2 November 2019

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
Watching "The Sound of Music", I realised with a wry smile that my gut reaction to the film was that the person I'd be interested in writing a fanfic about was Rolf. Because that's the conflict I can actually identify with -- the dilemma between wanting to impress his shiny new friends in the Nazi Party and wanting to impress the girl who thinks he's wonderful (and happens to be the daughter of the local lord of the manor, whilst without the Party he's a nobody). And the dilemma between obeying the Voice of Authority (and conscience), or doing his duty and pulling the trigger to kill a man for the first time in his life. He's used to doing what people like von Trapp tell him to do -- older, wiser, his social superiors. But now he doesn't have to any more, because he has higher orders. Only those orders aren't so easy to obey...

I was also left wondering uneasily what happened later to the nuns after the fugitives had been found on their premises, clearly with their connivance :-(

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