In the hotel in the summer of 1957, a man and woman of completely different skin colors hugged tightly on the bed, and on their bodies, the close-up dewdrops sometimes resembled terrifying atomic dust. From the first shot of "Hiroshima Love", we can judge that this is a movie about war. But Margaret did not use the scenes during the war as an entry point, but chose the love of two people after the war to see the destruction of the human spirit by the war. The woman emphasized time and time again that she had seen the real Hiroshima, but the man kept denying her discovery, because he believed that a stranger had no way to truly understand the great harm caused by the Hiroshima nuclear bomb to the Japanese people. The heroine in the movie fell in love with a German during the war. This is love's contempt for war, which symbolizes the loftiness of human spirit and the purity of love. Before this film, Aaron Resnais shot the famous anti-war documentary "Night and Fog", and the opening part of "Hiroshima Love", the description of the current situation in Japan and the filming in "Night and Fog" The concentration camp scenes are very similar, so we can see that the director has no prejudice against any race or country, and has a deep concern for the vast number of people. Men and women have no names. They are highly abstract people. One of them represents a city devastated by war. Her name is Neville. The other is a war-torn nation. His name is Hiroshima.
"Hiroshima Love" and the director's subsequent work "Last Year in Mariambard", however, discussed the interrelationship between memory and reality. The men of Hiroshima and the Germans of Naville were both fascist soldiers during the war, so they formed a counterpoint. This kind of counterpoint relationship begins when a woman has to move her fingers when she sees a man sleeping, because when the German dies, her fingers are twitching, so she is caught in the memory. In fact, through the woman's monologue, we don't know who she wants to forget, Neville or Hiroshima, I think it may be that Margaret deliberately blurred the reference. In the process of women wanting to forget, through the empty shots of the numerous buildings shown by the director, we can find that the relationship between Hiroshima and Navier is stronger. But in the last part of Casablanca Hotel, it recreates the scene where the hero and heroine meet in the hotel at the beginning of the movie "Casablanca", which is a metaphor for the relationship between the two lovers, and this lover relationship is formed in a foreign land (Casablanca and Hiroshima are formed again). A kind of counterpoint) is strengthened, then to the woman, the man is the projection of the German (old lover). "My name is Hiroshima, your name is Neville" at the end of the film, I think it's a blur of memory, it's as if women identify Germans with Neville, men identify with Hiroshima, and women It is Neville who is the confirmation of love, equating the love in Japan with the love in Neville.
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