Hitler's boy was still a boy who longed for love

Lavonne 2022-04-21 09:03:05

The movie was watched in different time periods, and the scene on the lake in the movie was also seen on the far right before, so I didn’t feel that it was very emotional. In terms of the main line, it was still anti-Nazi, but it felt like an understatement. What I feel more deeply is Albrecht's longing for fatherly and motherly love, and the sadness of wanting to be truly affirmed by parents and the outside world, but unable to achieve it. He tried hard to get his father's affirmation of him. It feels a bit like Amir's desire to get his father's approval in The Kite Runner. His works, behavior, and thoughts were out of tune with that era, so he wanted to find a confidant, so he met Frederick. But whether he and Frederick met with friends from high mountains and flowing waters, or are the same-sex emotions, in fact, the two are not in conflict. But there is also a section in the film where Albrecht and Frederick go to peek at a woman undressing. This should be a straight man, right? I don't understand. Also, in the end, Frederick gave up boxing, which is not the same as Albrecht's idea. Albrecht just wanted to avoid the last blow, not so deadly, and not to give up completely. Or did Frederick himself understand and understand the true face of this school and this society? And was the night mission to hunt down the Russians just an exercise to get them used to the killing and the battlefield. In general, the movie is still quite interesting to watch, but the more aftertaste, the more I feel that there is nothing to aftertaste. . .

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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!