Today's war films all have a strong anti-war theme (and there should be), but it seems that anti-war expressions are rarely seen in our film and television dramas. All over the world, including Germany, high-quality war films or novels about war are emphasizing the destruction of human nature and the destruction of human worldviews by war. However, our war films rarely reflect the destructiveness of war to the human spirit. Instead, they show the tempering of a person's will by war and praise the growth of people in war. This is actually very strange and contradictory. People grow up in a destructive war. What is this growth? Our film will say: Naughty children become calm. "Our Fathers" said: The calm officer becomes confused, and the soldier who sees the whole situation compromises with reality. In fact, the expression of the former remains in the perspective of future people speculating on history, and it has a strong bystander and subjectivity, so no matter how real your explosion sounds, everything is false. Just like those ignorant Germans in "Our Fathers", because of the spiritual guidance of a certain party, they always believe that their country can win the war and they must charge into the battle. They have a fighting spirit, but they have seen it through after returning from the front. In front of people who understand the nature of war, these people seem ridiculous and ignorant. We have undoubtedly weakened the real humanity in the face of war. It is not enough to discuss cowardice in the face of physical life and death. We should study more deeply the paralysis and destruction of good humanity by killing.
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