No, I'm no Nazi, but I get to watch the remarkable Downfall on DVD. A spectacular movie based on the words of a secretary during the fall of Hitler. There were amazing performances throughout the entire movie from Hitler's generals, Traudl (One of Hitler's secretaries), to Hitler himself. There were loads of touching moments. For example, Eva Braun and Traudl are talking about Hitler. Traudl says that Hitler can be a caring guy, but he changes to a different person. Eva responds, "Only when he's Fuerer right?" You can see in the people's faces what they think of him. Some of them respect him, some of them betray him. You can sense Hitler's vulnerability change throughout the film. Sometimes, he thinks the war is over, then minutes later he would try to arrange his troops to win back Berlin, and so on. Overall, outstanding movie. I wish I could have seen this in the theatres.
As a side note, that actress that plays Traudl......wow.
This makes me think about this world's past. Everybody has a dream. Hitler had a dream to spread his notion of a perfect world. It's too bad his dream put millions of people to death. Look at us now. It's the SAME GODDAMN THING. We have Bush trying to spread democracy throughout the world by eliminting threats towards this ideology. What is so different about democracy that makes it better than anything else? While I do support the notion of "power to the people", is democracy really like that? Do the people have power? I think its crazy, but I don't think so. We leave the decisions to high ranking officials instead of the people that create this nation. Sure we hold elections to choose the best people to represent us, but that should not mean that we should be left out of decision making. I don't know how we can support this ideology when we have been lied to numerous times? Remember that whole "Weapons of Mass Destruction" fiasco? It was a huge lie to bring us to war. And for what? To make profit for the government by putting more money in to the military. It's all profit these days. Let's see who can make the most money. It's all bullshit now. We have politicians participating in scandals, and yet we still elect them. It's absurd. Another thing wrong with this country is the amount of power we have over others. Why can we have nuclear weapons, but not other countries? If we can have nuclear missles, other countries should have them too? Shouldn't it be fair? When our government sees a threat, it gets destroyed. And you know why? Because we are scared that it might escalate to something bigger than it is currently.
But I guess it's human instinct. To kill what might kill us.