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 a stone, it's a crime. If a thousand stones are thrown, that's political. If you set fire to a car it's a crime; if a hundred cars are set on fire that's political.

  • Gudrun Ensslin: If the enemy fights you, that is good. For it is proof that between us and the enemy a clear dividing line exists. If the enemy confronts us forcefully, and paints us in the blackest of colors, then even better. It shows that we have not only drawn a line between us and the enemy, but also that our work has led to magnificent success.