At the beginning of the film, in Berlin in 1948, the entire city was bombed and the whole city was in ruins. The boy was working as a gravedigger. It was reported that he was under the legal working age and lost his job. The camera came along the broken streets of Berlin. The boy’s family, the older brother used to participate in the Nazis, did not dare to go out to work, eat for nothing at home, and his father was seriously ill and bed again, the sister had no choice but to go out to accompany wine at night, the boy could only go out to find things to do to help solve the family’s difficulties. The landlord sold the scales, but was forced to sell by a businessman in exchange for two cans. When he met Hailin, his former teacher, because of his livelihood, he was forced to sell Hitler’s recording discs. He felt that his teacher was in love with the people who lived there. Tong, who has a tendency to prostitution, always touches his face with his hands, and his physical aggression also implies that he is mentally misleading the boy.
When the father accused the eldest son of being weak and not daring to go out to work, it was a burden on the family. When he complained that he was seriously ill, it was also a burden on the family. The child confided his thoughts to Teacher Hailin and told him about his confusion. The teacher told him It conveys the Nazi view of natural selection, maximum efficiency, and functionalization. This is also true in reality. There is no food quota at home. The brother who is able to work does not dare to work, and the father who dares to work is not able to work. He only depends on a woman sister. Betrayal of the body, relying on the younger brother's 13-year-old child doing child labor outside. To change food outside, I went home late, but my father was blamed and slapped and wronged.
Dad complained that he wanted to die. The boy didn’t know what to do. He listened to the Nazi theory transmitted by the teacher and poisoned Dad. After Dad drank the poison, he recalled how good the food was in the hospital and how good life he was. Loving a family, although I say that I want to die to reduce the burden on my family, but how much I want to live in my heart. He also kissed the boy, and the brother who was arrested by the police came back. The authorities did not arrest him and go to jail because he was a Nazi. He can work, and the family will no longer have a burden in the future, but the poison is already gone.
The angry boy went to Master Lin Hai to question. The teacher was surprised and reproached, Ah, I'm just talking about concepts and concepts, how can you really poison him. The boy felt deeply deceived by the teacher. He was just a tool that was brainwashed to help the teacher run errands and dump goods. (The image of the teacher implies that it symbolized the propaganda department during the Nazi period). The boy heard that he was depressed and angrily left there.
He walked aimlessly on the road, not knowing where the end point was. A group of children were playing football. He went up to play with them, but the group of children did not want to play with him. The childishness was short-lived and disappeared. The kid he's away. He climbed up the broken high building and saw his father's coffin lifted upstairs. He regretted it very much. It would be better to be a kid again. He played with the inclined steel beams as a slide, and went upstairs. Jump up and down, bid farewell to your own beliefs and your own life.
The corpse was stuck deep in the broken wall that was bombed by artillery fire. The best way to kill a person is to twist his soul, like the surrounding bombed buildings, and become Nazi cannon fodder.
The title of the film is German Zero Year, I guess it means the new German starts from scratch.
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