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but peter's character was so beautiful especially his last performance where he swing dances solo

like through this whole sequence, its entirely different from his two past dances, he not only dances alone, but when he dances outside of range, we see him past through people, such a beautiful way to display his conflicting emotions and peoples perception.

arvids character, his disability, his anger, his message was such a beautiful foil to peter's submissiveness. i love the message of the harm of being a bystander and the endless effects of what happens, but also the fear of facing punishment thats shown both through thomas and peter.

like thinking about teenagers not being recognized as kids-- this movie perfectly captures how political power targets this age (15-21) to indoctrinate and groom them into blind nationalism. teenagers have the body and strength of an adult, but the innocence and naivety of a child, which makes them the perfect device to exploit.

LIKE i love how the story begins with such raw and unfilitered teenage fun-- pure chaotic swing dancing, clothes going against political conformitiy, this entire movement in germany simply originating from just wanting the freedom to be different, to show the htler youth they can express themselves however they want. and slowly throughout the movie, we follow peter and thomas as they instinctively fall into submissiveness and compliance.

They start wearing the uniforms they despise, telling themselves theyre 'undercover', in reality, theyre just kids who dont grasp the severity of everything. Thomas's hatred for the nazis slowly gets warped as hes given a community, praise, and a way to fight back against his father by falsely reporting him. and peter's realization of his complicity after arvids death-- that they are no better than the people that cause the violence

and we follow peter gaining his bodily autonomy to think for himself, hes questions the system, like how the system punishes teenagers for having fun, yets turns around to brainwash their youth into becoming soldiers, hypocrites to the own rules they make as they only serve to benefit them.

and the end fight, both the conversation and physical, between peter and thomas, we both see how theyre just terrified kids. and its SO endearing to me that peter doesnt blame thomas for what happened, because he knows that hes also a kid who can also grow and change like he did.

peters complictness was no different that thomas's blatant and selfish acceptance into indoctrination.

i feel like often times in narratives, the adults recognizes their position with a child; they are there to protect said child because they have the wisdom and autonomy to do so. (e.g. mob and reigen, quifrey and his apprentices, etc) however, when it comes to older teenagers, the view of their life at the end of highschool in stories, is extremely mature and glamorized, and as if they had everything figured out. and while although teenagers do these adult-meant activities in real life, i hate the immaturity and childness of being a teenager, especially the cluelessness of starting out as an adult, is rarely represent now and days.

dead poet society, blue flag, gachiakuta, yomi no tsugai, are the medias that i can pick out of the top of my head where adults will look at their elder teenagers and strive to teach and protect them, that they know that they are their guardian first and foremost, despite whether or not their younger peer is stronger than them- its their duty to parent them.