Beyond the Rules - The Recovery of Humanity
A Nazi captain, a British female spy, an abdicated emperor... During the war, everyone has to be subject to the framework of the rules, but the preciousness of human nature lies in being able to find exceptions that are outside the rules. Captain and Maid
The first sentence of the first meeting was "Take off your clothes". The captain coveted the beauty of the maid, and the maid was for her own survival. She had sex at the dining table for the first time. The suddenness of the plot really made People are speechless. The second time they met, it was the maid who said to the captain, "Take off your clothes", and the two were in the captain's room again. Perhaps war is such an odd catalyst, that physical attachment to the other person turns into spiritual dependence, and sleeping with the other person in order to save one's own existence turns into a blurred love, even if he is the enemy's officer. But human nature is never content with, and never is, a primitive human impulse toward sex.
After the maid had sex with the captain, she told the captain that she was Jewish. The captain hesitated and then chose not to care about her identity. The magic of love lies in allowing the Jewish girl to tell the German officer her Jewish identity, begging for protection or confiding True feelings; it can also make German officers choose to cover up a Jewish girl. These are two fate lines that will never and should not intersect, but the person on the other side of the bed has become the one who can go beyond the rules and become the exception.
A life stake, an exchange of trust, two shots. The visit of Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, is a turning point in the whole play. During the security investigation, the maid's informant was arrested, and the captain, who had realized the maid's true spy status, once again covered up the maid during the search. The arrested priest confessed the identity of the maid, and the Gestapo rushed over. The maid, who was already in desperation, planned to take out a gun and die with the Nazis once again met the captain who had come by the wind. Loving someone is not about being infatuated with her body or anything else, but about the desire to hope that the other person can survive in times of crisis. This is the captain's choice. After winning the trust of the maid, he took her into the car of William II to the hospital, and he met his Gestapo colleague when he drove out the gate. The existence of the maid was about to be exposed, and the maid had also put the poison When he entered the entrance, he waited for two gunshots and the astonished eyes that looked at the captain when the Gestapo fell. Whether to love or not to love, two shots are an exception.
Going to bed again and again in the short time together, the maid's belly has been bulged in a shot after the maid arrived safely in the UK. I still remember the dialogue when we parted, "Can you marry me?" "Then you will come to me after the war is over!" "So you agreed?" "Of course!" The love between enemies during the war was mixed It is the awakening of humanity, the rules are one thing, and whether I love you or not is another. Kaiser Wilhelm
The last emperor of an old age, the last Hohenzollern.
When it comes to human nature, this would be a dull romance without William II. It is undeniable that William II is the most important part of the recovery of humanity in this film. At the first banquet, he was still a paranoid and weird old man, with reluctance to lose the throne, resentment for being betrayed by generals at the end of the war, and confusion about taking the responsibility for the war alone. From beginning to end, William II had the fantasy of returning to Berlin and ascending the throne, but in his interactions with the captain and the maid, he gradually became willing to yearn for that simple life.
The country is no longer my country, and the army is no longer my army. Before Himmler's visit, perhaps he had some illusions about the current German war, then after that, it was already a shock to the inhuman atrocities of the Nazis. As the spokesperson of a God who has fallen into the mortal world, the communication with ordinary people has made the once aloof people have that dynamic humanity. On the one hand, there is the former emperor who is willing to put down his body to save two humble lives regardless of everything, and on the other is the Nazi leader who is too slow to kill a disabled child with drugs in five minutes. The best interpretation of human nature. Colonel and Queen
One is the emperor's adjutant and the other is the emperor's partner. These are the two supporting roles who are most eager to restore the monarchy, but they also have formal contradictions. These are also two people who have the greatest illusion about the Nazi regime, but in the face of reality, the dream will also be broken. After the mirror is broken, it is the light of humanity.
After the end of World War I, the queen still used her connections in Berlin to make various efforts for the restoration of the monarchy. After the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, she even kept trying to please the Nazi officers, but it was Himmler's indifference and brutality that made her Gradually I came to understand the nature of the Nazis, the mass persecution of Jews and mass murder with poison. This should not be something that a queen, a person, can support.
"Should a soldier be loyal to his country?"
"It depends on what this so-called country is."
This is the dialogue between the adjutant and the captain. Germany under Nazi rule is no longer the Hohenzollern dynasty. Similarly, Germany under Nazi rule is no longer a pure German state. It is a tool of the devil and a killing machine. . This is the adjutant's answer to the captain's question, and also the adjutant's answer to his insistence. As far as the plot is concerned, it was this dialogue that gave the captain the determination to fight against the Gestapo. The country of the Gestapo is not my country, and there are two exceptions to the rules.
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