A French film released in 1969 with a duration of more than 2 hours, with the unique thick texture of French films in the late 1960s, tells the story of the underground resistance of the French underground organization team in German-occupied France during World War II. I have never seen such a quiet and restrained narrative with such a theme. The male protagonist is a middle-aged uncle who is inexperienced in fighting and has faced the "first" situation many times in the play. What has been done, even deliberately withholding the positive portrayal of their brutality by the Germans. The most important part of the whole film is to describe how the resistance members are in danger until they die: the beginning of the film is the terrified handsome French traitor who was executed by his own people, and then the middle-aged resistance who was tortured to death in prison. The young man in prison who refused to betray and finally committed suicide by taking poison, the loyal middle-aged female secret agent who had to betray was finally killed by the team on the street, and several other members who were only mentioned in the ending subtitles of the movie because they persisted in resisting. Final death. But after reading it, you will feel the moral dilemma of people in a special period, the intricate and difficult resistance environment in the German-occupied French area, and the extremely firm resistance beliefs of most of the resistance members.
There seems to be no expression of the morals and beliefs of "Wei Guangzheng" in the film, and even the reason why the resisters are resisting is not mentioned directly. They exist and die like shadows. Does their death have any meaning? ? The film doesn't seem to say anything, but it feels as if it has said something... Small words are righteous, but they are extremely heavy and true. Maybe this is the feeling, which is the essence of this film.
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