A glimpse into the test of war on social order

I watched this film for Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif, and it didn't disappoint.

There are police in a well-ordered society, but who are the police in wartime? When killing people no longer need to pay for their lives, especially for high-ranking officials like generals, they can wipe out a life with a wave of their hands, even just out of their own morbid preferences. Like General Tanz killing three prostitutes in a similar way in different locations over the years, what is he proving? Seeing Van Gogh's self-portrait, why did he almost faint? Everyone is testing the boundaries of what they can do, the boundaries are blurred in the war, Tanz may not even know himself, but he still lives like a walking dead, completely helpless by the murderer The prostitute of the power "returns blood" to herself. In fact, this also applies to today's society. People with money or high power status can also, to some extent, cover the sky with one hand and manipulate the fate of others.

Human moral standards and social legal requirements, which is the real standard? When a party is unstable, do its standards need to be followed? There are many dramatic conflicts in the play, for example, after the rebel officers thought Hitler was killed, the rebel group immediately established a new government in an attempt to arrest Hitler's supporter General Tanz for treason. Win or lose, some people choose to stand in line when the general trend is over. They are willing to follow the trend, and they will not insist on true justice. They cling to the green grass with good momentum, and live like locusts. There are also people who have their own set of right and wrong standards. For example, Major Graw played by Omar said, "I don't arrest you for treason, but for murder." In his eyes, even if you kill a nobody, or even a prostitute of the lowest social class, you are guilty, and you should be punished if you are guilty. No matter your office, rank, or social class. And how naive he was, so he could not escape death.

The ending is actually relatively idealized. When the truth is revealed, Tanz is the real murderer. The element of fatalism is added, much like the scene in Lawrence of Arabia in which Lawrence rescues the soldier and finally shoots him himself. And the reality is, how many people like General Tanz escaped the final verdict? In other words, if Hitler hadn't died in the end, or the Nazis had turned the tide of the war, would Tanz have continued to cover the sky with his hands and turned a blind eye to such a verdict?