The title is translated very vulgarly. Sunshine means "sunshine".
This three-hour long epic, like "Splendid Life", tells about a Jewish family in Hungary, the Austro-Hungarian Empire that experienced the monarchy during the First World War, the fascist rule during the Second World War, and the Second World War. After the end of Soviet rule, the story of four generations.
His great grandfather was a village chief in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The village chief used local herbs to make soups, which helped many people in the village regain their health. The secret recipe of the decoction is written in a black book.
His great-grandfather took the black book, his father’s pocket watch and walking stick, and went out to work. Later, his great-grandfather used his father’s secret recipe to produce medicinal wine, named Sonnenschein, which means "Taste the Sunshine", and thus founded himself Brewing company.
But his grandfather was unwilling to inherit the family's wine business and became a judge who supported the monarchy. The great-grandfather warned his grandfather: "When you judge others, don't forget who you are."
The above is to promote grandfather to the Central Court to serve as chief judge, but the premise is to change the surname to be more Hungarian. So the grandfather's three brothers and sisters all changed the surname of "Sang Na Xia" to "Shuo Shi".
The newspaper disclosed the corruption of two officials. The minister asked his grandfather to figure out how to shield him. The grandfather proposed to conceal the details as much as possible while further review, delay the time, and seal the case in dust.
After the wife knew it, she felt that her husband was taking the stand of a corrupt government, which was simply a shame.
"Such a corrupt monarchy government would rather overthrow it." He blamed him and said, "You are betraying your soul."
But he felt that he was still free within the monarchy. I felt that someone had to rule for the society to be peaceful.
Grandfather's younger brother Gustav was a socialist. He also disagrees with his brother's point of view, saying:
"The monarchy cannot tolerate the righteous gentleman."
Grandfather is going to run for parliament. The great grandfather said to his grandfather:
"Your position proves the value of your education. But even if someone promotes you, we should not climb too high. Especially for those people, we should be more vigilant. Sometimes we should stop working hard and accept reality. If you want to live happily, you must recognize who you are."
His wife also told him about her ideals:
"I want to open the window to see the homeland I know and love. I hope to grow like wild flowers in my own place."
The Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated after its defeat in the First World War. Uncle Gustav became a high-ranking official in the new government, and his grandfather was arrested on the charge of a dictator. He said something very philosophical to his wife during the house arrest:
"What people want is not freedom, but protection."
Hungary joined the Nazi-fascist camps in Germany and Italy during World War II.
Father has a talent for fencing. In order to enter the official club, both father's brothers converted to Catholicism.
After his father won the Olympic fencing championship, the chairman of the Boston Fencing Club of the United States invited him to the United States, but he sternly refused.
"You are not an officer, why do you support a dictator?"
"You mean I fight for the regime, not the country? The Hungary I live in is highly civilized..."
"Highly civilized? Hungary blindly follows Germany and will surely create disasters. My warning, just as a gift for you to win the championship. Leave this country as soon as possible."
But my father didn't listen.
According to the country’s latest anti-Semitic decree, his father was quickly kicked out of the official club.
As a Jew, his father was not spared because he was once an Olympic fencing champion. He witnessed his father being stripped naked by Hungarian Nazis in a concentration camp and hit with a rifle, and he was hung from a tree in the snow and ice and washed with a faucet. In a flash, his father was frozen into ice. Two thousand people, faced with the atrocities of the three fascist gangsters, all chose to remain silent and did not dare to resist.
After Hungary was liberated by the Soviet Union, he became a policeman in the new government, responsible for purging fascists in the old government.
Many crimes during the war were not committed by the Germans. Hungarian government officials are all following the orders of the Germans. It was the obedient, obedient, and disciplined Hungarian who did these many sinful deeds.
But in the trial of the fascists, his superiors asked him to remove the names of some people from the list. The boss said to him: "The new government will absorb the old enemies. Before the regime is consolidated, use these traitors first, and then end them."
His boss was quickly accused and under investigation, and he was asked to take charge of the trial. But he couldn't conclude the case with his boss without conclusive evidence. The general above shouted at him: "If he defends the Communist Party, the Communist Party needs his confession! Our goal is that the labor movement is not at the mercy of Judaism."
Only then did he feel that he was just a tool and a puppet of the political machine.
What you don't want to do, you can do it right away.
In the end, his boss was beaten to death, bleeding excessively. He was called to identify the body and asked to speak at the funeral. He couldn't help but uttered a human cry at the funeral:
"We have always believed that we can build a new world that will benefit mankind, but in fact we are harming the world. While we denounce criminals, we also become criminals. Politics deceive the people and profess to do good. The people also deceive the politics and call it good. Trust the government. I’m not just saying goodbye to you, I’m also saying goodbye to my past. I witnessed my father being abused to death, and I stood by. I also saw you suffer the same torture and still stand by. Here I want to say to you. Promise, I will severely punish those who fabricated the crime."
He quickly withdrew from the police station and began to rebel against the government, exposing the crimes of the officials in order to alleviate his guilt.
In his speech after the Soviet Union liberated Hungary, he enthusiastically praised Stalin. As soon as Stalin died, the power struggle within the party began to take over Stalin's crimes. So everything is reversed again. But only a group of people came to rule the country, and the nature of the dictatorship has not changed.
In 1956, the Hungarian Incident. People rebelled against Soviet rule and pushed the statue of Stalin on the square. He and the Hungarian people participated in demonstrations against Soviet rule.
Ten days later, Soviet tanks drove into Budapest. He bravely climbed onto the Soviet tank.
"Should we be slaves or emancipate ourselves?"
"Revolution is not political, but moral need."
"Unleash our power and let the world understand that we are fearless!"
After the Hungarian Revolution was suppressed by Soviet tanks, he was imprisoned and sentenced to 5 years.
When my grandmother went to see him in prison, he said: "I have witnessed the fall of the regime many times. The new government always believes that it can live forever, saying that it is free from crime and corruption, and that the future will be full of justice and freedom. But it is politics that has disrupted us. Life."
Grandma is the only person in this family who knows how to breathe freely.
When my grandma was admitted to the hospital, she said in a daze that her surname was "Sanasha".
In the last scene in the film, he went to the city hall and asked to change his surname from "Shosh" back to "Sonnescheia"-Sonnenscheia.
After the war, he discovered the warning left by his father: "We are afraid of the truth, because the truth sees you and me."
At that time, I was still young and couldn't understand it. Now I have a deep understanding of it. He already understood: The only way to find the meaning of life is to live honestly.
The film was nominated for Best Feature Film and Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards.
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