The second Louis Mahler film, the last one was "The Elevator to the Gallows". According to the comments, the structure is loose and the drama is diluted. It is indeed this style, but the director's characteristics may be the implicit crisis under the bland narrative, and the dramatic tension that does not break out. Just like Hitchcock said, shoot the time bomb first, The audience will be nervous all the time. "Goodbye Children" may be more advanced. First, the curtain is slowly opened, and the "Jew" bomb is looming. It is also interspersed with German soldiers who get lost in the forest and do not enter the bomb shelter during the air raid. Soothingly plucking the strings of nerves, gentle intensity. The film is also introspective. If the students and janitors did not secretly make deals, the janitors would not have been expelled, and they would not have joined the German army and denounced the principal for protecting the Jews privately. The source of this chain of sin is actually the "original sin" of the students, which echoes the strong religious environment of the mission school. It seems to be saying, "Our laziness, slackness, indifference, and petty evils, eventually become dragons." This blame metaphor refers to that social environment, as well as to the self who constitutes that "minor evil."
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