Reflection on war runs through our lives, and it is through reflection that we come into contact with and clarify a series of issues such as Nazism, totalitarianism, and human nature. Of course, on this issue, Laomei's film and television expressions seem to be the most abundant, and highlight the core of the "center of goodness" of human civilization, which basically represents the basic values of human beings.
For the two countries of Japan and Germany, their reflective attitudes seem to be relatively not seen by us, and video works often cause controversy, such as the "Rashomon" and "Perfume" I mentioned above. , although there is no trace of war, but it refers to World War II and reveals rebelliousness.
More than ten years ago, Benhard Schlink's "The Reader" set off a wave of German reflection on World War II, and caused a sensation after the film was released. It seems even more exciting to see the war from the perspective of the initiator of the war. meditation.
In the past few days, I took the time to watch a TV series called "Our Fathers". The film is based on the background of five young people experiencing war. In just three episodes, it presents us with a broad perspective of war. In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Under the guidance of their father, the two brothers responded to Hitler's call and enlisted in the army. Charlotte echoed the call and determined to become a nurse and serve the German military. Victor is a Jew. Although his father believed in Hitler, he always believed that going to the United States was the only way to escape. His girlfriend Greta dreamed of becoming a singer, and in order to realize her dream of a singer and her boyfriend pass, she became the lover of a Nazi executive.
The film opens with a happy party of the above-mentioned five people and promises to reunite after the war on Christmas Day. However, when the war ended in 1945 and they returned to their hometown, only three brothers, the Jew and Charlotte were left.
The younger brother said at the beginning of the war: "The war will expose the worst of us".
That's right, in war, the evil nature of human nature is infinitely magnified, and there is no absolute justice in the competition. The Soviets raped women when they occupied Berlin, even if they had been invaded, the rape of the innocent was not so glorious after all; during the war we saw countless people die at gunpoint because they wanted to protect the partisans, even if the partisans were the last The victor, let the masses as a shield is not so brave after all.
In the film, the one that impresses me the most is my brother Wilham, who is shown to be alive to this day. He was a good second lieutenant from the beginning of the war, and followed his parents' admonitions to protect his younger brother. Fighting against the enemy, he was wise and brave, and went into the war, and then as the war went on and the invasion of Stalingrad failed, he felt that the war was deceitful from the beginning and could not be successful, so in a battle, he All his men were killed, he narrowly escaped death, and he went into hiding. After being caught as a deserter, he was incorporated into the so-called "death squad", and after many incidents, he killed the officer and fled back to Germany.
He is alive. He knows war better than anyone.
He went through the war, then the fall of the Berlin Wall, and
as a father to this day, in those crazy times, he went through the war and understood the nature of war from beginning to end. Because of the war, he lost his brother, missed love, and shattered a good life. Just alive.
Reflection on war is the same as human nature, and it is unreliable on its own. Looking at him from the perspective of a loser seems to have more charm.
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