The world is quietly changing, and war is an inevitable topic between countries.
In recent days, the fierce war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has led people around the world to call for an immediate cessation of military operations and the maintenance of a rare peace.
Today, I would like to share with you a movie based on a true story, "Bird Street Island".
Released in 2001 with a Douban score of 8.3, the film tells the story of Jews living in a large abandoned factory in a walled Jewish quarter during World War II, when the German army invaded WarSAW and walled around warsaw. In the last Nazi clearance operation, our male protagonist little boy had the privilege of escaping and hiding, and he kept his promise to his father, waiting for his father to return to pick him up, and he survived alone.
The film begins on a silent night street with no sound but a Nazi soldier and a dog.
It was so quiet that you could even hear someone coughing, and a high wall was built here, and in such an environment, everyone was afraid.
They never know if there is still a tomorrow, when the Nazis "picked" themselves.
On this day, while our male protagonist was playing with a group of small children, one of the tall children played badly, putting the male protagonist's pet mouse in a high position, so that the short male main climbed up to get it.
But I don't want to, at this time, the Nazis have come to pick people again, and the other children have heard the wind and hidden, leaving only the male protagonist still crawling to get his pet back.
Fortunately, in a thousand shots, our male protagonist also successfully hid in the tunnel, and the Nazis did not find him.
The man hid in the tunnel until the sky fell, and at night, his father came to him and climbed out of the tunnel.
In order to avoid the arrest of the Nazis, the father and grandfather of the male protagonist designed many secret passages at home.
Our male protagonist, on the other hand, lives in the hidden attic of his home, and every night he can comfort him with a "Robinson's Adventures" novel and a pet mouse.
Another arrest was the Nazis' final campaign to take away all the Jews.
The male protagonist hid with his father and grandfather, but did not want to be tipped off, and was caught.
The male protagonist's father originally wanted to fight the Nazis, and then let the male protagonist hide, but he did not want to, was caught and found out of the weapon, and was forced to separate from his grandfather and the male protagonist.
Before the separation, the father of the male protagonist said to the male protagonist, I will come back to pick you up.
The Jews were walking in line, and grandfather suddenly said to the man, wait for the opportunity to run and hide, your father will come to you.
The male protagonist seized the opportunity to run away, hiding in the tunnel, and was not discovered by the Nazi soldiers, but at the same time, the male protagonist's grandfather was also killed.
When the man waited outside and there was no sound, it was already dusk, and the Nazi soldiers temporarily left.
On the streets, which were originally sparsely populated, there was no popularity at all at this time.
The man fell asleep while waiting for the taxpayer to walk away, and when he woke up, he was already dry-mouthed. Seeing that the sewer pipe was dripping, he stuck out his tongue and drank a little, but he didn't want to, and was choked by the smell of water. But even such a difficult and unhygienic water is the water resources of the male protagonist for the next period of time.
The male protagonist did not dare to go out, and could only search in the tunnel, but suddenly heard a strange sound, and he turned back to the tunnel entrance to wait.
It wasn't until night that the man climbed out and returned home to look for his pet mouse.
The night is deeper, our male protagonist chooses to go out to find a chance to survive, he comes to other people's homes, looking for supplies to survive.
Through the smell of the pet mouse, the male owner found food under the wooden floor of a family under the leadership of the mouse.
But before he could rejoice, he was violently pushed away by an equally hidden "adult" and snatched his food.
The male protagonist begged the adult to give him some food, he was very hungry, but the adult did not intend to give it to him, at first took the clothes and threw the male owner, and then picked up a pot and threw it over.
Without thinking, the pot hit the ground and made a sound, drawing the Nazi soldiers over.
In the pursuit of Nazi soldiers, the male protagonist hid in a cauldron because of his short stature, and luckily escaped capture.
Another day, the Nazis concentrated all the tools of life on the street and burned down the underground sewers, and the sewer pipes on which the male protagonist relied for survival were gone.
The male protagonist looked around and could not find a water source, returned home, found his father and grandfather drinking the remaining wine, endured the discomfort, drank a few sips, and then got drunk, in the drunken dream, he saw his father and grandfather again.
Perhaps it was the blessing of his father and grandfather that woke up the drunken man at home.
When the male protagonist woke up, he heard a voice, and thought it was his father, shouting at his father, but he did not get a response, but attracted people to come over, several strands of electric lamplight light shone over, the male protagonist quickly hid in the tunnel, it was not his father.
One morning the next day, the man heard the grunting of the pigeons, picked up the telescope he had searched for, and saw that on a floor that had been bombed, two pigeons were bathing on the sink.
The male protagonist who found that there was water on the sink gave full play to his wisdom.
He sawed the handrail of the stairs into one by one, and then took the rope from his grandfather's shop and made a rope to climb the ladder.
When you find a source of water, you are no longer so worried about surviving.
Thinking that the current tunnel is unsafe and it is extremely inconvenient to drink water, the male protagonist shifted his position to the half-blown tall building.
The male protagonist saw the other side of the high wall through the row of leaf windows on the high floor, and on the other side was the scene of other ethnic groups living and working in peace, he saw the doctor and a beautiful little girl on the upper floor opposite, and saw the people walking comfortably on the street.
That was exactly where the man dreamed, but he couldn't go, because of his appearance, his language could easily make people discover his Jewish identity.
