Those who call cruel perverts, please multiply these cruel perverts by one million and think of the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. At least, he is still alive, has a family, and even retains a little childish heart. What's more, this was originally an adaptation of the novel of the same name, and it was not the director's turn to take the blame for the plot.
Of course, the film (novel) has more to say than that. Who are the few people in the film who show kindness to the boy? The old man at the beginning, a childless peasant woman, a German soldier (ironically), a priest, a Soviet officer. Except for the two soldiers who did not explain the following, the others did not end well. Is the army the army of justice? Quite the opposite. Several forces in the film, the Soviet Red Army went to the village to eat and rob the boy and gave it to the German army, the Cossack cavalry was basically the three-light policy, of course, the German army, not to mention the direct train massacre. But that's not the point. The most atrocities and abuses that boys experience come from ordinary civilians. To a certain extent, the vast peasants in Eastern Europe were the real accusations of the film. Their ignorance, indifference, closed selfishness, and infinite magnification under the shadow of war. They are like the flock of birds that attack aliens, and they are even bird painters. But don't forget, each of us can be that smeared bird.
Interlude: The original author of the film, Polish Jewish writer Jerzy Kosinski, once said that the book (his first novel) was based on his own experience; care and protection of the Polish family), and even the book has been referred to. Sick and disgraced, he took his own life at the age of 57.
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