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Nice movie that reflects a lot of history
Norval 2022-03-23 09:02:16
For example, the chivalry of the Western military, the opposite racial discrimination, the racial discrimination of Americans, the efforts made by black people to fight for equality, the military honor and sacrifice of the Americans and the image of the playboy in the eyes of the world are diametrically opposed. Very ridiculing the Germans. In the film, the Germans killed Soviet and Russian prisoners of war at will, thinking that the Slavs were an inferior nation, and in the Second World War, they were defeated by the Soviet Union and Russia. The Soviet Red Army captured Berlin and hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war. Also died in a Soviet prisoner of war camp, really retribution for them. . . The end of the film is very touching, but it is too Hollywood-style. It really wants to blow up the German arsenal. If the German officer does not kill all the prisoners of war, Hitler will kill them too. The impact is too bad.
Extended Reading
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Col. Werner Visser: You know sometimes I think your Lieutenant Scott might have been better off in Alabama. Lynchings are over
[snaps fingers]
Col. Werner Visser: in minutes. The kind of justice he's suffering here is far crueler.
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Lt. Lincoln A. Scott: You know how hard they tried to wash us out in flight school? the colored flyers, it was test after test, anything they can come up to turn us into the cooks, the drivers, the shit shovelers, but I refused to wash out, so did Archer, come hell or high water, we hit the books, we were determined not to spend the war being some niggers, with all due respect, sir I'd like to exercise my right to address this court, I've been sitting down ever since I got here and I should've said something when you quartered us with the enlisted men instead of quartering us properly as officers, but it's ok, because colored men expect to jump through a few hoops in this man's army, Archer knew that, we all did. there's camp right outside Bacon, where I'm from and that's where the army sends the German POW's, picking cotton, what's strange every once and a while, we'd see them around town going to the movies, eating at diners, but if I wanted to go see the same movie I'd half to sit way up in the balcony, those diners were closed to me, even in uniform this must've happened to half the guys at Tuskegee and the German POW's were allowed to sit there and eat but we kept telling ourselves because no matter what, as long as we did our job, it would all be worth it because the war would end, we could home and be free to walk down any street in America with our heads held high as men, so that's what we did, we did our jobs, we served our country, Archer and I, and what you let happened to him, what you "allowed" to happen to him is appalling, and so is this.