There is a light-hearted and pleasant episode in which Anne's father invests in a gold mine in Johannesburg, making considerable profits, and the family even has a plan to send Anna's brother Jack to study in Europe. However, the shadows soon fell, and through Anna's eyes, the audience saw that the atmosphere in the house was strange, Anna's father and some uncles and uncles often gathered together to talk excitedly, and sometimes Anne occasionally heard words like "invasion" and "war". One day at noon, Anne, who was taking a nap, was woken up by a sound that seemed to come from the downstairs room, and Anne followed the sound down the stairs until she reached the door of the small parlor, which was only hidden, and Anne looked through the crack in the door, and saw her father and brother arguing there.

"The president has issued a mobilization order, and I meet the conditions!" It's rare for my brother to collide directly with my father.

"It's enough for us to have me in the house! You obediently go to Europe to study! Father's eyes widened and he yelled.

"I'm not going! At this time, do you want everyone to know that Jack of the Braun family is a coward? Do you want everyone to say that your son is a coward who shirks responsibility? The elder brother stood up, his voice higher than his father's.

The camera pans from the inside of the room to the back of the door, and Anne is looking through the crack in the door with confusion, when suddenly a hand falls on her shoulder. Anne looked up and saw her mother's smiling face.

"Mommy, Daddy and Brother......" Anne whispered.

"Are you awake?" "They're talking about men's things, and it's not a lady's job to just eavesdrop on other people's conversations." Let's go over there. ”

"Hmm." Anne nodded obediently, took her mother's hand, and followed her mother towards the yard in front of the door. At this time, the garden is full of colorful flowers.

"Do you really know how to fight?" Anne asked.

Mother smiled reluctantly, and was about to answer, when she saw a man running over on a horse, and this man stopped in front of Anne's door, but he did not dismount, but while holding the excited horse, he raised his hat on his head with his right hand and greeted Mrs. Braun.

"What's going on?" Mom asked.

"Mrs. Braun, war, war has broken out!" The man replied loudly, "President Kruger has declared war on the British!" ”

At this time, the window of the living room was pushed open at once, and Anne's father, Mr. Braun, stuck out his head and cried out, "What did you say, Durban?" War broke out? ”

……

The light-hearted plot flashed by. At this time, the voiceover starts again, and this is a passage from Anne's diary:

"My brother has been gone for more than two months, and his last letter to us was a month ago, in which he said that they had won many battles and were about to attack Cape Town, and that if they took Cape Town, the war would be won. However, after that, we never heard from him again. The situation on the front line does not seem to be very good, and the hospitals in the city are said to be full of wounded people who have been sent back from the front. According to the radio, there is a shortage of beds and nursing staff in the hospital. Therefore, it is planned to send some lightly wounded people to the homes of residents in the countryside who are willing to accept the wounded for recuperation. Dad said that it was the responsibility of every Boer because they were fighting for us. It's just that my father joined the railway joint defense team and had to patrol along the railway every day, so it was up to my mother and me to take care of the wounded. Mom was also supportive of this, she said, maybe. Maybe my brother needs to get help like this. I don't really understand what my dad said, but I think what my mom said makes a lot of sense......"

Anne's house on the screen began to change, and there were many wounded soldiers living in the room and even in the hallway. Mom and Anne walked among the wounded soldiers in their nurses' uniforms, and the wounded soldiers greeted them.

At this time, the voiceover sounded again:

"The situation of the war is getting worse and worse, even I feel that. Because there are more and more wounded people in our family, I heard that the whole train is pulled back every day at the train station......"

"Mrs. Braun!" Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and my mother went up and opened the door and saw that it was an officer.

"Lieutenant Walter, is there something going on?" Mom asked.

"The British are coming. I was ordered to bring the wounded into the city. Lieutenant Walter replied.

"Will the British come to us?" Mom asked.

"It's hard to say, maybe it will or maybe it won't." Lieutenant Walter replied, "But I think it's generally safer here than in the city, because Johannesburg is going to be a battlefield......

At the sound of this, Lieutenant Walter's face began to fade away, and then the camera turned to Anne's farmstead was already full of British troops. The small building where Anne and the others originally lived was requisitioned by the British army and became a barracks. And Anne's family was also driven to the original tool house. The small garden enclosed by a white fence became a horse farm for the British. Anne's favorite flowers were also uprooted and trampled to a pulp.

Not far from the house, the grain field was used as an artillery position by the British, and the British erected artillery there to fire at the Boer fortified area continuously, and later, because the shelling effect was not obvious, it was simply changed to fire at the urban residential area.

