Irm plays Hans's wife, Ep, in Fassbender's film, which is considered to be the best expression of his childhood loss of motherhood. Apple is older than Hans, from age to size. It's not Hans's love, it's just his marriage. Ep also accepts Hans's feelings, although she will be dissatisfied with Hans's private meeting with his lover. Just like Irm in reality, in order to have Fassbender, she can be responsible for supporting Fassbender and his boyfriend, and the three of them live under one roof.
The film begins with Hans returning home but being treated indifferently by his mother, and then Hans is walking in the backyard selling fruit, while Apple unscrupulously lifts her skirt and button her socks. I dare not say that this is the coldness of the relationship between the two, I am not sure if the German social morality is so open. I can only think from my moral point of view that this is Hans' indifference to Apple. That's just marriage, not love. It was like that night, when the two of them were lying in their beds, and Ep said how direct Hans was, while Hans turned his back to him. It's Apple's wishful thinking, and Hans is always buried in his own world. Their lives are formulaic and superficial. Ep is in love with Hans, but at the same time betrays Hans. She wanted to take revenge on Hans' indifference and comfort her own loneliness. On the night that Hans was drunk, Ep was walking down the road when a man stopped the car and misunderstood her as a warbler. From then on, Aipu had the idea of cheating. When Hans was hospitalized, she had sex with a man at home and was smashed by her daughter. Embarrassed April hides behind the curtain and weeps. She is a self-abusing woman. Like many women who cheat, she cheats inexplicably. It is necessary to endure the moral scourge of adultery, but at the same time enjoy the satisfaction and comfort that adultery brings to oneself.
Irm's eyes are always so sad and lifeless, even when he laughs, it's dry and boring. Hans and Ep were laughing in the dining room because they were making money, and they were both laughing for the same reason, but their voices were dry. The people inside laughed so falsely that it could be considered that they were never happy at all. It was only when Epp recalled how Hans treated each other directly that Epp smiled so sincerely.
Fassbender can always see his own shadow in his films, so Aip is also a shadow of Irm. She also endured real-life abuse by Fassbender. Ep went to the bar to find Hans, but was treated by Hans throwing a stool. When he got home, he was beaten again by Hans. In the end, Ep watched helplessly as his husband drank alcohol and died. In reality, Fassbender also punched and kicked Irm, and watched Fassbender die because of his indulgence.
To say that Irm is pitiful, Ep is pitiful. I'd rather say that she's abominable, she deserves it. Who told you to pester such a man, you could have divorced, why did you come back to him soft-hearted, and then make him feel that he is not valued and replaced. You deserve to be abused.
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