"Die Ehe der Maria Braun" is one of Fassbender's "Quadteries of German Women". In the film, the director uses Maria's character images in several different periods to match the characters' situations, thus promoting the plot and sublimating the theme.
. At the beginning of the film, the director places the main characters in a special historical moment with a set of rather condensed and powerful shots. Judging from the choice of modeling details, the fall of Hitler's head not only casts a historical shadow on Maria's future fate, but also has a meaning that runs through the film as a whole
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The scene of Herman's miraculous return in the film is dramatic. Although his appearance made the contradiction extremely sharp, the film deliberately adopted a cold approach. A series of actions by Hermann rushing into the house not only conforms to his identity, but also outlines the characteristics of the era of material scarcity in Germany after World War II; in addition, this cold treatment also disturbs the original contradictions and conflicts established by the film, and Give the audience time to think calmly. A return to happiness should be Maria's end, but Fassbender's handling has a heavy historical tragedy
. The end of the film's gas explosion is a Nietzschean perpetual return that shows Fassbender's Germanic voluntarism at heart
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