Sonata for good people

Mylene 2022-03-21 09:01:19

Recently, I have been picking up some bad movies to watch, because there is no need to work hard and time flies easily. Why bother to feel and trouble yourself in the movie?

But my heart still longs for a good film, so when I was alone, I chose this "Eavesdropping Storm". In fact, the story is not surprising. I have seen similar plots with more cruel scenes, but it still touched me, perhaps because Those concise narrative methods and introverted sensationalism also naturally include the description of the system and the dehumanizing of selfish desires. But it's not only that.

The most shining is the heroine. She is an artist through and through. She regards art as life, so she must carefully maintain her life, even if she needs to dedicate her body to a man who does not love, she dare not say anything. Because of this maintenance, the following plot is more tragic. When she finally heard what she was most afraid of hearing, her nervous face twitched and the audience's heart twitched. She finally chose to sell her lover in exchange for herself. For her artistic life, I can’t ask her to stand on the moral high ground, but no matter how she chooses, her artistic life ends at that moment, because both external power pressure and internal moral stains are enough to kill her. Inspiration soul spirituality. When she finally chose to stand in the middle of the road, it seemed as if a beautiful but fragile artwork was broken. This is the climax of the whole film. The storm started with Christina and finally her death, and in all this process, the most beautiful is always her.

As a watcher, Weisman is a character worthy of fun. He has a clever and rigorous mind, which can be seen when he warns his neighbors, but he has never been promoted. If this story wants us to see his transformation, in fact At the beginning of the movie, he secretly ambushed the line. He marked the classmates who asked "extraordinary" questions, but he himself asked the same questions to his old classmates. Once his work changed from a single interrogation to an in-depth monitoring, and when he touched the real life, his inner hardness was actually vulnerable. What I am always interested in is not the process of his transformation, but his resolute choice to become a "good person." To be a good person is actually very difficult. You can’t covet the unscrupulous possession of a woman you can’t get, you can’t flatter and climb to the powerful class regardless of good and evil, you can’t do terrible things to others against your will, and you have to endure the bleak evening scene. . Being a "good person" is actually a very difficult thing. It requires a firmer heart than being a bad person. But in the end, good people will still be compensated. It is not the gratitude, reward, and love of others, but the happiness and peace of one's heart.

So this movie is really a sonata dedicated to good people.

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The Lives of Others quotes

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Go away. I want to be alone.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam Sieland?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Do we know each other?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Actors are never "who they are."

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know what I'm like.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I'm your audience.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I have to go.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Where to?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: No?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: And you are a good man.

  • [Wiesler enters the elevator at his apartment building. A young boy with a ball joins him]

    Junge mit Ball: Are you really with the Stasi?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Do you even know what the Stasi is?

    Junge mit Ball: Yes. They're bad men who put people in prison, says my dad.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I see. What is the name of your...

    [pauses]

    Junge mit Ball: My what?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: [thinks for a few more seconds] Ball. What's the name of your ball?

    Junge mit Ball: You're funny. Balls don't have names.