Because I only have time to watch a movie (I prefer to call it a movie) in the school dormitory of the senior year in high school, so I watched it in two nights, probably this year or in the future, I don’t know how long to watch it. Best movie ever.
Let’s talk about the plot directly. It tells about five different life trajectories after the separation of five good friends in Berlin from 1941 to the end of World War II. The Jewish Viktor, the charlotte who will become a nurse, the lieutenant Wilhem, the recruit’s younger brother Friedhelm, and the soon-to-be singer Greta . Five people and five identities, coupled with their different personalities, were largely enough to represent the state of young Germans at that time.
They agreed to reunite in a Berlin bar after the war on Christmas Day 1941, but how could it be 1941? Forty-one years is different from the previous two years when Germany was on the battlefield. It was a year when Germany gradually fell into a deadlock on the Eastern Front and even lost the battle in the later period. Probably from the beginning of the movie, I guessed that it is difficult for five people to get together again.
I have to say Tom Shilin, he was thirty-three years old when we filmed our fathers in 15 years, but in the movie he is an eighteen-year-old boy. This line of Friedhelm he played is also the most exciting in my opinion. From the literary youth who held a negative attitude and were extremely reluctant to kill and fight at the beginning (probably the so-called still has the atmosphere of peaceful times), to the fatal shooting of a telegraph station at the back (in fact, the writing felt unreal, even in the movie. A flaw), his own transformation, mostly physical, is astonishing. On the surface, in the second half of the movie, he murdered like numbness. In order to escape, he killed his teammates who also loved literature, shot the children who ran away, and became the hangman of the Ukrainian guerrillas, but what makes him emotional is that he is deeply attached to war. attitude has not changed. As he himself said: "Don't think of yourself as a human being." All he does is try to live as long as possible. The director and screenwriter did not intend to tell the story of how a kind man was transformed into a vicious Nazi under the pressure of war, which is too exaggerated after all, but a different way to tell how a kind man survived the cruelty of war. He still has a good heart and is forced to become a wicked person and do some evil things with this good heart. In fact, the handling here is very strange and ingenious, but it is not too exaggerated, and it also shows the extreme pain caused by the huge human tear caused by the war. Friedhelm is always on the front line, and this is fully reflected in the latter part of the film. For the sake of his friend Viktor, he shot his superiors, and in order to save a few twelve-year-olds, he stepped out of the protective belt and was shot to death so that they could see the consequences of not surrendering. He handed the photo to the person beside him and then clenched the belt and stood up. The moment he burst into tears, he was too noble to make a sound of pain, but we could all feel his overwhelming despair and grief. It hurts that he has to do something, but he also makes people willing to choose to believe in the truth of humanity that evil is beyond good.
Compared with the other four lines of Friedhelm's line, it is not so brilliant. Charlotte is more of a plot connection point, and her story with the Jewish doctor is still remarkable. Although Greta's sweetheart line is new, the plot itself is still relatively thin. It is undeniable that her expressions and actions in prison are very infectious at the end. In fact, wilhem is also to express the inner struggle of people in the war, and the love line with Charlotte can be regarded as a supplement to the plot. Viktor is the epitome of many Jews in exile, but he is the lucky few who succeed. I'm discussing these lines here, in contrast to my brother's line, so some people may disagree, but individually, the other four's plot lines are still very good and indispensable, and they share It forms the vein of the entire era, which is why this movie is good enough.
The surrender of Germany in 1945 ended World War II. Of the five people who had agreed to reunite for Christmas, only three of them returned to Berlin, which was full of rubble. Time is like water, thousands of sails have crossed the border, and the people of Sri Lanka have gone. The pianos in the bar have aged and lost their full tone. The three who survived finally raised their glasses to pay their respects to the deceased.
I wonder if the bird that Greta took care of and the photo of Friedhelm also came?
When I saw my brother's birth and death year 1920-- in the background introduction, I was thinking that after Charlotte's death, he would be very lonely, and he would have to bear the memories of five people for nearly a hundred years.
I hope wilhem can finally reunite with his best friends in that bar in the afterlife, and I hope all those who have lived through the hardships of WWII are well
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