The German film The Wave is both shocking and thought-provoking. We often encounter students with poor grades, saying that they were taught by PE teachers. If we make fun of PE teachers, PE teachers have become the easiest to back off. The physical education teacher in the movie slapped this statement in the face. He played a high-level teaching experiment with great enthusiasm, showing an unprecedented teaching level, but it was too late, and the heat was not well grasped. Experimented with Nazi fascism. The physical education teacher has majored in university politics in his spare time, and this time he gave high school students a special class on dictatorship politics. From the development of classroom content and stories, we also have a certain understanding of dictatorship: Discipline is the blood of this political group; efficient appeal and action are both results and temptations; the same party fights against differences, emphasizing that the interests of the group are above everything else is means. The consequences are of course tearing, persecution, and disaster.
It can be seen from the movie that the historical lessons of World War I and World War II have kept the Germans relatively clear-headed. Adults can feel that this is inappropriate. However, the younger generation, especially the high school students in the movie, do not have strong discriminative ability. Some of them lack family warmth, some are about to enter the society, and their childhood dreams will be replaced by mediocre work and life. The teacher is so good at inducing, which opens up the students' thinking. The students are also very involved and actively exert their creativity. They go further and further on the road of group and dictatorship. The group cheered them up and felt strength and care, which motivated the students to safeguard the interests of the group and discriminate against classmates outside the group. So friends also readjusted and aggregated according to whether they joined the group, either friend or enemy. There are also struggles within the group, and those who do not obey are regarded as traitors, and they are drawn out to the public and criticized.
From the movie, you can clearly see the good side of groupism, but everything has a duality and is itself a double-edged arrow. As a trend of thought, collectivism must be mutually restrained with individualism, anarchism, etc. Democracy is to allow various trends of thought to check and balance each other to form a social and political system. If not, take advantage of each. "The Tide" is like a movie that illustrates a social experiment, but at the beginning it says it's based on real events, so be wary. When the economic situation is bad, inflation and unemployment are severe, people often lose confidence in the current social system, and they hope that strong people will stand up and take tough measures to lead everyone out of the predicament. The strongmen who stand up at this time are often combined with extreme nationalism and co-fermented. Everyone has the pleasure of enjoying domination and taking advantage of others, especially when they wave their arms and rush, it is more difficult to control themselves, so the tragedy of the rise and fall of the Nazis repeated itself. If it is really based on true events, this movie fully demonstrates that there is absolutely a possibility of a resurgence of the Nazis.
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