"People who have no conscience, have only ears that can't be caused." -(Ming) Wang Yangming
Jewish "Gilles", born in the troubled times of World War II, was unfortunately captured in France under Nazi Germany's policy of exterminating Jews. Fortunately, by virtue of his own intelligence, among the millions of dead Jewish compatriots, he worked hard to survive the defeat of Germany.
In exchange for half a loaf of bread, he got an out-of-print Persian book, which became his amulet. He lied that he was a Persian, and it happened that a German officer and a canteen supervisor needed a Persian teacher. He was a half-way monk who had not had time to shave his hair. In order to survive, he had to make up and sell it now, and read the original " False Persian "sutra.
At the beginning of the film, a truck full of Jews was driving on the surrounding deserted mountain roads. After the German soldiers drove these ordinary Jewish people out of the car, without warning, they suddenly fired machine guns at the crowd who got off the car. . Those living people who were still desperately trying to eat a bite just now fell down instantly and no longer have to worry about being hungry.
Before the slaughter began, a young man in the car exchanged a half-loaf of bread for "Gilles" with an out-of-print Persian book. A plot explains that after the war, the old value system was broken. What kind of antiques and treasures can't keep up with a ration that can fill the temple of the five internal organs.
It is not only old values that are broken, but people themselves.
How to dissolve the meaning of the human being, break the innate empathy of the human group, alienate and materialize it, the answer is to make his name disappear. All the Jews who entered the concentration camp, the first thing was to line up in a long line to receive a number, which was sewn to their clothes. Since then, they have become a string of numbers, a nameless "walking corpse" who is not treated like an ordinary person.
In the prison, the same method is used, which not only makes the perpetrator feel at ease and blindly executes the orders of the superiors without having to be interrogated by their inner conscience, but also makes the perpetrator more willing to give up resistance and become a victim of ravages at any time. A string of numbers to die.
Jewish-American scholar Hannah Arendt raised the "evil of banality" in "Eichmann in Jerusalem," when she came to Jerusalem as a correspondent for The New Yorker to take part in an investigation of Nazi war criminal Adolf A. A compilation of five reports written after Seaman's trial. Through her understanding and observation of the Nazi butcher Eichmann, she believes that [the evil of banality] is a kind of human evil that everyone will have. This evil of human nature is the result of the deliberate shaping of the Nazi state. Through the input of ideology, it has successfully reversed the legal order in the minds of ordinary people, turning fallacies and malice into the foundation of a new type of justice, rooted in the mind, making it possible Lose the existing personality and independent thinking ability, and isolate the truth and reality through self-deception, lies and stupidity. In this way, he rationalized his own innumerable criminal acts into abiding by the law, protecting the country and strictly implementing the superior's orders as a soldier.
Just like the German Nazi officer Klaus Koch in the film never admits that he is the executioner, his hands have never been stained with blood, he just fed the other executioners with sufficient food, and then went to kill more people.
However, is every Nazi criminal just a crime caused by the inertia of giving up thinking? When they chose to join the Nazis and fully obey any orders from their superiors, did they really have no individual rational thinking?
Throughout the mass slaughter of Jews, we will see a large number of Jews involved, from the powerful to the commoners. A large number of Jews were betrayed by their own people. In order to obtain their unique position to survive, they became accomplices in the mass extermination of their compatriots. They consciously helped to register the "prisoner" list, shared food for their compatriots, and even helped the German army manage the order. The "Gilles" in the film, by virtue of this special relationship with the German Nazi officer Klaus Koch, received certain preferential treatment, doing the work of helping to register the Jewish directory and helping the cook.
Of course, we can reflect on the evil of mediocrity, but it is difficult to say that those who commit the evil of mediocrity lack independent thinking. Perhaps it is precisely the rational thinking of individuals that makes the vast majority of people consciously move towards the evil of mediocrity, and obtain absolution from individual responsibility through the entire set of distorted value systems provided by the government.
Why do people go to the evil of mediocrity?
There is an old saying called "follow the trend, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages", when the world is broken, the correct value is distorted by the mainstream, upholding "the gentleman does what he does and does not do it" and "does it when he knows he can't do it". , Those who listen to their conscience will have to pay a price. Some even need to pay with their lives, while others will encounter situations more terrifying than death.
The insight into people's hearts and human nature has made the rulers understand early on that if they want to subdue the people, they rely on two magic weapons, "greed" and "fear". Only their greed can lure them into minions; only their fear can shock them with blood. , so that it does not dare to resist.
In a 758-page epic novel "Sorrows in Belgium", Hugo Krauss tells the story of the Belgian teenager from joining the Nazis to his final reflection during World War II through the eyes of an eleven-year-old Louis Self-examination and get out of the depraved mind. What contributed to his growth? It was blood, the life of a conscientious and conscientious teacher and countless literary works that awakened this young man's conscience.
In the film, what made "Gilles" go from focusing on his own survival and indifference to what happened to his compatriots to being willing to leave the chance of life to others in order to rescue an Italian Jewish mute? It was also a man who exchanged his life for his life, which awakened his numb nerves. This dumb brother, in order to avoid the identity of the fake Persian "Gilles" being exposed, killed a real Persian and came forward to admit it. Why is this brother willing to do this? Just because of the kindness of "Gilles" in the extreme situation of the concentration camp, he took a can of meat to make up for the seriously injured mute brother. An out-of-print book is exchanged for half a loaf of bread, and a life is exchanged for a box of canned meat.
Only those who have really seen sacrifice and bloodshed will be inspired by the shock of sleepless nights to inspire the great love of others, that is, self, and thus get out of the compulsion for personal selfishness.
When I was a child, I liked to watch heroes, heroes, and strong people, and to promote justice.
When I get older, I know that the emergence of a hero must be because the existing rules can no longer demonstrate justice, and someone needs to do it regardless of the cost, knowing that it cannot be done.
The era when heroes gather is often not a peaceful and prosperous era.
There are two kinds of heroes, one is to save the blood of others, and the other is to save his own blood. Unfortunately, there are more of the former and less of the latter. Throughout history, the pursuit of one emperor through the ages and the merits of all ages are all built on the bones of ordinary people, behind which are the eyes of countless mothers crying and blind, shining faintly in the dark night.
Therefore, for all grand narratives, one must keep a bit of sobriety, and open your eyes to see how many sacrifices are needed in exchange for that unworldly achievement?
It is a coincidence, or in the dark, those who died without names need to be remembered and written down, so as to alert the powerful to act cautiously, and they are very happy. "Gilles" made up a "pseudo Persian" after 2,840 Jewish victims, and became a language that only he and Klaus Koch understood each other.
When Klaus Koch recited day after day and wrote poems in beautiful and rhythmic language, he said over and over again the name of a Jewish victim who lost his life before his eyes...
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