"Lieutenant Walter advised us not to go into town, and I did complain to him when the manor was occupied by the British, and our whole family was driven into the tool room. I want to stay at my aunt's house in the city, anyway better than watching these Brits here. Even though they would still take over our house and make a mess of my garden. But soon I learned that Lieutenant Walter was right, because they began shelling the city......"

In the voiceover, the huge muzzle of the "MacDonald's Hammer" begins to slowly rise. Because the same product could not be found in the British army, it could only be replaced by American goods in the movie. In fact, this practice is also quite common in later generations of war films, that is, some so-called "epic" level of large-scale zuò. For example, in the "Battle of Moscow" filmed by the Soviets in the later generations, because there were dozens of German tanks to launch a charge, and there were not so many German tanks that could still be driven for a while, except for the first few tanks, all the T-62 tanks in the Soviet army in the sixties were in the back. If Hitler saw it, he would have sighed: "Meow, if I had a T-62 back then, how could I have lost this battle?" ”

Of course, the Americans are not much better either. The Americans filmed "Armageddon of Tanks", because they couldn't find enough Tiger Kings, so they simply took the M-60 tanks equipped by the US Army at that time and brushed them with the Iron Cross to pretend to be the Tiger King. Even because they couldn't find enough Mauser rifles for the Germans in the movie, they simply let them have an M-14 rifle in their hands. As a result, the movie became a battle between the American army (German army) in the 60s and the American army in the 40s.

As the muzzle of the 8-inch gun was raised to the highest, a ball of flame erupted from the muzzle. At the same time, a huge cannon fire rang out, and even the floor of the theater trembled.

"Mom!" Heidi, who was sitting in the front row, shouted, and hugged Katie, who was sitting next to her. So much so that Tom, who was sitting on the other side of her, was very depressed: "Obviously I'm here too, why didn't she throw herself into my arms?" ”

Tom's depression didn't last long, as the scene on the screen began to change again, and the camera turned to a residential area in Johannesburg, where shells fell, and the original gorgeous houses were torn to pieces like pieces of paper in the explosion of the shells. People on the street ran in a panic, and then they were blown up by shells, and even blown into several sections.

The audience was so frightened that they got up from their seats and tried to run out. The order of the entire theater suddenly became chaotic. Fortunately, the theater had already planned it, and they immediately paused the screening of the film, turned on the lights, and shouted through loudspeakers to calm the audience.

In the panic "escape" just now, Heidi's hat was lost, and she didn't know who stepped on her feet. But now, with the lights on, and the reassurance on the radio, she quickly understood that it was just a false alarm. And after figuring this out, Heidi suddenly thought it was so funny, and she couldn't help but laugh. Many more people looked at each other and laughed.

So everyone laughed and returned to their seats, looking around for something they had just lost.

"Heidi, here's your hat." Tom's sharp eyes saw the hat that had fallen on the ground, and he hurriedly picked it up, patted it, and handed it to Heidi.

"Thank you, Tom." Heidi smiled, then she lowered her head, looked at her hat again, frowned slightly, and said, "I didn't expect sound movies to be so realistic." It really scared the hell out of me. The stage play definitely has no such effect. Is...... What a ......."

Heidi thought about it for a long time, but she still couldn't come up with a suitable adjective, but by this time everyone was seated again, the lights were dimmed again, and the movie started again.

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The film continues, the British finally use poison gas, the Boer defenders suffer heavy casualties, the British ask the nearby Boers to help clean up the bodies of the dead, Mr. Braun, Mrs. Braun, and Anne, who is thirteen years old, are all taken there, and they are responsible for pushing the bodies of the dead to the dumping site with a wheelbarrow. Mr. Braun pushed a cart alone, while Mrs. Braun and Anne pushed a cart together.

Two Boers, who had also been requisitioned, gently lifted one body from Mrs. Braun and Anne's cart, and then gently stacked it on top of the other. Anne suddenly noticed that the body crushed underneath was very familiar. The dead man's eyes were wide open, and his throat was all clawed by his own hands. Anne recognized him, and he was Lieutenant Walter, who had advised them not to enter the city.

"Mother," Anne said in a choked voice, and the camera zoomed in to see large tears rolling down the corners of her eyes, "it's Uncle Walter. Mom, will we be like this in the future? ”

Mom reached out and stroked Anne's head, she sighed and said nothing. At this point, the camera gradually recedes and pulls up, revealing a panoramic view of the entire stacking site, with cube-shaped corpses piled up all over the area......

"Oh my God!" Heidi couldn't help but moan under her breath, and her tears flowed unconsciously, wetting a large area of her new clothes.