I just finished watching this movie about 30 minutes ago for my birthday the 22nd, and I must say this movie has touched me like never before. Everything about it was perfect the square film, the quality, the pace that's perfect not to slow not to fast, not all about war and brutality but more about Franz's life, the slow continuous bond between Franz and Foxy, to the end where Franz figured out Joesf tried to send a letter back but never picked willed to do it or died before he could, and the way it felt so real. From the start when Franz was signing carrying potatoes back home, enjoying his life despite poverty and labor, and time with his family. When the day came after France blacked out and his dad Josef cut his custody over Franz handing him over to the other farmer. The way his mom shut the door on Franz and the, "get him out of here already" from the dad with the farmer carrying off Franz that's his life. The fast forward to 1937? (I believe) where Franz is older in the city when he sees the recruitment station and enlists. Now I got confused on this part he joined the Austrian Empire but saw a Nazi symbol on fire and it fast forwards to him in the German Empire (the third reich and if there's replies to reviews I'd be delighted if someone corrected me) After Franz meets the Sergeant and goes enjoys food with the other Austrians. Though when he tried to take a cheese of piece to save it for later like he did as a child the others get mad. With this Franz storms off into the adjacent wood and meets... The fox. This is where the story really begins... The cub who had just lost his mother to a bear trap approaches Franz with a small limp and Franz takes him into the "castle" After Franz gets backed he gets the fox checked out by the doctor and has to immediately fall in to meet the battery captain. After the speech about how they'll be marching into France a while later the crew starts getting assigned with dispatches they must deliver and where they must go... Franz and Toni get assigned to go to the ocean. As they wait Franz tries to write a letter but gets abruptly interrupted by another soldier handing out pervitin. This then gets Franz distracted and he never finishes the letter and a few hours pass when the assault starts. He goes to his bike to see the skinny tall soldier had gotten rid of his fox into the forest and Franz goes to get him back and returns finding the into gone. Now I'll go over a quick recap of the rest because this is where it goes complex I recommend to further watch the movie to find out. Franz finds his unit gone and leaves on his motorcycle to catch up with Toni days behind him. He makes the long road across France seeing bodies, war, and chaos around him. After a few days and some bonding with Foxy he reaches Toni sitting on the beach near the vast bright blue ocean. They have a chitchat and play around in the water enjoying the moment. After this they make their way to the big pink house where a big party is held and revealed that Paris is an open city. Though the festivities are loud and fun, ladies cuddling men, Franz decides to take a stroll across the road and finds a house where Foxy runs into the chicken pen. A women comes out with a gun named Marie and shoots at foxy and he runs away. Franz snatches the gun and sleeps outside. The next morning Foxy is back and Franz repairs the gates when he knocks on the door and formally meets Marie whom is a French lady... She invites him in and they spend a while with each other growing a big bond. Then Franz gets called into the temporary HQ and gets a prison lock after talking with the captain then returns to find out foxy is okay. Though Franz is worried and looks worried and Marie gets worried and she tells him she sent the letter Franz wrote even though Franz didn't want it to be sent. In rage he knocks down a shelf and grabs Marie and apologizes but like a logical women she screams at him to get out and so he does leaving Marie. A year later Foxy and Franz have gotten older and bonded. Foxy is no longer a cub but a full grown up or maybe pre-adult. They getting transferred when Franz gets the news they're going to Moscow. So he takes foxy into the woods and release him into the wild walking back to the unit in anger and sadness. When he gets in the truck and starts driving away the fox starts chasing Franz and he tries to jump out but Toni grabs him and so do the other preventing hiim fork jumping out. Franz yells he's sorry to the fox and starts crying because the fox was such a pet to him. 1946 he arrives back at his house and finds out everyone's gone and his father is dead though he finds his letter translated and how his father Josef tried to write back but never did and Franz gets teary. Then the last clip is the real Franz the movies director great grandfather talking about the fox. Now to my point. The Fox has opened my eyes. Unlike anything else I've ever seen. It's teacher me some things and in my opinion it taught me these things. Appreciate, speechlessness, art of emotion and that things happen and will happen in more refined detail, and life never goes the way you think it will... Now... Goodbye fellow reader... "How do?"
Review of The Fox
