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The point is he stands for something, larping as a cop gives his life meaning, and he does think he's doing the right thing. The point about his final realization was just entirely spot on. He literally walks away from the empire and his evil girlfriend after telling her shits fucked like ten seconds before he dies. You get to see how he could have been a good person.
I appreciate how he dies regardless. He had ample opportunity to be a good person, yet he fought against it to the last possible moment. It is not enough to be good “on the inside.” Being a good person, doing the right thing, requires courage.
This I think was what I liked the most, that redemption isn't easily earned and just realizing you "might be the bad guy" doesn't mean you aint getting a bullet in the head for what you've already done. Syril encapsulates that there is no final hour come to Jesus moment for Nazis and their enablers, they either realized much earlier the system was F-ed or they wouldn't have come along for the ride so far into the shitshow to then pull back at the last second because "oh BUT THIS is too much".
Reintroduce the concept of purgatory into Protestantism so that people don’t imagine their sins can be erased in an instant of clarity
If he'd been born into a system that wasn't dysfunctional and evil at every level, he could have been an annoying but ultimately harmless jerk nobody likes
Oh, like there aren't good obnoxious jerks nobody likes.
I thought about this a lot while watching it. He would've been a great, albeit annoying bureaucrat in a communist society. It doesn't matter what the rules are, he would make sure they're followed to the letter. In his life, that meant dying for a fascist empire.
In a communist utopia, he would've made sure all the forms are filled out before getting your alottment of food or guaranteed job, or tracking down corruption in party officials, or something else indispensable that doesn't require people to like you, but does mean picking some principles and following them to the end and gives him some authority to retain some control he never got while living with his mother.
Maybe your idea of utopia is different than mine, but my version of a communist utopia doesn't have forms or bureaucrats .
Fair. Think I was just looking for a word with a different connotation than empire and "society" or "state" felt boring lol.