One person's choice

Helen 2022-01-23 08:06:34

The title of the film is "The King's Choice", not "The Norwegian People's Choice". This is a movie that focuses on the personality of a special individual in a special period.

Under the constitutional monarchy system of a virtual monarch, the monarch represents the country and has political authority (Authority), but in fact there is no political power (Power). Power belongs to the parliament representing the people. The monarch can only be formed by the party that appoints the victory in the election. The government’s right to consent. Through the interaction between the royal family and the government in just two days, the film fully portrays the king's maintenance of the constitutional monarchy. The old king admonished the crown prince more than once: the royal family must cooperate with the government and cannot interfere with the government’s decision with the royal will; no matter how strong the royal prince’s will to oppose Nazis and raise a gun to protect Norway, his first identity is the crown prince, and Not an ordinary Norwegian, he cannot use his identity to influence any decision of the legal government. The baseline of royal behavior came from this, and for this reason, the old king was even confused whether he helped his son with an inappropriate choice 35 years ago.

Norway is a country only established in 1905, and the Norwegian nation has not experienced wars since the Napoleonic Wars. Although its geographic location and rich mineral deposits destined that both the Allies and the Axis powers tried to woo it to join its camp, this country has always adhered to its neutral policy not to be involved in disputes between major powers. However, the development of the situation must require The attitude of the Norwegian royal family. The legitimate government chosen by the Norwegian people refused to join the Axis camp, and the National Unity Party led by the pro-Nazi Quisling launched a coup after the German invasion and directly formed the Vichy government without a general election. The political legitimacy (Legitimacy) of this new government must be approved by the monarch, so Hitler asked the German ambassador to Norway to directly interview the king, demanding that the king succumb to force. In the case that the legitimate democratically elected government has in fact lost control of the country, whether the king appoints the Vichy government will determine Norway's role in the war.

If the King appoints the Quisling government under duress, then Norway can immediately get peace, but will be forced to join the Axis camp. Throughout World War II, Norway will appear as a German vassal state; on the contrary, if it is hostile to Germany , Then Norway will enter the camp of the Allies and appear as an occupied country. At the beginning of the movie, the imperial daughter-in-law told the old king that the wrong side should not be chosen in this war, and in the end the responsibility for choosing the side really fell on the king.

This is the core contradiction of the film: an old man who is debilitated, incompetent with the world, has no political power in fact, and has a lifetime of strict adherence to the political boundaries. He needs to decide the fate of a nation that chooses him as the king in the world war. .

The king’s choice was: unlike his brother, the King of Denmark, he would use his only power to abdicate as resistance, refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the fostered Vichy government established by the coup, and refrain from signing an imposed peace agreement. Fulfill the monarch’s right of consent.

In other words, Norway, a country that has experienced more than 100 years of peace, has a larger land area than Sichuan, but has less than half the population of Chengdu, is completely unprepared for war, and has no military strength. Europe’s number one military force declared war.

The Battle of Norway officially began.

The legitimate Norwegian government has gone through the entire World War II. Although it was in exile, it never surrendered.

Attachment: The entire Norwegian battle began on April 9, 1940, and ended on June 10. After a total of 62 days , Norway became the second longest country in Europe to resist German invasion (the first is the Soviet Union, from April 1st). Beginning on June 22nd, 2016 until the end of the war). Prior to this, Poland, which had the second strongest in Eastern Europe and had an army number of over one million , surrendered after 35 days of war ; with this short two months, France, which had the first European army before the war, went from fighting to surrendering. It took forty-six days , and the military defeat of the Allies and the Dunkirk retreat came to an end on June 4.

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  • Kirk 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Norway belongs to the Norwegian people forever. The soldier was very moved. After watching this film, I also understand the Norwegian classmates a little bit. They all feel that the king is their next door neighbor. . . we think it's normal..

  • Braden 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Handheld photography is awesome