He turned to the wind and snow

Alena 2022-04-19 09:02:43

Fiedler did not burst into anger in this silence. Seeing the youth under the ice sink into the dark river, he knelt down naked and whimpered in the snow. Perhaps the last-minute slump in boxing was his futile and powerless struggle, although it didn't make a fuss at this school. Distorted human nature, silent repression, how man is destroyed by fanaticism, how human nature is distorted in the surrounding environment, family affection succumbs to faith, sympathy fades away, heroic deeds incite war enthusiasm, blood-stained survivors of human nature collapse Suicide, Albert's death to escape sin, Fiedler left the school that made him desperate to devote himself to it, turned and walked into the wind and snow.

This film has been suppressing the narrative, with large patches of army green and gray in the dim tones, the soundtrack is quiet and dull, even Fiedler crouched on the floor crying in despair is silent, only a slight sensation in the boxing ring surrounded by the audience, Fierce faces filled with fanaticism and bloodthirsty were like hell ghosts. He looked around, and his gray-green eyes blinked and closed after he fell. The more you see the back, the better it looks. The long foreshadowing in front is only the climax of the collapse in the last twenty minutes.

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Extended Reading
  • Alfreda 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Dennis Gansel's "NaPolA" describes the disillusionment of German teenagers after entering the military academy. The faint same-sex feelings and sentimental endings are embarrassing, and his ambition to interpret history does not stop there. Four years later, he brought " Die Welle. Full text: http://hou26.org/zeta/golden2004b.htm#napola

  • Ora 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    My sense of totalitarianism and elitism flared up again, ignoring it - as far as the film is concerned, it was fine, but it still felt lacking.

Before the Fall quotes

  • Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!

    Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!

    Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!

    Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?

    Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.

    Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!

  • Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.

    Vogler: Out!