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That is the clearest eye
Pasquale 2022-04-20 09:02:19
The more awake the more painful, the male protagonist's eyes have a sad fairy tale in that winter in Germany. (Two scenes in the play: Frederick was punished because Albert wrote a reactionary article, and he was distressed to find him theories and knocked him down to the ground, but Frederick also felt the cruelty of the Nazis’ inhumane war. On the ground, he hugged and cried with Bert; in the last fight, he fell to his opponent, and he looked around and there was no such kind figure anymore, all the people were crazy and irrational, his eyes lost vigor, and he put down his hands.
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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!
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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!