A really good drama that recreates history and is thought-provoking

From "The King's Choice", "Max Manus" to "The Twelfth Man" and then "War on Heavy Water", there is no shortage of representations and portrayals of World War II in Norwegian film and television dramas. This history is extremely heavy for Norway, but the vivid characters in these film and television works all reflect the indomitable spirit of resistance of the Norwegian people in the painful and hard history.

Compared with the first three films, "War on Heavy Water" only tells a story in six episodes. Although I think it is still a little rushed as a TV series, it has more diverse perspectives than the aforementioned three films. The whole play revolves around two main lines - the German scientist Werner Heisenberg's reactor research and the Norwegian underground worker Leif Trondstad's plan to prevent Germany from acquiring heavy water.

The first story line is that after the German invasion of Norway, underground worker Leif Trondstad still chose to leave his family and go to the United Kingdom to participate in preventing Germany's atomic bomb program. Around it, a Norwegian raider sent from the United Kingdom to Norway is presented. Team "grouse", they went to Norway to blow up the heavy water plant in Wemok. In this story line, the most moving part is undoubtedly the commandos marching in the vast white snow after arriving in Norway. After the commando team learned that the follow-up commando team was annihilated, they still persisted in the ice and snow with strong willpower until the second batch of commando teams appeared.

The second storyline revolves around German scientist Heisenberg. As the war progressed, Heisenberg changed from being reluctant to be with the Nazi government at the beginning to being willing to lead the research on the atomic bomb reactor, and finally became numb to the war and devoted himself to the reactor. There is a very interesting scene in the play, when Heisenberg and his wife are at a dinner, he explains the significance of the reactor research to the other guests at the dinner, but the officers present are ignored. The goal of scientists is to break through theoretical bottlenecks and innovate technological development. The goal of the Nazi government is to win the war, but ironically, the two have the same goal. Heisenberg blurted out that only an atomic bomb the size of a pineapple could destroy London under the repeated questioning of the general. The executives were very satisfied, because they could finally see how powerful this money-burning project was. Heisenberg applauded and The cheers were barely dazed.

The angle of the picture has also changed at this moment. The camera is switched to look up and surround Heisenberg. He is no longer a scientist who is required everywhere but lacks results. At that moment, he became the center of the world, but he was at a loss. spun around. Heisenberg felt that although he worked for the German government, he was only devoted to physics. Still, he had nowhere to go. Elizabeth reminded him that his friend Schrödinger was also in London, and his answer was that the completion of the bomb development was a tragedy in itself, no one knew what would happen, people were going to go through the purgatory of war, and the important thing was that he could do it for the first time. what you want to do. As a scientist, Heisenberg was very far away from the war and very close. At the end of the play, the British operation was successful, and Heisenberg's hometown was also bombed. After sending off his family, he stood absentmindedly in front of his home that had been bombed into ruins. The fire burned the piano he once played with his wife. Is it also burning his helplessness, or maybe there is also the gratification that his academic research does not have to be a war vassal.

Compared with focusing on an independent hero, "War on Heavy Water" focuses more on the overall war situation in Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom, and builds a group portrait of the war through many characters, which also echoes the choice made by the British at the end of the play- - Blow up the passenger ship carrying the last few barrels of heavy water, exchanging the sacrifice of the few for the survival of the many. The whole play does not use an intuitive way to portray the bloody cruelty and casualties of the war, and many of the effects on the people are only expressed through the actors' lines, but some data in the lines more intuitively reflects how ordinary people are faced with war. Helpless, they have no choice, and it is difficult to even survive once the war comes. In the reappearance of "War on Heavy Water", it is not difficult to see the determination and determination to defend the homeland at all costs. The mission may be successful, and the war may end one day in the future, but after the gunshots, there is no winner.