This is not a film review.
Human feelings are really complicated. The film takes Anna as the core and tells about her emotional changes.
1. Closed. Because her beloved fiancé died in World War I, her life became pale. The prospective parents-in-law treated her very well, and even hoped that she could find someone to marry. But Anna always closed herself.
2. A French guy suddenly broke into the family's life. The reason is guilt and atonement, he killed the German guy in the war.
3. The French guy was very cowardly (he said it himself in the movie), so he made up a lie to approach the German family. But the closer he gets, the more guilt he gets, and finally tells the truth with Anna.
4. But based on the previous foundation, the German family completely accepted the French guy, and even Anna started a new relationship. But because of the sudden truth, Anna couldn't recover for a while. The French guy has also returned to France.
5. With the help of love and truth (after all, it was a killing in the war), Anna opened her heart and decided to accept this French guy. The parents-in-law are also very supportive, because they don't know the truth, they have already regarded the French boy as their son. (Anna did not tell the truth to the two elders, on the one hand because it would only increase the pain of the two elders, on the other hand she has feelings)
6. Anna went to France to find her sweetheart, but found that her sweetheart had been arranged by a strong mother. The cowardly man did not dare to change this arrangement. Anna understood that her relationship was about to end again. But Anna is also liberated, and she is ready to start her new life.
7. At the end of the movie, Anna sat in front of Manet’s "Suicide" and said: it gave me the courage to live
Through this story, Anna completed a turn. From a person trapped in the past, to a person ready to accept the future. She stayed in Paris, continued to comfort the second elder in Germany with lies, and at the same time began her own life. From this perspective, every time a person breaks through, it means more or less killing himself in the past.
There are two values in the film. One is the French guy. He said that people cannot live for themselves. And Anna's last thought was to live for herself. In this movie, there is an awakening of self-consciousness, but this can easily be misunderstood as freedom without restraint. In fact, although Anna finally started to walk her own way of life, she is still doing her best to appease the German father-in-law and mother-in-law. She also continues to regard the happiness of the two elders as her responsibility, so she will continue to write letters to make the two elders happy.
The French guy didn't. He hated his mother's control over him, but he didn't dare to resist.
People's defense against reality often starts by changing (killing) the past self.
On the other hand, movies are very special in the use of colors, sometimes in black and white, sometimes in color. I don't understand whether there is any metaphor.
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