After reading it, I have a little agreement on why Winslet took home a golden statue. With a completely different character from Titanic n years ago, without lingering love, without that kind of passion, Winslet completed the shooting of the entire film almost plainly. There is no gorgeous dance dress, no romantic dialogue, no beautiful scenery that purifies people's hearts, but a lot is left.
The film is based on a German original, and I don't understand why many people feel that the film must be faithful to the original, fully or nearly fully expressing its ideas. In this sense, the Reader has been attacked by a lot of people. Indeed, it does not focus on German attitudes towards WWII, but on Hannah and Mack. To a certain extent, the world itself makes it impossible for us to restore all thoughts, involving the secrets of people's hearts, knowing each other well but never being mentioned, touching some of the moral bottom line. As the movie itself, it should be said to be an excellent movie regardless of the degree of its restoration of the original.
Of course, everyone has different preferences for movies. A good movie should be able to make people think. It shouldn't be just resonance, or just admiration for his acting.
Hannah, maybe we wouldn't approve of what she did to a 15-year-old who had been imprisoned for almost a lifetime in her shadow. For the combination of the two, we don't have to relentlessly give comments and questions, we just need to understand or understand, they must feel warm to each other and seek something from each other. But I have to admire such a man. She should be kind and helped the sick Mike; lying in Mike's arms listening to his reading and sobbing moved by the story; answering the judge's charges one by one, innocently close to a child, those who put the blame on The women she was trying to get rid of were extremely ugly; tremblingly went to borrow books for the first time; naively hoped in their hearts that they would still be able to listen to Mike's reading after being released from prison; gave all the money to the daughter of the survivors of the fire. . .
Yes, she is illiterate. But her innate love for reading aloud transcends everything. Because of Mike's reading of their relationship, she felt poetic in her eyes, and she felt as if she made up for the shortcomings in her heart through Mike's voice. Mike became a symbol, a single link between her and what she longed for. But people are pragmatic after all, and in the end she chose to leave.
Hannah admitted in court that she was responsible for the burning of 300 people in a church and sent herself to life in prison. Just because she doesn't want to admit that she's illiterate, a shame.
Everyone deserves something that they do their best to maintain, even with their own lives. This insistence is above all else. Not everyone has such courage, and not everyone is so lucky to find something higher than life. To find it, to be loyal to it, may be the real life.
What moved me the most was the part where Mike started to record and read aloud, and Hannah turned on the tape recorder for the first time. Tears poured out unconsciously. Hannah's trembling hands, chaotic thoughts, the reading aloud that suddenly appeared in the dark but has long been broken and the years behind it; and Mike, regaining his passion, began to resurrect during the reading. The climax of the movie is truly outstanding.
Let’s talk nonsense again and tell me some of my understanding and thoughts about the movie:
Hannah did not love Mike, or did not love Mike himself, she was just fascinated by a dynamic and shy young man, fascinated by the fullness he symbolized. The world of literature.
Mike loved Hannah, even his whole life. At the age of 15, he carefully loved with a tender heart; after she left, he vacated a piece of his heart for her to live in; after she went to prison, he started reading aloud again. . . He never let go, so in the end he couldn't face Hannah calmly, and diddge deliberately. As someone said, after breaking up, if he still wants to be friends with you, he has never loved you at all, because when he sees you, he will remember everything before.
The ending of the movie is superfluous. Hannah's death, Mike's telling of the survivor's daughter and his own daughter's past, seems protracted. Mike's final relief and understanding of Hannah? Hannah's despair or self-liberation? The director's intentions are unclear. Here I have to mention PTA's There Will Be Blood, which has a very crisp ending. . . The sentence "I am finished" is classic to the extreme.
Hannah was a caretaker at Auschwitz. We shouldn't think of her as inhuman or numb for that reason. At that time, people were just doing what they were ordered to do. We take for granted how we will be, so how insensitive they are. Having not experienced a period like that, we are not even qualified to judge anything. The psychological changes brought about by the environment and conformity are far greater than we imagine.
Watch the movie itself.
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