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Vol.20 F eburary 2nd
The rise of populism in Germany is not a matter of one or two days. After all, since the time of the Führer, extreme right-wing sentiment has been deeply rooted in this land. Today, decades later, Merkel opened the door to welcome friends from the east. All the people in the country expressed strong dissatisfaction with this. This force has once again raised its head and called for tightening the refugee immigration policy. It can be said that "reform is blowing everywhere". …
This social hotspot will undoubtedly attract a lot of attention. The second season of epix's American drama "Berlin Intelligence Station" was launched at the end of 2017 , and the right-wing forces caused by the refugee issue are making a strong return.
Netflix, which is well-versed in marketing strategies, obviously wants to take advantage of this wave of popularity, so it sharpened its knives and launched the German drama "The Dogs of Berlin" .
Both TV series have their own huge overhead settings, with right-wing forces and refugee issues as the background to start the story, and also discuss the conflicts of interest in depth.
berlin intelligence station
The CIA's intelligence station in Berlin was ordered by the U.S. embassy to investigate Otto Ganz, the whip of Germany's extreme right-wing party PfD . The drudgery, such as blowing up a crowd with dynamite, and then framing it on refugees who were already restless, in order to cause panic among the Germans . (Ah, spoiler...)
The male protagonist, Daniel Miller, disguised as a veteran of arms smuggling, and made a secret deal with Otto Ganz. As long as the final deal is successful, the CIA can get evidence to accuse his right-wing party, the PfD, of participating in terrorist activities, thereby annihilating it in one fell swoop .
However, CIA officials have a Virgin-like feeling of salvation, working tirelessly to save the right wing of the German people, while the US government officials are obviously more pragmatic, they colluded with the PfD leader Katerina Gerhardt , and exposed Otto Ganz to the terror of the refugees. The bomb was placed in the name of the terrorist, which not only got rid of him, but also caused the voter's favorability to the party during the general election to explode .
The purpose of the US authorities is that the right-wing party has established a huge surveillance network in order to monitor immigration and prevent terrorists from launching large-scale terrorist activities, and promised that if the US government supports its own party, it will allow US intelligence agencies to receive into the network.
As a result, differences have arisen within the CIA. Some people think that this modern version of the female head of state should be removed, and some people think that it should not interfere in other countries' internal affairs. Another PfD whip and spokesman, Joseph Emmerich , used CIA officials who supported the removal of Katerina and anti-right German intelligence agents to assassinate the Fuehrer and succeed himself.
The TV series was launched during the German election, and it involved such a sensitive topic. Fortunately, the screenwriter did not dig deep into the entanglement of political forces in Germany, but led the gunpowder to the mainland, pointing out that the United States was manipulating Germany behind the scenes. The will of the people changes the course of political development. After Cambridge Analytica, which is backed by American capital, has successively participated in the public opinion inducement of Brexit and Trump's taking office , the European people are obviously increasingly sensitive to the word " political manipulation ".
Maybe this drama poured cold water on the German people to calm down and indirectly participated in the process of the German election 2333
Provided they chased the show...
dog of berlin
Compared with "Berlin Intelligence Station" which focuses on the political factors in the refugee issue, "The Dogs of Berlin" directly refers to the conflict between refugees and local civilians.
On the eve of the football match between Turkey and Germany, a Turkish-German national team international was killed in Macain, a suburb of Berlin. Sheriff Kurt Grimmer , who was having a tryst with his mistress nearby , rushed to the scene and confirmed his identity. Immediately asked to block the news, and raised money everywhere, and went to the underground casino to bet the Turkish team to win.
He and another Turkish police chief, Erol Birkan, are co-investigating the murder. They surveyed three groups:
- The Grimmer family is a core member of the neo-Nazi organization "The Friendship Society". The Friendship Society regards people other than Germans as inferior and will have violent conflicts with refugees.
- Tomo Kovac, the boss of the Eastern European underworld, controls all the casinos in Berlin and is also the debt collector of the male protagonist Grimmer.
- The Muslim Brotherhood of Tallinn is similar to the underworld, but it is very popular among Arabs living in Berlin. The older brother Hakin is mainly engaged in drug trafficking, while the younger brother Kareem is more ambitious, wanting to develop a black-box gambling business, and after the cooperation with Tomo collapsed, he used violence to annex his underground organization.
The Tallinn Gang and the Friendship Society are deadly enemies at first sight, and the way to solve the hatred is also very direct, returning to the original collective violence, referred to as gang fights.
Erol used to be a member of the anti-drug team. Every time he participated in the arrest of the Tallinn gang, he failed, so he agreed to join the murder investigation team and wanted to take the opportunity to wipe out the Tallinn gang.
