The failure of the Crimson Brigade is doomed

Moshe 2022-09-14 16:45:39

It is impossible to understand the true history of the German Red Brigade through movies, because:
1. Winners and losers.
2. Everyone only wants to see what he wants to watch and hear what he wants to hear. .

Going back to this movie, the rhythm of the film is good. Although it is about two and a half hours, the director is very nervous. The background of the big era is interspersed from time to time. It introduces a lot of the environment of the red brigade, but the character created by the film I don’t know if it is true or not. In this film:
1. Badr is an impulsive lunatic, only showing a little calm and sober at the end of the dialogue before his death;
2. Meinhoff’s information on the Red Brigade Zhong is supposed to be a think tank of revolutionary theory of the Crimson Brigade. This film portrays her to be cowardly and afraid to express her desires easily. It is most obvious when the female number two arranged her two daughters to enter the Palestinian orphan camp when she was trained in the Middle East.

The suicides of Badr and Mainhoff, I tend to be the murders carried out by the German government:
1. Since the 1972 Muni black incident, the prestige of the arrested personnel of the Red Brigade has been pushed to the highest level, followed by the Red Brigade’s A series of actions aimed at releasing the arrested persons as the first goal;
2. The five people committed suicide due to moral and belief betrayal, which can divide the second-generation leaders and tribes of the Crimson Brigade and lose their faith.

In the end, the Crimson Brigade failed. First, they had a wrong positioning, and second: Mao Zedong’s thought was not thoroughly studied.




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The Baader Meinhof Complex quotes

  • Ulrike Meinhof: If you throw one stone, it's a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it's political action. If you set a car on fire, it's a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it's political action. Protest is when I say I don't agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things which I disagree no longer take place.

  • Ulrike Meinhof: But that is who we are, that is where we come from. We are the offspring of metropolitan annihilation and destruction, of the war of all against all, of the conflict of each individual with every other individual, of a system governed by fear, of the compulsion to produce, of the profit of one to the detriment of others, of the division of people into men and women, young and old, sick and healthy, foreigners and Germans, and of the struggle for prestige. Where do we come from? From isolation in individual row-houses, from the suburban concrete cities, from prison cells, from the asylums and special units, from media brainwashing, from consumerism, from corporal punishment, from the ideology of nonviolence, from depression, from illness, from degradation, from humiliation, from the debasement of human beings, from all the people exploited by imperialism.