As we all know, the German Nazis persecuted the Jews wildly after they came to power, and the number of massacres reached nearly 6 million! But in addition to Jews, the disabled (including children), criminals, gypsies (inferior nations), and homosexuals were all targets of Nazi cruelty. During the Nazi rule, about 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality. Among them, 10,000 to 15,000 were sent to concentration camps. After the fall of the Nazi regime, the tragic fact of the persecution of homosexual groups seems to disappear from the memory of the country and the people, and has not been squarely addressed by history. It was not until 2002 that the German government began to recognize that homosexuals were also victims of the Nazi regime in World War II.
Prisoners in concentration camps are distinguished by triangles of different colors. Jews are the yellow triangle, political prisoners are the red triangle, general criminals are the black triangle, and prisoners in the pink triangle are homosexuals. In these categories, they are considered to be homosexuals. The most inferior are gays wearing pink triangles.
This is the background of the time of the movie "The Unbearable Feelings in Life". The original name of this movie was "bent", which was translated as "The Unbearable Feelings in Life". It really made me feel the sense of oppression and heaviness it conveys. This is a relatively special film. The film focuses on the encounters of two gays in the concentration camps after the Nazis came to power. Their stories reflect thousands of people at that time. Of European homosexuality in the context of the times.
The beginning of the story shows that before the Nazis persecuted the homosexual community, men and women in Berlin were in the nightclub drunkards and partying all night. Among them, there were many homosexuals. They wanted to be themselves, kissed and made love to their heart's content, without any concealment, but as gay Max is also living as he pleases, enjoying the happiness, which forms a strong contrast with the scene after the Nazis began to arrest them.
Max and his lover Rudy were eventually arrested shortly after they fled. On the way to the concentration camp, the Nazi officers brutally beat Rudy. Max was terrified and frightened. When the Nazi officers asked him, he refused to admit it. He was a friend of Rudy and was forced to commit violence to Rudy as required. In the end Rudy was beaten to death. Max was forced to have sex with a Jewish woman in order to protect himself. In the end, he got the yellow triangle representing the Jews. Not the pink triangle.
The tone of the whole film is undoubtedly depressive. Max and the other protagonist of the story, Horst, are imprisoned in the concentration camp along with the arrested person on the train. The work of the two protagonists in the concentration camp is to move stones, moving from one side to the other. On the other side, day after day, doing meaningless repetitions, under the supervision of military officers, the two dared not make physical or eye contact. They only dared to say a few words at the right time. The film will A lot of time is drawn in the process of two people carrying stones every day, through dialogue to show the psychological changes of the two over time.
The boring homework was about to knock the two down. The two encouraged each other and developed feelings in such an environment. What really shocked me was that they were in the sun, on the open ground, under the supervision of officers, and without physical contact. In the case of eye contact, through dialogue, I made a spiritual love and reached a climax. At that moment, I believe that their souls are fused, and they have a relationship that transcends the physical relationship.
At the end of the story, Horst and Max were brought to the power grid by Nazi officers. Horst was shot by the officers. Max once again witnessed his lover's death in front of his eyes. His self-awareness and cognition of love continued to grow. Make sure that he dare not admit that he is gay or his lover relationship with Rudy. This time Max resolutely chose to take off the jacket symbolizing the Jewish logo, put on the jacket representing the gay logo on Horst, and died on the net. At that moment, he accepted himself and chose to die with Horst in his true colors.
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