In the German film "Decisive Battle of Stalingrad", when the last two soldiers of a German company hugged and comforted each other in the vast snowy field, their stiff bodies looked lonely and lonely in the boundless snow and wind. despair. This is also what makes this German film different from other films on the subject of World War II. The blockbuster movies we are familiar with about World War II, like the American "Saving Private Ryan", although they also depict the bloody and cruelty of the war with grand scenes and detailed plots, there is still hope after all, because there is Ryan. However, in the "Decisive Battle of Stalingrad", we see no hope, and all the protagonists did not escape the fate of death in the end. Even many of them died abnormally. I think that death in war should be a normal death, including such as being run over by tanks, bombed by artillery shells, and even attacked by stray bullets... But these soldiers in the film are more The land was surrounded by troops, either committed suicide due to despair, fell to death due to freezing and starvation, or died due to accidental injury. In the harsh environment, the instinct to survive turns soldiers into deserters and soldiers into cowards, but all struggles are still in vain. When the rumbling chariot rolls over, no one can fight death. War is the brother of death, they act side by side.
The color of the entire film is based on white and black, with white wind and snow, white hood, and gray corpses covered by white; black soldiers, black refugees, black tanks, and cannons. On the Mangmangxue Road, the bodies of soldiers and ordinary people were everywhere. The soldiers fell in the snow as they walked and couldn’t get up again; the refugees who were driven out of the village had nothing, sitting in the snow pit by the roadside, waiting to be killed; the young soldiers shot and killed the Russian civilian teenagers against their will. Because if he didn't shoot, the young soldier himself would be standing opposite and waiting for the gun. When war comes, whether it is soldiers or refugees, their fate is surprisingly consistent-that is, death.
When the wounded German soldiers tried to board the last plane to leave Stalingrad, the officers had already taken the first step, and the soldiers were abandoned by the flying plane in boundless despair; when a few soldiers finally became unbearable After torturing and killing the cruel colonel, the plentiful food and other supplies in the colonel’s basement (including a Slavic woman tied to an iron bed) failed to bring any hope to the soldiers, and the shadow of defeat fell on everyone. In the head, only death is the final way back.
The video screen finally showed such a few data, in the whole battle of Stalingrad, a total of 1 million Soviets, Germans, Romanians... died. Among the German troops, 260,000 were surrounded, 91,000 were captured, and only 6,000 returned to their hometowns a few years later.
Maybe death is not terrible, death is everyone's final destination. Since they have been swallowed and bitten by suffering, let us expect death to comfort everyone who has died. Whether they are Soviets, Germans or Romans, soldiers or common people, in the face of death, they will no longer be hostile. Everyone is sisters and brothers hand in hand. When night falls, when the horns of war go away, they will all have peace, and the brilliance of the other side will lead them to cross the river of life and to the eternal home of mankind.
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