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Swing Kids Movie Analysis
Swing kids is the movie directed by Thomas carter in 1993.The movie visualizes the life of people living in Germany during 1939s.Depicting to the life story of 1939s Hamburg, Germany the swing was the main form of recreation that could make young kids forget everything about the dominance of Nazi government. It shows how miserable was the life of the people and how Nazis used to control over the people. By specializing certain characters in the movie, the movie depicts the lightness and darkness in the character of three friends in the movie who are very close to each other. The movie focus on certain character to depict the lightness and darkness in them. Peter, Arvid, and Thomas are the group of small friends .The choices peter makes determine what everyone else thinks about and does in the group. They are tired of seeing the control of Nazi government, and used to go for swing to relax …show more content…
They started to develop the impression about the Nazi. Peter was one who was not ready to understand the hateful and unusual propaganda of Nazi whereas Thomas think it is like a family to him. Both of them got into an argument of the behalf of Nazi. He was trying to convince Thomas saying Nazi are traitors and they want to spy on our own family. Once peter realized he was delivering the ashes of “traitors “who opposed the Reich. He changes his mind and started to follow his father belief. He read a letter from his father talking about the ongoing situation with Germany. He used his father propaganda to fight and stand for him .Finally, he suits up and move up to the Bismarck for the swing regardless of thinking about Nazi. The HJs were in the Bismarck to deteriorate the swing where peter and Thomas got into brawl, anger, and love. Thomas wanted peter to run away as he did not want him to go to camp. Peter having a belief “nobody can tear us apart”, stands firm and stand for the free

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