Germany Year Zero Comments

  • Kirsten 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    4.5. Commemorating my son's work. "Stop running away, admitting fate is not a shameful thing." Survival was difficult after the war, and hospital room and board were better. Fragmented Berlin, even after the war is over, the Nazis (discs of teachers and Hitler's speeches) still linger. Children devastated by war. Grave digging at the beginning - suicide at the...

  • Tamara 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The last, and most inward, part of the trilogy, we can see Rossellini's entire creative flow towards psychological...

  • Mozelle 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The pedophilia point of the teacher and doctor is uncomfortable until I see Hitler's speech recorded on vinyl before I understand that they refer to the Nazis, which is wonderful. The realism of Neorealism is based on extremely refined and refined compositional images. Rossinelli made this movie full of grief and anger after his 11-year-old son passed away. Although it is very sad, I really envy the creator @...

  • Armando 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The deepest impression is the sense of presence brought by the live-action shooting, which is decadent and suffocating; among the famous neorealists, Rossellini is regarded as a rather cold-hearted person. You can say that he is pessimistic, or you can say that he has insight into the essence of wartime distortion. , In the bottom purgatory where poverty spreads, there is no redemption at all. When the sudden sound of the piano brought a few seconds of hope, he still chose to let the children,...

  • Dayana 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The collapse of the post-war social system makes the prevailing patriotism questioned, the "collective" is facing a crisis of disintegration, the individual is forced to return to the atomic state, and the newly established small group maintains a keen rejection and suspicion of dissent, so the boy is in the Different groups are separated from each other and cannot be integrated, and the social system can be reproduced visually; at the same time, instrumental rationality has become an emerging...

  • Clemmie 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The third part of Rossellini's post-war trilogy, from Italy in "War" to the defeated Germany, a little boy whose mood is completely integrated into the wandering ruins of Berlin The great tragedy is not over yet, but also in memory of the director's son who died prematurely. Restoration of the...

  • Nico 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    Rossellini is good at grasping the details in the macro, first shutting the characters in a small space, and finally the vision of the ruins of Berlin, the child will die for this...

  • Kole 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    8.5, a war movie from a real children's perspective, there is no love here at all. The ruins of Germany under the ruins are simply a natural curtain of neorealism. This kind of texture cannot be created by any studio restoration. It is no wonder that these Italian masters must The camera is placed on the real street, and I really like the last ten minutes of Edmund wandering the streets and buildings like a ghost, pushing the boy's disillusionment to the extreme. It is indeed a...

  • Anthony 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    The motion long shots of this movie are so beautiful, nothing to...

  • Keenan 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    I have only seen two Italian neorealist films, one is about a bike thief and the other is this one. I hate films that destroy children. Edmund did not give up hope of life with the fiasco in Berlin, but Killed his father because of unsustainable livelihoods in reconstruction. When he walks into the ruins at the end of the film and shoots himself in the head with a pistol-like part, he is already determined to say goodbye to the world. Hey, half-baked...

Extended Reading
  • Destini 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Humans are not good at the beginning

    Although I can't argue for the statement that "human nature is inherently evil", at least I can cite a large number of examples to overturn "human nature is inherently good", such as this article. Being indifferent and turning a deaf ear, it may be for its own interests, and it may have long been...

  • Clarabelle 2022-01-20 08:01:28

    Edmund is the puppet of the war demon

    Patriarch is considered to be an unruly thing at any time and in any region. In the film, Edmund, who is only eleven or twelve years old, takes the assassin. He is not a murderous person, and a very sensible child. At the beginning of the film, Edmund lied about his age and wanted to get more...

Germany Year Zero quotes

  • Herr Rademaker: Tell me the truth. What did you do with the money?

    Edmund: What money?

    Herr Rademaker: The money for the scale. Did you give it to your father?

    Edmund: I swear that's not true.

    Herr Rademaker: You're not going to cheat me, boy. I know you'll do anything for money. You got into my house ...

    Edmund: The housing superintendent sent us here.

    Herr Rademaker: Yes, and I have to put up with it. Your father is a pain, always complaining. Why doesn't he die and give us some peace?

  • Edmund: I have no work, and neither does Eva. My brother still won't report and get his card.

    Il maestro: I understand, but what can I do?

    Edmund: My father needs treatment. Can't you help me? What can I do?

    Il maestro: There's nothing you can do. Times are hard for everyone, worse for weak and old people. You've done all you can.

    Edmund: But what if he dies?

    Il maestro: If he dies, he dies. We all die sooner or later. Would you rather die yourself or let an old man live?