Not long ago, the Tokyo Olympic Games came to an end, in addition to paying attention to the competitions, there is another delegation worthy of our attention, that is, the refugee team.
They have different skin colors, carry the five-ring flag representing the Olympic Games, and enter this activity that connects the world.
And these 29 people are the epitome of eleven war-torn countries.
Although most of them are just a round trip, their appearance represents the yearning for peace and sends a signal of hope to the world.
They don't have medals, only victories.
The emergence of refugee delegations has forced us to reflect on the dangers of war.
And the cruelest war in the world is the Second World War.
The great crisis of the world economy in 1929 intensified the contradictions between Germany, Italy and Japan.
The Germans then launched an offensive against Poland on 1 September 1939.
Subsequently, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and a world war broke out in an all-round way.
The emergence of World War II has involved more than 60 people and 2 billion people in war.
This war not only changed history, but also affected every aspect of the world.
Among them, the ethnic cleansing of Jews was the most brutal atrocity committed by the German Nazis.
Today we will take a look at this war film about the murder of Jews from the perspective of children.
Bird Street Island
The Island on Bird Street
The film is based on the semi-autobiographical children's book of the same name by Israeli author Uri Orlev, Øen I fuglegaden.
He also won the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award, the nomination for Best Film, the Silver Bear Special Mention Award, the Best Creative Award and many other awards.
The film tells the story of a boy named Alex, who was separated from his father during World War II, who was left alone in the rubble for five months after the Jews were captured.
The most characteristic part of the whole film is that it does not do all black and white treatment, but uses the lowest saturation color interpretation, which shows the Inhumanity of the Nazis more deeply.
The story is set in the Holocaust of Jews by the Nazis after World War II.
Every week, they would select young and strong Jews to work in the factories, and the remaining useless young and old would eventually be taken to the center to be killed.
The little boy Alex's family is among them.
The moment came so quickly that my father was immediately taken away.
The remaining Alex, under the influence of his grandfather, escaped the fate of being executed and hid in the bunker in the abandoned city.
But the price was that my grandfather died tragically under the gunfire.
Why didn't he run away?
That's because when his father left, he told him, "Wait for me, no matter what happens, I'll come back to you, wait for me." ”
Alex travels through bunkers and burrows with a guinea pig.
Eating people's leftover food and drinking water leaking from the sewers to keep alive.
Until the Nazis came to the ruins and carried out a final sweep.
Alex was cornered by the Nazis, who did this without a knife or gun, but simply turned off the water valve and incinerated the food and belongings they found.
This left Alex and the other hideouts feeling desperate.
There was no way he had to get out of the cave in search of food.
During this time, he witnessed people killing their compatriots in order to survive, experienced the German armed raids, saw the frolicking of his peers outside the high walls, and deeply experienced the compassion that did not belong to his life.
But even if the fate was cruel, it did not lose the goodness in his heart.
He killed the enemy soldiers with the gun left by his father to save his compatriots, and he also felt guilty about the people he killed;
He rescued the underground party and went out to find medicine at the risk of his life;
He sent key information for the underground party for the sake of his compatriots.
As a child, he gave back all his righteousness and courage to everyone.
At the same time, he is smart.
He made ladders out of ropes;
He climbed to safer heights;
He moved the tiger away from the mountain and rescued the underground party;
He used the most unfamiliar marksmanship to try to exchange the hopes of the whole nation.
But he was more envious.
He envied the freedom and stability of his peers outside the walls;
He envied his former self and his father's grandfather's dependence on each other;
He envied that he could be happy when there was no war.
And the root of all this is the fault of war, it has destroyed countless children like Alex, it has destroyed countless homes.
Through the encounters and experiences of young boys, the film shows the hatred of war.
And tell everyone that anti-war is the voice of all mankind.
There are also some plots in the film that are worth thinking about.
Alex wasn't entirely in danger.
On both occasions he was able to escape the ruins and live a relatively safe life.
Once, he sent intelligence for the underground party, but he did not expect that the other party was an old man who had helped him.
The old man wanted to take him out of here, even if he was displaced, it was much safer than losing his life at any time.
Another time was when Alex met a girl who lived in happiness.
The two saw each other and even had a childlike date.
When he was in danger again, he reluctantly hid in the girl's house.
The moment he washed up and lay down on the soft bed, he truly experienced the happiness of being a child for the first time.
The kind family decided to take him back to the countryside with them, so that he could live a comfortable life from then on.
Both chances, relative to the little boy, were better options than staying in the rubble.
But he didn't agree.
Just because of his father's "wait for me", he chose to stay in the abandoned city where the muzzle of the gun could come at any time.
At this time, the invisible and constantly cutting ropes between the family affection showed the ruthlessness of the war to the fullest.
And the end of the film is also interesting.
Alex refused all kindness and lay back in the rubble into an endless wait.
For five months, he insisted for five months for his father.
But more desperate things followed.
The ruins where he had been leaning for a long time were demolished, and the only guinea pig that accompanied him left him forever.
Now he really has nothing to lose.
So he lit all the matches.
Lying in the warmth of peacetime, he seemed to see his father.
Father walked toward him and kept calling his name.
He looked at the person in front of him countless times before he finally dared to come forward and hug his father.
The two were finally reunited, and most importantly, they were both alive.
The ending of the film is very meaningful.
Having lost everything, he saw his father in the light of the fire, it was the truth, but he could not believe that his father had really escaped from the enemy's hands; but the dream seemed so realistic.
We can learn from these two aspects.
It is true that eventually the Germans retreated, the war ended, Alex finally waited for his father, and the world returned to tranquility;
It is hypothetical that Alex finally defeated despair, left the world in the last warmth, met his father who left, and went to heaven with a yearning for peace.
But no matter what the outcome, it cannot offset the persecution and losses caused by the war to the people.
There are no radical and bloody war scenes in the whole film, and the tragic post-war life of a young boy is enough to show the truth behind the war.
But the same World War II film, "Schindler's List" uses heroic love to show humanitarianism and redemption of suffering people.
In contrast, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas", which also starts from the perspective of children, shows the plot from the friendship between children and the cruelty of war from the perspective of children, thus triggering people's strong thinking about war.
The same theme can have different forms of expression, but the dangers brought by war can never be indelible.
Not long ago, August 15 was the 76th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender, and we still haven't forgotten the heinous crimes of Japan's invasion of China!
Tens of millions of people died under their butcher's knife and millions of families were displaced.
And this is the indelible trace of war and the aggressors.
It is always the people who suffer behind the war.
Therefore, let us always remember: do not forget the war, cherish the peace.