At the end of the song that the German girl sang, although I don't know what she was singing, a group of French soldiers who were booing, driven by sexual desire to boo, quieted down one by one and sang with her tearful. Someone voted the most moving moment in film history, and it turned out that Kubrick's "Spartacus" ending, which was considered the coldest, was selected, and I think this ending is as moving as it is comparable.
Later, someone told me that this song was "The Faithful Hussar". I googled it, and it turned out to be a foreign "Birch Forest". One day the girl heard someone say that the hussars had died on the battlefield. That is, this German girl was also the lover of a German soldier, but died in the war. So she sang and cried. And the French soldier heard his own destiny in her singing soldiers.
This scene is very similar to "Master Xu" written by Wang Shuo. When he goes to a prostitute in Tokyo, the Japanese girl invites him to take a bath, and then goes outside to make a phone call. Suddenly, Master Xu hears a familiar language, which is Chinese. The girl is reporting to her family that she is safe, saying that she works in the company and that the boss treats her very well. etc. Wang Shuo wrote that Xu Ye's desire was suddenly replaced by another thing.
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