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Reason is no match for emotion
Ernie 2021-12-30 17:21:44
The film persuaded me emotionally, but not logically. The trial is still entangled in whether Judy Garland is cheating and whether Montgomery Cliff is mentally retarded. In fact, it defaulted to the legitimacy of the Nazi law and avoided the question of whether it is guilty to comply with the draconian law. In the end, Lancaster's confession became a turning point in the film. It is not so much that Spencer Cusser tried Lancaster, but Lancaster tried himself. This is a moral trial, and it is illegal.
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Darion 2022-04-23 07:02:33
It was originally a four-star work, but the monologues of the last two protagonists elevate the whole film.
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Westley 2022-03-28 09:01:04
Choose justice or choose survival? Long-term stability or temporary stability? Survive, survive as what? The film touches on the depths of society, history, and human nature, and it also allows the audience to integrate into it neutrally and question themselves without being boring, which is amazing.
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Ernst Janning: We have fallen on happy times, Herr Hahn. In old times it would have made your day if I'd deigned to say good morning to you. Now that we are here in this place together... you feel obliged to tell me what to do with my life... Listen to me, Herr Hahn, there have been terrible things that have happened to me in my life. But the worst thing that has ever happened... is to find myself in the company of men like you.
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Mrs. Bertholt: We must forget if we want to go on living.