On December 7, 1970, then West German Prime Minister Brandt knelt before the monument to the uprising in the Warsaw Jewish Quarter, causing a sensation across the world. This slightly exaggerated move has greatly improved Germany's national image. Their comprehensive reflection on war crimes has been universally recognized. In the field of art and culture, apart from the Americans’ efforts to shoot anti-war films and accuse Nazi Germany of the persecution of Jews, the attitude of the Germans to expose their scars has not fallen from the wind. Repression is still the bloody and cruel German version of "Battle of Stalingrad". German filmmakers always try to restore the truth of that war to the greatest extent. They even dared to face the previous crimes against humanity, and filmed such Holocaust-themed movies such as "Death Terminal".
In the 2019 film "Not Guilty Murder: The Corinne Case", the Germans once again turned over their old accounts and brought out a horror story of the Waffen SS massacre of Italian villagers. This time the director Marco Kreuz Piintner used a shooting technique similar to that of a suspense film. When all the homicide evidence pointed to an old Italian worker named Fabici Collinni, he deliberately remained silent and silent, causing the audience to continue to speculate on his motives for the murder. You know that he must have killed someone, and you also know that he must have killed someone deliberately. However, the director seems to want to torture your patience. The more you want to know, the less he will let you know why...
Until nearly 50 minutes, a German-made Walter P38 pistol from World War II appeared...
At this moment, whether you are a war fan or military fan, you can guess that this pistol will never appear for no reason. It was through this pistol that the male protagonist in the movie Laining found a breakthrough, and you also guessed it vaguely... When Laining told everyone in the court that the murdered German old man Hansmeier was making a mistake. When the culprit of the Dicatini massacre, an Waffen-SS officer, the audience took a breath, the huge boulder in their hearts also suddenly fell. Sure enough, the Germans are going to whip their bodies on the dark history of World War II.
As the president of MMF Group, Hansmeier is amiable and successful in his career. He was awarded the Deutsche Cross Medal. He also had the favor of an adoptive father to Laining and presented him with an old-fashioned Mercedes-Benz sedan. Such a respected old man was an SS officer with blood on his hands during the war. Is this contrast too unbelievable? No, in the cruel war years, such stories and such "actors" abound. How many war criminals like Meyer, as long as they take off their military uniforms, they will play the role of a mainstay in a new country in a blink of an eye, not only staying away from the liquidation, but living a life of gusto. It's hard to say whether they are acting or their nature. Just like Meyer's care of Lenin, it is hard to say what kind of emotion it was out of. Human nature is too complicated. In many cases, it is closer to the center of the earth than the abyss.
Lenin is a Turkish immigrant. In today's Germany and even Europe, immigrants and refugees are increasingly influx. While we are commonplace, we rarely think about their situation in other places. Just like the German national football team has many Turkish stars, Laining was admitted to a German lawyer as a Turkish immigrant and grew up under the care of a German family. This is undoubtedly a metaphor. This also puts him under great pressure when serving as Collini's defender, and it is difficult to wash away the suspicion of a "white-eyed wolf". Lenin also faces countless temptations. This is a modern version of Faust's story: his teacher used Goethe's allusions to imply that he gave up his conscience and made a choice that was more conducive to career development. Ironically, the old lawyer made almost the same choice and became one of the signatories of the Dreyer Act promulgated in 1968, which stained German law.
However, Germany is, after all, a great country rich in ideas and philosophers. Lenin did not repeat the teacher's mistakes, he firmly chose the procedural justice side. Regardless of whether you believe in Allah or God, the only one who can truly judge a person is the law. Laining's teacher is willing to become Faust, so he will eventually face the emptiness of losing his soul. The Italian Lucchesi stood in court to expose Mayr and also completed atonement for his father, who was accused of collaborating with the enemy. The "innocent" Fabic Colinni was finally relieved to go on the road.
History is the best playwright, and movies are also best-selling novels based on real events. But in any case, the "Corinney case" is just the tip of the iceberg. Just as Israeli agents once pursued Nazi war criminals all over the world, how many bad people have been sheltered because of the Dreyer Act? This obviously cannot be traced back. Today, invisible discrimination is still seen everywhere in the world. Philip in the movie once said to Lenin swimming in the river, “Don’t pollute our German lake.” Even Philip’s sister said to Lenin, “If it weren’t for my grandfather, you would still sell Shaurma (a kind of Muslim hand-rolled food)" angry words. Therefore, the movie has a Turkish lawyer as the leading role, of course, it has a deeper purpose. Only when there are more and more "white-eyed wolves" like him who do not favoritism, the world will become more hopeful.
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