War makes human beings so cruel

Margaretta 2022-11-12 01:34:13

The Red Baron, from the very beginning, has faced war with gentlemanly demeanor: we can shoot at enemy planes, but never at downed pilots, our goal is to shoot down enemy planes, not to kill pilots .
However, war is cruel.
Friends left one by one, a certain flight, the sound of the harmonica was cut off; a certain flight, the nightcap was left forever; a certain flight, the white scarf fell...
War makes human beings so cruel.
War makes life so heavy.
It turned out that war is not just a gentleman's game and competition, war is bloody, he took away our living friends, and since then, that person's voice and smile can never be reproduced, and everything about him is left behind. , but repeatedly and relentlessly reminding the living that that person is gone, forever and ever.
Those who used to play and laugh, cooperated in the air, and fought together on the edge of life and death, have left one by one, leaving only the wreckage of the plane and the indescribable heaviness in their hearts.
The movie did not render the final flight battle, nor did it show the fatal bullet that pierced the Red Baron's heart. It only gave him a wordless goodbye before takeoff, and that seemingly non-existent smile. In that fixed look, all the attachments, all the obsessions, all the heaviness and all the sorrows were relieved.
Leave me alone, facing the screen, extremely heavy.

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The Red Baron quotes

  • Käte: There are so many hospitals now they have to give them numbers. This is No: 76. There's 500 patients. Most of these men will die. Those that don't will never walk again, see again, taste again... love again! No, it's not great to have a hole your head. You're lucky to be still alive. Being born of nobility, you've advantages these men here do not. They don't have choices. It's not a game. This is the lowest we'll ever get. It never gets darker.

  • Emperor Wilhelm: You're looking disposed, my dear Baron.

    Manfred von Richthofen: Yes, your Majesty. I'm fine. I always am. Sometimes even irritated, sir.

    Emperor Wilhelm: How can you be "irritably fine?"

    Manfred von Richthofen: It happens out here. We kill a couple of men. And while they fall down in flames, we feel just fine. I find this irritating.

    Emperor Wilhelm: My soldiers, do not... kill people. They simply destroyed the enemy.

    Manfred von Richthofen: Well, the effects seems to be the same.