Two prisoners are standing in the clearing of the concentration camp. In front of them are four other prisoners who are bound together. As long as they are killed, the two prisoners have a chance to survive.
The first prisoner shot his former cellmate without hesitation, and he persuaded Death to go away. The second prisoner fired a shot and then shot himself, accepting death.
The former survived like maggots, and the latter followed Death with pride.
1. to live
Each of us is alive, but we tend to ignore the most essential beauty of life because of our more extravagant ideology.
What is life like? If you are alive, you can breathe in the fresh air every 6:30 in the morning, you can smell the fragrance of green grass, you can look up to see the blue sky, and you can hear the sweet chirping of birds. But what about death? Death is only covered with dust and the endless darkness in the coffin.
Herold Willi; the year of weakness to participate in the proud war of the so-called Germanic family, but every sensible person clearly understands that this is already a certain defeat, no matter how hoarse Hitler may be to encourage his soldiers, he will not be able to. Stop the Allied offensive on Berlin.
Run if you can't beat it! This is the first thought of most people when they encounter a strong enemy, so Herold ran away. If it was me, I would run too. There is no need to risk his life for an unworthy war!
The ancients said: "The rise and fall of a country is the responsibility of every man!"
However, war is cruel, it is a chessboard for politicians to play tricks, it is the bullet that takes away the people in the spring boudoir dreams, it is the bayonet that pierces the heartbeat of homesick people, it is the most turbid quagmire of human nature, it is the The most chaotic fog between light and dark. Any assessment of war in a sunny and peaceful age is unfair.
The man does what he does and what he does not do. Herold chooses to run away. He chooses to survive. What's wrong with choosing to survive? If a person can't even hold his own life in his hands, how can you talk to him about the rise and fall of a country? He is just a carving knife in the hands of some politicians, either broken or blunt and discarded. He and politicians The country carved out of the future doesn't matter much.
"Soldiers may live, deserters will die!" The road to deserters is no easier than fighting the Allies on the battlefield, but at least their lives are in their own hands. Herold and his companions sneaked into the chicken coop to steal eggs in order to feed their stomachs, but they accidentally woke up the farmer guarding the chicken coop. Herold asked his companion to smash the farmer to death with a big stone, but his companion hesitated, and he was chased away by the sound of the sound. The farmer who came was mercilessly stabbed to death. A living person is less important than a small egg. Any soft-hearted decision may be exchanged for a ruthless sneak attack. There is no kindness to report to the regiment to keep warm. There is only the fact that there are more people and less food. There are more or more people who survive under the haze of war. Shaodu has lost his conscience, and the line between good and evil in the Asura Field has long been blurred.
2. Opportunities
"Soldiers may live, but deserters will die!" If you were a deserter all the time, maybe it was true, there would be death but not life! Maybe it was fate, maybe God opened another door, Herold picked up the captain's clothes, he put on his military uniform, he instantly became a cat in the game of cat catching mice, and other deserters saw the turned over on him. Chance, so knowing that he was a fake captain and willing to defect to his command, Herold made the most favorable choice for his life. He put on a military uniform and weaved a lie to investigate the situation behind the battlefield for the Führer, like a drowning man. People caught a life-saving straw, and even the captain of the gendarmerie was afraid of delaying the mission granted by the so-called head of state and gave up investigating the identity of Herold.
3. Sinners
Captain Junker; the man who pushed Herold into the abyss, the initiator of the Camp 2 massacre, the demon behind the scenes, he recognized Herold at first sight as the deserter he chased and killed at the beginning of the story, but When he heard that this person was on a special mission for the Führer, he saw an opportunity in the lies woven by Herold.
The dilemma of Camp No. 2; the soldiers in the front are fighting fiercely with the Allies, but the stormtroopers in the rear have to take care of the deserters held in the camp. These prisoners have become a burden to the war. The Radical Party believes that these burdens should be eliminated. But before that, a fair and reasonable trial is still needed. They have been waiting for this trial for too long. Captain Juncker saw an opportunity in Herold. In the lie, the special task of the Führer is the greatest authority, and the Führer's name trumps any The judicial system, Herold is the executor of the purge.
Herold understands that the purge means mass slaughter. Can Herold refuse Captain Junker's proposal? If he refuses, there is no doubt that Captain Junker will reveal his identity, and he will be executed in the name of pretending to be an officer, so he agreed to Juncker's proposal, and Captain Junker left contentedly. Before leaving, he asked Captain Juncker, have they met? Captain Junker said they never met, and even if they did, they forgot, and once again Herold survived.
Lies can cover up the truth, and lies can kill the truth. Herold was trapped in his own lies. Because of the rights he was given in his lies, more than 100 prisoners in the camp were mercilessly executed. These poor soldiers did not die on the front line, but died singing the songs of their hometown. Under the merciless bullets of his compatriots, Herold was just over twenty years old at the time, and this young man could not clearly distinguish right from wrong, especially since the people around him were leading him to the wrong path. But, even as an adult, exchanging more than 100 lives for one of your own is like a philosophical decision to move a railway switch. To put it more selfishly, should you exchange your own life for a stranger's life? I think everyone Each has its own answer.
The only color scene in the whole film is Camp 2 many years later. Who would have thought that a brutal and inhumane massacre had really happened in the farmland surrounded by green trees.
3. Become the devil
Most people who have been infected with power will be tempted by it. Controlling the life and death of others can be described as the extreme pleasure of the game of life. French bombers razed Camp No. 2, and Herold was in charge of the surviving people. At this time, he was no longer satisfied with living, he was more eager for the rights he once had in the camp, and rights were nothing but indirect Possessing women, killing, money, prestige, everything that those in power want to have, Herold drove his temporary court chariot in the town and regained power by armed force, and for a time he seemed to live a life in Chinese history. The life of a tyrant, wine and meat forest, indulge in sensuality, singing every night.
But everyone will pay for what they do. In the end, Herold was arrested. Interestingly, the result of the court's trial was to let him lead an underground armed force to continue the operation. Herold agreed, turned and ran out of the window. Lu, who was later arrested in Wilhelmshaven, was eventually sentenced to death at the age of 21.
War changes a person. This article is not to whitewash Herold’s behavior. The author just thinks that sometimes people really need to do whatever they can to survive. Of course, you can also do something for a more lofty ideal like Schindler. , no matter the indifferent Herold or the lofty Schindler, I can understand their actions. The only thing I can't agree with is the ruthless massacre of my compatriots by the Japanese in Nanjing during World War II. They obviously won the battle. In the Nanjing defense war, why are there ruthless killings, and the killing is still not recognized, this must be an absolute evil!
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