Torn Youth——After Viewing "Girl Loho"

Zion 2022-01-17 08:03:33

World War II films mostly expose the ugliness of fascism and reflect on the crimes of war of aggression. However, this film starts with the people of defeated countries and writes about the harm of war to the heart of an innocent girl. The perspective is quite unique.
The girl's parents fled in desperation, leaving behind five children. As the eldest sister, Luohe, in desperation, had no choice but to embark on the long road of escape.
War is a school that allows people to mature quickly in the shortest possible time. The road of escape has also become the path of girls’ growth, and the hunger, fatigue, humiliation, bloody killings, deaths of relatives and even the love between men and women experienced by the movie characters all the way have turned into a ripening agent for girls’ growth.
The few scenes at the end of the play are the most moving: Luohe gets up and dresses, and the camera shakes the girl’s legs. There are many spots and scars. This is the scars of the flesh symbolizing the trauma of the girl’s soul (this picture and the beginning of the movie) A scene where the girls take a bath and contrast with each other); the maid teaches her sisters how to dance, and Loho has no intention of doing this, depressed and incomprehensible, walks outside the house alone—this shows that she has experienced tragic suffering, and the girl will never be happy; the younger brother is grabbing food at the table Reprimanded by her grandmother, Loho, regardless of the elders' resistance, grabbed the food and chewed on it-this act was a catharsis of humiliation, pain, depression, and sorrow for many days. There is no dialogue in several pictures, but the meaning of the silent scenes is deafening. The most touching thing is the scene of Luohe destroying the porcelain deer with his feet. The magnets are scattered all over the place, and the beloved deer that he carried along the way is finally stepped on to pieces. This is a farewell ceremony to the innocent girlhood and a portrayal of life's unbearable tragedy. This is a meaning that can only be told with a film lens.
Lu Xun once said: "Tragedy is to tear up valuable things for others to see." A young girl is a symbol of truth, kindness and beauty. "Girl Loho" shows how this "valuable thing" is torn apart and sings a tragic song of life.
In fact, everyone has to go through a process from adolescence to maturity, encounter certain difficulties, and lose some of the most precious things in life. "Girls in Loho" just draws on the theme of World War II and uses more concentrated, quintessential, and intense colors to depict the inevitable and tragic path of a person's growth.

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Lore quotes

  • [first lines]

    Vati: We can only take what fits in the truck.

    Mutti: I'm not talking about the damn truck!

    Vati: [Lore walks into the room] Hey, here she is! My girl. Come here.