Choice and cost

Rating: 9/10 (1 May 2020)

'we never forced the people,' Mr. Goebbels said. 'they chose us.' Now is the time for them to die for their choices.
This, in my view, is at the heart of the German tragedy. It's just that the target of the culprit is so recognizable that people can easily shift the blame to them, making them more visible and visible. But good deeds may be done incognito, the rights of the people may be exercised by their representatives, but evil cannot be hidden or accounted for by their representatives. Hitler, as a human being, must have a human side; Since people are human beings, they must also have a bestiality. So Hitler could be the "uncle" of the little goebbels, and every bit of nazism in Germany could be combined to launch a powerful anti-semitic machine.
It's not a matter of "cheating" to cover up. 'but they're people,' says Grace to her father in dogtown. 'people have weaknesses.' The iron-faced father replied, so they have to pay for what they did. Von trier's technique is not only to save money, when all obstacles do not exist, when all the behavior of people are naked in front of each other, can not avoid, human nature no longer hide. When Grace was first raped, the residents of dog town went about their business as usual. The evil of transparency makes all calm absurd and disguised. What if those invisible walls really do not exist? What if the crime was exposed in broad daylight? Would things be different? Or do they really or pretend they don't? When it became an open secret that every man would go to Grace's room for the night, where did their eyes look? God is merciful, he let us learn to block. How many human weaknesses, cowardice, selfishness, cruelty are prevented by the four walls, avoid the test, the blame and the loss, so that we can continue to dress up to play their role, to god as an innocent good man.
But are we? Are we really good people? Are we worthy of our own moral and conscience?
'no one forced me to do this,' Traudl Junge says in the opening credits. 'it was my choice to go to Berlin.' At the end of the film, she added: I finally know, young, is not an excuse.
'I don't blame them,' Grace told her father. 'they've done their best in their environment.' 'if I lived in this environment, I couldn't do it any better,' she added.
If that is all, the hope that remains in Pandora's box really does not deserve to be possessed by humans.
Mankind deserves, perhaps, only the towering flood of god.
In von trier's box, too, was a spirit of hope. The bright moon like god's searchlight, let Grace clear out the reality of the dog town. She said to her father, they did their best, but it wasn't good enough, it wasn't good enough.
So the child was killed in front of the mother, the house was burned, the sky was red.
Hope had never been an angel, and the deal with morpheus was the only way out.
Someone is bound to accuse the director of suppressing violence with violence. But Grace has tried. The purity of the virgin can indeed infect and change people. However, they have their limits. They always come to a screeching halt before the dividing line.
Von trier just did what god wanted him to do. If god had the atom bomb, there might be no need for a flood