The queen is well deserved!

Jordyn 2022-04-22 07:01:05

I finished reading Life and Death Reading aloud two days ago. I really want to write a review, but I just don't know how to write. Maybe I'm short of words, but I would rather believe it because the more profound things are, the more difficult it is to express. Yesterday, I saw Kate Winslet get the actress, and I still decided to give her and "Life and Death Reading" a affirmation!
Titanic many years ago moved me to tears, but I didn't expect Winslet to move me so many years later, especially when I saw the passages read aloud in prison, I couldn't help crying!
At the beginning of the film, the erotic performance of an old woman and a young boy is incendiary. I just feel that Winslet's figure does not have the style of Rose in the past.
Later, in order not to let others know that she was illiterate, Hannah paid an astonishing price, which is completely unthinkable and unreasonable to others. It is self-evident that keeping secrets and avoiding punishment are more important. Maybe we can't understand... Ten years, the old woman in prison pressed the stop button in a panic when she heard the first thick syllable from the man on the tape. She began to read with difficulty, wrote him very short letters, and licked the envelope expectantly at the delivery desk. She began to be able to write her name down stroke by stroke on the receipt. All thanks to Kate Winslet's performance. This climax, the rendering of emotions and the portrayal of details, made it difficult to face it indifferently, and finally burst into tears...
The ending of the story was expected, but I would rather not be like that. 20 years later, 28 years later. She had gray hair and held out a crumpled hand, hoping he would hold it. Although he helped her arrange everything after her release from prison, it was too late when his hand escaped from her unsightly loose hand. Perhaps that little action made her once inferiority return to her once again. The pillar of her world has collapsed at that moment, so in the end she stood on the book she loved and ended her life, which is reasonable!

It's been a long time since a movie made me cry when I watched it, and I was immersed in it after watching it. "Life and Death" is the best movie I've seen in 2009! Kate Winslet is well deserved!

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  • Rose Mather: People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were? Universities? We didn't go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things. What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself? My advice, go to the theatre, if you want catharsis. Please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.

  • Professor Rohl: Societies think they operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law.

    Professor Rohl: 8000 people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only 6 of murder.

    Professor Rohl: The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time.