Arendt said that the reality of the public sphere depends on the simultaneous presence of countless perspectives and aspects, and World War II is a major event that belongs to the public sphere. is presented. In this film, there are at least five perspectives, a Danish sergeant, a Danish trainer, a Danish peasant woman, a little Danish girl, and a German prisoner of war. From the point of view of the Danish sergeant, Germany was the hostile country he hated, and German prisoners of war were the natural targets for him to vent this hatred. However, when he found out that the aggressor he hated, the enemy country in his mind, was only represented by a group of half-sized children in reality, he was in a bad mood. This meant that he could not comfortably punish these enemies, even though he had tried hard to ignore the feeling. However, he is a person after all. People feel different when they face abstract concepts and concrete things, and for this reason, many people can hide behind the scenes and be cruel, but they cannot kill chickens in reality. From the perspective of the Danish trainer, these prisoners of war were Germany, an enemy who owed debts. He keeps his distance from them and doesn't connect with them, which makes it a lot easier to give orders and make decisions. After all, he is not blind. At the end of the war, the smashed Germany even sent its children to the battlefield is just a struggle at the end of the battle. How much Danish blood can these teenagers stick to their hands? However, as a former occupied country and now a victorious Denmark, if you don't vent your anger on these children, who can you turn to? Naturally, the weak can only be brave in front of the weaker. From the perspective of a Danish peasant woman, a woman and a little girl live on the sea of the North, and the absence of a man might explain the gloom in her eyes. This is the real underdog in war, and can only passively accept everything, but she can still put rat poop in the trough and give this bunch of hungry German kids food poisoning. It's just that she doesn't know that good and evil are not as easy to distinguish between good and evil as you and me. It will not be because she has a dead husband, or has a father, and a brother. The convenience she is in is naturally good, and the other is evil. Most likely, they just lost. And so it was, it wasn't the Danish sergeant who saved her daughter, and the Germans she hated to death. From the perspective of the little Danish girl, these are just some of the little brothers who appeared at the door of the house, gently bandaging her doll's wounds and comforting her. The setting of this role and her ignorance of the teenagers are actually not powerful. If the little girl was older and had a better understanding of the world, would she still see the simple little brothers in her eyes? Finally, let's talk about these 12 German prisoners of war, the victors in the face of adults They were frightened and trembling, but they knew they were Germans, and it was a mark that could not be erased nor thought to be erased. If Germany is wrong, take it, if Germany loses, accept the penalty. If it's all over, go back and rebuild your own country, the smashed Germany. There is a lot of meaningful things in this narrative, such as how deep the connection between the people and the country can be. The general idea is that the original sin of World War II was in Germany. If these half-aged children complained that the country launched the war, their father and brother would go to the battlefield without knowing their fate, and even if they were captured on the battlefield when they were still young, they would have to go to the mine. Thinking about it, no one would criticize them. However, although they were trembling with fear, and they would call their mother when they were injured, they regarded themselves as adults without exception, accepted the identity of German soldiers for granted, and shouldered their own country. The war makes them forget their age. The reality tells them that you are the shoulders of Germany, but I don't know if there will be such a young man in another country. For another example, the symbiotic sibling love between twin brothers is merely a backdrop for the cruelty of war, which is absurd enough in itself. Just like Helmert couldn't control his laughter when the Danish sergeant ordered them to walk through the mines to ensure the safety of the beach. stimulus response. How ridiculous is war, and how ridiculous are people in war. In this movie scene, the teenagers are so innocent, but who knows, in another scene, if they were also part of the banal evil. Or, whether each of us, at some point, has become a mediocre part of evil, and even itself. In the end, the boy who lost his beloved sibling walked peacefully towards the landmine, and this scene became an image imprinted in his mind for a long time. At the same time, he remembered the ending of "They Are No Longer Gone", the self who can never go back. , shouldering its own country. The war makes them forget their age. The reality tells them that you are the shoulders of Germany, but I don't know if there will be such a young man in another country. For another example, the symbiotic sibling love between twin brothers is merely a backdrop for the cruelty of war, which is absurd enough in itself. Just like Helmert couldn't control his laughter when the Danish sergeant ordered them to walk through the mines to ensure the safety of the beach. stimulus response. How ridiculous is war, and how ridiculous are people in war. In this movie scene, the teenagers are so innocent, but who knows, in another scene, if they were also part of the banal evil. Or, whether each of us, at some point, has become a mediocre part of evil, and even itself. In the end, the boy who lost his beloved sibling walked peacefully towards the landmine, and this scene became an image imprinted in his mind for a long time. At the same time, he remembered the ending of "They Are No Longer Gone", the self who can never go back. , shouldering its own country. The war makes them forget their age. The reality tells them that you are the shoulders of Germany, but I don't know if there will be such a young man in another country. For another example, the symbiotic sibling love between twin brothers is merely a backdrop for the cruelty of war, which is absurd enough in itself. Just like Helmert couldn't control his laughter when the Danish sergeant ordered them to walk through the mines to ensure the safety of the beach. stimulus response. How ridiculous is war, and how ridiculous are people in war. In this movie scene, the teenagers are so innocent, but who knows, in another scene, if they were also part of the banal evil. Or, whether each of us, at some point, has become a mediocre part of evil, and even itself. In the end, the boy who lost his beloved sibling walked peacefully towards the landmine, and this scene became an image imprinted in his mind for a long time. At the same time, he remembered the ending of "They Are No Longer Gone", the self who can never go back.
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