Wild, rebellious, unbridled youth

Alec 2022-09-05 18:49:05

Germany's "Red Army" is a well-known terrorist organization. After watching this movie, I really understand the origin of this organization. Similarly, it originated in 1969, a turbulent and unbridled era, when the Cultural Revolution was going on in China, and Europe, like the United States, was full of leftist movements.

To be more precise, the Red Army also originated from those young people who couldn't control their fiery youth, and the unbridled ideals were ultimately uncontrollable.

The year 1969 is a memorable era. Ideals are shining brightly, and what flows in the blood of young people is the innate resistance to power, and it is a wake-up call to the phenomenon of no resistance in the Nazi era. Society has always moved forward in turmoil, even confrontation, and bloodshed.

Youth is worth recalling, even if it is wild, rebellious, and wanton. This is another tasteful movie. I have seen the director's previous "The Wiretap", which has a different angle but the same meaning.

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The Baader Meinhof Complex quotes

  • Ulrike Meinhof: If you throw one stone, it's a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it's political action. If you set a car on fire, it's a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it's political action. Protest is when I say I don't agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things which I disagree no longer take place.

  • Ulrike Meinhof: But that is who we are, that is where we come from. We are the offspring of metropolitan annihilation and destruction, of the war of all against all, of the conflict of each individual with every other individual, of a system governed by fear, of the compulsion to produce, of the profit of one to the detriment of others, of the division of people into men and women, young and old, sick and healthy, foreigners and Germans, and of the struggle for prestige. Where do we come from? From isolation in individual row-houses, from the suburban concrete cities, from prison cells, from the asylums and special units, from media brainwashing, from consumerism, from corporal punishment, from the ideology of nonviolence, from depression, from illness, from degradation, from humiliation, from the debasement of human beings, from all the people exploited by imperialism.