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”.
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