In the Book of Revelation the Bible says:
"The great city of Babylon has fallen! It has fallen! It has become the dwelling place of the devil and the lair of every unclean spirit"
In 586 BC, King Nebuchadnezzar II of Neo-Babylon destroyed the Jewish kingdom and demolished Jerusalem, the holy city of Israel, into ruins. Nearly 10,000 Jews, together with their king, were taken captive to Babylon. The Babylonian Prisoner" incident.
I am afraid it is this kind of hatred of subjugation that makes the Jews angrily call this place a city of turmoil in the Old Testament. In the legend of the Tower of Babel, the king of Babylon tried to build the tower of Babel, which was tabooed by God. God divided humanity into groups of different languages, and the tower was shut down because people couldn't cooperate. The Tower of Babel alludes to human arrogance, which eventually leads to war.
Berlin in 1929 was also such a turbulent city where forces from all sides appeared in turn. The famous Weimar Constitution in history, the current "Basic Law of Germany" still retains a few provisions of the Weimar Constitution, and its true democratic thought could not be realized in the Weimar period. In the end, the Weimar Republic elected a Führer like Hitler, an autocratic dictatorship that triggered World War II.
Babylon Berlin is typical of small cuts and big productions. The director skillfully chooses the ordinary people of this period, the moral inspectors of the police station, as the linkers of all events.
He's a police officer from Cologne, Grian. On the surface, they are cracking down on pornography and confiscating countless pornographic films, while secretly carrying other "missions". This "mission" is disgraceful and directly exposes the dark corruption of officials.
Where Grian will go after completing the "mission" is a mystery left by the first season. He suffers from post-war PTSD and is in the vortex of politicians, gangsters, and the Wehrmacht.
At the end of the First World War, Germany lost the war. In order to cope with the huge expenses of the war, the people's life was difficult. At this time, the workers held strikes, large-scale demonstrations, and set off a democratic revolution. The Social Democratic Party announced the establishment of the Weimar Republic and became the ruling party.
The Wehrmacht attributed the defeat of the war to the revolution. "If there is no revolution, we will win." Such absurd statement was accepted by most people at the time.
This train is another clue outside of pornographic film. On the surface, the train was carrying goods from Nissen, Germany's largest steelmaker. While Nissen and the Wehrmacht were in the same boat, the train involved many forces, the Wehrmacht, the Social Democrats, the "Red Fortress", the gang, the Soviet Union.
In addition to the weapons smuggled by the Wehrmacht, there was a carriage of gold bars on the train. Alexei Kadakov was at the heart of the "Red Fortress", who were sending gold to Istanbul to finance the Trotsky Revolution. Kadakov's lover, Svetlana, covets gold bars, while the woman becomes obsessed.
Svetlana sang "Dust to dust, earth to earth, floating life like a dream, with bare hands in the wind", on one side is the revelry of the chaotic and glamorous, and the other side is the "red fortress" massacred by the Soviet embassy because of her betrayal. "Members.
Grian and the heroine Charlotte are also investigating the train together. Charlotte has shown extraordinary talent in the investigation, but her initial approach to Grian has a conspiracy.
Charlotte lived in a slum, worked temporary paperwork at the police station by day, danced in nightclubs by night, and traded sex with wealthy customers. But she has never compromised with a poor, dirty, and dark life. She is smart and ambitious, and works hard towards her goals.
At this time, the police station had 53 men's toilets, but only 5 women's toilets. The living space of women in society is strongly squeezed, and even with education, many women still cannot find work. To survive, they engage in prostitution.
We followed Charlotte through the slums, seeing unemployed people on the streets, children begging, police officers and officials drenched in pornography, women lining up for church shelters, gangsters with hands and eyes.
The light in Charlotte's eyes is the beauty full of vitality in the oppressive and gloomy environment. Just like the first time she ran into Grian in the toilet, feeding him the convulsions. Even if there are many conspiracy whirlpools around, their future love is a powerful force to heal each other.
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