The visual style of the film is very similar to "Casablanca", even the scene of the lovers saying goodbye at the airport at the end.
Coincidence?
Both films discuss the conflict between morality and survival, and what choices people make at the moment of life and death. In "Casablanca", there is a moral high ground, but there are no good people in "The Good German", which is a moral problem that has not been dealt with in previous films of this kind.
1. It was not just buildings that collapsed after the war, but also people's moral values.
2. The Soviet Union - a communist country - soldiers committed rape and murder all the way to liberate Berlin. (Some old revolutionary bases still have slogans like this: Do you want to eat food without paying rent? Do you want to go to the bed of the landlord's wife? Follow the Red Army.)
3. American soldiers are also tasting the forbidden fruit without moral bottom line in Berlin. They are actively involved in black market transactions and commit crimes with impunity. The Allies were the "messengers of peace" to restore supplies and maintain law and order.
4. After the war, many people came to an innocent conclusion about their actions. For example, the soldier responsible for gassing the car to kill thousands of Jews said he was just a driver.
5. The hero Jake came to Berlin with his own purpose, to find an old lover before the war, a married woman named Lena.
6. Lena, as a Jew, survived after betraying 12 people. Now Jake's driver is her lover and pimp.
7. Both the United States and the Soviet Union are looking for Lena's husband Emil. He was a mathematician. During World War II, his job was to control food. He could use the least food to make laborers dig tunnels for three months and then die from exhaustion. At the same time, he is the secretary of the rocket expert and has mastered the criminal facts of this expert. Emil found his conscience and decided to make these facts public.
8. As the main body of the war court, the United States and the Soviet Union are reluctant to put the rocket expert on the court. On the contrary, they need his innocence so that they can develop weapons of war for their own country.
9. The mission of the United States and the Soviet Union is to restore economic and social order, and they are each issuing Deutsche Marks, assassinating, and kidnapping.
10. War is for profit, and peace is for profit.
This film, reflecting on World War II, actually tells us that the war will never end.
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