are many people who are in love with tragedy, and they always think that tragedy tells the helplessness and despair of our lives. They think that tragedy is like an intimate and talkable object. It experiences life together with us and witnesses that of ourselves and others. The ups and downs of life, the difficulties we have to face on weekdays, are narrated from the tragic mouth, like a small burr, even if it does not point at us sharply, the tingling in that sentence is clearly visible.
There is so much sadness in life, and sometimes we wonder what kind of plot is really desperate. The real despair is not habitual fragility, but always believing in one's strength, but in the end it is just a forced smile; not a heart-piercing cry, but the inability to shed tears after everything, the only thing left is to hang up every now and then. There is a looming hopeless smile on the corner of the mouth; it is not the painful parting of life and death, but the reality that has always been considered indestructible has long been separated; , and later found out that it was actually just a trivial pawn in life, and finally couldn't face the collapse.
Women are even more prone to despair. Men have been in control of power throughout the ages, women are accessories to power, men hold more wealth, and women need to rely on men to survive. Although the feminist movement is also going on all over the world, but in the final analysis, because of the inevitable physical and psychological weakness of women, women have never been able to take the things that men hold tightly into their own hands. This is not me Negative understanding, but a fact that is helpless from a practical point of view. Every woman is a tragedy in itself, whether it is a success or a lifelong compromise, behind these we cannot ignore the smiling faces with tears and the despair that comes from the heart. In the unique art of film, many directors from ancient and modern China and foreign countries have more or less described women, and the German master Fassbender also has a more delicate observation of women because of his uniqueness. He was known to be bisexual, and in his early years, his strong but authoritarian mother was the first woman Fassbender Jr. knew, and Maria Braun, in a certain way, was in my opinion. An emotional expression of Fassbender's first impressions of a woman, he never shied away from talking about his sexuality and the dark days of his life that made him show in his films. He showed his unique side, and when describing women, he also expressed his views on this type of goblin-like group, both love and hate.
it's a war
During World War II, Germany, as a belligerent country, participated in this cruel national power contest. Maria's marriage was accompanied by the ups and downs of the war. Germany's economic situation at that time had obviously declined, and people lived in a situation of extremely scarce material resources. Maria's mother looked at a large piece of bread on the plate, squeezed a little bit of bread crumbs and swallowed it with water bubbles, and sucked her fingers well; the American soldiers in the restaurant threw cigarette butts on the ground, and the German men in the restaurant He threw himself on the ground and scrambled for the cigarette butt that he could only smoke. That kind of behavior was almost animalistic, just like what Maria said in a self-deprecating sentence on the night when she planned to sell her body: "I His hair is like a poodle, but Americans seem to like poodles." When Herman came back and found out about his wife's adultery with the black Bill, he didn't immediately scuffle with Bill as we expected, but pounced on him. He puffed hungrily from a pack of cigarettes on Bill's desk. When we face physical cravings, those psychological sorrows will be postponed, but the feeling of pain will not disappear because of this, but will become a scar that will never last forever in the future, bleeding and pus, Reminds us that those days never passed.
The situation in Germany makes people forget the so-called morality in front of their desires. It is no longer a question that can cause hesitant thinking whether to satisfy their hearts or their stomachs. Under such circumstances, Maria took the initiative to choose The bar entertains men to support the family, there is no grief or helplessness in Hollywood movies, there is no persecution or even showing that this is the path chosen to make a living, as if all this is Maria's hobby, let men see their own beauty .
The improvement of the war situation also reflects Maria's marriage. Herman returned from the front line. Maria killed the American Bill who loved her deeply. The subsequent life also improved because of the recovery after the war. Maria even bought a building. The villa was intended to be his and Herman's wedding home, but it ended when he had been waiting for the bridal chamber for many years.
How sad is war. It makes men have to leave their newlywed wives, women have to sell their looks in order to survive, mothers are not like mothers, daughters are not like daughters, and people are not like ghosts and ghosts. While the war was going on, people were afraid of death, and after the war, people were devastated that they had forgotten their morality.
this is a woman
Maria is not a beautiful woman, but she is very smart. She knows that she is attractive and knows how to display it properly. It can even be said that she can show her different charms to different men.
After Herman went to the front line, Maria was tormented by waiting every day. She went to the train station to look for the unfamiliar figure in the crowd returning home. She had a picture of Herman hanging on her chest and wearing a ring on her ring finger. Her seemingly most precious ring, but Maria is not a grudge, although she is nervous when she hears the missing list, and her eyes turn red with sadness when her mother mentions her father, but her reality Even when she is looking for her husband, she can look at the American soldier who is very interested in her with the most direct eyes, and calmly walk to his side and ask him to take a cigarette home for her mother . The film tells the audience here, look, this is our Maria, so don't have any dissatisfaction with her subsequent actions, this is the most real Maria, the most real type of woman.
