And the war in that shot is not the last war as Marsali said, but just the beginning...
The whole film is somewhat like the situation of senior German and French officers (essentially reflecting the good training of the soldiers of the two countries and the state of elite education at that time), the family of the German-French war plus the anecdotes of prisoner-of-war camps and escape anecdotes in the era of high nationalism. At that time, the German and French soldiers still maintained some restraint and respect for each other. Hitler's brainwashing had not yet begun. Yet the wounds and evils of war do hit every civilian family in a concrete way. Renoir's so-called prison break movie showed wars in different situations, and the characters of different classes also reflected the social conditions of Germany and France at that time like a mirror. Criticism of war is restrained and sad, always French. No one can survive the war, the savage giant machine of war will undoubtedly crush everything, and the pain, only those who have experienced it know it.
Renoir's editing is crisp and crisp, and the narrative shots are restrained, similar to Bresson. The French prison escape movie is really high, and Renoir is probably the grandfather... Although it happened to be a coincidence that he was imprisoned in the south of Germany near the Swiss border and met a beautiful hostess, no one would criticize such a coincidence. affectation. Because, since everything is in line with the imagination in the war, the coincidence can be regarded as the focus of the director's own point of view. The escape from prison undoubtedly carries some kind of hope for German and French peace and a call for love, as well as a satire of cruel reality and war. When the two disappeared into the snow, drifting away, and the film gradually came to an end, as a viewer, I felt a sense of sadness, because this is not the end, the tragedy of war is like the footprints moving forward on the snow, Continue to leave a mark in human history...
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