Original: Xie Mingjun
This is the movie "Our Fathers".
Haven't seen a movie in a long time.
It took three days to see the film, a film about Germans reflecting on World War II.
The film begins with five young men in their 20s singing and dancing together in Berlin, holding a farewell ceremony as three people go to the front the next day: older brother William, younger brother Friedhelm, and nurse Charlotte.
Two others are Victor, the son of a well-known tailor, who is Jewish, and one is Greta, a beautiful and lively girl who aspires to be a singer, and she is Victor's girlfriend.
They agreed to come back together for Christmas. It was 1941, and they both aspired to be heroes.
My brother was a hero, brave and determined, believing that the war would soon be won, that Moscow was right in front of him, and that he was a lieutenant.
The younger brother, on the other hand, was a literary and artistic youth who loved poetry and philosophy, full of disgust for war, and his eyes were only confused. He said that war can expose the evil side of a person.
Five people, four different spaces, cameras that keep us staggering at the same time, one moment the battlefield, the screen tells us how far away we are from Moscow; the other is the hospital, where Charlotte has grown from a timid nurse; the other is Berlin, where Greta succumbs to the top SS officers in order to help Victor escape germany.
The fate of the five best friends slowly began to change.
Some are getting better, some are getting worse, or there is no good or bad, everyone is growing.
As the war progressed, with the massacre of the Jews, William began to think, are we heroes or murderers?
The younger brother began to numb, wrapping himself in cold cruelty. Charlotte had betrayed the Jews and her assistants, the Russians, in order to show her loyalty; Victor had been arrested before he could walk out of the streets of Berlin with his pass, and on the train to Auschwitz, along with a Polish woman, he chiseled through the floor and jumped out of the car to escape.
And Greta really became a singer, a very popular singer, her song has a beautiful melody, and the lyrics also hit the heart.
"My little heart beats only for you, counting down the time for you to return."
Time and space are parallel and intersecting, and the five young men have the opportunity to meet several times, Greta goes to the front line to sing and sing, and has a brief meeting with her brother and brother and Charlotte, who twice met Victor, who has become a guerrilla, and saved his life.
Every time we get together, I want to laugh, but I will definitely cry goodbye in the end.
Time flies, and they're back to where they started, four years later. They set out from Berlin to be heroes, and four years later they were beaten back, in ruins.
In the hut at the beginning of the film, three young people walk in one after another and walk into a messy hut. There were only three people.
There were only three people left. It was 1945.
What is war?
The older brother was asking, the younger brother was asking. We're also asking.
Let's talk about several women in the film, they are very glorious.
One was the Jewish nurse, she was very capable, and she didn't know how to escape after the defendant was sent, and in the end she saved Charlotte.
Another was a Polish girl on the train, she chiseled the floor with a knife alone, and then Victor, and others joined in, with opinions and ideas and fierceness, with a clear head and successful self-help.
Who has grown the most? William? Can you think with your brain, not blindly follow, willing to be a deserter?
What about my brother? He saved Victor's life, and even more the last group of Germans to surrender, those soldiers were only 12 years old, only 12 years old!
May there be peace in the world.
