preface
The Douban score was once as high as 8.6, but few people have seen it! Today's sharing session will bring you this high-quality niche war movie - "Fanny's Journey"! This movie explains to you what it means to be a good war movie! Neither outside the facts, nor trapped in prejudice, nor above the people. As Hesse put it: "Not for war and destruction, but for peace and understanding." "It can be said that it is a representative of the unpopular best films, and war fans have collected it!"
Adapted from Fanny's Memoirs, the story of a group of brave Jewish children who escaped from the clutches of Nazi Nazis during World War II and have never seen their parents again.
Since ancient times, the Jews have not had their own country, and have been scattered throughout Europe, and have been rejected by people from all over the world.
During World War II, the wave of anti-Semitism in Europe reached an insurmountable extreme, and Hitler carried out the Holocaust. Between 1941 and 1945, some 6 million Jews suffered a horrific massacre.
The German Nazis captured Jews in their occupied areas and sent them to Jewish concentration camps to commit genocide. Some of the Jews who escaped went to neutral Switzerland, some to Russia, the United States and other places, and some to Shanghai, China.
There has always been no shortage of good films for anti-Nazi themes. The directors' expression of this extremely cruel and bloody history is often very calm and solemn, aiming to expose the bloodiness of the war and the darkness of human nature in the war through real and dramatic stories.
After reading it, the shock was more than enough and the pain was deep. The long and deep pain is actually the reason why many people love and hate World War II movies.
There are many films related to World War II, the most famous of which is perhaps steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
But "Fanny's Journey" is one of the most special World War II films, and the whole film adopts a child's perspective on the narrative.
It's hard to imagine that the thrilling escape of a group of children in the war can be transformed into a frolicking journey full of life experiences from the fantastic perspective of director Lola Doeren.
Although there is no deep pain in traditional World War II movies, it also makes people sincerely weep for this earth-shaking hymn of life.
The story takes place in 1943 during the Vichy government in France, when many NGOs continued to carry out "child transport" rescue operations, smuggling these children to Britain, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and other countries.
In the film, thirteen-year-old Fanny leads twenty-eight Jewish children to escape the Nazi and Vichy governments, fleeing eighty kilometers from a small town in southern France to Switzerland, and has to be separated from their trusted adults. Of these children, the oldest is no more than thirteen years old and the youngest is only four years old.
This group of Jewish children embarked on a journey of escape on their own.
The film truly portrays the situation of the most vulnerable children in Jews during World War II, a group of Jewish children who face the difficult escape of adults who are overwhelmed, showing the beautiful qualities that many adults are difficult to have, which is extremely moving.
When it comes to children's World War II movies, many people may think of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", and I think the main difference between it and "Fanny's Journey" is that the former is the childlike gaze of war, and the latter is the war in the eyes of innocence.
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is, in the final analysis, a film that reveals the destruction of innocence in a cruel war, and the focus of the film is still on the cruelty of war, while "Fanny's Journey" takes a different path, showing more of the pure life force of children in war.
The ruthlessness of war has made the youngest children learn to disguise and hide, and in order to survive, they are forced to mature, and even the small body contains the strength to fight against fate.
Although there are twists and turns along the way, the film uses its relaxed rhythm to allow the audience to perceive that there is a string secretly tightening in the calm.
The prototype of the heroine of this film is The Jew Fanny Ban Amy. From 1938 to 1944, during World War II, the Jewish child protection organization saved thousands of children.
The meaning of "Fanny's Journey" is to let more people see the great contributions made by such people.
In the "era of peace", the film re-exposes the invisible cruelty and hidden atrocities to the public, and timely assumes the heavy responsibility of sounding the alarm. This movie is worth seeing.
Fanny's Journey 2016
Director: Lola Doerlen
Writers: Fanny Ben Amy
Starring: Leoni Sisod
Douban 8.6 IMDb 8.4
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