A 15-year-old boy falls in love with a woman who is 22 years older than him. This righteous woman helped the boy when he was helpless. This woman opened up his original desire and gave him the passion of love. Later, this woman left her without saying goodbye. When he thought he could forget this woman, they We met again in the court where war criminals were tried, and 22 years later, we met and said goodbye for the last time. Starting from the boy touching the woman's body and ending with the boy saying goodbye to the woman who committed suicide decades later, the film also ends with death.
Lust and morality, justice and sin, all enveloped him. Complicated feelings suppressed his life. In the court, Berg, a law intern, did not defend Hana, because he did not break Hana's willingness to die in exchange for the dignity of not being known to be illiterate, or because Berg was ashamed to admit that he was a Nazi female war criminal. an ambiguous relationship between them.
After being imprisoned for 20 years, Hana finally met Berg again before he was about to be released from prison. What kind of struggle was in Berg's heart at this time? He didn't accept Hana's extended hand. When he saw that Hana was a little disappointed, he wanted to work hard. When it was better, he asked Hana if he had thought about the past, and Hana asked when I was with you? Berg said it was the days in prison...
If his heart is numbness, understanding, escape, shame, I hope he is timid, because at that time he always gave in to her without reason; he was always apologizing , although he is not wrong; he is nothing in her heart, he is not even able to hurt her anything... just like meeting Hana before he is released from prison, he has no courage to take the hand of Hanna who is already an old woman . But she was buried in his spirit. When she was in prison, Berg recorded all the famous books in the world and sent them to Hana one by one. Tears flowed uncontrollably as I dug out the book he had read for her and began to read it aloud and recorded it on tape. He loves her, but he is unable to face it, so he can only give her hope in this unknown way.
The boy has been struggling. At first, when he was 15 years old, he fell in love with a woman 22 years older than him out of dependence or sensuality; when the boy was already a law student full of justice, he faced the mystery. The woman who had been missing for several years was sentenced, and the moral standards supported by the boy's theory suddenly vanished. Whether to tell the truth and let the lover regain his freedom, or to preserve the secret and dignity for him, what kind of struggle these are, if not indifference and Extremely rational, must not be able to bear.
The boy's character is weak, and his love for hana may also be because hana has guided him to grow up, making him full of self-confidence, and his heart suddenly grows several years old, but his nature is a very sentimental person, such as In the movie, after Hana coaxed him to go, Hana was tried, and Hana committed suicide, Berg left painful tears. As Berg himself put it: "Those questions have been haunting me in the years since Hannah's death, and I've been asking myself those questions of the past, did I convict her, did I owe her anything, did I feel ashamed to be with her? her relationship; sometimes, I also asked myself if I was responsible for her death; and sometimes, I was angry with what she did to me. Until finally, the anger faded and my doubts gradually ceased. Whether or not What I do or what she does to me—that's what makes up my life."
I went through all the love stories in my head, and great love always involves surprise. Fantasy, possession, infidelity, endless failures, unstoppable longing for eternity, and unexpected creations to make people…..The incoherent love is always unforgettable, and for myself, it is always bigger than myself The man has some affection and nostalgia. I am reminded of "lolita". Three years after the goblin-like lolita disappeared, humber met lolita who was married to a married woman and was pregnant. At this time, things were wrong. Humber said: "She can fade, she can Withering, anything is fine, but I only need to look at her, and all the tenderness will come to my heart." Humber finally understood, "It's not that lolita is not by my side, but her voice that stings and despairs. Not in that harmony anymore."
Perhaps only regret is eternal, and what is lost can be called perfect; although love can withstand waves, but love cannot withstand cowardice and escape. For some people, turning around has been a lifetime.
As the protagonist in this book said, "I wanted to write our story in order to be free of it," yes, if I don't write down some feelings, it's hard to let go; starting point.
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