I don't remember where I got the information from the literature and or knowledge calendar. In short, the book (or magazine) probably has a name like "Global Terrorist Organization View". While the author denounced the innocent harm caused by terrorist activities, he did not consciously establish a morally indistinguishable image for a class of terrorists. In the chapter about the Red Army faction, I vaguely remembered the description in the article, "Urik Meinhof, a former reporter for the left-wing publication "New Concrete", participated in the ×× movement, in order to express a protest against ××, in 1977 I hanged
myself in the XX prison." In my youth when I was prone to blindly fall into hero worship, this woman’s name was so rooted in my heart. Fortunately, I didn’t grow up in that era and didn’t experience the baptism of the 68-year student movement. Otherwise, I would either become a brave red soldier in China, or spread revolutionary fire in Europe, and fight with Ms. Meinhof, of course. So little possibility in obscenity.
As I get older and older, I gradually realize that ideology and religion can give people a kind of illusory power, and I am more and more puzzled that this kind of power can really breed a group called terrorist organization, and it can really make a person called terrorist. Did the young zealots shoot at "class enemies" who had no grievances, no enmity, or intersection with him, within a distance of 10 cm? Can film, a medium of storytelling, reproduce the history of changes from mind to behavior of an individual and a group?
In the 1970s when the red tide was in full swing, we certainly could not completely describe this violent behavior as "unconsciously constructing an imaginary enemy." The frustration of the student movement, the quagmire in Vietnam, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Kennedy are all stimulating graduates who are "eager for fairness" time and time again, leading to successive social sabotage behaviors. These behaviors are in the struggle with the police machine. It caused more or less injury or even death, which further aggravated the sense of persecution of young people, thereby intensifying social destruction into the abyss of terrorism.
Regarding this domino-like process of change, the film "Badr and Mainhof" successfully reproduced it.
At the beginning of the film, Meinhof was lazily basking in the sun with two children in a naked bath, and after entering a friend’s party, the moment her husband handed her the results of her work-a letter of protest against Iran's totalitarian royal family, she The laziness and shyness of the past disappeared, and he turned into a spire of left-wing communist convictions. From this, it can be understood that in 1968, the hormones of youth stopped abruptly at the climax, but they were not completely dispelled. The remaining hormones would burn in anger in the 1970s and produce terrible destructive powers. The May storm, the shooting of the Viet Cong, the assassination of Kennedy, the assassination of Martin, and the Berkeley University demonstrations. These series of freeze-framed images from the late 1960s were also condensed by brief and powerful editing, heralding the inevitable emergence of the "Red Army faction". Then from the destruction of the mischievous shopping mall to the liaison with the Italian Red Brigade after escaping from prison, and then through military training in the Jordan desert to the terrorist attacks on the American diplomatic agencies and right-wing publishing houses after returning to West Germany... The film was like a symphony sonata. , Let them go to a climax step by step, and subsequent frustrations, members successively arrested or "sacrificed." The sonata style always reached the highest peak in the same frustration, so the more radical "Yangtze River Back Waves" came, and the scope of assassination was extended to representatives of commercial capital-group bosses, and even to civilians. -Hijacking civilian flights is the climax of the 1980s since then.
If the decline of the Italian Red Brigade was due to the killing of the beloved former prime minister Moro; then the decline of the Red Army faction in West Germany was due to the hijacking of Lufthansa flights and the killing of flight attendants. All these have caused the mass sympathy of terrorist organizations to be lost. Of course, with the arrival of the 1990s, global capital based on multinational corporations completely defeated the left-wing ideology. At the same time, the residual hormones in the 1960s were finally volatilized. , It is the root cause of the decline of left-wing organizations across Europe. Not only the Red Brigade and the Red Army faction, the direct actions of France and the Red Flag faction of Japan were all cleaned up by the powerful capital of their country. In addition to the "punishment" of "American emperor" that still occurs from time to time in second-tier capitalist countries such as Greece, terrorism supported by ideology has finally given way to the terror whose soul is in the name of religious extremism and national liberation. Ism.
The Red Army faction in "Badr and Mainhof" is more like a malignant tumor with vigorous vitality that can grow wildly. It had soil and nutrients in that era, and it was blown up and reborn after a round of cutting grass. . The soil is still the ultimate root. In the wanted order profile picture group, there are 4 (including the backbone of Badr and Mainhoff, who painted them in prison by themselves). Badr once said to prison guards and lawyers: “I don’t even know that guy. People (assassinated and kidnapped outside in an attempt to release his "comrades in arms")", after eavesdropping on the news of "juniors" in prison, Badr's girlfriend Enslyn sighed: "They are better than us." And when I heard about Hansa After the failure of the aviation hijacking incident, they, the "first-generation leadership of the Red Army faction", can be regarded as clarifying that their revolutionary ideals are just a false dream, and suicide is the only way out. And the second and third generations who are "stronger than us" He continued to burn his false ideals into the last few years before the end of the Cold War.
The student movement leader of 68 years was a blessing in disguise. After a certain speech, he received three bullets against communists. Although he kept his name, but The revolution was no longer possible, but it had inspired other young people to form the Red Army faction. When a member of the Red Army faction died of illness in prison, he came to the funeral for a long time and chanted "revolutionary needs." Go on." It became his last right to shout revolutionary slogans.
In addition to showing the growth and destruction of an organism, the film did not intend to present the causes of individual thoughts. The expression of the spiritual growth history of terrorists is a very successful case in the history of film. Less. Godard is more agreeable. Bruno in "Little Soldier" is still so stubborn and silent before extorting a confession. It is more from something other than beliefs, perhaps because of face. He himself doesn't know why he is so unyielding. For revolutionary ideals, In fact, he does not seem to agree. Indeed, in the era when ideology dominated the thoughts of terrorist organizations, individual "militants" were not as firm as today's religious and ethnic fanatics, and they often felt about themselves and their organizational behavior. Anxiety and even suspicion. This kind of inner struggle is revealed quite wonderfully in the Italian director Belozio’s "Goodbye, Long Night":
Anna, a member of the Red Brigade, needs to play a dual role in life due to organizational arrangements. On the one hand, in the rented house where the former prime minister Moreau was imprisoned, she was a steadfast revolutionary fighter. When facing the funeral of Moreau's bodyguard in the TV news, she and her companions repeatedly chanted that "the working class should all lead." In order to cover up, she must continue as the library administrator as usual, where she met a boy who was totally negative about the Red Brigade and its beliefs, and the boy happened to be writing a fictional Red Brigade script. The mask of Anna outside subtly kills her beliefs, and the letters Moreau wrote to his wife and the Pope allowed her to gradually understand the positions and feelings of others. Gradually, compassion came. Regarding the ruling of the "People's Court" of the Red Brigade, she expressed her distrust. Why should the individual be equated with the country? Is it true that the "Catholic Democrats" represented by Moreau and their vested interests are blocking the extreme left communist convictions of the Red Brigade? The Red Brigade did not trust religion, but their ideals had become their religion, leading them to go more and more biased, and eventually everyone betrayed their relatives. Anna has no hope, no way out, in the long night, even dreams are left to the black and white Soviet construction scenes in Pink Floyd's "Shine on you crazy diamond".
The latest major news about the former West German Red Army faction (RAF) occurred at the end of last year. On November 23, the German President Koehler decided to pardon the second-generation leader of the RAF and the bloody killer Christian Klar of the organization. Currently, the only RAF member who has not been pardoned is Birgit Hogefeld, a third-generation member of the Red Army faction.
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