The film begins and ends with the verbal narration of Hitler's trusted secretary who survived the war. It is more like a post-war memoir. Compared with the so-called historical materials, I personally feel that it is relatively true. Someone once said that history was rewritten by victors, so I really don't believe in the evaluation of those books about the authenticity of history. In addition to seeing the truth with our own eyes, it is really difficult for us to consider the truly objective facts. I will start from this film and share some of my inner feelings and experiences with you, and I don’t want to study the others.
Hitler, before I watched this film, I knew he was a war demon that the world feared. He massacred 6 million Jews and founded the German Nazi Party. But in the process of watching this film, watching him look lonely, full of worry and anger, I have sympathy and pity for him. I even think that he is just a kind and dear, with mistakes in the end. It's just a stubborn old man who will judge. In the end, I will endure the betrayal and departure one by one and the fact that the empire is about to be destroyed. Hey, endless compassion and desolation.....
Obviously, the filming purpose of the director is not to show a bloody demon that is soaked in our subjective understanding. How and how we denounced and flogged him, and perhaps just want to give us another perspective, more objective and true presentation of Hitler and the war.
From the film, the final fall of Berlin, I believe everyone has felt Hitler's loyalty to the empire and determination to share honor and disgrace. Although he failed, I still admire his existence and impact on the world. Although he was wrong in some respects, at least he should not slaughter the Jews and displace tens of thousands of Jews, but in terms of personal will and loyalty to the country, he does have indelible merits to Germany, and he has caused oppression. In its state, Germany has become a world power. Can we also evaluate him in the same way that we evaluate Mao Zedong, Hitler's contribution to history, instead of just staying on cruelty and cold-blooded.
At the end of Hitler's suicide, we seem to be sighing along with history: everything is over! Even if you have been so brilliant and threatened to the world, you will eventually become a dust in the long river of history.
As mentioned in the thief of the years, in the world of disillusionment, time is the biggest thief, it has stolen glory, peace and life.
And all that is left is endless sadness and sighs...
(but watching these war-themed movies, I always feel very thankful that I am not in troubled times, and I don’t have to feel the pain and cruelty. Perhaps the understanding of the existence of history and the comforting point of passing can also be: time has only stolen cruelty and sadness, leaving behind peace and peace.)
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