The second part of the Wajda War trilogy, the story takes place in the final stage of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. In order to escape the repression and massacre by the German army, a Polish uprising army had to enter the dirty sewer to escape and seek escape. Vajda did not simply portray and simplify the characters. Even the martyrs who sacrificed for the country in the war were not portrayed as absolute perfection and moral models. On the contrary, the multi-dimensional depiction and display of human nature is Vajda’s true purpose.
Shortly after the beginning of the film, a horizontally moving long shot showed the scene of the insurgents avoiding the indiscriminate bombing by the Germans when the rebels moved their positions. Then when they came to the dilapidated house where they were stationed, a beautiful girl was carried away on a stretcher, and she just told the soldiers who cared about her that she was fine, but the falling sheet exposed her right leg that was blown out... The cruelty of war hit the soul from the very beginning. In the house, the musician Mikao, who has lost his family’s news, will play the piano in the hall. This is their only entertainment. Craber waited for his girlfriend Daisy. Daisy often went in and out of the sewer. She was full of the smell of the sewer. The war caused the beautiful girl to lose her right leg and made the beautiful girl smelly. The deputy captain Wise still has the leisure to pick up girls. As a wife and children, he took off the wedding ring to deceive the young girl Harinka and become a lover with her. They and other comrades entered the sewer under the leadership of Captain Chadela. Before entering, on the chaotic battlefield, a fighting boy who kept dumping the sand in his shoes showed them the way. The boy was calm in the gunfire, and he should have been innocent. 'S age was polished by the war and became accustomed to blood and death, even numb...
After entering the sewer, Craber, who was shot and injured, fell behind with Daisy's company and support. Wise went the other way with Harinka and musician Mikao. Captain Chadela led the team to choose the third way. Facing the maze of sewers and the poisonous gas injected by the German army, a large number of team members scattered or died. Captain Chadela asked to stop and wait for Wise and others who were behind to catch up, but the Sergeant Chief, out of instinct to survive, tricked Chadela into saying that Wise let them go first. In fact, he never met Wise...Finally, There were only three people left in the team of Chadela. They found the exit. When disassembling the grenade hanging by the German army, one of the team members was killed by the last grenade. When Chadela and Sergeant Major climbed out of the sewer, Chadela learned that he had been deceived by the Sergeant, so he shot the Sergeant and returned to the sewer alone to find his team... Deceived because of the desire to survive, but in the end died at the gunpoint of moral judgment.
On the other side, Wise, who couldn’t find a way out, confessed to his lover Harlinka the truth about his family in despair, and brought the wedding ring that had been hidden. He didn’t want to die, he wanted to see his wife and children, and to his wife and children. Have the responsibility to live. Desperate, Harinka shot himself after being hit again. Wise didn't react too much, he just glanced at his dead lover and left in a hurry. The musician Mikao went completely mad in despair. He wandered in the sewer like a ghost with his musical instrument, aimlessly, waiting for death with music... Wise found the exit, but when he crawled out of the sewer, he found out He was in the German hinterland...The corpses of the Poles who had been shot were piled up like a mountain. He had just escaped from purgatory, but immediately fell into hell. In the end, the German army confiscated all his belongings, including the wedding ring, and shot him...
Daisy firmly supported Crabbe to find an exit, and she kept comforting and encouraging the frail Crabbe. Finally they came to the exit, but the exit was blocked by an iron fence. Crabbe had no energy to try another route, so Daisy asked Crabbe to close his eyes, on the grounds that the sun would sting his eyes that had become accustomed to darkness. Daisy described the outside world to Craber, she made up everything, and her words were full of victory and hope...
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