At the beginning of the class, the classmates said that the Nazis would not appear again, and the centralization had disappeared. Germany has lost the popular base that gave rise to Nazism again.
Listen to rock, drink beer, and do graffiti. This is the current generation, when we have enough to eat and enough sleep, what do we need?
Uniform
As a Chinese student, seeing this movie has a lot of experience, because we have been feeling the "warmth" of the collective.
Since elementary school, every week when I see the flag being raised, I can't laugh or wear a hat, pay attention to the flag, and sing the national anthem loudly.
You must wear a school uniform to and from school, and you are not allowed to enter the school gate if you do not wear it. Doing the sixth set of radio gymnastics between classes, the playground of Nuoda University is uniform and dusty.
"Look! The second and second classes of the junior high school are coming to us now. They are walking in neat steps, holding their heads high. They are full of vigor and vitality, and vow to achieve excellent results in this sports meeting!" The square team strode forward , When you come to the rostrum, you must turn your head at the same time and face the leader - unity and hard work! Fight for glory!
Differences are not allowed, and heterogeneity is excluded. This is the group, this is the wave.
There is a very interesting sentence in it. Reiner said to the young man wearing a leather jacket and trousers with thick eyeliner and self-identification: "Every kind of clothing is a uniform, and it represents that you identify with a certain type of culture."
Efforts to pursue individuality, in fact, is to classify oneself, a certain ideology, look at the clothes on the body. That's your uniform! When a group of people with the same taste get together, you'll recognize it!
Caring
for the so-called wave that swallowed everything and swept through Germany. Revolution is exciting!
We are in the group, we are warm. For those who lack love, affection, and friends, the tide is everything and life. Only here can they experience happiness.
"Soft-footed Shrimp" gave marijuana to the gangsters who scolded him. When people asked him how much money, he said to those who often bullied him and looked down on him: They are all friends, so it is free.
Mark lacks a happy family. Inspur has regular rallies and organized activities. When he competes, the stadium is full like never before. Going to cheer him on, he can feel the attention he has never received.
Initiative
Everything is voluntary, taking classes, naming names, designing logos, uniforms, gestures and more.
At first, no one is forcing you, but you can feel how powerful this initiative is. Where does passion come from?
Because they feel that they are doing something "meaningful", which is different from the previous life. Like what to achieve...
Everyone participates according to their own understanding, they are very passionate, design web pages, and have a pistol pattern with obvious tendencies. Signs were posted all over the place, proclaiming "we", and they even ventured onto the building to spray sign graffiti. In the face of a great ideal, even life is not worth mentioning, what is there to fear?
The most radical is not necessarily the leader. When the collective enthusiasm has been mobilized, the leader is just a gesture, and this force will rush to swallow everything.
At the beginning, Reiner asked the classmates to step on a collective footstep to feel the power of resonance, and told them that the classmates were even more excited when the old teacher talking about boring anarchism was being stepped under their feet. Their footsteps woke the sleeping classmates downstairs, surprising the other teachers. The students felt the power of the collective step, the power that made them special, the combined power that sounded like one person, the power that affected the clichés.
Initiative trumps everything. The tide cannot be extinguished, it can only provide one direction. The end result is often out of control.
Privilege
Even Carlo's elementary-school-aged brother has learned to take advantage of the wave's privilege -- having to complete a gesture to enter the school gate. They only allow entry to those who identify with their worth, the tide has given them privileges, and they taste the superiority of taking advantage of that privilege.
People always want to be given certain privileges. People in cars see people crowding buses and feel that life is so miserable.
The person standing on the podium, every word he said was remembered by the people below, he felt that what he said was the truth, and he gave the audience thought.
The unprivileged feel fear, nameless fear, excluded. Carol appeared in red clothes among people in white shirts, and she was stared at by countless eyes, as if she had leprosy, and it was very uncomfortable. You can only choose to wear a white shirt, or, stay away from this privileged class.
Ironically, many people join the wave because of the "indiscrimination" here. Because there is no hierarchy, everyone is equal, no one is richer, no one is more beautiful, in the wave, everyone wears white shirts, jeans, everyone is the same, can this be understood as a kind of communism Performance?
If you don't join the wave, you will be the enemy; if you join the wave, you will be a part of a powerful force. No one will be hostile to you anymore, and you will be extremely warm.
This is the theory of gangs. A dictatorship is formed virtually.
Discipline
survives in the collective, and the collective discipline must be followed.
Every society has its own value system.
In the film, the director of the school's volleyball drama finally got angry because the actors didn't listen to his arrangements. He yelled at everyone, he "ordered" everyone to act according to his words, and he wanted to make a meaningful line. The drama, otherwise, it will be completely quit.
It turned out to be unexpectedly smooth, because everyone complied, and they all obeyed their orders.
We often say that some people are called "masochists". In fact, most of the time, most people are being arranged, instructed, and they are used to it because he has no direction himself. Moreover, most of them obey the power, they are afraid of violence, they hope to get an order and complete it, and finally do something meaningful.
Before the "dictatorship" goes to class, everyone has to stand up. This is quite unusual in Germany, but in China we have always followed this "discipline". The head teacher said, "Class!". The monitor said, "Stand up!" (He felt superior to being able to say those words, I know, because he was so stupid.). The students said, "Hello, teacher!" The teacher said, "Hello, classmates!" Then they could sit down.
Yes, this is society, this is discipline. We have drawn a circle for you, don't play too much.
Another hidden place of water polo
films lies in the sport of water polo - fighting against the waves. Victory over an opponent is a victory against the tide.
From the beginning, Mark fought alone, to learn to cooperate with his teammates (this is also the benefit of the wave, learn to get along with the group), then hate each other, and even put the enemy to death...
all supporters of the wave Came to see the game, cheered, all in uniform, and Carlo was excluded because he didn't want to wear a uniform. Caro got into an argument with her boyfriend Mark for printing a lot of anti-Tide documents, and Mark hit Caro.
When he calmed down, Mark realized what a stupid thing he had done.
I believe that what exists is justified. Therefore, it doesn't matter which theory you agree with, and it doesn't make sense to reject the opposite.
Germany is a reflective nation, and the racist message conveyed very concealed (the class talked about the differences between East Germany, West Germany, Turks, etc., and also mentioned why some sneakers are so cheap, whether it is because they are made in China).
The point of the film is to make people see the spirit of the Nazis, rooted in anyone's heart. This is not unique to Germany, like light and dark always exist at the same time, it's just that sometimes the dark overwhelms the light, what most people need is balance, because that "seems" more normal.
The film is directed very youthful, not boring, with a mixture of youthful music and silly impulses (although in a sense, the filming format is somewhat stereotyped). By the way, from two different perspectives, I came up with two exceptionally excellent films:
first, "The Elephant" about youth education;
second, "The Wall" about centralized memories.
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