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Jacinto 2022-01-13 08:02:29

"Otto, I am not a member of the Nazi Party." "No, you are worse than them. You are a bastard officer. Even if you know who is the truth, you don't care."

If you want to say who is the bad guy in the film, the bad guy is the Nazi gendarmerie. It was more diligent than anyone to buckle deserters and shoot people with anti-thief hats. In the end, they found that the warehouse of the captain of the military police was piled up with a mountain of supplies, and even a female prisoner of war, Sa Huan, was tied up.

Besides, whoever is stupid is the five officers who do their own work without a stand. Although his opponent is still human, he is also the leader. However, when the elephant stomped its foot on the mouse's tail, it would take a step back for what it said, its duty of dedication, and its objective neutrality.

In the film, when the hungry and cold soldiers killed the captain of the gendarmerie and found his secret warehouse, he kindly carried a commander with dead feet back into the warehouse to hide, and the five commanders acted again. The role of the shit stick, [You are all good soldiers, I will not pursue it, tell me where is the front line? No matter what, you can't be a deserter. In the end, Otto committed suicide in a hurry. After he was brainwashed, Luo Lubei went out and found that the senior management had surrendered and had a mental breakdown. He repeatedly asked the surrendering troops "Where is the front line?"

As for the others, they are generally measured and did not deliberately indulge in evil. What impressed people was the half-German Russian female soldier who was first forced by Maozi to lure the Germans into a trap, and then occupied by the captain of the German gendarmerie. She wandered between the two identities of Su and De. After saving her, the man who carried her entrapment first thought that he would not live long anyway. He wanted to taste a woman before he died, but he couldn't get rid of it. In the end, the two had the same illness and pity each other. [I should have committed suicide long ago. 】【Feel the same. ]. In the end, the Russian that the heroine shouted was not translated, and I didn't know what it said, and the ending was a little bit ignorant. (The heroine is very beautiful. The actor died of cancer when she was in her forties. This movie has been watched intermittently before several times and I haven’t watched it in its entirety. I just watched it all over the past two days. Today is also World Anti-Cancer Day. Tomorrow will be the actress’s festival. .Maybe God wants me to pay attention to the anti-cancer campaign.)

As for the Soviet-German war, it is not so much that the USSR went to war out of ideological differences or the need to maintain peace, but rather that it bitten the dog with the German dog. The unnecessary casualties at the bottom of Stalingrad were the poor victims of the battle between Freddie and Jason (horror movie villains, can be counted as devil kings) in the 20th century. The stupidity of both sides was vividly manifested in Stalingrad. USSR’s tactical battle damage is more ugly than to repeat. Although the German side has always been commendable in terms of tactics, its strategy is urgent. If there is no supply, there will be a pile of soldiers. There are also elite troops that are difficult to replenish. They are all piled up in the small town. In the end, more people starve to death and freeze to death than those who die in battle. When you can withdraw, don't let people move. In the end, it's too late to regret that the city is sealed.

The film reflects the tragedy of the soldiers running out of ammunition and food. The male lead and his group sent the injured comrades to the hospital, but there was no doctor to treat them. Due to the shortage of materials and manpower, the patients had to wait to die. As a result, the group was "punished according to law" by the decent gendarmerie captain.

Four lessons, one: Elite troops are rare to add, and they cannot be used as cannon fodder. Two: Keep up with supply when organizing personnel. Three: Be careful when the supply goes down and some people don't send it out by themselves. Four: If you want to hold on to the spot, make up your mind earlier, and make your decision earlier if you want to break through and retreat. Don't hesitate, and finally sealed the city, you can't get away even if you want to run, and you want to keep the supplies.

This kind of blindly commanding organization and mobilization ability and bureaucracy that regards human life as a waste of time can still be seen even in the later USSR and in some places today. Even if we look beyond World War II, it is very enlightening to modern people.

As for battle scenes, soundtracks and the like, this movie is really exciting and worth watching.

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Stalingrad quotes

  • One German foot soldier: Where are the horses?

    Another German foot soldier: We're the horses!

  • General Hentz: To sum it up, gentlemen... we're in deep shit.