The Last Trial of Hannah Schmitz

The last trial of Hannah Schmitz When lust turned into love, he has fallen into the darkest abyss, like a hot branding iron being pressed on the tenderest skin, and the traces she left on him The memory imprint will accompany him for a lifetime. ——The Count of Monte Cristo said that in that year the boy was 15 years old, and the woman accidentally helped the sick child. They met in the narrow corridor. In that year, the woman was 36 years old, and every movement of the woman stirred this child. A boy in puberty. The boy's eyes were full of longing for the opposite sex. The first love in bed opened the boy's unopened heart, and each subsequent intercourse made them farther and farther from their original purpose, until the woman's unannounced do not. The first intercourse between a woman and a boy does not have any clear purpose. She simply reveals the purpose of the boy coming here to find her again. She is straightforward, without the slightest hesitation, and the sexual instinct of human beings dominates. Their behavior towards each other is pure lust. One day the boy suddenly wanted to know the name of the woman he fell in love with, Hannah Schmitz - the first woman in his life. A boy's lust for a woman turns into love, but the woman doesn't etch the name Mike Berger in her heart. If such a story is placed in the past, it is easy to be regarded as a kind of abnormal love, and Hannah Schmitz's behavior can be regarded as a lewd teenager, even if it is defined as seduction, it does not seem to be too much . Fortunately, today's society is much more free than it used to be, because today, at least this is not considered to be a deviant love. No matter what the purpose of Hannah's relationship with Mike in the first place was, in the end this lust turned into a great love, at least for the boy, he could never forget the influence of Hannah on him; so for Hannah Na, maybe only the moment she received the tape, she began to feel the boy's love for her, and at this moment she was already a gray-haired prisoner. "The Reader" itself should belong to a love story, but this love story involves a higher content than the theme of love, a reflection on war and a reflection on human nature. The woman the boy had stumbled across had disappeared for years and was on the bench of World War II war criminals, along with several other women accused of taking part in the massacre of Jews. Although we don't see an SS uniform or a single SS logo in the film, the accusation is more penetrating than the sword, and the sword's chosen point of penetration is The most ordinary women of the war years, women like Hannah. They are weak, unreliable, and even illiterate, yet they have done horrific crimes one after another in ignorance. Compared with the victim, whose experience is more tragic? The victim is dead, Hannah is still alive, this kind of pale life is actually more terrible than death, it is like falling into the endless hell, "the world of infinite karma", Hannah has to use her life to reflect on her sins. The sins of the illiterate, but such a request seems so contradictory to an illiterate. The denunciations and reflections on the subject of the massacre are the interlude of the boy's love affair with Hannah, the boy who falls in love with Hannah, whose lover commits the most appalling crime and faces joint charges in court with other accomplices , the boy was able to prove that the accusation was false, but Hannah herself pleaded guilty. Hannah doesn't want people to know she's illiterate, like the boy said, she's shy. Hannah doesn't want others to know that she is illiterate, she wants to be treated like a normal person. The boy has always been in love with Hannah, and finally he chose to help Hannah keep this secret. To what extent can you protect this secret? This is the true meaning of love that the film "The Reader" tries to express. So in the final analysis, the big frame of the film is always a love movie. In order to protect the woman he loves the most, the boy can endure not seeing her for a long time, and he can endure her throwing himself into prison. He knew that Hannah liked to read, but she was illiterate. He divorced and returned to his hometown. He began to record the books he read aloud on audio recordings, and mailed boxes of tapes to Hannah in prison. At first, women didn't take boys to heart. Boys were just pure erotic objects to her when she was young. At that time, she was lonely, she was lonely, and all she did every day was go to work and take care of housework. The appearance of boys was enriched. Her lack of daily life also fills the void of her feelings. Lust has unknowingly transformed into love, and their first quarrel is the result of the beginning of this transformation. Hannah is angry because the boy didn't go to the first car to find her, the boy is annoyed that Hannah didn't go to the second car to kiss him, the emotion is not my period The two blame each other, and love is also fast in them. sprout growth. Hannah left the city, left the boy, and what happened in the middle was a blank, only in the court trial we vaguely learned some of Hannah's living conditions. The boy visited the remains of the concentration camp, and tried his best to visit Hannah in the prison. He went to the place where Hannah went without saying goodbye. He was overwhelmed by the heavy pressure of the years. The classmate had a relationship, venting his love for Hannah on the woman who loved him. On the other side of the camera, Hannah stared at herself in the mirror for a long time. She tried to see herself through her body. Perhaps through the lines of her face, what was presented to her was her own soul, and it was also a time before her final judgment. Self-perspective, no one knows if she thought about the poor boy in the process. When Hannah received the tapes that the boy gave her, the boy's rich voice awakened the passionate years in her memory. For an old man who was devastated by ignorance, the boy's voice was like the sunshine of hope. , in her later years into the abyss where she has lived for a long time. She began to teach herself to write, she began to write letters to boys, and it was the happiest moment of her life, and Hannah was full of hope at this moment. If in the early days of acquaintance, the "hope" in Hannah's life was parasitized by "lust", then at this moment, the spirit and the flesh have been completely separated. She looked back suddenly and found that the child had been staying in the same place and had never left. Hannah finally saw the boy, who was now old. She was content after this meeting, and when he learned that the boy's marriage was over, her heart trembled, and on a sunny day, Hannah secretly took her own life. Hannah is dead, but her influence on the boy is permanent, and that can't be changed. The story of "The Reader" can be excavated on many levels, just like a thousand people have a thousand Hamlets in their hearts, you can feel that its focus is on the dehumanizing massacres in World War II, not love itself; of course, it can also be Treat it as a pure love story. This uniqueness is unique to the film itself. It contains the most sensitive themes in human society, as well as the most humanistic things in society. Everything has its own uncertainty, lust can become love, ignorance can become a butcher’s knife, and hope can become a driving force. As time goes on, everyone’s lines in the mirror change. In the early hours of the morning before the final trial, the boy left alone after having sex with his classmates, Hannah Schmitz was naked in front of the mirror, and it was not her vanity that drew her to the mirror. The heart, but the self that she could see in the mirror shocked her. Whether in the novel or in the film, Hannah will be remembered as a unique mark on artistic creation, not for her greatness, but for her tragic nature. As a Holocaust abuser, Hannah was also one of the most common victims of those turbulent years, and when Judgment Day came, she was bound to be treated fairly as a victim. And the boy's persistent love for her is the richest gift God has given her.

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