Good and bad are not absolute

Colten 2022-04-19 09:02:18

It was the first Dutch movie I saw, and it left a good impression on me, as did the Italian movie.

The story is set in the Netherlands at the end of World War II. A Jewish-German girl whose whole family was murdered because of a traitor betrayed her and vowed to avenge her tragic death. But the world is not naturally divided into two camps: good people and bad people. There are also reasonable and helpless Nazi officers. There are resistance organizations who betray their comrades in arms, and some who have their own ideas. A sanctimonious moralist is not necessarily a good person, and a prostitute in a Nazi barracks is not necessarily a whore. In this complex and war-torn era, in the Netherlands under Nazi rule, how much uncertainty will the fate of this Jewish girl face?

A line from the heroine: "I've never been more terrified of liberation than I am now."

The film's plot twists, each character can peel back several layers, and no one knows what kind of soul the last layer is. . The film is a hit at the Venice Film Festival this year. The only shortcoming is that European films usually do not have the explosion scenes of Hollywood, the technology is not skilled enough, and sometimes the atmosphere is not very strong. But the script is top notch.

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Black Book quotes

  • Rachel Stein aka Ellis de Vries: I never knew this would happen. To fear the liberation...

  • Gerben Kuipers: We will kill that girl! However, wherever, whenever.