Death of two people

Alexander 2022-01-17 08:02:57

[There are spoilers] A
very heavy film, the most impressive thing is the death of two students.
The boy peeing pants was insulted by the instructor, corporal punishment, and threatened by the insidious officer of the ward round for blackmail. The moment he finally threw on the explosives was simply trying to end his life. The dark system of the elite school had already made him desperate. However, his suicidal behavior was regarded as a glorious sacrifice of self-sacrifice, so that he, who had been insulted during his lifetime, accepted all the glory after his death.

And the protagonist of the film, the kind boy, the boy who lacks the warmth of the family, the boy with a soft heart but incomparably strong, his long backlog of doubts and resistance were thoroughly inspired after witnessing the shooting of the innocent child. . In class, he tried to use words to recall the humanity of his friends. In the end, he took an extreme way, death, to save his soul and the souls of everyone around him. However, his death was dubbed "suicide", which was disgusting, and even a simple obituary could not be published.

Those who commit suicide are considered to save people, while those who really save are considered to be weak escapes. This contrasting irony is also a theme that the film wants to express.

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Before the Fall quotes

  • Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!

    Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!

    Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!

    Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?

    Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.

    Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!

  • Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.

    Vogler: Out!