To be honest, in my opinion this is a movie with more topic than content. I wrote this film review not because of how appealing its plot is, but because it brings out a topic I have always wanted to talk about.
I believe that the director actually wants to tell the story of how people are influenced by his family, and how to get out of the shadows and complete the redemption. This should be a good theme, but the fault of the director and screenwriter is to add a lot of political tendencies that are too subjective. This is not only superfluous, but also makes the film annoyingly superficial. John Lennon said, "We want ML, not war", but that is just a hope for peace. It is really disgusting to use "sex" as a weapon to change the so-called "nationalists," and to confidently put out a theory that "they can instill their thoughts into their subconscious minds when they GC". In addition, are all rightists so evil? Why must they be changed? I believe that whether the last name is "Left" or "Right", this is everyone's right, and it has nothing to do with their character. An old man who believes in nationalism can give help to immigrant neighbors who are in difficulty, just as Marx, who cares about workers, can scorn Engels’ wife Maria, who was born as a worker. I wanted to see the ideas of two people collide with each other, and finally compromise for love-this should be a stable and perfect state of a country, but in the end... I was really disappointed.
I consider myself a leftist, but sometimes I also wonder, must the ideas put forward by the leftist be correct? In the West, some more radical leftists advocate unreserved sympathy and help disadvantaged groups, but have they ever wondered whether these “vulnerable groups” really want your sympathy and help? Just like the hero’s mother in the film, her parents and relatives died tragically in the Nazi concentration camp. She wanted to forget about it and start a new life, but the heroine’s wishful thinking, as if the pity of the old things are brought up again, but the tragic memory re-emerged in her heart, and she was finally unable to bear it. Choose to commit suicide. A British psychologist once said: "If you really have to sympathize with them, please treat them as normal people just like you." In reality, when tragedies happen, we often come with a compassionate attitude to condolences to those. The victims repeatedly asked them to tell the memories that could not bear to look back, and even encouraged them to strengthen their mentality as victims-just like the heroine's mother, the civil rights activist. We thought we were helping them, but we didn't know that all they wanted was to go out and start over. In my opinion, this is not kindness, but just a kind of self-satisfaction that deliberately demonstrates "kindness" and superiority and shameless consumption of the victim's misfortune. Perhaps what the victims want to remember most is the sweet moment when they first ate ice cream.
Every nation has its own suffering and pain. Faced with that unbearable experience, I think we must both remember it and let it go. Bearing in mind is to commemorate the ancestors and not to allow disasters to happen again; and to let go is to get out of grief, pretend to be light, and run towards a better tomorrow. Don't let suffering become a "cross" that hinders our progress, let go of it, miss it, and a brighter future belongs to us!
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