At the seminar at the law school, Michael clasped his hands on the long table in front of him, trying to overcome his inner self. He didn't dare to look at the classmate whose blood vessels were about to burst because he was angry at the crimes of the Nazis, and of course he didn't dare to face him. , the ordinary silent young man said in a soft but firm tone: we have to understand. This is undoubtedly shocking, and someone left the class angrily as soon as the voice fell.
Many people use "understandable" to be the same as "forgivable", as if you can understand the logic of this type of person and have the characteristics of this type of person. There is a bit of language ambiguity here, which further reveals that people love to make subjective classifications and make blind judgments. Because of a certain sentence, a certain behavior, or a certain fragment, some personal experience is obtained, which is expanded and elongated, and then a person's outlook on life is formed.
This film is actually a growing teenager who begins to gradually try to understand a world that is "different" from his own. The boy who wasn't good at anything before he met Hannah lived in a world that lacked the concept of "understanding." He didn't think about understanding his siblings, his parents, his classmates. After meeting Hannah, everything was completely different. He knew her happiness, her anger, when he hoped to understand a person, he found it so powerless, when he longed for her to understand his world as well. Finding that was an unbridgeable chasm.
The reader is the name of the film, and you can understand it in many ways, but if I'm going to explain it today in terms of understanding, it actually represents the way to cross that gap. By reading, you can learn to understand. At the end of the film, during their last conversation in prison, Hannah says: "I never think, I never need to look back before the trial, the dead are gone. ...but in the end she said: I learned to read.
But if she really thought that the deceased was dead, she would not have chosen such an ending for herself. Because before that, her life had never been thought about, she just worked hard to support herself, and then hid the fact that she couldn't read. She was sent to the judgment seat, and someone wanted to talk to her about the meaning of life, about justice and sin, which was undoubtedly the language of another world, so she was at a loss and asked the person who asked him: "If it were you , what will you do?" Everyone was in an uproar, which was the finishing touch of the whole film. While God gave everyone life, it did not give them the same understanding and judgment. Most people spend their whole lives to carry out the instructions of fate.
But in fact, we can have other choices, the point is that we have learned to read.
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