On the battlefield, when you encounter an enemy, you choose to be a person who respects life or a soldier who fights the enemy courageously. One person's compatriots killed another person's compatriots. Are they enemies? When one country is at war with another, should people be incompatible with each other? Does the so-called national hatred really override all moral standards? I recently watched two anti-war movies, Franz Ou Rong, and Park Chan Wook’s Joint Security Zone. Lotte incidents, anti-Japanese and anti-Korea incidents have emerged in an endless stream in recent years. While in Germany, I witnessed Merkel's refugee policy and a series of events that followed. Over the years, I have become more and more disgusted with politics and wars, and have a deep sense of powerlessness. The people are so kind and easy to be incited. In the movie, in a Paris pub, French men after the war sang a Marseille together. Echoing the German men singing the national anthem (correction: guarding the Rhine) in the German tavern. That impassionedness is familiar in the domestically produced black-and-white anti-Japanese war movies. In the ten years in Germany, I have never heard their national anthem in this land. I remembered that when I was in school, I raised the national flag and played the national anthem every morning, whether it was influenced by the environment or the education of humanities, watching the national flag dyed red by the blood of the martyrs slowly fluttering in the wind, rising slowly, I was in my childhood. In his heart, I always feel that that moment is sacred, and dare not to have the slightest blasphemy. Volunteer marches, presumably I can sing to death. The Germans are not the same. After two wars, perhaps they really realized the evil consequences of the war, and even the concept of "nation" is very vague to them. Now they hate war. They say Hitler is not a German. They apologize for the mistakes made by his predecessors. They are moved and ashamed of the crimes committed against other nations. The current German nation is a wise and low-key nation. I believe that they will not kill people from other countries in order to defend their "homeland". Patriotism should not be an excuse for killing. There is no legitimate reason for any killing. War is a contest between the highest institution of the country and the highest institution, and the price is the lives of ordinary people like us. That is the only real thing we have. In the movie, Andrea has lost the love of his life and has been condemned and tortured throughout his life. He will never be able to get rid of the fact that he killed an innocent, kind, peace-loving young man. Anna in the movie has lost the two men she loves in her life, and she will always regret the fact that she fell in love with a person who should not fall in love but fell in love with and cannot be together. Franz lost his young life. His parents lost their home The only child in China and the sustenance of their lives. Those parents in Paris lost their children, as did the parents in Germany. The victorious side, the defeated side, for the people, there is no difference. They have lost the right to live a peaceful and happy life. Those passionate rhetoric and the consciousness to die for the country are all manifestations of thoughts being manipulated, and they are all manifestations of becoming government tools. At the end of the film, the color changes from black and white to color. "Le Suicide" by Manet, Louvre. Anna said that only by seeing this painting can I be calm. Yes, there is no need to go to the bottom of the cold lake, our hearts have already died in that catastrophe. Andrea said, Anna, be happy. But even he couldn't do it.
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Guard Rhein Die Wacht am Rhein (from Wikipedia)
German patriotic odes were popular in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War. The lyrics are derived from Rheinlied (Song of the Rhine) written by Nikolaus Becker, expressing the desire to swear to defend the Rhine.
Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall, wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall: Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein, wer will des Stromes Hüter sein?
A shout is like lightning, like a sword and a wave: To the Rhine, to the Rhine, to the Rhine of Germany, who wants to be the guardian of the river?
Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein, lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein, Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein! Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
Dear motherland, please rest assured, dear motherland, please rest assured, the guard who stands firm and sincerely, the guard of the Rhine! The guard who stands firm and sincerely, the guard of the Rhine!
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