It really doesn't look like Fassbender, and the first third of the story even made me feel warm and touching, with an element of class care in it, hehe. Actually, these two are pretty pathetic. Her name is Amy, a German, an elderly widow who lives alone in an apartment and works by cleaning glass. His name is Ali, Moroccan, twenty years younger than Amy, strong, bearded, living in a pigsty like most immigrants, and working as a car mechanic. It stands to reason that it is impossible for such two people to fall in love - although Amy is not rich, she is always a genuine German citizen, and in the eyes of almost all Germans, Arabs are pigs, rapists, which woman would marry If she is an Arab, no one will ever speak to her again. It stands to reason that such two people would not have known each other - if Amy hadn't walked into an Arab bar to hide from the rain, and the friendly Ali came over and asked her to dance. In fact, re-analysis, the two people are not love, but sympathy, two lonely and generous hearts met, and naturally care for each other and depend on each other. I think such a relationship is more valuable than love, and in most cases, more reliable. In short, the two quickly got together, and then quickly talked about marriage. Amy knew that once she married this person, she would abandon her original social identity and find refuge in another lower class, but she was a pure-hearted and assertive woman, who came from colleagues, children, Under the pressure of neighbors, they finally went to get a marriage license.
Between the two, Amy's situation is even more difficult. On the one hand, she has to win the friendship of Ali's Arab friends, and on the other hand, she has to fight discrimination in white circles. You have to admire the bravery of this woman. She does not stop at "walking her own way and letting others say it." She knows that this is unrealistic. To regain the right to be recognized and respected as a person. The so-called "fear devours the soul" refers to the fear caused by the mutual isolation and destruction of human beings. The little warmth of two people together is not enough to compete with the indifference of the whole society. When I saw Amy screaming about collapse at that time, I almost believed that this movie would be a tragedy. Death ends. Unexpectedly, the plot suddenly took a 180-degree turn, and people extended a hand of understanding to the couple one after another, and all relations eased at once. It's not that Fassbender is soft-hearted, but his clever irony and revelation. Because these people actually stretch out two hands, one to give and the other to take; what they give is only false sympathy and pity, and what they get is real benefit. In Fassbender's alienated film world, the driving force behind all human behavior, normal and abnormal, is often interest, just interest. Sadly, many times, this is also the truth of our world.
There is also an iron law in Fassbender's films: there is never an unbreakable relationship between people. Fassbender knows that human beings can never completely trust each other, and life is always consumed by mutual suspicion and rejection, so he simply expressed this in the most extreme form, destroying all that should be destroyed. This movie, if it weren't for the presence of Amy, a woman who is too kind and has a very thorough understanding of life, I am afraid it would not have escaped such an ending. As mentioned earlier, the relationship in this movie is not love, so Amy is not very angry when she finds out that Ali is having an affair with another woman. She knows what is the most important thing between two people, and she also knows that she has an obligation to maintain it. this relationship. The reason why Ali cheated was not because of lust, but because Amy's compromise with his white friends made him feel alienated, so he went to another woman to find support. It can be said that "Fear Devouring the Soul" is a rare work by Fassbender that mildly confronts the mutual needs of people's souls. The marriage of the hero and heroine was saved without reaching the shaky stage. At the end of the film, Fassbender arranged such a scene: Ali had a stomach attack and was admitted to the hospital. At this time, the relationship between the two had returned to the starting point. Amy looked at him sleeping and sobbed. What does Amy's cry feel like? Maybe Fassbender is just to echo the film's theme suggested in the opening credits: life is full of misfortune. But in my opinion, this ending has no strong unfortunate meaning, let alone a tragic effect. I prefer to explain it this way: the dust has settled, everything has been flat, and maybe nothing has changed in the end, but life still has to go on. . Oh, right! Maybe this just happens to be the greatest misfortune in life?
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