[Coming out of thin air] is a warning to Europe by director Fatih Akin .
Just like the subtitles at the end of the movie:
In Germany from 2000 to 2007, the underground state agency forcibly killed 9 citizens with immigrant background and a policeman, and carried out a series of bombing attacks. The only reason behind these attacks is that none of these victims are "people of orthodox German blood."
The German heroine Katya has to suffer the loss of her Turkish husband and son at the same time because a young blond neo-Nazi couple planted a bomb in front of her husband’s office.
When the long and rigid judicial process finally failed to achieve the justice Katya longed for, she chose to blow up the murderer and herself in the same way.
On the blue seashore, there was a white RV burning with thick black smoke, and the brisk song sounded, seeming to dissolve a trace of haze.
However, there was no reconciliation.
Some are sharp confrontations, anger that sacrifices blood with blood, endless hatred, and endless killings.
As a Turkish-German director Fatih Akin is pessimistic, but also keen.
The [coming out of thin air] wailing and shouting in a sharp way forces you to face up and think about the growing neo-Nazi forces in Europe.
Perhaps there are always people who dismissively think that the neo-Nazis are just a handful of inconsistent-
But just like when Hitler founded the Nazi Party, or even when the party’s seats continued to increase, no one knew what would happen.
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Skinheads? Young gangsters on the street?
It is said that when the German team wins in international competitions, no one dared to shout "Germany is the strongest" or "Long live Germany" even if it is an excited fan.
Because it will definitely attract people around you to look at you and talk: "What? Are you a skinhead? Want to revive the Nazis?"
At least it can be said that in Germany today, people are generally very vigilant, and the neo-Nazis are of course only a small part of it.
But what makes me more curious about this is how the skinheads began to equate with the neo-Nazis.
After all, the Skinhead party (Skinhead) that emerged in London, England in the 1960s was just a youth subculture that occupied a place at that time.
The young skinheads, who were born in the working class, shaved their heads, wore overalls and Martin boots, and listened to Jamaican reggae, had few clear political demands at the time.
At best, they can be regarded as a generation with excess energy, who likes to do something on the street and vent their anger and energy at the bottom.
In the pedigree, it belongs to the same group as Mod and Punk.
The neo-Nazi (Neo-Nazism) , most of the ultra-nationalist / racist , Nazi aims to continue the spirit of keeping the race pure, emphasized that this race is superior.
In order to distinguish Hitler’s Nazism, it is called “new” in the front, or sometimes also appears as an extreme right wing.
However, the faction that has developed from the skinhead to the neo-Nazis will inevitably make people feel that the neo-Nazis are also a group with excess energy and nowhere to vent.
It's like the skinheads in [This is England] and [Made in England].
[This is England] is set in England in the early 1980s, and Margaret Thatcher brought her "neoconservatism" to power.
The father of the little hero died in an inexplicable British foreign war. The economy is still in a slump and it is difficult to see any improvement.
At that time, the unemployed population grew every month and eventually reached the highest figure of more than 3 million since the Great Depression.
The uneasy atmosphere of the whole society is like the humid sea breeze that spreads all over the island of England.
The unemployed young people who are confused and angry on the street can get it with just one reason.
At this time, the neo-Nazi trend of advocating xenophobia and opposing immigrants came into being at the right time.
Just like the speech of a bald party leader in the movie said:
We participated in the deathly stupid war. We either died or were unemployed. We all welcomed immigrants, seized our jobs, and surrendered England.
Therefore, some radical skinheads have risen up, turning the anti-immigration into a violent incident, and racism has also taken this opportunity to rejuvenate.
In fact, as early as the late 1960s and early 1970s , with the recovery of the post-war economy and the shortage of labor in European countries, a large number of foreign populations have begun to flood into Western Europe.
Under the instigation of the media, the skinhead group quickly divided, and a large number of radicals who believed in racial supremacy emerged.
By the 1980s, the British skinhead culture expanded rapidly. There were skinheads in France, the former East Germany, Spain, Finland, Denmark, and Norway.
German [fighting girl] and [former leader] talked about how neo-Nazism became the political belief and future support of ordinary young people.
Danish [Brotherhood] shows the power of the Danish skinheads and their influence on young people through a period of same-sex love within the skinheads.
Every young man with anger in his heart clenched his fists, his eyebrows were red, pinning the pressure of survival and the hopelessness of the future on fanatical racism.
They raised their guns and dropped the explosives, and they had [coming out of thin air] such worried shouts and warnings.
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Neo-Nazi, a wave of power in the near future?
On New Year's Eve in Cologne , Germany at the end of 2016 , when it was supposed to be a lively and peaceful New Year, nearly a hundred women were robbed, molested, and sexually assaulted.
Oh, refugees .
In Norway in the summer of 2011, children attending a summer camp in Oslo were blown up into fireworks in an instant, killing 77 people.
Oh, neo-Nazis .
Perhaps demons have always been twins.
Just like nearly 90 years ago, Hitler was able to come to power in the context of the Great Depression and a large number of migrants, using popular sentiments that hate immigrants.
Now in Europe, with the influx of refugees and the stagnation of the overall economy , it is hard to say that Akin’s [coming out of thin air] is not a prediction of the future.
The sharper the confrontation between the two extremist forces and the more endless animosity between the two sides, the better the soil for cultivating neo-Nazis.
When people’s impression of the European neo-Nazis is still only a group of small gangsters at the bottom of society and making trouble on the streets——
In [Coming out of thin air], the neo-Nazi party that the couple joined has been legalized in Germany; the neo-Nazis in Greece and Germany have cooperated with each other to establish a certain international link.
In fact, all kinds of far-right parties are already playing an increasingly important role in European society.
The "Golden Dawn" in Greece is one of the most violent gangs against immigrants and the third largest party in the country;
Denmark's "Xenophobic Power Party" controls one-fifth of Denmark's parliamentary seats;
France's "National Front Party" and Britain's "Britain First" have become one of the mainstream political parties in the country.
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In the turmoil caused by a large number of refugees in Europe and the shock caused by religious terrorist attacks, the neo-Nazis are definitely rising rapidly at a speed that is hard to see with the naked eye.
And this devil is far from being taken seriously enough.
Therefore, Fatih Akin, who shot [coming out of thin air], is a fighter of the times. He worries deeper and farther than others.
He makes movies no longer just entertainment movies.
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