Text / Li Zijin
The film has been buried since its release in 2017. This is one of the best war movies I've ever seen. It tells a child's miserable childhood during World War II from a child's point of view. The film is adapted from the autobiography and "Bag of Bullets" by the famous French writer Joseph Raufort. The little boy's leading skills are online, so that your eyes don't want to leave the screen every minute.
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In 1942, the Nazi war trampled across Europe, and the Nazi army, which took control of Paris, declared that all Jews had to wear a pentagram on their clothes or they would be sent to concentration camps.
Joe and the Morris family, a little boy living in France, have been shattered from their peaceful lives. Young Sheng's eldest and second child could not stand this discrimination and ran away from home; the remaining little boy Joe and his third brother Morris were discriminated against by their classmates at school. The parents were worried about their safety, so they gave them travel expenses and let them start their first escape.
Before fleeing, even if they were beaten, their father taught them to hide their identities and say they were not Jewish.
When I got on the train, when I woke up, I saw a cruel scene. Nazi soldiers checked the train. Everyone jumped off the train in order to escape, or they could not escape the fate of being killed. The flustered brothers met a kind priest, and just like that, they passed the level. The pastor told them not to trust anyone casually.
But as soon as they got off the car and looked for the ferry, the brothers believed in a little brother who was riding a bicycle. Fortunately, the little brother really took them through the hail of bullets, wading through lakes and rivers, and thus reached the free zone that was free from Nazi control.
However, after walking 23 kilometers on the road, Joe's feet were worn out. At this time, the elder brother Morris was carrying his younger brother away, and this part was also quite touching. Fortunately, they finally got to where they wanted to go, saw their parents and brothers, and the family was reunited again.
Along the way, although there were laughter and a pig named Adolf (Adolf Hitler), everyone saw panic and anxiety.
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The short-lived goodness was quickly shattered, and the Nazis took their place again.
This time, for their safety, their father sent them to a training camp for the juvenile soldiers of the French surrender, which could not only avoid the Nazis' interrogation, but also exercise their physical fitness. One day Joe missed his parents so much that they took a shopping cart and wanted to go out to see their parents. Just like that, they were arrested.
After layers of investigation, the Nazi officers set up a bureau and asked them to work in the vegetable field. Here, if they escape, they may be killed immediately. Fortunately, Joe saw the shadow of the Nazi soldiers on the ground. They escaped in this way, the people here were really frightened, and the archbishop also sweated for them.
After reading the first two parts, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, for fear that if I didn't pay attention, the two brothers would be separated forever. This time they only met their father in a hurry, and they continued to flee.
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The two continued to flee to a small town in southeastern France, one cooking and the other delivering newspapers. Here they live fairly peacefully, although they have also been inspected by the Nazi militia, but fortunately everything is safe.
It wasn't long before the Allies liberated Paris, and Joe and Morris could finally go home. But Joe let his brother go first. The owner of his employer's bookstore is actually a staunch supporter of the Nazis, and his son is a Nazi soldier. When the Nazis were on the brink, the bookstore was smashed, and the bookstore owner and his family were brutally beaten by the masses.
At this time, Qiao said loudly that he was a Jew. He had been hiding in this place for many years, and finally he could say it out loud. He said that the bookstore owner saved him by hiding him, and this allowed the bookstore owner's family to be rescued. But the bookstore owner's daughter had been arranged to flee at this time, and Joe never saw her again.
In this way, Joe returned to his home in Paris, the film came to an abrupt end, and they finally got rid of the fate of fleeing. But did their family finally get together? What about the fate of his brothers and parents? Go watch the movie for yourself.
This film, through the eyes of children, tells the pain of war.
Originally at Joe's age, it was a carefree life of playing marbles in school;
If there is no war, brother Morris only needs to worry about whether smoking is a trivial matter of life being scolded by his parents.
But the war made them embark on a life of escape, and even several times, they rescued their lives from the brink of death.
In the process, even in the war, I met many good people, Joe's friends, who exchanged a bag of marbles for his five-pointed star to protect him, as well as priests, archbishops, drivers who let them hitch a ride, etc. Wait.
Fortunately, even after the war was over, Joe still knew how to be grateful. For the Nazi supporters who had been good to him, he was still able to bravely stand up to protect them when their family was killed.
We were born in a peaceful country, we do not need to run for war, we are free, but we are always trapped by the trivialities of life. If you're stuck with life, watch this movie, watch people at war, and you'll think we're living in a very happy time.
This is also a good film about war and people's lives during World War II. If you want to understand life in war, then you must not miss such a good film.
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