Stick to kindness

Florian 2022-04-20 09:02:19

Reflections on war permeate the film, weak but not weak. The male protagonist wears the same clothes when he enters the training camp in the summer and when he leaves the training camp in the winter. This kind of relief, let him return to the original good self. The friendship between the male lead and the second male lead is also touching. If the second male lead hadn't left, I don't think the male lead would have awakened so quickly and thoroughly. Male No. 2 was born into a wrong anachronistic family, so his life is destined to be a tragedy. His kindness is a burden in the eyes of others, and his talent is not worth mentioning in the eyes of others. He has a poet-like romantic temperament, but this temperament also made him suffer enough of spiritual torture in the background of that era. When he committed suicide in the cold icy water, I think at that moment he gained the true freedom he had always dreamed of. Most of the evaluations out of the background of the times are pale and powerless. The valuable thing about this movie is that it makes people see that even in such a difficult and easy to be brainwashed day, after watching so many dirty and dirty After the incident, there are still people who maintain their kind nature and stick to their clean soul. This is also a relatively gentle answer that human nature can give under the topic that has been testing human nature.

Of course, I can't deny that the charming eyes of the second male lead Tom Schilling made me feel a little more subjective about this movie. Overall, this movie is still worth watching.

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Extended Reading
  • Emory 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    The entry point is very good, but the plot is old-fashioned, the characters are face-to-face, not particularly youthful, no different kind of blood, and unconvincing, which is very disappointing. In addition, NAPola is such a cowardly school? Indeed, history is written by victors and their lackeys.

  • Deondre 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    I understand the film review that justified Napola's name. But even Chinese scar literature also has the one-sidedness of distorting historical facts, emphasizing violence, and magnifying contradictions, but this has not weakened the literary value of the text. On the other hand, any regime-led institution serves the incumbents. No matter how good the attribution is, the subject is still Nazi. However, the attributes of elites and pure-bred Aryans are all reflected by their appearance. Director, which side do you want people to stand on?

Before the Fall quotes

  • Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!

    Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!

    Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!

    Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?

    Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.

    Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!

  • Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.

    Vogler: Out!