For World War II, on the Asian battlefield, China has the most say. The Northeast Unit 731, the Nanjing Massacre, the graves of 10,000 people on Sanzao Island, the Chongqing bombing, the comfort women, the "Sanguang" policy, and so on. These major war disasters we have heard since childhood were all left on Chinese soil by World War II. Cruel imprint.
As the main anti-fascist force in the Asian battlefield, in order to fight against Japanese fascism, China injured more than 17 million people and killed more than 18 million people. It was also indispensable in the international anti-fascist war.
On the European battlefield, it is the former Soviet Union that really contends with Hitler. In the confrontation with Germany, the former Soviet Union must have the most say. The Soviet Union was undoubtedly the country that suffered the most in World War II, and these losses were mainly caused in the war against Germany. For this war, the Soviet Union lost more than 27.8 million people and disabled more than 33 million people.
In fact, in the former Soviet Union, a number of quite classic World War II movies were put on the screen. Unlike most anti-Japanese war movies, which show heroes on the front of the battlefield, this 1985 film "come and see" (come and see) shows the various atrocities suffered by the Soviet people in the German-occupied area, following the small The protagonist, young Flor, witnessed the cruel fascist army.
1. "I want to go to war!"
In 1943, the Great Patriotic War of the former Soviet Union started. Young boys wanted to step onto the battlefield to fight for freedom for their country.
Flor is also such a teenager. Living in a quiet village, he still doesn't seem to understand what war means. When his mother asked him not to join the army, he was determined to join the army. His two young sisters looked at his mother and The elder brother's quarrel didn't understand what it meant. He just looked at each other and laughed out loud.
The children seem to have no idea about war, because in Germany under Hitler's rule on the other side, "Book Thief" is written about the children running and telling each other, cheering the "war is coming!" scene.
Flor was taken to the army by the officers. The enthusiasm of the soldiers was very high. In this lush woods, all the soldiers were noisy and took the women to take a group photo. At this point, everyone had smiles on their faces, as if they were not going to war. Under the tall and thick green Metasequoia trees, this scene seemed particularly tragic.
Flor was arranged to be at the end of the team because he was a rookie. He seemed a little wronged when he was young. Although he is small, he also has the courage. He wants to charge and he wants to kill the enemy. When I was sad, I met the strange girl Glasha. In the forest, the two experienced a terrible air strike together, making them good friends.
2. "I hate Hitler!"
In the airstrike, Flor was slightly injured, so he returned to his village, but their village was quiet and there was no one in his home. Flor told Glasha that he knew where they were and started running.
Glasha looked back at the house as he was running. There were piles of dead bodies behind the house, and the ground was thrown there. Glasha was so scared that he couldn't speak, speeding up his pace, until he and Flor waded hard across the swamp. , Glasha shouted at Flor, "They are all dead!"
Flor didn't have any shock. Maybe he had expected the ending, but didn't want to admit it. He even pinched Glasha's neck tightly, not allowing her to say that.
Flor began to fear. He was afraid that Glasha was telling the truth. Although he had approved the result, he still didn't want to believe it.
When the surviving villagers brought Flor into the camp, everyone was crying, and some people were using mud and sticks to make a mud statue of Hitler. After cutting his hair, Flor looked at the mud statue of Hitler and screamed heavily. Take a sip of water.
A villager lying on the ground with severe burns said to Flor with difficulty:
They poured gasoline on me and set me alight. I chased them, begging them "Please kill me!" They were just laughing. They are just laughing.
At this time, there was no smile on the boy's face, and he no longer looked like a boy.
At the end of the film, the boy fired dozens of shots at Hitler's brand. This was also due to the fact that he witnessed the German massacre and torture of the small town. Since then, Flor's eyes are full of hatred, and the boy's innocence has long been lost.
3. "I don't want to die!"
The film culminated in the German massacre of the small town.
The German army drove the villagers into the concentration camp. The villagers didn't know if it was because of fear that they could not think. They all followed the German army into the camp hut obediently. When everyone entered, the German army locked the door of the hut.
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The Germans let the childless person crawl out, pulled the mother out of the hut, threw the child back into the hut, and then threw the grenade into the room from the upper window sill. There were bursts of crying and yelling inside. Men, women, children, and old people all made tragic screams in the sea of fire.
The screams, laughter, dog barking, bird barking, and the sound of burning fire all intertwined and obscured the entire sky.
Flor and others outside looked at all this in horror, their eyes full of fear and shock.
In front of the raging fire, the Germans pulled Flor and put the pistol against Flor's head. The expressions of shame, fear, and anger on Flor's face were intertwined, turning into a dull expression with a wrinkled forehead.
After styling and taking photos, the Germans dropped Flor and left with a smile.
During this massacre, the German army laughed wildly at the fire, and the dog kept jumping in the chaos. The poor Russian watched all this in horror. The massacre was a carnival of German fascists and shepherds .
4. Concluding remarks: unparalleled presentation of genius
In this "Go and See for Yourself", the cruelty of war and the tragic experience of innocent people are only part of its being regarded as a classic. If you want to comprehensively evaluate this 1985 film, you have to mention its shooting technique.
In the film, there are always some sounds in the background, and those small sounds are always lingering in the ears.
Whenever there is death, the buzzing of flies will sound. Flor returned to his village and found that there was no one. The sound of the flies sounded, suggesting that all this is about death.
When the airstrike killed Flor's comrades and the cows they had stolen, the fly came out again, buzzing, and began to bite these lifeless bodies.
The fly symbolizes decay and predicts death in the film.
The other background sound is the German silver whistle. As long as the Germans are about to appear, there will be a misty whistle. It indicates that a disaster is about to happen, or that a catastrophe has just ended.
The film observes the war from the perspective of a child, which is similar to another World War II movie "Ivan's Childhood". The original innocent teenagers became mature soldiers after the war. The war accelerated their growth and accelerated the aging of their appearance-no one would believe that this was a teenager.
Another amazing feature of "Go and See by Myself" and "Ivan's Childhood" is the montage technique . It is also war. "Ivan's Childhood" uses the boy Ivan's dreams to repeatedly show Ivan's longing for his mother and sister, thus highlighting his deep resentment and hatred for fascism.
In "Go and See for Yourself", at the end of the film, the boy Flor shoots at Hitler's portrait. The film uses a montage technique to recount Hitler's life. This series of cruel things will not happen.
In the film, when a German officer was captured by the Russian army, he still said forcefully: " I ordered the removal of all children, because your nation is not qualified to exist in the world. "
And when Flor recalled Hitler's childhood and looked at the young Hitler, Flor hesitated, he did not fire this last shot.
At this point, the video is over.
"Go and see for yourself" ending montage clip
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