There have been so many things happening in society this February, so that every time I want to write something, I can’t settle down and finish it.
I haven't watched many movies recently, and I am immersed in the lazy game world all day long, trying to calm my irritable emotions to escape the bad status quo, but those hostile contradictions and attitudes are still rampant, so I am not irritable.
" Those who are not my opinion will be condemned even if they are far away." After this sentence has become the mainstream ideology of today's domestic society, morality, right and wrong, are no longer important.
And the phrase "Laugh at the poor but not at the prostitution" has long lost its original critical meaning, and has gradually become a trend that the whole society has acquiesced to reach a consensus.
Today, under multiple high-pressure situations, we laugh at ourselves as leeks to be cut, but in the eyes of rights, we are not even weeds.
Everyone has too much on their shoulders. In order to survive and for the family, it is understandable to choose "kneeling".
But if you kneel for too long and taunt or even attack those "standing people", it is shameless and sinful.
Their logic is simple: only if you knock down all the "standing people", then the only "kneeling people" left in this world will naturally become the truth and become the right.
However, too many dynasties in history tell us that by then, no one can be alone!
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Austrian farmer Franz and his wife Fani have a peaceful and peaceful pastoral life. The people in the whole village help each other. Although their lives are not rich, but with the power of faith, everyone is grateful and spends every day happily.
However, this kind of life will eventually be broken. The gunfire of World War II changed the fate of everyone.
Most males in the village were required to enlist in the army and join the German Nazi army. The rest must swear allegiance to Hitler, without exception.
But in the eyes of the pious Franz, participating in this unjust war is not allowed by God.
He tried to express his views, hoping to be understood by others, but he got a look of contempt.
The always kind villagers regarded him as a lunatic.
The abominable theft, because the target was the Franz family, has become a matter of course.
Just because Franz didn't stand with them, he verbally attacked them and even attacked them.
Because they understand that Franz's existence is a proof of other people's "evil".
But in fact, the more desperately other people try to assimilate Franz or extinguish this last light, the more they annihilate their own humanity.
Franz, who was troubled by his life, was shaken several times. In order to keep his family away from his involvement, he made a final compromise and decided to enlist in the army.
However, during the enlistment ceremony in the barracks, when the instructor ordered everyone to stretch out their hands and swear that they would always be loyal to Hitler, Franz refused. He didn't understand, this was his final bottom line.
The long and painful prison life repeatedly destroyed Franz's body and mind.
His insistence on the bottom line did not get a bright future, but was swallowed endlessly by darkness.
His lawyer said: God doesn't care what you say, only what you think. Take an oath, whatever you think in your heart will do.
Franz chose to be silent.
His wife said: No matter what you do, no matter what happens, I will be with you forever. Do the right thing.
Franz made a decision.
Franz is played by German actor August Dich in the film. Friends who are familiar with Quentin's movies can tell at a glance, isn't he the thoughtful Gestapo in "Shameless Bastard".
As one of the most talented actors of the new generation in Germany, August Diech contributed a completely different performance in the film this time.
The film’s photography is very clever, and it feels like a pseudo-life documentary.
At the same time, with lively editing, the fine details of life are edited together, without words, only through the video screen, the life state of the male protagonist's family in different periods is presented to the audience in the most realistic perspective.
Although it is a movie with the theme of World War II, there are no cruel war scenes or fierce conflicts in "The Hidden Life".
With the gradual advancement of the war situation, the state of everyone in the lens gradually changed silently. Although the flames of war have never reached this place, the historical event called the "World War" has an indelible impact on all mankind. At the moment of "hypocritical peace", the struggle of human nature is still surging and tragedies are still unfolding.
Such a cruel tragedy,
Is it because of the fierce gunfire? Or is it elusive?
The answer is naturally in my mind.
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