Barbara, who always wanted to escape to West Germany, chose to stay

Shaina 2022-01-17 08:03:38

The occurrence of every story is inseparable from the social background in which it happened, and this film is no exception. Even if it is not written in the era, the scars left by history are always difficult to erase. After the end of World War II, Germany was divided, the Cold War, and the dictatorship (tyranny) of East Germany made the people of East Germany risk their lives to cross the Berlin Wall to West Germany. Among them, there are many outstanding technical talents.

The film’s depiction of this dictatorship is actually very obscure. The story is actually told based on the emotions of Barbara and Andre as the story line. Barbara is an excellent doctor. The film uses Barbara to be sent to The village hospital began to enter the story, and the reason for the decentralization came slowly afterwards. Every success story will always leave the audience with doubts in their hearts, so as to attract the audience's willingness to "sit through the theater."

At first, Barbara refused to talk to others, she also eats alone. She isolates herself, and is even unsympathetic. Because she has been planning to escape, helped by her lover in West Germany, this lover only appears twice in the film, each time just showing the most primitive needs of life-sex and money, but Barbara is not happy. Good emotions should make the other person positive and happy, right? The lover tells Barbara that he has made enough money for them to spend, and the enthusiastic Andre has her own pursuit. Barbara has superb medical skills. She naturally has the value of her own pursuit and will pay more attention to the spiritual level. It is inevitable that Bara will stay in the end.

But how to stay, this process is the plot of the story to tell. The author arranged for Andre to drive Barbara twice, to treat two typical patients together, and Andre to talk about the reasons why he was decentralized to the township and his understanding of the famous paintings. In the process, Barbara got back to the truth. Own. The storyline moves forward slowly and methodically, without feeling abrupt. At the end of the story, Andre was told that Barbara would not come back again. He was so depressed. When Barbara appeared in the ward at daybreak, the two of them were silent, and a single eye contact was enough and enough to make people gratifying.

The film takes the characters' most primitive emotions as the baseline. In the larger social context, even if everyone chooses to escape from the present, only love can make people stay without hesitation. Acceptance and sacrifice, gains and losses, all depend on the beliefs they pursue.

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Barbara quotes

  • André: Doctor Wolff will be working with us. She is from Berlin... from the Charite Hospital, and has decided...

    Assistenzärztin Schulze: We have introduced ourselves.