Recently released in China, "Hacksaw Ridge" and "History of the Demise of Romanticism" are all set in World War II, one is the persistence and persistence of soldiers in the war, and the other is that in the chaotic world, everyone can't help but go with the flow.
There is no denying that war is a human disaster, and in movies, directly or indirectly, you can always see the tragedy in it.
But the fate of others is more tragic than some. For example, the Jews.
The Holocaust was the ethnic cleansing of Nazi Germany in World War II and was the most famous atrocity of World War II. Germany slaughtered nearly 6 million Jews in this campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Films depicting the Jews of World War II have always been masterpieces. Jewish director Roberto Bernini's self-directed "Beautiful Life" and Spielberg's "Schindler's List" by Spielberg, who is also Jewish, are all clear representatives.
In the film, there is a reflection on the war, a white depiction of the suffering of the Jews, and there is no lack of human brilliance. After reading it, when condemning the war, people can still generate strength from their hearts.
Stills from Schindler's List
Today, however, this film, which also depicts Jews, fills me with a sense of powerlessness.
Because it is a real-life adaptation, the sense of powerlessness escalates again. If "Schindler's List" is about the salvation of Jews by a German, then this one is the other side of the coin, and it is about the use and deception of Jews by a Dutchman who has developed in all aspects of morality, intellect, body, and beauty.
It's this one, Rip Hagen.
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Let's start with the background.
During World War II, the neutral Netherlands was ultimately unable to withstand the german onslaught, and only a few weeks later it declared defeat and surrender, and the Dutch royal family fled overseas.
At home, the government was occupied by the German army, and under the policy of the Jewish Purges, the Jews of the Netherlands were naturally not spared. The government called on the Dutch to report the Jews, each of whom was worth 7.5 yuan in guilders.
On the other hand, the sympathetic resistance groups wanted to rescue the Jews, making false documents for the Jews, taking lists of Jews from the printing press, and doing everything they could to protect them from persecution.
In the middle of these two, the protagonist of the story, Rip Hagen, plays a third type of character, the Jewish hunter.
At that time, the property of the Jews was to be confiscated, and the institution that received the property was the Dutch government, and the protagonist of the story, Ripp Hagen, was a government worker.
As we all know, as a fateful people, the Jews have been wiped out many times in history, because of their pagan nature, they were ostracized in the military and political circles, but they lost the mulberry in the east corner, and they could only choose to do business, but because of this, they had a solid family and accumulated a lot of wealth. At a time when the Jews were facing life and death, Rip hagen appeared.
Life is like a drama, and your skills are expensive. It would be most appropriate to describe this multi-faceted person as one of the biggest war criminals of World War II.
For the Jews, Riphagen made an agreement with them. The content of the agreement was that the Dutch government would expropriate all the property of the Jews, and as long as the Jews could deliver all the property to him, he would guarantee that only a small part would be handed over to the government, and that he would keep most of the rest, and that after the war he would leave it intact and return it to its owner.
In order to gain trust, he took the lead. Tell the other party that he will write a receipt and sign his name, so that everyone is an alliance, a community of interests.
Then he made up a beautiful love affair with a Jewish girl.
Finally, take a picture with someone who has been deceived by himself.
Everyone knows that the ability of Jews to gather is very strong, and the result of acquaintances introducing acquaintances is that Rip hagen gained more Jewish trust and earned a lot of money.
When the Jews' property was in hand, What Riphagen had to do was turn in the list and wait for them to be sent to concentration camps. Anyway, there is no proof of death.
But what Riphagen did was seen by the policeman Yang En. In addition to his apparent status as a policeman, he was also an important member of the underground resistance army, which used him for many things to protect the Jews. His ideas were completely different from Thatp Hagen's.
The subsequent development of the plot is driven by two female characters.
One was the captured Bella, a Dutchman who had come to Amsterdam from Rotterdam, widowed, with a Jewish mother and a father of half Jewish descent.
