Have you also attended a military summer camp?

Waino 2022-03-21 09:03:01

Militarized management is a breeding ground for totalitarianism and dictators. When I was a child, I was also sent by my parents to the military summer camp (concentration camp) in the name of "strengthening the body and honing the will", various physical training, personal housekeeping, and even line up when eating, singing, all kinds of details and The Napola school in the film is similar. I couldn't stand it for a few days, the coach told me to get out, and I dropped out of school crying. At one point I felt very inferior, thinking that I would never be the kind of sturdy, tenacious, obedient, and efficient person that the instructors thought I would never be. Now that I think about it, I'm glad that my parents didn't send me to that garbage summer camp anymore. But at that time, this kind of summer camp was still very popular with parents, and it was expensive. Many people spent money to make their children suffer and be brainwashed. These summer camps are also euphemistically called to enhance children's ability to adapt to harsh environments and build their psychological quality. Of course, there are also many military summer camps that are really good, maybe I'm not lucky enough to encounter them. In life, there are still many people who worship militarized management and sacrifice human nature to improve efficiency. Are they really creating the future? I think everyone will have mixed feelings when they look back at our past admiration for militarized management if they lead a more prosperous and civilized life in the future. Almost all dictatorships hate "cowards" and poets (and most artists), who have in common the inability to be completely brainwashed. So it is considered useless and dangerous. Now Japan's so-called "Heisei waste wood" famous saying "the regime that lets young people go to die for nothing, let it perish", if this is in the context of the Japanese military system during World War II, it is estimated that it will be shot. The story of Hitler's boys is over, but totalitarianism, dictators, militarism, are still on earth. After World War II there were also Franco's boys, Saddam's boys, Gaddafi's boys and, of course, Marshal Kim's boys. A boy is a boy, not someone's boy.

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Extended Reading
  • Sofia 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    Originally wanted to mark "the first German film", but suddenly found that "Laura Run" is actually also German. Well, part two. . . i'm so bored

  • Joelle 2022-04-24 07:01:22

    The taste is too bland. Obviously not enough. After reading it, it takes a lot of effort to recall, what has changed what kind of child. The descriptions of Nazi education were bland, and the events that impacted the minds of young people were lackluster. I think it should have been a process of seeing half of the people "learning" to the "essence" of the Nazis, then ravaging the hearts of the "students", and finally putting the Nazis on fire. The film didn't do it.

Before the Fall quotes

  • Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!

    Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!

    Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!

    Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?

    Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.

    Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!

  • Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.

    Vogler: Out!