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

  • Manfred von Richthofen: If you give me the power to make strategic decisions, you will not like them.

    General Hoeppner: Why wouldn't we? We very much trust your abilities, Baron.

    Manfred von Richthofen: I suggest we surrender.

    Major von Richthofen: Huh? What arrogance... What a pompous child you are!

    Manfred von Richthofen: I was victor in 63 aerial battles. You know how I did it? When I faced a battle I couldn't win, I flew away.

    General Hoeppner: What makes you think we cannot win this war?

    Major von Richthofen: What about our boys? Our holy cause!

    Manfred von Richthofen: French... great cigarettes. What makes us think our causes is better than the French, or the British, and the Americans? It isn't! It's not even difference from theirs. We just need an excuse for what we do, because without it we would see who we really are.

  • [last lines]

    Käte: [over Manfred's grave] I could not come sooner. It's not so easy to cross the line into British territory. Finally a friend of ours help me. He asked me why it was important for me to come here? I told him I love you. Did I ever tell you?