She knows members of the Resistance, and in order to keep her family from being sent to concentration camps, she chooses to work as an undercover agent in the Rebel Army, providing various intelligence for Rip Hagen, and in the process, she also has a relationship with Young.
One was the woman that Riphagen loved, the waitress of the hotel, and a silly white sweet who had absolute trust in him.
In order to have a comfortable nest with the waitress, Rip hagen moved into an empty Jewish house. Before that, the owner of the house, like many of his companions, could not escape the fate of being sent to the concentration camp.
When the police came to inform her of the departure, she realized that she had been deceived by Rip Hagen, and she chose to commit suicide in a distraught manner, and the way she committed suicide was also violent— she used a hairpin on her head to kill herself.
Lip hagen, on the other hand, lied to his girlfriend that the owner had emigrated.
It is easy to deceive women, but the scene of suicide is witnessed by Yang En, who comes to carry out the mission.
Brazenly living with a woman in a Jewish house, naturally unable to escape the eyeliner of the upper echelons, Rip Hagen was to be investigated.
In order to keep things out, Riphagen uses Bella's parents as a blackmail to lure the main rebels into a trap. Bella had to comply, and many of the rebels' brains were killed and caught.
The war progressed quickly, the Allies were victorious, and Rip hagen, who had served the Nazis, fled with his pregnant wife. Yang En, who wants to avenge his peers, chases after him step by step to expose the truth.
However, there is no physical evidence of what Riphagen did, and the photographs he had taken with the Jews in the past proved his identity as a Jewish savior. Although the Allies were victorious, different forces were split within, in short, one side believed in Young and the other believed in Rip Hagen. In such a situation, the only witness Bella becomes the key.
At that time, Bella had returned to Rotterdam, back to her parents, and both Youngen and Rip hagen were looking for her, but in the end, the party who believed in Rip Hagen was the first to get there. With death threats on one side and her former lover on the other, Bella chose to defend herself against all charges. Even if she knew, it meant she would be executed.
When the law didn't work, Young decided to fight violence with violence, but when he tracked down Rip hagen's residence, the latter had crossed the border with his property. And when he chased the border line again and pointed a gun at Rip Hagen, Rip Hagen transformed into a human emperor again, telling him that he was willing to confess his guilt and go back to Pay bella's innocence.
The kind Yang Eun still believed it. In the process of escorting him back, the strong And strong Rip Hagen strangled his neck from behind, and after some struggle, Yang En gradually suffocated and his eyes lost their luster.
After this, Rip Hagen was granted asylum in Argentina and later became a close friend of Argentine President Juan. In 1988, the Netherlands ordered his arrest, but Rip hagen had already died unscathed in 1973.
Isn't it very depressing? The failure of justice to be done, the death of good people at the hands of bad people, and the death of bad people to the end of good are completely inconsistent with the traditional values of good and good repay evil and evil. Moreover, this is what really happened in history.
But Beta wants to say that many things cannot be simply results-oriented.
Former Czech President Javier, who led the Czech democratic process, said: "We insist on something not because it will work, but because we firmly believe that it is right to do so." “
For the definition of "right", in that situation at the time, Young and Rip Hagen were naturally able to distinguish. But knowing is one thing, knowing, doing or not doing, is another.
It is precisely because of the choice of good and evil that they have a completely different ending.
In fact, Rip Hagen, who regards human life as a straw, also has his own cherished things, and after successfully crossing the border, he can't wait to call and call his wife and children to join him. But after Young revealed his true face, the disappointed wife broke down and cried. His image of a good man had collapsed in her heart.
Doing evil is more for your own benefit. Being good is often a person's inner choice and has nothing to do with profit. But being a good person, peace of mind is the greatest praise for them.
Even though Riphagen is smart, brave, emotionally intelligent, understanding of the human heart, and has many heroic qualities, he does not have a great soul. He bases His comfort on the suffering of others.
What about sitting on wealth and becoming a guest of honor of dignitaries?
After fleeing, he never saw his wife or children again in his life.
This is already the greatest punishment for him.