This is a story about finding "self": my aunt was destroyed for showing "self" in abnormal times, my father chose to commit suicide because "self" was unwilling to be humiliated, and father-in-law's "self" chose to submit and became an accomplice of the Nazis , The wife's "self" chose to be kind and keep the clouds open to see the moon. The male protagonist has gone through childhood, adolescence, youth, from Nazi Germany to the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany, experienced family ruin, love and distrust, What remains unchanged is the pursuit of art and truth, which finally made him a master of art in a free country. The film is based on the life story of German painter Gerhard Richter, but it is said that the painter himself is not very satisfied with the film. Politics and art are the two major fields of human civilization progress. In the film, the impression of politics is basically negative: Nazi Germany carried out the cleansing of inferior people because of the implementation of Aryan race supremacy, and the GDR regards people as tools and annihilates people's true emotions. Art, like the Virgin Mary, washes people's hearts, guides people's direction, and gives people the motivation to survive in difficult times. The 189-minute movie is twice as long as a normal movie, but the plot is fascinating, and you don't feel tired after watching it. Watching the movie is like opening a social picture scroll from the late 1930s to the 1960s in Germany - people, but only in the times. a piece of dust.
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