War is cruel and merciless, and in war the good and evil of human nature are undisguised. "Whatever You Want in May" tells the story of a German father and son who fled to the French countryside during World War II, but soon after the war burned to France, the local villagers left their hometowns to escape the war, and the father and son experienced dispersion and reunion.
In May at the turn of spring and summer, the war shattered the tranquility of the old days of life and changed some people and things. "Free to Do May" does not show the cruel and bloody battle scenes on the frontal battlefield, but focuses on the reflection of the civilian population facing the war, and explores the human choices in the war in their loss of homes and displacement.
"Free May" gives the film a poetic name, but also represents the free and romantic style of French cinema, in the film, in addition to the time to tell the story, but also symbolizes the most innocent humanity expressed in the war: abandoning the moral constraints of nothingness to pursue practical survival, kindness and friendship across borders, guarding innocence and the freedom to pursue happiness.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > in an inescapable war, the choice without answer is arbitrary and the desire for life</h1>
The inhabitants of the northern French countryside left their homes and migrated to the southern city of Dieppe. Whether the South was far away from war, and how many unknown dangers awaited them on the way forward, they were at a loss.
On the first night of the migration, Mayor Paul's wife, Maddor, played music, opened all the wine she had carried, and held an open-air ball, and the villagers began to sing and dance, briefly forgetting their tiredness and uneasiness. Even in difficult circumstances, they do not lose the innate romance that belongs to their people, and the optimism in them can be seen.
"Remember the post office calendar?" It says May do what you want to do. ”
In the face of selfish profiteers and scarce food, Maddor joins forces with a group of women to challenge Paul's authority and leads the villagers to rob the shop of food. Although Maddor respects and loves her husband Paul in ordinary days, in the face of the constraints of her pale moral conscience, women choose to pursue the continuation of survival with more realistic and more decisive determination than men.
As they crossed the Somme and continued their journey south, they saw that the German tank torrent had overtaken them from behind and headed straight south, where the destination Dieppe would also be lit. How much is the point of continuing south? People don't know how to decide. In the end, Paul and others insisted on returning to their homes, while others insisted on continuing south.
Whether the background is away from home or sticking to the homeland, for ordinary civilians, the war will eventually be inescapable, the southbound does not know what the scene is in front of them, and the north returns do not know whether the homeland is still there? Choices without answers are arbitrary, the pain and helplessness brought about by war, and the desire and yearning for survival.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the loss of home is accompanied by the loss of relatives, and the road of migration is also the way of finding family affection</h1>
The loss of homes, displacement brings the loss or loss of contact with loved ones, and in the war years when communication was not developed, people who were concerned about each other even meant life and death.
German father and son Hans and Max have experienced dispersion and reunion, and their waiting and searching make people feel warm from the beginning of the entanglement to the end. Max leaves a message for his father on the blackboard in the classroom, and his father eventually follows and finds him through the chalkboard's chalk message.
"The flames lasted for three months, and the family letter arrived at ten thousand gold." On the way to the migration, as long as there are houses everywhere, there are people who leave messages on the wall, and these messages are invisible connections to the interrupted family affection. For the people who leave the message is hope and expectation, for the people who see the message is concern and direction.
How many wives and children have been separated by the war, how many children have been orphaned, and how many human tragedies have been caused. The concern and search of German fathers and sons intuitively reflects that more low-level figures in the war are similar to their fates, and also indicts the ruthlessness and pain caused by the war from the other side.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > there is no distinction between nationality and geography in the goodness of human nature</h1>
Wars between nations often bring hatred between citizens, but in the struggle against evil, the forces of good will eventually come together regardless of borders.
The German Hans and the British soldier Percy met in the underground passage and came together inadvertently, but they had prejudices against each other. Hans believed that the British army was always retreating and not brave enough, while Percy believed that the Germans were belligerent and untrustworthy. After experiencing the joint killing of two German soldiers who broke into the village, the friendly coexistence along the way, the two people also understood each other when they broke up.
The Scottish bagpipes represent a friendship between the British soldiers and the French people during World War I, and when Albert, the French farmer in the wine burger, gave the bagpipes to Percy, the friendship continued. The German director killed Albert, Percy later joined the French army, and after being captured, he blew the final bagpipes in front of the invaders' cameras and died with the German director.
War is divided into territories and borders, but people in war are only good and evil. Common friendliness and kindness can make the British and Germans understand each other and give birth to friendship, and can also make a British soldier willing to shed blood and sacrifice for the French people, and the evil and dark war cannot swallow the glory of human nature.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > there is still love to guard and the freedom to pursue happiness in the chaotic world</h1>
The female teacher, Susanne, is the most beautiful presence in the play, and she has a crush on Hans, who has been caring for and protecting the boy Max who has lost her father after Hans's arrest.
Seeing the brutal murder of civilians on the way, she insisted that the villagers choose another path and gather them in a carriage to recite fables in order not to let the children see the bloody scene. She guards the beauty of the world in the hearts of children with her kindness, and protects their youngest hearts from the ravages of war.
For Max, she has regarded him as her own child, after being separated from Max by the German air raids, she is almost frantic to find and worry about him, and her love for Max is beyond blood affection.
Just as the insistence of father and son allowed Hans to miraculously find Max, Suzanne's persistence also allowed her and father and son to miraculously reunite on the bridge. When Susanne saw Hans and put away her surprise, a few seconds of slow motion as if time had stood still, and she made a lifelong choice: to turn around and catch up with Hans.
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Even if the world is in turmoil, it still adheres to the goodness of the heart, guards the people it loves, and boldly and freely pursues happiness. This is the most arbitrary thing to do in the May of the war, and it is also the spirit of freedom and romance in the bones of this nation that cannot be destroyed by war.
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War brings destruction, it can destroy the beautiful and rich material homeland, but it cannot destroy the spiritual home of people who are good by nature and love peace.