cruelty of war

Eddie 2022-01-26 08:03:40

I was shocked at the beginning of the film. The soldiers dared to urinate in the officer's car. The military discipline was so bad, a group of people were drunk, and even some people were mad at Hitler. After seeing it, I gradually understood why these submariners were so revelry before departure. It is really hard and scary life in the submarine, the space is so small, there can be no entertainment on board, and it is impossible for everyone There is communication with the outside world, and everyone is suppressed. Once they encounter an enemy and start fighting, they are always in fear of death. This film is a very good performance of submarine life, so that a person who has no experience at sea can also experience the feeling of submarine life. The film also has some reflections on the Nazis. When in the submarine, the officers complained that the propaganda machine at the top was not telling the truth, and the veterans looked at the recruits who read Hitler's quotes every day. At the end of the film, after countless life-and-death disasters, the soldiers in the submarine finally returned to the port, and just landed, they were killed by a bomb dropped by the plane, which made people feel that there is no battlefield everywhere, and when will the war end, the Nazis as a The initiator of the war, in the end, also suffers from the consequences, and it can only be said that he deserves it.

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Das Boot quotes

  • Captain: I'm sorry.

    Lt. Werner: Is it hopeless?

    Captain: It's been 15 hours. He's not going to pull it off. I'm sorry.

    Lt. Werner: I asked for it. 'To be heading into the inexorable... where no mother will care for us... no woman crosses our path... where only reality reigns... with cruelty and grandeur.' I was drunk with those words. Well, this is reality.

  • Ario: [the engines have restarted] They're... they're running. I think they're running!

    Der Leitende: Who says you can't make something out of nothing?

    [the LI laughs a nervous, giddy, girly giggle]