How can evil in a person be inspired? The Fake Captain has an explanation. In the face of sudden power, the lowly people are often more likely to slip into the abyss of morality. The male protagonist in the film is a deserter from the German army during World War II. He accidentally picked up a captain's uniform, gathered the stragglers he encountered on the road, and formed a special task force under the banner of the head of state. . The fake captain first carried out a brutal massacre in the army camp. After the camp was bombed by the British army, he took his surviving men to the city to burn, kill and loot, doing whatever he wanted. Until his identity was revealed, the German military court was still hesitating after he hysterically swore allegiance to Hitler. This common soldier named Willie Herold was finally sentenced by the British military court.
Military discipline will not spare a deserter, no matter what the reason is, but in terms of morality and human nature, the behavior of desertion may be understood and forgiven. At the beginning of the movie, Willie Herold was evading the pursuit of the German soldiers, covered in mud and unable to see his expression. I think the actor acted too well. Through the mottled black mud on his face, he still showed his inner panic and rogue. generated sympathy.
This ordinary soldier has shown his fascination with power and ease of use since he put on the captain's uniform and took in the first subordinate of the disintegrated army. Every move seemed to imitate the tone of an officer. Behaving neither humble nor arrogant, he can hold his ground when confronted with doubts from others, he can still grasp the temper and scale of jokes while answering cautiously, seize the opportunity to talk to win the trust of his colleagues with a strong aura, even revealing in his eyes carelessly The fear and hesitation that come out are in the moment when others can't see it.
The targets of his violence in order to establish his prestige were deserters and those who violated military discipline, just like him. At that moment, he held his eyes tightly without blinking, until he was fully used to the brutality of bombarding human pits with anti-aircraft guns, and he forced himself to get used to this killing game step by step until it finally became a kind of perverted vent. It is not difficult to imagine that he was once abused like this. Once he has the power of life and death, he will treat his companions as weak as himself like revenge. A person's evil is like a vicious dog that is usually locked in the depths of his heart. The most fearful thing is to be released by power.
What exactly is used to restrain the evil in human nature? I think of the coppersmith in the film "Donkey Gets Water" two years ago, a peasant who used to be simple and responsible, but once tasted the sweetness of culture and power, he abused people out of control. The concepts of power, hierarchy, and culture, once exploited by ignorant people, can become the worst weapons of murder. Good and evil are not stimulated after exposure to these concepts, but the person has no concept of right and wrong in his heart. Poverty does not lie in material, physical and spiritual aspects, but in the lack of criteria for judging everything, not knowing how to measure the limits of a thing, and not knowing which is more important between kindness and power, and the distinction between this boundary will take a long time. Learned and immersed.
Good and evil never appear suddenly, neither in times of war nor in times of peace, and one cannot wait for a person's behavior to suddenly get out of control before looking for it as the rope to restrain it. It is a concept that exists in the heart after training and cultivation, not for emergency. The distinction between good and evil always depends on intelligence. A foolish person can never be a good person, and he has no ability to do good. So Willy Herold's greatest evil is that he never knew what evil was. He didn't lose morality, but he never knew morality. His cruelty was caused by his deep fall into knowledge. in disorder.
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