This film is a work of conscience of German filmmakers, and it is even more precious in Europe where the extreme right-wing ideology is growing, and it must be praised with positive energy.
The German UFA film company produced WWII-themed films, which are very rare. Since it is illegal to promote Nazis in Germany today, a German WWII-themed film that can be released must be anti-Nazi; but in today’s Europe where the far-right forces are expanding, people are still very worried that some people will use film works to play sideballs , until I finished watching the film, I breathed a sigh of relief. This film, as always, reflects the conscience of German filmmakers in recent years, and must be praised with positive energy.
Absolutely different from Hollywood WWII films, German WWII-themed films have always been full of low-key and profound literary and artistic styles. At the same time, they are very sophisticated in terms of creative details. They are highly restored in terms of clothing standards, weapon selection, etiquette, and institutional processes. The appearance of Bo characters can strictly distinguish the clothing standards of the German Wehrmacht, the Nazi SS, the Gestapo, the gendarmerie and different military services; a few phone calls can fully present the judicial checks and balances mechanism in the wartime military. The easter egg at the end of the film is similar to the creative approach of "Hitler is Back", with great visual impact and emotional resonance. This casual dazzling technique is the most fatal. But this film is not a show of skill. What it wants to express is not only what happened more than 70 years ago, but also what is happening today and what will happen in the future.
Humanity Amplifier
The animal nature of man cannot be ignored. As an individual who needs to seek survival and development in a relatively harsh environment, I have always believed that human nature is selfish; but human beings have created their own societies, established various systems, nurtured diverse civilizations, and maintained human families, Race, society and country, all of which make primitive human nature fully restrained and domesticated in an institutional framework with rules to follow, so human beings have become higher intelligent creatures; a bad system will make people worse, and a good system will not Making people better only restrains the bad; however, once the institutional framework is broken, most of the evils of human nature will run wild like wild horses.
As a national defense soldier who fled at the end of the war, the male protagonist escaped the pursuit. He was not clothed and had no food to eat. Survival is the first priority. In the "survival framework", he is sensitive and cautious like most individuals. , comrades-in-arms who encounter the same difficulties will also take the initiative to help. At this time, there is no class attribute. In a primitive survival environment, he shows simple kindness;
But when he put on his new officer uniform and saw the respect of the veterans who had defected to him, his mind began to liven up, and he slowly showed off his strength. After possessing the initial stratum attributes, the evil in his heart also sprouts and grows little by little, especially after realizing the stratum advancement through a shortcut.
The original institutional framework was broken.
When he encounters a defeated soldier like him again, he either "cleans up" according to the system, or "incorporates" it according to his heart, and fights steadily and steadily until he starts killing in the deserter camp.
"Those who run away during the war disintegrate the fighting spirit of the troops. It is a great injustice to the soldiers who fought bravely on the front line, and it is a great insult to the soldiers who have died. It must be eliminated." A former deserter said.
A person who has just escaped the predicament of survival has instantly mastered the power of life and death. His act of kindness was only to cover the corpses of his companions he encountered when they fled together before. In addition, he swung the butcher knife to the same direction as before. people, and in the name of institutions, laws, and even civilization. The evil of human nature is fully resonated and infinitely amplified under the condition of mismatch of institutional framework.
Throughout the ages, princes and generals, which one is not.
The deformed behavior was absurdly interpreted as "honorable and correct" in the mismatched institutional framework, so he stepped on the bones everywhere, walked into the darkness, and was swallowed by the darkness at the same time.
selective belief
In the process of accepting information, people can't escape the shackles of subjective will. Because of human self-interest, most people are willing to accept and spread the information they want to see. Why is history and literature so far from the facts, because some people need such images as a value orientation; why rumors and gossip are overwhelming, because some people need them as a talk of ordinary life; why are scams and conspiracies common, because some people need them to satisfy the fantasy of desire. As for the facts, who cares.
The male protagonist's way of impersonating is not very clever. It can even be said that there are many loopholes.
The first veteran to join him needed an officer who could endorse his "because he was routed, not fleeing" narrative, so he chose to believe he was a captain, even though he looked out of the rearview mirror with a questioning look as he drove. stop looking;
The owner of the tavern and the farmers need an officer who can compensate them for their losses on behalf of the "party", so choose to believe that he is a captain, although the owner is full of suspicion from the strange behavior of the hungry and gobbling of the veteran;
The leader of the escape team, "Brother Jieao", needed an officer who could cover their escape, so he chose to believe that he was a captain, even though Brother Jieao, who had rich military experience, had already judged from the captain's extremely ill-fitting military pants. pretty close;
The fat head of the gendarmerie needs a colleague who can report "the real situation in the rear" to his beloved Führer and at the same time express his loyalty, so he chooses to believe that he is a captain, even though he believes that "there are always hooligans going around and robbing houses";
The officers in the deserter battalion need a powerful figure who can quickly resolve these "shameless" deserters, rather than entangled in complicated judicial procedures, so they are very happy to choose to believe that he is a captain with the highest authority, despite having participated in the original The officers who pursued him may have recognized his real identity in the first place;
In the military court after the scam was exposed, the officers chose to recognize him as a "captain" because they needed a "hero" who "resisted the growing defeatism in the later stages of the war and led the soldiers to continue to fight", despite the overwhelming evidence of the case, the perpetrator Confess...
Only one person chooses not to believe. The resident justice insisted on the original institutional framework and did not need an airborne captain to take over, so he chose not to believe it. But such a "positive character" who relatively insists on "procedural justice" has just unspoken rules for the daughter of a prisoner, and he didn't even have time to put on his clothes...
Full of absurdity, full of satire. Can't be added.
collectivist black hole
Collectivism is a double-edged sword, it can lead most individuals out of danger in the dilemma of survival, and it can also magnify the evil of human nature in the environment of institutional mismatch, and selectively believe that "my sins are not caused by me, but are caused by me. system". This is where the so-called rabble come from.
The male protagonist who is separated from the group is humble and insignificant, and after entering the group as an identity, he expands out of control, and he has long forgotten the experience of being content with getting two eggs and an apple;
The farmers of the small wine house stood up and gave the Nazi salute under an impassioned political lie, and at the same time did not forget to falsely report their real losses;
The soldiers brutally and ruthlessly killed the killer, "gloriously" maintained the "order of the empire", carried out the orders of the head of state, and then revelled with extreme exaggeration. The invisible head of state, the head of state is in everyone's heart; the head of state is the collective, and the collective is also the head of state; people are not killed by me, people are killed by the head of state. This night, we are all heads of state;
The deserters who were about to die and the soldiers who executed the executions sang songs and walked to the burial pit. The collective singing can reduce the sin and pain of the individual, the same song, the same dream;
In the black hole of collectivism, individuality cannot exist. One of the actor prisoners was reluctant to shoot his companion and had to choose to commit suicide; the other obeyed the collective, and after expressing his allegiance and "solving the uniform problem on his own", he merged into the collective's embrace. Uniforms, salutes and slogans, which are essential elements of a sense of ritual and a necessary coat for collectivism;
The veterans who were the first to follow the male protagonist were later completely blackened in the collective. The little bit of kindness and compassion that they had as individuals were gone, just as the captain famously said: They are already dead. (Finish)
2018.09.14 Beijing Xiangshan
Attachment: The original movie review link of the movie "Hitler is Back":
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_67f438b60102whyf.html
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