It is indeed a good movie, and I personally think it is more empathetic and shocking than "The Tide".
What touched me the most was when Ehrbert was dressing a young Russian prisoner of war, the Russian boy said to him Спасибо, товарищ (thank you, comrade), which brought tears to my eyes. I originally thought Eherbert's attempt to use a bandage to stop the bleeding was a bit pretentious and childish, but this sentence made me think it was worth doing.
Between the youths of the two opposing countries in the war, they don't talk about righteousness and evil, and they don't talk about family and country. There is only this little kindness, which is the most primitive simplicity of human nature.
Many people don't understand Eherbert and think that he is cowardly. The reason is that war is inherently cruel, and kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. But they forgot that attending military academies was not Eherbert's choice, nor was Eherbert's choice to get involved in wars. This is the tragedy of an era. We live in an era of peace and can choose our own majors and future development. It is difficult to truly appreciate the pain and struggles of people in the war years. Many words are spoken lightly, because they cannot empathize with them, so it seems to be a joke. In this era, in a family like his, he has no talent, but the soul of a literati is forced to pick up a butcher's knife and push it into the battlefield, as if his hands and feet are tied, his head is pressed, and thinking is prevented. It is great sadness.
In fact, Eherbert is more like a hero than Frederick in many cases. Frederick was confused and wandering, but Eherbert did not. He always adhered to his values and fought to defend them. He is not cowardly. If he is really cowardly, when he was boxing with Friedrich, it should be Friedrich instead of Eichbert. He has blood in his bones, but he has his own. Persistence, persistence of justice, and unwillingness to be a demon who helps the tyrants. The German-fascist war itself was aggressive, not to mention that in the practice of killing prisoners of war, they did not kill "evil wolves", but "puppies". The collapse of belief was the last straw that broke the camel's back. . His final suicide was not a coward's escape, but another kind of "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood". In times of war, some people took up arms to defend their homeland and the country, and some people used this tragic way to preserve the conscience of mankind. They are all equally great and worthy of respect.
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