As a layman, I am neither from a film-related major, nor have I studied systematic theory. Where did I get the courage to point the country here? After thinking for a long time, I came up with the answer----- leisurely. So, on a sunny afternoon, I made a cup of tea, turned on the computer, and talked about the recent movie "Balloons".
This is a movie based on a true story. This kind of movie often has a flat narrative due to the limitations of the story itself, which is not enough to attract the audience. However, while stating historical events, this film also achieved a compact plot, ups and downs, and basically no urine points. The background of the event took place in Germany during the height of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall rose and Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany. The Berlin Wall divided the country and its people. East Germany belongs to the socialist camp, and the people live under the so-called coercive policy; West Germany belongs to the capitalist camp, and the people live in the so-called freedom and democracy. Countless East Germans yearning for freedom risked their lives to climb over the wall in various ways, but very few succeeded. Failure means death. In the film, Gaunt and Peter, who are in East Germany, are good friends, and they spend two years secretly planning an escape. As an engineer, Gaunt showed the intelligence and wisdom of the working people, gave full play to people's subjective initiative, and made use of limited resources to make a romantic hot air balloon in Turkey, ready to lead his family to fly to West Germany in a hot air balloon. .
Gaunt backed away when everything was in place except for the west wind. But Peter still decided to escape with his family. On a dark and windy night for a month, a west wind blew in the sky. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the hot air balloon took Peter's family up to the sky, and floated to the border by the west wind. As the hot air balloon flew higher and higher, the air plummeted, the liquefied gas tank of the hot air balloon froze, and the hot air balloon fell three or four hundred meters away from the border. The first escape was a failure.
Back home, the Peter family ostensibly worked and lived as usual, but were still secretly planning their escape. At the same time, they fell into the hot air balloon and were found by the East German secret police, and they were hunted according to the remains at the scene. Peter's family is in a race against time to escape before the police can arrest them. Time was tight, and they successfully persuaded Gaunt to join in. The two worked together to make a hot air balloon for the second time, and successfully solved the bottleneck of the frozen liquefied gas tank. The secret police followed the clues and pressed them step by step. On the night of their arrest, the Gaunt and Peter families made a second escape. This time the hot air balloon took off less than the first time because of a loophole at the top. i.e. fall. But fortunately, the wind was strong that night, and they managed to float to West Germany and were free. It has to be said that knowledge changes fate, and a man must marry an engineer. The film began to exert force in the second escape stage. The escape plan and the police chased two lines in parallel, and finally overlapped on the night of the escape, which was tense and exciting. At the end of the film, the Berlin Wall is torn down, the Cold War is over, and Gunter can finally return to his hometown to see his parents who have not been able to say goodbye.
Germany's Berlin Wall has come down, freedom has triumphed over tyranny, and high walls still stand in some parts of the world, such as North and South Korea, or the "wall" that stands between us and the uncastrated film. I hope that one day we will no longer need to "over the wall".
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