When Ernst Graeber, a German soldier on leave, Elizabeth Kruse wants to bring to dinner at a deluxe room asks his comrades if such places still exist. He responds that in wartime are not allowed, clear that the authorities impose those laws sometimes need a little luxury, hence there are still those sites. So after dressing him out as a wine rich and specify what you have to ask, you are advised last time, "And remember that it is easier to die than live."
Once there and after a lovely evening, sounding the alarm that forced everyone to hide in the shelter. Below, a gay dancer sing over the bombing to entertain, when a light pump on it and the roof collapses. The dancer, recovering the joy back to its initial position and said
"Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to say that the last note was off key. Enjoy the war, friends, peace will be much worse."
another bomb falls, and a fire pump and people writhing on the floor and rolls on fire while the dancer continues to sing.
This last phrase in the mouth of a simple girl from figuration, in my opinion, is one of the best lines in the entire history of cinema. So cruel and so true. Optimistic and pessimistic in equal measure. Because it is in
periods of peace when the dead flower. When all the rubble and misery that war has become real and conscious.
Thus in the opening scene of the film, German soldiers on the Russian front with one hand are looming in the snow. "It seems that spring has arrived. It is a sure way to guess, the sun's output." And another soldier is staring at him while saying "It seems to be crying." Her eyes
ice cream and ice melts.
is in time of peace when the sun and it melts all that the war has deafened with their thunder. It is in times of peace when you come to your street and look for your home that was number 16 and next to the number 18 no more than ruins and boots that your father used to use to go hunting on Sundays. Enjoy
war, peace will be much worse.
