First of all, to criticize the Chinese translation of this title is actually a kind of undecided first sentence, let alone as a suspense film, you can directly use the title of the film to get to the bottom of it! Although this film gives a multiple-choice question that any normal person can easily make a choice, after all, an open ending is an open ending, and it is arrogant to define this film by itself.
I really haven't seen many anti-war films of this type. Most of the anti-war films in general show bloody history, make people cry for the weak, and then write down their anti-war strokes. Sometimes, I feel that such reflection is superficial. After the war, the military tribunal singled out important war criminals and sentenced them to death, as if to put all this as the end point, as if those few war criminals could really bear all the guilt of the Nazis. When they died, the responsibility would be lightly gone. The fact is that post-war Germany still employed many former Nazis as staff of the new government, and all of this was covered under Willy Brandt's knees. I also learned all this after a long time.
And this film focuses on that. The film's repeated emphasis on Meyer's reputation as a knight of the Cross should not be tarnished, in fact, it refers to Germany, which was once bloodied. After the charges were scolded one by one, after confessing the guilt, he kept silent, avoided, and kept his mouth shut. Even self-deception.
Anti-war is meaningful at all times, we have never had 10 years without war, but human beings never live for mutual hatred and jealousy, we have to live for something more meaningful.
Finally, let's talk about the movie itself, in fact, it was just average. The rhythm in some places is really sad. It's totally unnecessary to spend a lot of scenes on the love between the hero and heroine and the useless younger brother; there are also paragraphs from the Nazi period that can be shortened a bit. In addition, the male protagonist relied on a gun to recall that he wanted to trace Colinney's family background. Good guy, the co-author did not investigate Colinny at all when examining the murder case, right? It's too random. Moreover, this reasoning process is completely absent, which is a bit baffling.
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