Although the male protagonist has always said that he is Polish, it is only to avoid disaster.
On another day, the taxpayer escorted a scarred Jew to the entrance of the tunnel, and the Jew pointed out how many Jews were still alive in the cave, and the Nazi soldiers arrested the remaining Jews in the tunnel.
The male protagonist could not help but be glad that he had decided to leave the tunnel, otherwise he would also be arrested at this time.
There are many thrilling scenes in the film, such as when the Nazis came to search, they almost fell down with the rope ladder on the upper floor.
The director knows how to grasp the nervous psychology of the audience, as well as the happy psychology of the male protagonist to escape the scene, so that people's hearts fall together and go deeper with the movie.
The next few days did not let the male protagonist calm down all the time.
One day two revolutionaries were chased by Nazi soldiers downstairs where the male protagonist lived, and just when the Nazis were about to shoot and kill the two revolutionaries, the male protagonist took a gun and closed his eyes and accidentally killed the Nazi soldiers and saved the two revolutionaries.
But one of the revolutionaries was shot, they hid in the man's house, and the revolutionary who was not shot said that he was going to find support, would leave for a few hours, and left.
But it has been ten days, and no revolutionary has returned, and the revolutionary who was shot is injured and infected with a high fever, and if he is not treated, his life will be in danger.
The man found a lot of money in him, took it, walked through the tunnel to the other side of the high wall, went to find the doctor he saw in the row of leaf windows, and gave him money to treat the wounded revolutionary.
The doctor, for the sake of money, secretly treated the revolutionaries.
Soon after, the doctor was captured by the Nazis, but fortunately, the doctor did not confess him.
The revolutionary soon recovered, and asked the male protagonist to go to church to contact the revolutionary team.
When the revolutionary was leaving, he persuaded the male protagonist to go with them, but the male protagonist always believed that his father would come back to pick him up.
The male protagonist can obviously leave this place of right and wrong, but because of the commitment between him and his father, he chooses to continue to stay and continue to survive.
At this time, what made the male protagonist feel happy was to know the little girl he saw through the row of leaf windows.
The little girl was kind, and when a group of Nazi children discovered his Jewish identity and were ready to bully him, they rescued him and went to the park with him and became good friends.
Later, the little girl's family, fleeing the war, asked the whole family to return to the countryside.
The little girl's family invited the man to go to the countryside with them, so that he could leave a message to his father and tell him where you went.
The male protagonist did not answer whether the little girl decided or not.
I think that at this time, the male protagonist must be very entangled in his heart, on the one hand, he made a promise with his father, and on the other hand, he was invited by a beautiful angel little girl.
But our man still gave up, and he watched the little girl's family go away through the row of leaf windows. When the little girl was far away, she kept staring at the row of leaf windows, and she was also clinging to the male protagonist.
This is the second opportunity for the male protagonist to leave the land of right and wrong and can have a comfortable life, but the male protagonist still adheres to his commitment to his father.
In that high corner, he looked through a small row of leaf windows, a telescope, and the "peaceful" world outside, but that world did not belong to him.
As the Jewish Wall fell, he was in danger of being exposed, and he looked at the approaching outside world in horror and confusion.
The half-bombed building where the male protagonist lived was torn down.
The male protagonist fell from a high place, and his pet mouse was crushed to death, and he climbed back to the cave where his father came to look for him at the beginning of the film.
Exhausted, he held a funeral for the guinea pig and lit a match that recorded the years he had waited for his father to return.
With the match lit, the man lay down, what else could he do at this moment? He didn't know, he was too lonely.
At this moment, the sunlight outside suddenly became very soft, and his father came in and shouted his name.
The warm sunlight shone on his father, making everything seem like a dream, and the man crawled out of the ruins, and he cried out: "Is this true?" ”
The father replied, "It's true! ”
The male protagonist hugged his father tightly, afraid that his father would leave him again.
The movie ends.
A person should live under the love of his parents in his young age, but the male protagonist has to endure war, the departure of his grandfather, the arrest of his father, hunger and loneliness, which is a survival experience that even an adult cannot bear.
A child, a guinea pig, a ruin, five months of waiting with a glimmer of hope.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist watches "Robinson's Adventures", and the adventurous spirit of Robinson in the novel may inspire him, and the island in the title of "Bird Street Island" is also the island where the protagonist has been adventure.
He even has a "tree house" of his own like Robinson, and the guinea pig is like Robinson's "Friday".
When I watched the film, I was always tugging at the protagonist's heart, there was no food or drink, and I had to avoid the Nazi pursuit and the killing opportunity of the same kind to survive, but he survived.
At the end of the film, it is said that the real male protagonist of the film has survived and devoted himself to writing, and is a famous writer - Alex.
Perhaps the front has always been heart-wrenching and cold, but this last message warms the heart.
The impact of World War II on people all over the world was too profound.
Depicting war from a child's vision, restrained and calm and sad.
As a small actor of the male protagonist, the performance is very vivid, the forbearance in the ruins, and the kindness of taking care of people, is the brilliance of humanity shining.
The last thing to say is that the Nazi soldiers found the man hiding behind the iron cart, but instead of killing him, he turned and left.
In fact, in the context of war, all ordinary people are victims, even if he is an enemy army.