Her dignity and determination were not changed by someone or time.
I love watching her give orders, rub Michael with heavy gestures, or clumsily walk down the hallway. Such neatness is the peculiar sexy of mature women.
This is a story between a woman and a boy. She guided his growth, both physically and mentally.
From seducing Michael at the beginning, to "change the order from today, read first and then have sex", to leaving without a word, to admitting that he wrote that document, to suicide - how strong your heart is to be able to Make these decisions one by one, and she doesn't say a word of nonsense.
Even though Michael grew up from a young boy to a barrister, he was always at a loss in front of her, and they were never in the same heavyweight.
He didn't know how to define her, he was ashamed to admit her.
He kept hiding her from others, calling her his mother, "Kinda a friend", or denying knowing her.
Finally when Hanna tried to shake his hand, he pulled it back and asked righteously: Haven't you thought about the people you killed in prison?
I knew Hanna couldn't survive.
The film uses flashbacks, and the whole story is Michael's memory. Because after Hanna's death he really learned to face their relationship head on. At the end of the film, he leads his youngest daughter to Hanna's cemetery, and the process of pouring out is also when he untangles the knot. She used death to help him complete the final growth.
The author puts this love story together with the story of the Nazi concentration camps. Law students' discussion of war, morality, and the substance of law runs through Michael's identification of his own feelings.
If Michael's life symbolizes the coordinate system of civilization, rationality, and family social stability; Hanna's life symbolizes the unexpected downturn of primitive, erotic, and ethical society.
The two lives happened to meet for a summer, and they separated. Michael's father said "I know you will come back to us one day". But this intersection has shaped his life.
The story is not just about a man trying to figure out his ins and outs, it's about a human being trying to figure out his own ins and outs.
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