The origin of this movie is based on first hand accounts of Nazis and Germans who were with Hitler in his final days. Because of this, the movie is seen as valuable because of the fact that it involved first hand accounts and recollections of what had happened. The stories are therefore portrayed pretty truthfully because these people actually lived through it. However, the film was produced in 2005, which was after all of this had gone on. Therefore, the accounts of the people may have involved a bit more emotion and feelings than how they had felt when they were living during this actualy time period. This can be seen as a value as well as a limitation. It is a value because it portrays emotion of the soldiers, rather than just depicting them as evil mosters, like every other movie does. However, it is limited because the soldiers probably didn't actually feel that way while this was going on. They probably bluffed about their stories a little bit, to make themselves seem less evil, now that everything has passed.This way they are seen as innocent people, rather than what they actually may have been years ago.
The purpose of this movie is to capture the entire Nazi experience in one film, while trying to make it as real and accurate as possible. This is also both a value and a limitation. it is valuable because they are trying to make it as real and accurate as possible, and capture the entire Nazi experience, however that is basically impossible to do. Therefore, it is a limitation, because no matter how hard they try to portray it all in one film they can not succeed. So it may be missing some important facts which is definitely a downfall of this movie.
Excellent thoughts and connecting of values and limits to origin and purpose!
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