I saw it a month and a half ago. I still clearly remember a few questions that Sue asked me after watching the movie.
Sue asked me why Mike went so far as Hannah was about to be sentenced and still didn't visit her in the end?
I said, in fact, I don't know what the film is trying to convey, whether Mike is trying to preserve Hannah's self-esteem. However, my gut feeling is that he feels ashamed and timid. She's old, and she's a Nazi. He couldn't face his fiery and absurd youth, pressing on such a woman.
Sue said, I also felt his hesitation and panic, and the pace of his exit from the prison was like an escape. Throughout the film, he is on the run, escaping from the past that he can't bear to look back.
Sue asked me, do you think Mike loves Hannah?
I'm a little confused, but I'm still very clear that I don't think so.
Sue said, I also don't think that's love. At the end, the Jewish woman asked Mike, who is she to you, and I thought he would say, I loved her; but what he said was, I fucked her.
I said, I was stunned at the time, if my boyfriend, even an ex-boyfriend, described our relationship with others and said, "I fucked her." That was just an insult to me.
Sue asked, but how could Niu think he loved her?
I said, maybe there are differences between men and women. As a man, when Niu watched a movie, he naturally stood in Mike's point of view, and he was reluctant to admit that Mike did not love Hannah. Out of such a state of mind, some subtle emotions are elevated to the height of love.
That's not the case with women, Sue said. We look at things too clearly in black and white, and put everything in front of an imaginary white board. If it is not bright white, it is regarded as black; if it is not pure love, it is regarded as not love.
Sue asked me, those tapes Mike sent to Hannah, did he love her, or did he want to atone for his sins?
I think it's about atonement. I think Sue must think the same way.
Sure enough, she immediately agreed.
If he loves her, wants to help her, wants to see her. Why don't you take the initiative to see her? Why didn't you go to see Hannah after receiving her letter?
If young Mike's emotions showed a kind of shame; then later, he felt more of the reproach of his conscience. It was him, a turn of him, who threw Hannah into prison; he was the only one who could save her at the time. That is his turn, throwing himself into the abyss of guilt, anxiety and pain; now, Hannah, is the only one who can save his happiness. He used the method of reading to her to complete the things that were not completed at the time, to talk to her, and to talk to his unbearable past to relieve his guilt.
Sue said that in the cafeteria, Hannah held Mike's hand, but when Mike pulled out, I felt that Hannah would not leave the prison.
I said, so did I, and her expression immediately gave me an ominous premonition, the kind of desperation, relief, and generosity that is only found on the face of someone who is heading towards death.
So, he actually killed her because she saw his unloving.
Sue asked, in court, it was quite confusing, at first, I thought Hannah didn't know where those people were going to be moved; later I thought she knew, but she was still right.
I said, in fact, there is nothing wrong with what she said. All she did was do her due diligence. She asked the judge, what would you do instead of you? The question was really powerful. What if it was us?
Sue said, in fact, this is a kind of environment, a kind of public psychology. If everyone is doing one thing, and everyone is doing it, then if you are in it, you will not feel guilty.
Sue said that Hannah is really a sensitive person.
ask, how to say?
Hannah lost her temper on Mike's birthday.
Yes, to be honest, I didn't quite understand it, and I don't know why she was so emotional.
Sue said, I think she noticed that Mike was a little absent-minded about her, so in the end she said you're going back to your friends.
We are all sensitive people.
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