The three films are brought together because they rhythmically express Hitler's collapse: the collapse of the fascist educational system, the collapse of the Fascist beliefs, the collapse of Hitler himself.
First, let’s talk about the collapse of the Fascist education system, that is, “Hitler Boys”. This film is strictly a school film about the growth of youth. It criticizes the education system. The cruel pressure from the school and parents finally forced the teenager to end. own life. Does a plot like this bring to mind the Spring of Dead Poets Society and Cattle Class? The background of fascism obviously weakens the power of criticism. Hitler has been dead for more than half a century, and education is no less than when he was there.
The movie smears the Nazis, the Nazis are evil, it is the evil of the Nazis that leads to the tragedy, this kind of thinking is very dangerous, it will incite people to think that the elimination of the Nazis will stop the evil, in fact, unfortunately, people are like this now want. First of all, it is fascist to think that a good life can only be achieved by eliminating a certain type of people, and secondly, everyone knows that the evil did not stop after the disappearance of the Nazis. In the end, demonizing the Nazis cannot explain why people fanatically supported Hitler in the first place. Could it be that people at that time were all devils?
Taking this into account, thinking about our Cultural Revolution and putting all the blame on Mao Zedong, can we explain the crazy behavior of so many people across the country at that time? Mao Zedong was worse than Hitler. Hitler had a bunch of fascists and the entire Nazi party to accompany him. Mao Zedong was alone, as if he was surrounded by pure and flawless angels.
The director of "Hitler Boys" is very young, but he is diligent in thinking. There is still a lot to say about education and the system, so he made another movie "Wave". "Wave" is an excellent work, showing the charm and delusion of centralized thinking Obviously, he wanted to use this to explain the reason for the spread of fascist ideology, but unfortunately it is still not in-depth enough, and I will comment on it in another article.
Then came the collapse of Hitler's beliefs, "Sophie Sol: Hope and Resistance", a personal favorite of the three films, the heroine performed very well and lived up to the teenage hero she played. This film depicts the characters' characters through dialogue very interesting and exciting. Even under the so-called "fascist iron shoes", the perpetrators are not blue-faced fangs, but ordinary people, doing their own work, when facing individuals, Without your life-and-death grudges, there will be normal sympathy. The director is said to be very interested in the initial denial of the heroine's arrest, and sure enough, the filming is simply brilliant.
I agree with some of the ideas revealed in the film, that is, each person's situation determines his thinking. The interrogator was originally poor, and he had such a decent job because of Hitler's policies. Of course, he must support the system that brought him honor, then. What about Sophie? The family background is superior, the education is good, and it is because of this that he has a broad vision, knows the cruelty of the massacre, and resists fascism out of the natural conscience of human beings. Therefore, everyone has a personal motivation for doing things, and it is always one-sided to tie a group of people together to criticize. of.
The plot of the movie's final trial is too idealized. The few speeches of the two criminals in the court made Hitler's soldiers restless and looked like they had collapsed in their beliefs. All directors make this mistake. Disregarding common sense, Fascist belief is so easy to collapse, and Goebbels, the number one propaganda minister, is too derelict.
Sophie Sol is one of the top ten figures in Germany and a hero. Her heroic sacrifice was in 1943. Two years later, Hitler committed suicide. My child, why don't you wait for two more years. No ideal can compare to a precious life. But if I were her, under the same opportunity, she would make the same choice. She didn't die on purpose. She didn't expect that she would die just by handing out flyers. She was still too young. of.
In the end, it was Hitler's turn to collapse, "The Destruction of the Empire", which recorded Hitler's last days. The actor who played Hitler was simply a god. Hitler himself may not be better than him when he survived. As clichéd, he did exactly that. However, such a character is not an ordinary person in the first place. When he is in that position, especially a person like Hitler who turned the world upside down, he has long forgotten what it is like to be an ordinary person, so he can't see too many films of real human feelings. Personally I don't like it very much, although it is very documentary.
This film does not discuss the reasons for the demise of fascism at all, but only records the process, but it is wrong to say that the director has no ideology.
Before she committed suicide, Mrs. Goebbels brutally poisoned her six children, one by one, six, but not a single scene was omitted. The director filmed the whole process for the audience to see. This is definitely a restricted-level scene. , as an adult, I can't stand it and want to shout. It's unnecessary to do so. It greatly challenges the audience's nerves. showed his penchant for violence.
The real war-stopping works in my mind are "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Farewell to Arms". These two books can evoke the most basic compassion and compassion for life. Think of the tear-jerking phrase: "Take off each other's military uniforms." , we can become brothers", no one will not oppose war, the irony is that such excellent anti-war works were born after World War I, but they still failed to prevent the largest war ever experienced by human beings - World War II.
The ideological core of classic literature is universal and humanistic, which is the common bottom line of mankind, and its influence is profound and long-term, but a short-term radical act is still enough to drag mankind into the abyss of eternal redemption.
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