The network score dropped from 7 points all the way to 6.7 points.
Many fans first compare it with the movie "Ape Action" with the same theme and highly overlapping stories a year ago.
The score of "Operation of the Apes", which was released earlier, was 7.6.
The two film stories centered on Reinhard Heydrich, one of the important members of the German Nazi Party SS. They told an assassination against him and described the causes and consequences of the incident.
Reinhard Heydrich's position in the Nazis is second only to Himmler, the number one Gestapo.
He was the successor that Hitler deliberately cultivated; he acted extremely cruelly, specified the guidelines of the Jewish genocide plan, and was also the executor of the "final solution" of ethnic cleansing. He had "man with iron heart", "Nazi decapitator", "The Black Prince of the Third Reich" and many other terrifying titles.
At the peak of his life, he was assassinated and killed by two Czech soldiers under the code name of the ape man.
Then, in order to retaliate, Hitler bloodbathed all 140 people including babies in Lidice Village, Czech Republic.
At first, Fat Brother thought that the two films would overlap in all aspects. In the climax scene, both films chose the church battle as the ending, telling the last heroic resistance of the two assassins.
"Operation Apes" has a star halo on the director and Cass.
Sean Ellis is a well-known British director who made his way to Hollywood with the short film "Sleepless in the Supermarket".
In addition, there are movie stars Jamie Donan (Fifty Degrees series) and Kylian Murphy (Inception, Wind Blowing Wheat Wave) to help out, which attracted a lot of attention from the beginning.
The quality of the final film is also quite good, the story is solid, the mood is full, the characters are profoundly portrayed, and the final church battle is well scheduled, so that the film has a good box office and reputation.
Unlike "Operation Apes", the story of "Assassination of Gestapo HHhH" is divided into two lines, one front and one back.
"Operation Apes" focused on showing the two Czech assassins parachuting into the Nazi-controlled area and completing the mission step by step. It almost fully shows the ups and downs of the Czech Resistance, and there is almost no visual depiction of Heydrich.
And "Assassination of Gestapo HHhH" started with Heydrich's naval career.
The film is divided into three clear chapters.
The first act tells the story of Heydrich, from the young admiral to the legendary experience of the Nazi soul.
Starting with Heydrich’s favorite violin performance, he also demonstrated his superb fencing skills many times in the middle. This "blonde demon" reveals the artist's romance on the outside, but is sensible in his heart as a cold machine.
He can elaborately explain and plan how to improve the production efficiency of the chicken farm. In the same way, in his mind, the slaughter mission is like a "purification" process. In order to achieve the mission of the head of state and the future of the empire, he used cruel means to Treated millions of Jews in a human way.
In Heydrich's story line, watching the soldiers raise their right hands together will be the biggest nightmare of all fans, providing a steady flow of anxiety and fear.
"Assassination of Gestapo HHhH" focuses on the complexity of Heydrich in the first act with multiple details. What is the reason that Heydrich, who originally possessed rigorous character, became the butcher who made all of Europe fearful?
To this end, the film designed the second act as a contrast. The first act ended with the moment when the assassin threw the grenade. Heydrich stood in the car in surprise, waiting for death to come.
The second act tells the story of two Czech assassins.
They know the danger of the task.
But facing death, they did not lose their luster in life. Instead, their experience is always full of vitality.
In the first act, Heydrich's seemingly glamorous life and the rapid rise in status made him more indifferent in his family and career, which made people see the gradual loss of humanity and a suffocating sense of oppression.
But the two assassins each got a short but sweet love.
The friendship between the two made them feel like a fish in water, until the final assassination mission was completed.
At the same time, in the second act, we saw the heroic sacrifices of the "three kings" of the Czech resistance organization.
The story continues to advance under high pressure, with death as a tension, pushing the two assassins to the side of the assassinated character Heydrich.
The end of the second act echoed the climax of the first act. The moment the grenade was thrown, the third act began.
The third act entangles the characters of the two-line plot, from the beginning of the assassination mission to the end of the heroic death of the two assassins.
"Assassination of Gestapo HHhH" utilizes the structure, enriches the characters under the intertextuality of the two stories, and highlights the theme by contrast.
On one side are the rulers who think they can control the world, and on the
other side are the free-willed people who are unwilling to be enslaved and slaughtered. The
whole film runs through the confrontation of civilization history. Both believe that they have done the right thing for all mankind.
However, the former advocates purification and control of others, while the latter chooses self-sacrifice.
The film depicts characters in half of the length of the film, seemingly neutral without commenting, but with clear opinions.
At the end of the film, it should have ended here, but the director deliberately used a flashback narrative to tell a scene where two young assassins met.
They met in the outskirts of the Czech Republic, all for a ride. The two talked and laughed and smoked on the haystack behind the truck.
The last death of the two was also set off by the friendship, becoming less lonely.
In contrast, when Heydrich was dying, lying on the bed, although there was a crowd around him, there was no one in his heart, only his "Jewish solution."
In contrast, it is clear at a glance to whom the director is biased.
Heydrich’s deeds prove that if there is no conscience and moral constraints and norms, the impulse to pursue excellence will be like a flooding river, which will cause an extinction of humanity.
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