08-16-2022, 10:55 PM
Das Boot gave the feel of a submarine. As part of the audience I felt that I was being tossed around on the submarine. That was of course his magnum opus. Even if they were on the wrong side of the war you wanted them to survive. People do not choose the national armies or navies for which they serve.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.