And the unfortunate international died in a very bloody way, you can find the answer in the last episode. A small spoiler, none of the above three directly killed him.
The wonderful thing about this film is that the male protagonist Grimmer, as a people's policeman, should have been a glorious and tall image, just like the sheriff Yiguchun played by Duan Yihong in "Burning Sun".
But the screenwriter has portrayed him as a character who is both righteous and evil, and is not an ordinary "righteous and evil" - a bad habit but three super-righteous views, you do n't even know that every decision of Grimmer in the investigation is out of favoritism Still righteous . Contrary to Erol, the righteous ghost partner, he seeks the best interests for himself while handling the case. In the end, he pulls his partner into the water together. Knowing that the murderer is not the Tallinn Gang, he still frames the evidence to Kareem, who holds the black history of Grimmer. , to wipe out the Tallinn Gang.
Bai You's blood has been flowing in his body, and even if he quits the Friendship Association in name, it can't change his German-German high-cold temperament.
Refugees are difficult
Most people's impression of the refugee problem in Germany is still stuck in the Cologne sexual assault case on December 31, 2015 : a large-scale sexual assault incident against German women, marked by Cologne Cathedral and the railway station. Also in the same year, Germany accepted an unprecedented 1.1 million refugees, most of them from Iraq and Syria occupied by ISIS. Naturally, the German people poured all their anger on the incident on the refugees.
And these two TV series will undoubtedly give us a more three-dimensional cognition. We often evaluate the impact of a large influx of refugees into Europe from a macro perspective: employment difficulties, public security chaos, inflation, ethnic dilution... Undoubtedly, for the locals themselves, these problems are closely related to themselves.
But in fact, just like the motive of the murderer to kill the player, these dissatisfied emotions are often formed by the accumulation of very routine details step by step. Issues such as ethnicity have a more direct understanding , which arouses ethnic discrimination and prejudice, and further develops into resistance and riots.
Last year, large-scale demonstrations broke out in Italy. The Italian people obviously refused to allow the descendants of refugees to have legal status as Italian citizens. When I traveled to the UK, I saw a whole street of burqas in a London block, which made me think I was in the wrong place for a while. Friends in Europe joked that Chinese people maintain a neutral attitude at home, and when they arrive in Europe, they are even more radical than the local right-wing.
The German-Arab resistance represented by the Tallinn Gang and the White Right represented by the Friendship Club described in "The Dogs of Berlin" are undoubtedly a group of "chicken or egg" relationships. We have no way of knowing who created who. But the pace of the two is gradually accelerating towards a vicious circle .
Germany is clearly a loser in the process of assimilating refugees. The number of participants in the government's course to help refugees integrate into local life has just exceeded half, and Muslims who have taken refuge can be seen everywhere in the church, accidentally fulfilling the long-cherished wish of their ancestors for thousands of years. On the one hand , the influx of refugees is too large, thanks to Merkel's generous opening of the warm door, which exceeds the speed of German assimilation ; on the other hand, the Arab nation is known to be "stubborn", except for the Persians, In terms of cultural convergence, I have never been afraid of anyone, and it is a Qur'an to shake my hand .
However , Arab Germans and German Germans have finally found some common language in opposing the ghosts . The Turks are the secular pioneers of the Muslim world, and the Arabs feel that they are traitors to God, but these two types of people are backward country bumpkins in the eyes of the Germans, and only the interpretation of the embarrassing status of "earth ghosts" in TV dramas.
According to the statistics of the crime rate of the German police, most of the so-called refugees who disturb the social order are actually "pseudo refugees" smuggled in from North Africa . Relying on their similar looks to their brothers in the Middle East, they create trouble in their name and corrupt them I can't help but think of the Koreans who stole things abroad a few days ago, shouting "I'm Chinese!" before being caught.
The refugee issue can be seen as a trump card for the US geopolitical layout, not to mention dragging down Europe and the Middle East, but also earning some arms money , just like the CIA agent Daniel disguised as an arms dealer in "Berlin Intelligence Station", The US official default arms dealers come to disrupt the situation from time to time in these regions.
The rise of right-wing forces triggered by refugees is equally beneficial to the United States. Although "Berlin Intelligence Station" is a TV series with an overhead setting, the idea put forward in it - monitoring people's movements jointly with the right-wing government has made people shudder. The next step is to develop into The Machine and its darkened version of The Samaritan in Suspect Tracking , where big data collects citizens' daily activities to tag them and even predict their decisions.
The construction of the machine-style all-round monitoring network has been put on the agenda. At present, there are still German legal experts who strongly oppose its implementation not so fast. However, in the face of such a surge of refugees, who knows how long the German government can last?
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PS: Stop asking me questions like why Iranians don't speak Arabic?
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