The film tells the darkest escape route of a Jewish boy separated from his family during World War II. Along the way, he encountered almost all the wicked people. His scalp was numb, and he felt extremely desperate for the world. You can't help but ask: under what kind of background, the evil of human nature is far beyond imagination. The film unfolds on a road in a remote Czech village. Against the background of blindly dilapidated, messy, and dirty, the lonely and helpless Jewish boy stumbles and flees in a hurry, and is regarded as an ominous thing by people. On the way, he met a man who raised birds, painted the bird with filth and black and released it. The bird was immediately found by the birds in the sky. The flock of frightened and angry birds attacked, and they were soon beaten to death by the birds and fell to the ground. That's what the movie's title implies. As a Jew, that is, a smeared and unclean person, being despised, spurned, and expelled was a norm, and even became a code of conduct for some people at that time. They did evil things without knowing it, let alone not. ashamed. In the middle of the church, he met a man who was willing to adopt him. This outwardly pious believer, praying is a habit in his daily life, but when he met a Jewish boy he thought was dirty, he exposed his pedophilia. , rape of a helpless boy... This kind of heinous story one after another seems to have no end. The breadth and depth of human evil shown in extreme situations and the extent and depth of human evil can be astounding. It is said that the people in the vast countryside must have been hardworking and gentle farmers and peasants in peacetime. In extreme environments such as war, human nature becomes vicious, and people take it for granted. And the surrounding are all the same behavior, the evildoers are more willing to do evil, and form a collective consciousness. At this time, people who show kindness will become aliens, and such an atmosphere will cause more evildoers. , and fewer doers of good. The Chinese believe in the goodness of human nature, but do not know that the transformation between good and evil can be easily accomplished under certain circumstances. Watching this movie, thinking about how the evil of human nature will be stimulated, and then beware of the banal evil, is the meaning of this movie.
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