The film adopts a cool tone and tells the story between a group of bomb disposal teenagers and the Master Chief with great restraint. As teenagers die one by one in the minefield, an air of despair hangs over the tiny beach and continues to torment the conscientious Master Chief. Can't help but think, why does such a human tragedy happen? Are the prisoners at fault? I think most of them did, for whatever reason, they did go to the battlefield, slaughtering their enemies, being the invaders to the Allies, the direct enforcers of their homeland. Therefore, the Allies can justifiably project the grief and hatred of the country's ruin on them, and let them do the most dangerous and hard work, and even expect their death. Therefore, prisoners of war camps are often starved and wounded. In prisoners of war, what you see is not the peace after the war, but the continuation of hatred and the distorted human nature because of natural revenge.
Based on emotion, it is understandable that the Allies' anger and revenge towards POWs is understandable, but is this really right, or is it worth advocating? If a father kills the gangster who killed his daughter, no one will understand that he is not sympathetic to the father, but there is no law, an axiom, that allows the father to not bear the responsibility of going to jail.
During the war, countless soldiers and civilians died. We are responsible for war criminals and prisoners of war. Is there anyone responsible for the death of prisoners of war? Especially the juvenile prisoners of war like the one in the film, who have never been on the battlefield or hurt a single life in their entire lives, just because the Germans have to suffer the humiliation, hostility and hatred of the Allied forces, and even sacrifice their lives for it. Do they really have to bear the pain caused by the war?
To be honest, I don’t know how to answer the question raised by the title. I also know that the prisoners of war in World War II had a miserable life, and their own country did not dare to protest. Retaliation and use of prisoners of war have become the tacit rules of the anti-fascist alliance. Xuan's secret, but I still think that people should not allow hatred for granted.
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