People come and go, never change

Dave 2022-01-12 08:01:03

This should be the earliest movie I have ever seen, 1932. Think about the young, beautiful, handsome and suave gentlemen and ladies, they should have slept peacefully in the arms of Mother Earth for a long time. Maybe they are happy. After all, when they are no longer there, we can still see their moving style through the movie and on this black and white screen.
This film is a very innovative movie, not only in that era, but also in today's view. With the help of a small platform, it tells a big theme. By showing the lives of all kinds of people living in the big hotel for one or two days, it reveals the spiritual outlook and life experience of people in that era, maybe not only that era, because human psychology and experience have a cross-age heritage and cross-regional heritage. Consistency. Through those characters with different identities and different experiences, we have seen the ups and downs of life, the ups and downs of life. Life is full of accidents, and accidents may be good or bad, maybe it's the result of another village.
Baron Van Gegen is a poor middle-aged man. He had to steal in a big hotel in order to pay off his gambling debts, but he was friendly, full of justice and compassion. So he helped the poor employee Mr. Clin and fell in love with the ballerina Grace. Although he is a thief, he is definitely more kind than the so-called superior people. It's a pity that in the end, he was beaten to death by the businessman Plessy, which is really sighing.
And the ballet dancer Grosse is played by the beautiful Garbo. She is indeed not the most dramatic in the film, but her light cannot be concealed. She is the queen of the film. Grace is an extremely emotional and naive actress. She cried because of the lack of attendance at the theater. She refused to be on stage again. She was ecstatic and couldn't sleep because she fell in love with the Baron. Perhaps what the actor needs is this. Kind of extreme character. It's a pity that her lover died unexpectedly. She got in the car and left alone amidst the white lie of everyone. How sad after learning the news, but maybe she will get better soon and fall in love with another person. People are always forgetful.
The film also depicts Klin, an old employee who is terminally ill, Plessy, a businessman who is at a juncture of business change, and Frans, a poor and beautiful female secretary. These three people with different personalities and destinies are cleverly woven together. In the end, the businessman gets a bad return, but at the end of his life, Klin gets the opportunity to visit the romantic capital of Paris with the beauty at the end of his life. Although the fate is unpredictable, it seems that there is a will in the sky, and there will always be good and evil. And Frans is actually a very representative character, young and beautiful but without money. Either she was lucky enough to catch a beetle-in-law, or she had to sell her youth and beauty for money. What else could change her? What about a life that can only eat one meal a day? But in the end, she was able to travel with Klin in Paris, and she might even get a small bequest from Klin, which is considered to be a small favor for her by fate. Kling was frugal all his life. At the end of his life, he asked to stay in a luxurious hotel anyway. It really made people feel a kind of sorrow. He bumped into the boss who obeyed his orders in the bar, and finally exposed the boss's murderous deeds. Revenge.
Destiny, destiny, how should you treat you? How should you treat you, a master of pranks?
In the end, these five people all left the hotel, albeit in different directions. Only a doctor who has always been aloof is sighing: The big hotel, where people come and go, will never change. In fact, is it not like this in life?
Every actor in the film can be said to be leading the way. Everyone expresses the completely different characters of the characters vividly, vividly, and even has a sense of comedy, but this comedy is performed on the big stage of destiny. So we viewers will inevitably laugh with tears when watching.

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Extended Reading
  • Gaetano 2022-04-21 09:03:01

    Birth, old age, sickness, death, joy, anger, sorrow, joy, and joy, everything that happens there stays there. [This is very LV]

  • Bailee 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    All living beings are chaotic and neurotic, and people are so boring living----I don't want to watch this kind of film again.

Grand Hotel quotes

  • Dr. Otternschlag: And what do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat. Sleep. Loaf around. Flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. No one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed... that's the end.

  • [first lines]

    Senf: [talking on the phone in a phonebooth at the Grand Hotel after a brief scene of operators at the switchboard] Hello? Hello? Hello, is that the clinic? Uh this is Senf; the head porter, Grand Hotel. How's my wife? Is she in pain? Isn't the child coming soon?... Patience? Would you have patience?

    Otto Kringelein: [in the next phonebooth] Uh this is Otto Kringelein. I-i-is that you Heinrich? Oh Heinrich listen, I've got to talk very quickly - with every minute costs two Marks ninety. Y-ya know that will I made before I had my operation? Well I want you to tear it up... Huh? W-e-I came to Berlin to see a great specialist about that old trouble of mine; y-you know Heinrich, i-it's pretty bad. Uh he says I haven't long to live... I say he says I won't live much longer!... No, it isn't nice to be told things like that. You plague and bother and save and all of the sudden you're dead. I want to get something out of life! Listen Heinrich, I'm *never* going back to Frieveshof, *never*. I-I'm staying here at the Grand Hotel; it's the most expensive hotel in Berlin. Y-eh all the best people stay here, even our big boss Preysing is staying here. I'm going to tell him someday just exactly what I think of him.

    Preysing: [in the next phonebooth] Hello? Hello, miss? This is General Director Preysing. I want my home in Frieveshof, please. Hurry, yeah... Hello! Hello. Is that you mama? How are da children? What news have you found at da factory dear?... Ya. Is your papa there?... Good. Hello papa, is that you?... Ya. The conference with the Saxonia company's set for tomorrow morning papa... Ya, ya. If the merger does not go through, ve are in very bad shape papa... Ya, ya. Everything depends upon news from Manchester! If the deal with the Manchester Cotton Company does not go through, we are facing a very bad situation papa.

    Suzette: [in the next phonebooth] I'm Suzette - Suzette: Madam Grusinskaya's maid. Madam will not dance today. No she will not go to the rehearsal; she did not sleep all night. There is something preying on her mind... No, I give her a tablet of degranol. She is sleeping now.

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [in the next phonebooth] This is Baron von Geigern. Look here, I need money or I can't stay at this hotel much longer. Well I've layed the groundwork, know the exact position of her room, and I've made friends with her ballet master Pimenov.

    Otto Kringelein: [back in his phonebooth, sincerely] Listen Heinrich, I've taken all my savings - everything; and I'm going to enjoy spending it, *all* of it. I-it's terribly expensive here Heinrich, oooohh but it's wonderful!

    Senf: [back in his phonebooth, nervously] I can't, I'll lose my job! It's like being in jail.

    Preysing: [back in his phonebooth, adamantly] Rely on me papa. I will make this merger go through, I never fail.

    Suzette: [back in her phonebooth, frantically] Oh poor Madam, her mind is tortured. I'm afraid she will...

    Baron Felix von Geigern: [back in his phonebooth, slyly] I don't need advice, thanks very much; I need money.

    Otto Kringelein: [back in his phonebooth, excitedly] ... music all the time - oh it's wonderful.

    Dr. Otternschlag: [sitting in a chair in the lobby smoking a cigar] Grand Hotel: people coming, going... nothing ever happens.

    [the scene fades out]