This is the second World War II film and television drama I have seen from the perspective of the aggressor. I mean the World War II film and television drama produced by the invading country, not the one produced by the United States. The first one I watched was a shit Japanese drama called what is the enlistment notice. If you want to evaluate that drama, then there is no more appropriate adjective besides nausea.
After watching German war movies, you will feel that the war is really cruel. Fortunately, Germany surrendered. Otherwise, not only will more young people be killed by Hitler, but also more other countries will be harmed. ; And after watching the war movie of Japanese pirates, you will only feel that the Japanese pirates are the victims. The fault is the Chinese bandits (actually the Anti-Union), the American bombing and the atomic bomb. In short, the Japanese pirates are not wrong, and there will be another day. Fight back.
Unlike the despicable Japanese pirates who glorified aggression and colonization, the German production of Stalingrad was anti-war from beginning to end. From the perspective of ordinary German soldiers and officers, various cruel scenes of the war were presented to the audience: the Germans abused prisoners, shot civilians, corrupted officers, raped Soviet female soldiers, and died of starvation in the cold weather. The Germans themselves The army was also defeated. Both sides lacked food and clothing, and there were ruins, artillery fire, blood, stumps, and dead people everywhere. Stalingrad became a hell on earth. This is in great contrast to the warm scene at the beach at the beginning of the film.
In the later stages of the battle, the protagonist and his group are soldiers on the aggressor side, but they no longer know why they are fighting and what the meaning of the war is. Their hands are not only stained with the blood of Soviet soldiers, but also with the blood of Soviet civilians. They are guilty, but they also have humanity. In the end they didn't want to kill anymore, they were deserters, they just wanted to go home. However, this film does not leave the audience with a glimmer of hope, as the protagonist at the end of the film said before he was frozen to death in the wind and snow: the only advantage of winter is that there is no feeling at all, everything is frozen, even crying can not.
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