Slam recommended me to watch this movie before returning to Peach Blossom Island. Actually, I don't have much time to watch it, but I also told me about this movie in March. I just heard about the book and its movies didn't appeal to me too much at first. Because I thought it was just a love story about year-long love, but then slam mentioned Nazis, and I happened to be watching some related things recently, so I came down and read it.
I was shocked after watching it. I was shocked by this perspective itself, of course, it is undeniable that the movie is also wonderful.
I remember there was a very small plot in the movie that could be considered a background, but it hinted at the creative direction of the whole work. Mike fell in love with a young woman 20 years older than him when he was a teenager, and his heart was filled with a kind of overripe sex, while his professor taught him in class, "The notion of secrecy is central to Western literature . You may say the whole idea of character is defined by people holding specific information, which, for various reasons, sometimes perverse, sometimes noble, they are determined not to disclose.” Perhaps this is the only thing that has been between Mike and Hannah The secret about inferiority complex sets off their two different but deeply in love.
Well, let’s talk about love first. Nowadays, if a movie lacks love, it is basically a dish without salt. A 15-year-old boy, who doesn't understand sex, first tasted the clouds and rain, and fell in love with a conductor who was kind, sexy and beautiful to him. Hannah's beauty does not belong to modern women, but the fortitude that can best reflect the beauty of women in the late World War II. She not only reveals a kind of male tenacity in her body, but also in her eyes. Such a love seems destined to be a tragedy. Li Bihua once said that the so-called love written in only eight words is the most attractive, and it is a movie that takes advantage of the time and place.
Last year, I had an idea, which was later called the male version of Xibao in March, but it was actually similar in purpose. At that time, I had a period of emotional slump and wanted to write a cruel love that was dark and realistic. Of course, my starting point was still vulgar love, so I talked to a few editors about my unpopular publishing structure: writing A 19-year-old rural youth was unable to continue his studies at the technical school because his father died of a work-related injury and did not receive due compensation. He needed to work to support himself, his mother, and his grandmother who had lost the labor force. He met a 31-year-old young woman who lost her husband. . This woman was rich and willful, and they began a 10-year entanglement. In the end, the woman who had nurtured him, loved him, gave him everything, and punished his betrayal died in a long-planned attack after his marriage proposal. Suicide, and he lost his sexual ability so he could no longer have an erection. He faced his wife, the one who had betrayed him and was once abandoned by him, the knot in his heart was forever locked.
I admit that there is still a lot of scrutiny in this story, but I still like it paranoid, especially after reading the reader, I want to describe a kind of love that is not purely motivated but purely emotional. They need to cross their own desires, life, values, and the most terrifying age boundary, and finally be able to sit down and say the phrase "I love you". .
There are two kinds of love in the world that make the people watching next to you sad the most. I think there are many people who have explored deeply about human feelings, and the reader has chosen such two people. Their cultural level, age, life background and values are fundamentally different, but they still love each other. Source From the most direct fascination with the flesh, the desire for motherhood and youth, the desire for supremacy, and so on. There is no love in the world more intriguing than this, because it is complex but not hypocritical.
Everyone has greed. This has nothing to do with World War II. It is human nature.
Mike covets Hannah's beauty, her femininity, and depends on the sex she gives him. Hannah lusts over Mike's infatuation with Mike's youth and feeling above Mike's knowledge. The reader is an ingenious relationship that unearths the deep desires of the two people. One of them is good at reading and the other is good at listening. Read and being read, this is a need relationship, like eroticism. One of them needs sex and the other needs love. But who needs love more, and who needs sex more, has long been entangled in the end. Human beings are sometimes impulsive, and sometimes that impulse can be precipitated. Like they lust for each other and eventually fall in love, those details are the most moving. Mike sells his beloved stamp album in exchange for a trip with a beautiful young woman in a floral dress, wrinkled at the corners of her eyes, and it's an interpretation of their compromise.
