As we all know, World War II had two evil sources, Japan and Germany . Although it has been more than 70 years since the Second World War, the attitudes of these two countries are completely opposite in their reflection on history. Japan has been looking at this history with an ambiguous eye, while Germany is I have been facing this unbearable past with the mentality of atonement. This year, another German film about World War II, The Fake Captain, was released. Although it was a historical drama based on a true story, it made my hair stand on end after watching it. In my opinion, this The movie is probably the scariest movie of the year.
"The Imposter" tells the story of Private Willie Herold, known in German history as "The Executioner of Emsland". Two weeks before the end of World War II, deserter Willie Herold accidentally picked up a captain's uniform and transformed himself into Captain Willie Herold. He claimed to have secret orders from the Supreme Leader Hitler. And gathered a group of deserters as his subordinates. Under the constant swaying and deception, Willy Herold gradually lost himself and eventually became a wanton killing devil...
The entire viewing process of this film caused me great discomfort, not that there are any bloody and violent scenes in the film, but the destruction of people at the psychological level. In this long 118 minutes, we saw How Willy Herold went from being a man to being a devil step by step. At first, he was a poor bastard who escaped death; then, he was a fake captain who had to lie to survive; but then, the apocalyptic chaos and the sweetness of power made him gradually lose himself, and finally, he became A devil who willfully takes the lives of others. In the whole movie, what we see is the degeneration of a young man's soul, and this murderous young man is only 20 years old .
We often say: Don't test human nature, because human nature cannot stand the test. If there is no moral and legal restraint, human nature will fall into the abyss as long as it is tempted a little. On the eve of Germany's defeat, the whole of Germany fell into a chaotic doomsday panic, and this panic undoubtedly became the delicacy of the devil in Herold's heart, as were the soldiers who followed him to do evil, because there was no restraint. Once they gained power, they released the devil in their hearts and let them kill recklessly. And, unlike previous World War II movies, none of the people Herold killed were foreign prisoners of war or civilians, but all German people of his own race.
In fact, no matter at home or abroad, countless such things have happened from ancient times to the present, and the remarks we have heard the most from witnesses are: "It's not my fault, it's the fault of the times, everyone was like this in that era, so That's all I can do", and they usually give themselves a seemingly noble reason for doing so, such as for the country, for a certain party. But these so-called "great ideals" and "the environment of the times" are not excuses for their reckless actions. Hiding under the fig leaf of "patriotism" cannot cover their diabolical acts of slaughtering their compatriots, nor can they feel at ease in order to survive. To escape punishment, because people have souls, and people can make their own choices .
There is a good example of this in the movie. When Herold was insane, he asked two deserters to shoot the other four, and promised that as long as those few were killed, the two of them would still be good comrades, and they would be honorable as good fighters for Hitler. . How about it? Does this sound familiar? Having experienced many events in history, these words are not new to us. And how were the two chosen deserters chosen?
One of them, after a brief tremor, firmly shot a sinful bullet at his compatriot; the other, after a short aiming, shot the bullet to the open space next to him, and then committed suicide with a gun . Although this scene only lasted for less than a minute, it touched me a lot, because here we can see that the reason why people are human and not beasts is because we can choose not to be evil, even if the choice is The price is your own life. Those who use great reasons to make excuses for their own evil are all beasts in human skin .
In this film, the most terrifying scene for me is not actually in the main film, but the screen played when the subtitles are released after the film ends. In the screen, we can see that the protagonist's "temporary court firing squad" has traveled through time and space , came to the streets of modern Germany. These hooligans who drove World War II military vehicles and wore World War II Nazi uniforms struttingly molested women, violated personal rights, and robbed the streets of modern Germany, but what did they usher in? There was no resistance, no escape, these modern people full of advanced ideas faced these clown-like "ancient people" but cooperated meekly, just like sheep, but the last middle-aged German woman rose up to fight. At the same time, the background music has gone from a slightly comical symphony to a serious monophonic melody.
At this moment, I thought of "The Crowd", of "Hitler Is Back" at the end of passers-by salutes Hitler's actor, and of the last scene of "The Tide" getting out of control. I thought of many, many things. This is the most terrifying place. You will find that after more than 70 years, everything seems to have changed, but in fact nothing has changed. The people are still ignorant and easily deceived. As long as there is a careerist Stand up, when an event is triggered, the people will obey and become mindless obedience.
At the beginning of "The Fake Captain", "Captain" Willie Herold was originally despised by everyone in the tavern, but he took out a small book and simply said a few words to recover the losses for the robbed people, and people immediately He stood up and shouted "Long live Hitler". It's funny, but it's also terrifying, after all, something doesn't die with time, it just sits there waiting quietly, ready to make a comeback, and we, pretending to ignore it, bury our heads in it In the dirt, waiting for the next disaster to come.
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