"The Fake Captain" Movie Review + After Viewing

Ludwig 2022-04-22 07:01:57

"The Fake Captain" is a German war film directed by Robert Ewenk. German anti-war films are often different from mainstream films. Although I haven't seen many of them, the styles I have seen are more literary or have sharper topics. The sharp topic is more intense. Think of the whole movie "The Tide" a few years ago, which was presented to the audience in a more intuitive way, telling the horror of the Nazis. Today's "Fake Captain" is the same, using a A simple and intuitive way to tell the audience the horror of Nazism, the horror of rights, and the horror of human nature. There is an article on the Internet about this movie titled the scariest movie of 2018. The "horror" here is indeed very scary.

Let's talk briefly about the movie.

The whole film of "The Fake Captain" is presented to the audience in black and white. In fact, this serious subject matter is presented in this way, which will aggravate the overall feeling of oppression. The film mainly tells the story of a soldier who accidentally picks up a coat with the rank of captain when he is fleeing and then relies on it. Such a coat deceived food and drink in that panic era, and also made a series of cruel and inhuman stories. The overall style of the film is cold and the black and white picture will make the audience feel even more cool. The whole is so serious that it is suffocating. Even if you want to cry, you can't cry, and you can't cry because the movie is too real, and the black and white used in the movie The picture, but the beauty of the picture can be seen. This beauty makes me feel like a piece of cold art, like a landscape painting painted with blood, which makes you feel both beautiful but terrifying.

"human nature"

The whole movie can't escape human nature. Humans are very complex animals because they are intelligent and have ideas. It is said in ancient times that people are unpredictable. Everyone has their own way of thinking. Everyone is selfish. Everything is simplified in front of us. It is profit. No matter what you do, the first thing you will think about is only profit and benefit. Even if you meet a person you love the most, you will first think about what she can give me? What can I give him? Don't deny that this is the benefit of shallowness. Some people here will ask what is the mother to the child? What is a long-lived couple? Here is the result after the benefit. If you do something without considering the result, will you still do it? No, unless you don't lack that stuff at all. Here are two obvious examples from the movie, 1. The captain of the three deserters first saw that Willie's pants didn't fit, why didn't he see through him, but obeyed him instead? Because this fake captain is needed. 2. Why do a group of civilians who hated the German army in the hotel shouted long live the tax because of Willie's words "I will count the money you lost, and then give you compensation". If you're in a movie environment, you're not going to be any better.

"right"

After talking about human nature, let’s talk about rights. I think rights have a very powerful temptation for everyone, because with rights, you will have money, love, and a sense of existence. Why does Willie put on a captain’s coat and think Instead of saving those deserters like him, he would slaughter recklessly? There are two kinds of personal analysis. 1. Because he enjoys this feeling for the first time, he just wants to experience and experience the feeling that everyone obeys orders. There is a saying that once a slave becomes a master, he is many times worse than his master. 2. First of all, as a soldier in the Nazi system, but he is a deserter, which shows that he is timid, has no sense of responsibility, and must have suffered a lot, which led him to become a deserter and support these systems. As soon as Ren Dang puts on clothes, he has the right to symbolize that he can change his face after breaking out of the cocoon. At this time, his first thought is not to save the same kind of people, but to feel that he is different from them, and he should touch his own right to take it. The IQ of people who can escape from an institution like paying taxes is not much lower than what they have lost. People are greedy in the face of power, not to mention the era of war.

"fear"

Let's talk about the "horror" at the end of the movie. The story of the movie is not real horror, but the real horror of the movie is the big character "adapted from real events". In reality, it is the same 19-year-old German soldier who relies on Wearing a military coat, he took 125 lives at random. And the Easter egg combined with the movie can be said to be the core of the movie, and it is also the most terrifying part of the movie. The broken part is no longer there, but will it still exist in the future?

Finally, let’s talk about other advantages in the movie. First of all, the rhythm of the movie is very stable, and the sense of substitution is very strong. After a few minutes of the movie, the audience will be slowly substituted into it, and then the picture and editing of the movie can be said to be very good, and the black and white picture color matching is depressing The overall plot feels cold and suffocating, and other shots in the movie are also very well used. There is a shot in which this fake team and a group of girls are crazy in a bar. The director gave a special effect slow motion, we can also learn from this Through the lens, you can see through the mental state of each character and the relationship between the characters. This is a special second. As for the acting skills, there is no fault, each character interprets his own changes in his heart very well.

To sum up, the movie has a unique style. The overall feeling is very depressing and serious. You can't even laugh at the dark humor in the final approval. You can try the whole movie. 10\8.5

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Extended Reading
  • Ocie 2022-04-07 09:01:07

    Another realistic interpretation of the "imperial minister", at the special time of the end of World War II, taking advantage of the turmoil of public opinion/military sentiment and the checks and balances between various military/judicial departments, an ordinary person used an absurd way of almost black humor, Step by step, it turned into a living demon, cruel and chilling, and it was the epitome of the rise of Na (extreme) quintessence (right); the blind obedience of the people in the face of power and the stance of egoism, the stimulation and expansion of mediocre individuals from evil spirits, The black hole of the soul sinks infinitely in ecstasy, and can only be swallowed by the abyss of human nature;

  • Maximo 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    If the hero accidentally falls into the well, the stoner will be extra brave; once the mortal wears tiger skins, the ghost will be extra active. The more alert the farmhouse is, the more fertile it is, and the more dangerous the military camp is, the more comfortable it is. Handed a killing gun, either drink the bullet or tap; handed a grave-digging shovel, either leggings or buried alive. Seeing that he was wearing new clothes, he silently stretched out his arms to complicity. Looking back again, he was already naked, but the military uniform was born on him, and he couldn't take it off.

The Captain quotes

  • Willi Herold: My father always said, "If you've done something wrong, then at least admit it."