The whole movie doesn't just stop at love. When the opening memories go through the summer of the age of 15, the ties between them are even more difficult to briefly summarize with the word love. Many people don't understand why Hannah left without saying goodbye that summer. In fact, what she cares about is not whether young Mike loves her enough or whether she ignores herself because of her own life. At that time, she may love Mike, but she is also inferior. She heard that she had been promoted and wanted to start an office job, but she was illiterate, and she chose to flee when she exposed this weakness that she had been hiding. Leaving this place, there will always be a place where she can live, and continue to cover up her illiteracy, the deepest cancer in her heart. This film uses such a strong separation to express this inferiority and stubborn resistance. Perhaps this is the most arrogant part of the Germans. They have a kind of almost cruel and pathological self-spiriting in the face of their own shortcomings. Just like at the end of the trial, Hannah confessed to the Nazi murder of 300 people in exchange for life in prison in order to cover up her illiteracy.
All fascists are paranoid, which is probably inseparable from the personality created by the proud nation itself. The avoidance of inferiority complex is also well expressed in Mike.
Just like 8 years later, when the bitter love has not been resolved, Mack sees the woman who affected his entire youth again in a court about the Nazis murder trial. Hannah, however, is no longer the kind and beautiful young woman full of motherhood, but a Nazi executioner. He was ashamed of such feelings, and he dared not admit that he had loved such a woman. This is also a deep sense of self-esteem. When people are young, it is easiest to make their worldview tough and inviolable, and sometimes even allow this paranoia to last a lifetime. In the last prison conversation, I saw Mike's questioning, he was the stubborn man who couldn't let go after 20 years and couldn't compromise with his own moral world. He wasn't wrong, and Hannah wasn't wrong either. Each of her rhetorical questions was so acerbic, poking into the depths of willfulness. How much do we have to pay to repent and make amends for our actions when we have no choice?
Powerful society, innocent ignorant, they are very weak, so they sometimes act as executioners in order to survive. Even their minds have been murdered, so let them repent at this time, they will not understand what kind of enlightenment God needs, and of course they will not be redeemed. Just like in the end, when Hannah gave her so little money to the writer who had escaped death in the concentration camp, the writer said that she could not forgive her on behalf of the Jews on behalf of their beliefs. Like Mike asked Hannah, have you ever thought about the past? She replied that I had never thought about it before the trial. Because she didn't have a rule to tell her it was sinful when she acted. People can be ignorant, vulgar, or have no noble values, but is it right to pay the price for ignorant loyalty? Mike's mentor once said that we use the law to judge a person's right or wrong and whether he should be punished depends on the law of her behavior at that time, not the current one. In other words, Hannah was just a jailer back then, she didn't convict the Jews, and she didn't have the power to release them, but many years later, when the social consciousness was corrected, she was an executioner, a murderer, and even deeper The men who love her cannot accept her, forgive her, and redeem her because they are in the worldview of an outstanding youth in post-war peacetime. This reminds me directly of Eichmann in Jerusalem. Doesn't it mean that the ignorant are not guilty? 20 years later, Hannah finally understands that in the face of life, all beliefs, ideas and values have lost their convincing power, the dead are still dead. So she still can't stand with Mike in the end, they are still in the same situation. two different worlds. It seems that Hannah is twisted by fascism, but in fact who can say that Mike is not twisted by so-called pacifism?
Mac asks Hannah what you've learned from your past prison life, and he'd like to hear her confession, about the Nazis. But she said she learned to read.
This made up for the only inferiority complex in her life, after she paid such a heavy price.
However, I still feel that before the trial, Hannah had a kind of ignorant kindness in her heart. She cried in the church, hoping to be redeemed, but there was no redemption, as the female writer said , If you need to vent, you go to the movies, go to the novel to vent, all our spiritual forms ultimately boil down to a record of the form of words.
And the words spoken are also a corresponding reaction. Years later, Hannah and Mike have nothing to say, but they are in love, in their own way.
Mike has never been honest with his family in his life. What he hides is his inferiority complex, just like Hannah hides her illiteracy. Eventually Hannah could say, I would learn to read. Mike can also talk to his daughter about the love that has been sealed for 30 years.
The most valuable thing is that there is no hatred in the readers. Whether they are angry or ignorant, they are not hated, but they cannot be redeemed or forgiven.
The final form of life is the same as love, Hannah said, quiet...like she committed suicide by standing on a book. Override and be overridden.
How small we are.
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