For the documentary "Triumph of the Will", French film historian Georges Sadour commented: "It inadvertently became a very meaningful material, exposing the two sides of the regime that it extols, namely the appearance of modesty. Polite and brutal at heart."
After the highly immersive music at the beginning of the film, a symbolic eagle appears. The people's warm cheers to the head of state, raising their hands and smiling faces are the main means of rendering the great power of the empire throughout the film. Immersion in it. We saw the joy of the soldiers in the barracks when they were playing, the joy of the peasants' harvest, and the heartfelt love of the workers for the head of state when they were inspected. The Führer's speech was full of passion. In his mouth, Germany became a symbol, the most beautiful concept in the mind of the German people.
Taken together, these images are chilling. The strength brought by a large group of people must be great, but why the expressions of each individual who make up these groups are surprisingly similar - firm and proud. How did all this happen?
"The mind of a single person or a few can be thought-trained, but when a group wants to think together, all it can do is agree or disagree." --Public Opinion
The "collective unconsciousness" proposed by Jung is very similar to the "collective hysteria" mentioned in the novel "Image Infection". It explains some of people's collective behavior - the universality of each person's non-individual level is certain. Similar behaviors are produced when stimulated by environmental stimuli. In the press, it also manifested as "the band float effect" and "the spiral of silence", no one wants to be isolated.
Goebbels said: "Propaganda must win the trust of the people, and must mobilize the spirit of the people." But do the people really know what the leaders say about the essence of fascism? "The first images and words that evoke emotion are not at all the same as the power of emotion itself". There is even a difference in the German that everyone sees in the propaganda that is consistent with their own ideals, but in the collective it is blurred, highly idealized, and eventually raised to a common emotion. "Propaganda - a group of people who can prevent people from viewing the facts independently, arranging news for their own purposes". ("Public Opinion") In the film, there are cheering crowds, neat ranks, the strength of unity, the will of steel. But that's just what the director wants the audience to see. She chose everything that was carefully planned, everything Hitler wanted people to see.
Standing on today's Fascist, it is naturally easy to distinguish right from wrong. But if a force becomes the environment itself through mainstream propaganda, it may not be as simple as right or wrong. "The starting point for the analysis of public opinion should be to recognize the triangular relationship between the stage of activity, the image of the stage, and the reaction of man to the image that is self-generated on that stage of activity." ("Public Opinion") A novel based on true events The Tide writes such a story. Students who are in the environment accept the suggestion unknowingly. Public opinion also exerts its latent function (as a function of social control), and the students are willing to support the "Tide". Organizational effectiveness and constantly adding meaning to it as you have it in your mind.
At the 6th German Party Congress, Otto Dietrich mentioned, "The news is based on the truth and reporting the truth in Germany is our only requirement for foreign media." Today, people gradually understand that the function of news is to highlight an event, news is not the truth, and propaganda and public opinion are far from the truth. As for how to get close to the truth as much as possible, people cannot eliminate individual rationality in the collective wave, although rationality is also due to Personal prejudice and other factors are limited, but now that the power of the media has increased and the number of media methods has increased, personal rationality will gradually reduce the negative impact of "lack of reason", and gradually converge into a powerful force to reduce prejudice and manipulation in public opinion.
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