The recent new film "Assassination of the Gestapo HHhH" is indeed quite unjust.
The network score slipped all the way from 7 to 6.7.
Many fans will first compare it with the film "Operation Apes", which has the same theme and highly overlapping stories a year ago.
The score of "Operation Apes", which was released earlier, was at a high level of 7.6.
Both films center on one of germany's important members of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich, and tell the story of an assassination operation against him, recounting the causes and consequences of the incident.
Reinhard Heydrich's position in the Nazis was second only to Thatmley, the number one gestapo.
He was Hitler's intended successor; he acted in a brutal manner, specifying the course of the Jewish genocide plan, and the executor of the "final solution" of the Great Ethnic Cleansing, with many horror titles such as "Man of Iron Hearts", "Decapitation Officer of the Nazis", "Black Prince of the Third Reich" and so on.
At the height of his life, he was assassinated by two Czech soldiers, code-named Ape Man.
Then, in retaliation, Hitler bloodied all 140 people, including babies, in the Czech village of Lidice.
At first, Fat Brother thought that the two films would overlap in all aspects, and in the climactic scene, both films chose the Church War as the end, telling the final heroic resistance of the two Assassins.
Operation Apes has a star aura on the director and Cass.
Sean Ellis is a well-known British director who rose to Hollywood with his short film "Sleepless Nights in the Supermarket".
Coupled with the support of movie stars Jamie Donan (Fifty Degrees series) and Kirian Murphy (Inception, Wind Blowing Wheat Wave), it attracted a lot of attention at the beginning.
The final finished film is also quite good quality, the story is solid, the emotions are full, the character portrayal is profound, and the final church battle is well scheduled, making the film a double harvest at the box office and reputation.
Unlike Operation Apes, the story of The Assassination of the Gestapo HHhH is divided into two lines, one before and one after the other.
Operation Apes focuses on the two Czech Assassins parachuting into Nazi-controlled areas and completing their missions step by step, almost fully showing the rise and fall of the Czech Resistance, with little visual depiction of Heydrich.
The Assassination of the Gestapo HHhH began Heydrich's naval career.
The film is divided into three distinct chapters.
The first act tells the story of Heydrich, from the saga of a naval admiral to the soul of the Nazis.
Beginning with Heydrich's favorite violin performance, he also showed his superb fencing skills many times, this "blonde demon", who reveals the artist's romance on the outside, but is rational like a cold machine on the inside.
He could brilliantly explain how planning chicken farms would increase productivity, just as in his psyche the task of slaughter was like a process of "purification," in order to achieve the fuehrer's task and the future of the empire, he treated millions of Jews in a cruel and inhuman way.
In Heydrich's storyline, watching soldiers raise their right hands in unison will be the biggest nightmare for all fans, providing a constant sense of uneasiness and fear.
"The Assassination of the Gestapo HHhH" focuses on the complexity of Heydrich in multiple details in the first act, what makes Heydrich, who originally has strict moral character, become a butcher who frightens all of Europe?
To this end, the film designed a second act as a counterpoint. The first act ends with the moment the Assassin throws a grenade, and Heydrich stands in surprise in the car, waiting in amazement for death to come.
The second act tells the story of two Czech Assassins.
They know the dangers of the mission.
But in the face of death, they did not lose their luster in life. Their experiences, on the contrary, are always full of vitality of life.
In the first act, Heydrich's seemingly glamorous life and rapid rise in status make him more indifferent in his family and career, which makes people see the gradual loss of humanity and the suffocating oppression.
The two Assassins, on the other hand, each received a short but sweet love.
Their friendship kept them in the water until they completed their final assassination mission.
At the same time, in the second act, we see the heroic sacrifice of the "Three Kings" of the Czech resistance organization.
The story moves forward in high pressure, using death as a tension to push the two Assassins to the side of the assassin Heydrich.
The end of the second act echoes the climax of the first act, the moment the grenade is thrown, the third act of the war begins.
The third act entangles the characters of the two-line plot, starting with the assassination mission and ending with the heroism of the two assassins.
"Assassination of the Gestapo HHhH" uses structure, in the intertextuality of the two stories, enriches the characters, and highlights the theme in a contrasting way.
On one side are the rulers who think they can control the world,
On the other side are the free willers who are not willing to be enslaved and slaughtered,
The entire film runs through the confrontation of the history of civilization. Both sides thought they had done the right thing for all of humanity.
However, the former advocates purification and control of others, and the latter chooses self-sacrifice.
The film devotes half of its length to depicting the characters, seemingly neutral and without comment, but with clear opinions.
At the end of the film, it was supposed to end there, but the director deliberately used a flashback narrative to tell the scene where two young assassins meet.
They met in the czech suburbs, both for a ride, and the two talked and laughed, and smoked idly on the haystack behind the truck.
The final death of the two also became less lonely under the background of friendship.
In contrast, when Heydrich was dying, lying in bed, although surrounded by many people, he had no one in mind, only his "Jewish solution".
In contrast, it is clear who the director is leaning towards.
Heydrich's story proves that without conscience and moral constraints and norms, the impulse to live for excellence will be like a flooding river, which will cause the disaster of dehumanization.