"Which country can I play for?"

Sylvester 2022-01-23 08:03:38

This is the third generation of Turkish immigration to Germany. Chuck’s children encountered problems in school physical education. Peers with similar backgrounds laughed at him because they couldn’t speak Turkey well. German children didn’t recognize him because of the differences in appearance. Qian Ke just wanted to join in and have a good game.

But this film is not about the discrimination and difficulties encountered by immigrants.

The narrative of "Welcome to Germany" is gentle and amiable, even humorous. It talks briskly about the dilemma of immigrant families, about image labels, family relationships and concepts, and it also talks about death.

Hu Xin and his wife finally got German passports 45 years after immigrating to Germany. His wife was very happy, but Hu Xin was not so sure; Hu Xin was the first generation of immigrants hoping to return to their roots. Their children are divided into two types. One is that they face completely different cultural shocks in their growth, and the middle-aged shows some kind of dejection; the other is completely born in Germany, and the body is completely unable to adapt to the hometown, but When faced with the question of his son’s nationality, he was still the second generation who could not hesitate to answer "Turkey." The children of the third generation each have their own troubles; a party suddenly announced that everyone, under Hu Xin's grace and power, began a journey home.

During the journey, from Qianke’s intermittent listening to the family’s journey along the way, it also shows us that new immigrant families are in fear and fear of a new life. At the same time, they are intertwined with yearning and wonder. It will be more ingenious and interesting to the Turks. , German stereotypes are in front of you. The many experiences during the journey were enough to make the childish and stubborn eyebrows of Qian Ke's child gradually relax. He and his grandfather went to the barbershop to shave, learned Turkish hand and foot dance, broke through obstacles and said "goodbye" to the Turkish children, and more He learned the three states of life as water, he participated in the process of family emigration, he inherited a lot, but still has his own way of flying.

Hu Xin’s wife, the mother who wraps everyone like a bowl of pods, expresses the joy of getting a German passport at the beginning of the movie. She seems to have no nostalgia for her hometown of Turkey; in fact, for her-"My heart is my home", As long as it is the place where you can get along with your family and use the deepest affection, it is her country, her home, and her identity.

The scene of the final funeral is surreal and very ingenious. Each family member has his own 45 years ago, telling us that we are the accumulation of the past, and it is not accidental that we have been all the way. At the same time, we are all children before death. The first beauty is the most suitable way to accommodate this matter.

At the end of the journey, some people choose to go back and work hard, and most of the family members continue their original pace and move forward. This film may slightly weaken the hardships of immigration, but the psychological pull after the food, clothing, housing and transportation are settled is an unbearable lightness in life. There is no proper answer to the question about identity and self, and the line at the end of the film is very suitable for memorizing, gently soothing various confusing moments in life:

"Who are we? What are we?"
A wise man answered this question. ....
we are past lives if
we are to do now
that we are also to be the industry ....
the Journal then we manifolds are affected
but also affect the natural hybrid of individual manifolds
we are the future, even if we no longer
us Is known, even if we never existed.

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Extended Reading
  • Taryn 2022-04-21 09:03:23

    The first show I saw at the German Film Festival, the female director also came. Looking at it, I thought to myself who said that Germans have no sense of humor, how funny, it turns out that it is the daughter of Turkish immigrants. . . The first half and the second half feel very clearly divided, the second half is too lyrical and a little too much, and the first half is often gray and often liked! The soundtrack, children and grandpas are cute, but as the first film released by a female director in theaters, it is still highly recommended

  • Kiel 2022-04-19 09:02:50

    Tell the story of labor immigration. Impressively, after my grandfather passed away. The child asked his father: where did grandpa go. His dad: What about this water, you see, it is liquid under normal conditions, it freezes when the temperature is very low, and sometimes it evaporates into the sky. In short, it exists, but in different forms, I don’t know if you understand No. Child: Oh, grandpa evaporated.