words, he was already in rubble on the battlefield of humanity. No spoilers, just say it here, I recommend friends to watch it, no paper towels are needed.

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The Captain quotes

  • Willi Herold: My father always said, "If you've done something wrong, then at least admit it."