A masterpiece that does not reveal its edge

Rosendo 2022-04-21 09:01:21

After watching "Hitler's circle of evil" on Netflix, I finished "The Destruction of the Empire". The film more meticulously restores the internal relations of the power core within Hitler's bunker: including Goebbels, Himmler, Speer, Braun and others.

My favorite after watching the film turned out to be Speer. As the chief engineer, Speer portrayed in the film is a gentle and gentle image, with a gentle and gentle tone from beginning to end. Do tell. In his final scene with Hitler, his reaction is also difficult to connect with his real historical image.

Goebbels and his wife are the most portrayed of many henchmen. Goebbels persisted in all Hitler's orders, and Goebbels' wife poisoned all her own children by thinking that her children could not live in a world without Nazism.

In the final stages of Nazism, the exercise of power was hideous. The performance that the actor gave Hitler was also extremely explosive-his hunchback and often manic, all showed the fangs and claws of the empire's operation. And the performance of his lover, Eva, is another manifestation, either profoundly denying his doom or creating a temporary ecstasy for himself. It is a pity that this film is overly entertaining, and the research and expressiveness of the film are commendable.

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Downfall quotes

  • Adolf Hitler: [Screaming after Steiner didn't attack after giving an order] Traitors! I've been betrayed and deceived from the very beginning! What a monstrous betrayal of the German people, but all those traitors will pay. They'll pay with their own blood. They shall drown in their own blood!

  • Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: The Führer has lost all sense of reality.

    Generaloberst Alfred Jodl: He moves divisions that only exist on his map. Steiner's scattered unit can hardly defend itself and yet, Steiner is ordered to attack! It's pure madness!

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Then why don't you tell him yourself?

    Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: He won't listen to reason. You should know that.

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Something must be done.

    Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: Are you insane? We'll be thrown out like Rundstedt and Guderian!

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Yes, and?

    Generaloberst Alfred Jodl: [glares at Fegelein] We are soldiers! We pledged our allegiance to the Führer!

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: So that means we are no longer allowed to think?

    General der Infanterie Wilhelm Burgdorf: All this coming from you? An opportunist? A ruthless careerist?

    SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein: Pardon?

    [Burgdorf takes a swig of alcohol]