Sometimes it's best not to read the synopsis before watching a movie. At the beginning of the film, I learned the brief plot of the film: a little Jewish girl locked him in a closet to protect her brother. She thought she could come back soon to open the closet to rescue her brother, but in the end, his brother died in the closet. And sixty years later, a female reporter went deep into this hidden memory.
Sarah's story To tell the
truth, the moment Sarah opened the closet, we all knew that a miracle would not happen, but for a little girl, the closest relative died in her closet because of herself, as a little girl. The shadow of childhood is simply irreversible. As hers, we cannot feel the unspeakable pain and shock that this tragic phenomenon brought her. We can't imagine the pain that flashed back again and again in her young childhood monk's delicate mind; it's also hard to imagine that she may be in all the days to come, every minute and every second, carrying the burden of the past. The guilt went down step by step; it was even more difficult to know that when darkness fell, the silence and depth of the night sky disappeared, replaced by the tragic image of her brother's death and the moaning and crying in the closet.
Such pain can only be described aimlessly under the foundation of our imagination, and the truth may be more tragic than we imagine. So in this case, her future life will be terminated. Haruki Murakami wrote in "Kafka on the Shore": "It is not so much that this tragedy is caused by the shortcomings of the parties, but rather its advantages. People are not because of their shortcomings but because of their advantages. dragged into a larger tragedy.", "Sometimes, people's life seems to end at that moment due to the occurrence of some major events, even if they still live in the future." I think Sarah's life after that was like that. Day after day of self-flagellation, countless nightmare flashbacks every second, so that she can only live in her childhood. Because we have been facing the darkness, we can only connect our backs to tomorrow and the future. Later, her intentional death is logical here, because the reason for living has been cancelled by herself when she was a child. The moment she locked the closet, her life and her brother's life were closely linked, and his. Death directly affected her subsequent life.
I have personally had such an experience, which is certainly not worth mentioning compared to the plot in the play, but as a bait for thinking, it is worth mentioning here.
When I was studying in high school, I was passing through a dark side street and was cut by three young men with knives. They threatened and forced me to hand over my money, which I did. And the next few months felt like I had never experienced before. Self-blame, anger, and shame, such words that often appear in the text, came into my life for the first time out of the text. On the road, I would be hostile to every passerby like the three, and pretend how to subdue them; in my sleep, I refused to compromise, and fought with the three, winning and losing. When thinking about things like exams and homework, the scene at that time would flash back, interrupting my problem-solving train of thought and forcibly intruding into my life. And this situation continued until after the college entrance examination, it disappeared completely. Of course, I also tried to solve the problem during the period. I looked for social support: I told this matter to everyone I knew and asked for comfort; I started to exercise and practice. Sanda, and was obsessed with fighting for a while.
It is difficult for others to imagine that the waves caused by an accident are so big? I would say so. So I can understand people who can't hold their heads up when they are hit by unexpected events, people are stronger than we think, but also weaker than we think. Those who can come through may know more about the fear of life and human nature than others; those who can't come out need the help of others. After all, self-healing is difficult and may not even be complete. I want to say that mental health and debugging have been absent in our country’s thousands of years of tradition, which may be related to land civilization, nationality and collectivism, but we are now open, and under the open sky, we should learn to Inward observation and care. I think our primary and secondary education and family education should cultivate such ability, this ability to pay attention to oneself and know how to debug, although this is not easy. In my writing, I suddenly thought, "Can Sarah not die?" I think the answer is yes. If she is interfered, she will have one or two sustenances in her later life, such as lover, such as art, maybe she will not As for the final choice to end life.
Julia's Redemption
The protagonist of the film, Julia, is a media worker who has no intention of being involved in dusty historical events in her daily work. Life can be so absurd, and life in sixty seconds is just as unpredictable as life in sixty years. As the secret cloud of history is revealed step by step, and she also grows step by step in it, I think for an ordinary person, it is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing to pursue the life of the protagonist in the tragedy of history. It's like she replays the life of the tragic protagonist as her own subject, and the danger in it can be imagined. This is also why some foreign female students who were investigating the Nanjing Massacre even became overwhelmed and chose to commit suicide in the end. Maybe she can't mature the darkness of human nature and the darkness of going through the depths of history to the abyss of reality. And the heroine of the movie is undoubtedly brave, she pushes through the fog and presents history in front of the current world.
Undoubtedly, some painful things cannot be forgotten and should not be forgotten. These heavy pains may be formed by countless groans, wails, countless blood, and lives. Since the condensation has undergone such a huge cost, it should not be easily forgotten and buried. At least she can become a specimen, so that people in this world know how dark the darkness is, how deep the abyss is, how fragile and ugly human nature can be.
The protagonist of the movie is the digger of such negative condensates, which undoubtedly requires enormous stamina, mental strength, energy and courage, but she finally did it, and in the process of tempering herself like this, she also obtained her own redemption. She overturned the previous compromise with her husband, and she chose a free life. It takes courage, even a lot of courage, to escape freedom, and the heroine does it.
The connection between
human nature and human nature is undoubtedly unpredictable. Some psychologists will use people's "ocean of personality (OCEAN)" to describe it, but after all, theory is only theory, in the face of huge complexity and changes in reality, it is difficult to use a series of numbers or numbers. several characteristics to express. While the little girls a few decades ago, and Julia a few decades later, their sorrows, the setbacks they faced, although the forms are different, they may be homogeneous. No one can specifically feel what happened to the two of them. They can only rely on their own imagination to touch the words, reactions and expressions that flicker and dim and erratic at the end of their life events. The final different paths of the two may reflect different aspects of human nature.
the movie itself
A good script needs a good light and shadow to make a good film, but in this film, the incoherence of the alternating lines, the procrastination in the second half of the film, and the embracing of Sarah's son and Julia at the end. The scene of tears, although warm, but not classic. Sometimes reality is more imperfect than we think, but we just have to accept it, don't we? From the perspective of the different fields of text and screen, compared to the text creation that has been developed for thousands of years, the screen creation that only appeared in modern times has unlimited creative space and content resources.
"We've told it well enough, but you guys haven't done it well enough," I said.
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