Some memories will never slowly dissipate over time, but will condense stronger and sharper. For example, for those who have experienced Auschwitz, let him completely forget the purgatory torture, this request itself may be more cruel than the experience of the year. To some extent, remembering their past sufferings and seeing those who abused them get punished is one of the motivations for them to survive.
There are too many narratives about the dark history of Germany, but this "Remember" has a different setting. Its protagonist is set to be an elderly man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, which makes the story seem absurd and even somewhat witty and not serious. Later, the story grafted the theme of "on the road", and this recourse to it Lu has constructed a framework for a suspenseful story, and the final reversal is shocking.
Sometimes confused and sometimes sober, Zef lives in a nursing home. After attending his wife's funeral, he and another old man Max began secretly implementing a plan. Max wrote down a list for Zef, told him where to go, whom to look for, and helped him arrange hotels along the way. As the story progresses, the clues become clearer, and the two old men are engaged in a step-by-step revenge plan. They are all people who have survived Auschwitz, and at the end of their lives, they want to find the prison administrator who killed their family members and let him pay for their lives.
Of course, if the movie is filmed according to this routine, after searching for it again and again, and finally finding the enemy for revenge or choosing forgiveness, it will fall into the common setting of this kind of theme. The interesting thing about this movie is that along the way, Zef found different people again and again according to the information on the list. Although the previous few times were wrong, it was tantamount to experiencing the history of Auschwitz again. . In the hospital, he saw the dying old man with the prisoner's number engraved on his arm. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz because of his homosexuality. He also saw a fanatic who died and never repented. His son still hated the Jews... From this perspective, although decades have passed, the ghost of history has never really disappeared. Those who have been insulted and hurt still face their wounds at the end of time, and outsiders cannot enter their hearts at all. Some of those who have done harm to others have never really felt regretful.
When Zefu stood in the fanatic's bedroom, looking at the uniforms and medals he had collected during his lifetime, and looking at his son's eager and crazy eyes, he knew that the ghost in his heart had never been completely expelled because of the historical trial. And people always naively believe that some things, after a trial, distinguishing black and white, can finally make everything completely out of chaos in everyone's hearts. But the reality is far from that simple.
The most shocking ending flip has finally arrived. Zef finally found the Auschwitz jailer, but while admitting that he had concealed his identity for many years, he also revealed a huge secret. Zef is not Oswid. Xin's prisoner, and like himself is also a jailer. Back then, they stabbed each other with fake prisoner numbers on each other's arms to escape arrest. And Zef has lied to himself for many years, claiming to be a persecuted Jew, and he really believes the lies.
The ending of this reversal even produced a certain philosophical image. The setting of Alzheimer’s has two functions. From the perspective of plot promotion, such a disease can make all behaviors logical, forgetting things, being confused, and living in the cracks of confusion and sobriety; at the same time, this disease has also become a Metaphorically, one's deception and deception of oneself become a kind of "active dementia" choice to survive.
Zefu's family didn't know this secret. He also seemed to be a kind and gentle old man. The problem was that he was burdened with such a deep evil. This is an even more chilling thing, because you have no idea what kind of fierce expressions those kind people in life have had. And which stage of expression reflects their true heart. Are they demons or mortals, or, can we believe that a violent person will really degenerate into a good person?
The ending of this movie is very decisive. Zefu shot the opponent and shot himself, because he finally awoke from the lies he weaved and realized his true identity. For many years, he used "pseudo-identity" "But he created a "true conscience", which made him unable to accept who he used to be. In the end, it was discovered that the manipulator of all this was Max who wrote the revenge plan for Zef. He is the prisoner of Auschwitz. He had discovered Zef's identity a long time ago, and he decided to use the old man's illness to kill an accomplice with his hand, and then let him commit suicide. It is undeniable that this is a revenge, but after all, he has also become a murderer. But this fate seems impossible to escape.
"Remember" has a beautiful story shell, wrapped in an extremely serious and harsh theme. Regarding the ghosts of history, hatred and forgiveness, whether time will dilute or deepen hatred, from the present point of view, there are some too heavy hatreds. For it, time has the effect of purifying it and becoming more violent. It has become a torture that no one can answer at all. In all countries that have experienced dark history, there are some dark clouds floating on people's heads, and generations of people are also unclear.
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