In the winter of 1944, the European battlefield was about to usher in the end of World War II. The German army was gradually defeated, and the occupied European countries were liberated one after another. As the war advanced into the Netherlands, a Dutch boy who joined the German army was distraught after the terrible lessons of the war. After meeting a lieutenant with amputated legs in a nursing home, the Dutch boy managed to become a German civilian. However, on the first day of his new job, he encountered a tricky thing.
The Dutch girl's younger brother was a member of a local Allied resistance group in the Netherlands, and her brother was wanted by the Germans for an attack. The girl came with her father to intercede for her brother. The Dutch boy secretly helped her, and the two men made a face-to-face meeting.
At the same time, there was a pilot in the Allied army who participated in the battle for the first time, and when the German army was gradually defeated, as long as he participated in the battle, the pilot's future career would definitely soar. This gold-plated tour seems calm, but in fact it is full of dangers. Whether the pilots will be able to complete their missions, whether the Germans in the Netherlands will be able to fight to the end, everything is unknown.
The above is the main fragment of the "Forgotten Battle" recommended to you today. He is not as full of main themes as ordinary American films, nor is it full of emotional lines like general European films, it is a Dutch film, but also a Dutch film showing World War II, although this film shows a small story, a story that can be ignored by most people, but behind this story, we see more than the main line of the story.
It would be unrealistic for you to ask the Dutch to make a war film that showcased the grandeur of World War II, and not all countries could have the full but profound influence on World War II as the United States and the Soviet Union. As a small country that participated in World War II, the Netherlands naturally does not have the ability to tell a grand narrative, but for this film, it accurately grasps what should be seized, and smoothly gives up what should be abandoned, naturally, what the film shows to the audience is a kind of nature from the inside out.
"Forgotten Battle" is divided into three chapters, each of which has an independent small story, and the three small stories naturally constitute the main body of the film, and the final presentation to the audience is a three-dimensional, multi-faceted war. That's a good idea.
The Dutch boy showed a complex emotion, as a Dutchman, but joined the German army, which in itself is a humiliation, but after being forced to participate in the war, but facing the tragic death of his comrades but unable to do anything, he deeply understood that the war itself is not a life-and-death duel, and no one should be easily deprived of life.
The Dutch boy, who understood this, began to have a sense of disgust with the war, and the lieutenant he met in the nursing home added a bit of desolation to this disgust. What did the lieutenant's diligent combat bring in? For his own future and destiny, the Dutch boy obviously has a new realization, war can be away, and he needs a quiet life more than he needs the baptism of war.
For the Dutch girl, the war was not a very good experience, although her father became an appeasement, but she did not feel particularly humiliated, after a brief loss of patriotism, the survival instinct prompted the German girl to have no empathy for the sacrifice of the country and the livelihood of those around her. Until his brother became involved in the resistance.
The fact that her brother had inflicted such a large number of casualties did not completely warm the sister's determination, but rather because she knew of her brother's death, the sister was forced to join the rebellious crowd, until the last moment, when she successfully sent the information out and went to prison, she seemed to understand that the war was still related to herself, and the polite German army did not have the slightest respect for a person in an occupying country.
The Allied pilots were supposed to be gilded, but there was a brief encounter with the Germans as the planes were shot down. Originally a harmless pilot was forced to participate in a life-and-death duel, and at the moment of the death of his superior, the pilot suddenly grew up, and after killing two Germans with his own hands, the pilot truly understood the cruelty of war. Faced with the gilded way, he was calmer than the average recruit.
The three stories finally come together to a point where we see one of the most inconspicuous decisive battles on the battlefields of Europe during World War II, in which the Netherlands made the most inconspicuous choice in the most humble way, and in the end this most inconspicuous choice determined the fate of several people. They may not have the glory of the war heroes, but when the clouds of war drifted over their heads, these people completed their transformation and finally made their own choices. War makes children grow, and they should appreciate this sentence in particular.
There are no grand themes, no thrilling scenes, and no fierce duels, but "Forgotten Battles" unfolds slowly like the title, but beyond the title. Perhaps in many war films, this film is just one of the most ordinary, but this kind of ordinary is the most unusual. World War II spawned many heroes, but it was an ordinary member who really pushed these heroes forward. Without them, with heroes alone, who could afford World War II?
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