Maria knew that it was not a wise decision to wait for her husband. She came to the train station and tore her husband's photo from the tracing cardboard she had been carrying, and threw the cardboard on the track of the train, and the train started. The icy iron wheel crushed the fragile cardboard, and also crushed Maria's frailty. She logically asked her mother to shorten her long skirt to reveal her sexy legs, and got it from a familiar doctor. With a health certificate, he permed his curly hair like a poodle, and came to a small bar to start his career of selling laughter and not selling himself. Facing Bill, the black American soldier who was interested in her, she showed her charming smile and danced a slow but not ambiguous dance with him. Her purpose was clear, not relying on this man, but relying on herself Allow yourself to eat. It was a pity that Bill was clearly in love with the German girl, and he walked with her, taught her English, and gently stroked the girl's lips with his hand. This is a rare and tender scene in the film, which makes people wonder, if this woman can just marry a man like this, the down-to-earth life may have a bland but warm ending.
Life was cruel, however, and soon after, the husband of Maria's female friend brought back from the front the news that Herman had died in battle. Maria's reaction was not the usual Hollywood-style wailing or grief. She turned her back. Facing the camera, she turned on the faucet and poured water on her slender wrist, letting the cold tap water flow instead of the tears in her heart. Then she came to the bar and said to Bill, "Let's dance." Relaxing music lingered in the In the ears, there was a beautiful girl in the arms of the soldiers around, they hugged and danced ambiguous, only Maria leaned sadly in Bill's arms and didn't move.
Maria and Bill lived together. Fassbender didn't let eroticism occupy the screen here, but just let Maria's hand brush over Bill's black sagging skin, and the camera freezes on the two's bodies, sweaty. The body has said everything, but from the beginning to the end, Maria never took off the ring that symbolized her marriage. Maria became pregnant with Bill's child shortly after, and when faced with Bill's proposal at this time, Maria still declined. She didn't think Herman could come back, but deep down, this traditional woman knew that her husband had only Herman was alone, this man who only had a one-night marital relationship with her was the one she should love and live with, and the rest was just happy no matter how happy she was. Maria named her and Bill's child Herman Jr., through which he wanted to remember his husband.
And Herman did not die as the news said. He returned from the front line to find his wife, but witnessed Maria and Bill lingering on the bed. When Maria saw Herman, she was not panicked, surprised, or even apologetic. That was because in her heart, what she had done was not a betrayal of Herman, but the payment she never asked the country to repay. An expression of love. She turned around with joy and said to Bill, "This is the Herman I told you." Herman slapped Maria to the ground, and Bill rushed over and hugged the woman with pity, even so, after two When the two men scuffled together, Maria could calmly pick up the wine bottle and threw it on the head of Bill who loved her, the man who actually gave her married life.
Herman took the blame for his wife and was sentenced to prison. Maria did not wait for her husband outside the bars like most women, washes her face in tears all day long, and was a good wife and good mother at home. She killed Bill's child and started her own life again, also for the sake of being with He He. Man's future began life. She "acquainted" a famous businessman in the first-class carriage of the train. The English she learned from Bill impressed the businessman, and the wise Maria understood that she could not conquer this businessman with beauty alone. He showed his wise side, and the businessman immediately decided to hire this beautiful woman as his secretary. Maria did not live up to the businessman's expectations, and also proved that she was not a brainless vase. Her talent for business was revealed after she met the businessman again, and she helped the businessman to successfully make several big deals, which was passed down as a good story in the circle. When she went to visit her husband, she didn't hide everything she did from him, because in her opinion, what she did was for the man she loved and for their marriage. From then on, Maria jumped from that innocent bride to a barmaid and became a successful strong woman.
What Maria has done has also improved the situation at home. My mother has re-permed her hair, put on makeup, and even met a new man. On Christmas Eve, the table is full of high-end drinks and sumptuous food. Maria treats everything Still wearing that faint smile, she still firmly believed that she was moving in the direction she planned, but she didn't know that she had become a deal between two men.
Women are pathetic. When she realized in a blink of an eye that everything was just a dream made by herself, would she cry sadly, would there be no tears left, and there was only an unknown despair left. When she worked hard all her life, she realized that what she was desperately defending was just a fragile relationship, as ethereal as a piece of tissue paper she held tightly at her wedding. When she looked back, the man who loved her most died in her own hands. The man who longed to possess her only regarded her as a commodity for the sake of possessing her, while the man she loved was just a symbol, and that symbol was called Husband, this husband actually took someone else's money and sold her.
it's a marriage
For Maria Braun, everything to do with Herman was marriage, and even though Maria sold herself, moved in with another man and got pregnant with his child, and then acted as the mistress of a rich man, she still He is the most steadfast defender of marriage at the moral level of thought, but this marriage is like the sound of explosions that echo each other at the beginning and the end of the film. Everything in the middle is like a floating cloud, and it is fleeting, not even a trace of dust is left. This is probably the most desperate thing for women.
There are very few women who don't like fantasy. Some women are keen on fantasy but don't put it into action. They are immersed in the plots they weave and cannot extricate themselves. Some women dare to think and act, and they are absolute activists. But too many women, regardless of whether they have a strong action force or not, always look back and find that they have been busy for so long, thinking that they have changed their lives and other people's lives, but in fact it's just their daily life. Inadvertently, a shiver from others in the middle disappeared so quickly that he never noticed it, and it did not have any effect on the surrounding.
Maria may not be in love with her husband Herman, but in love with her marriage to Herman and the obligations of being a wife. She believes that as a wife, she needs to fight for her and her husband's future life. From this point of view, Maria must be a strong woman in today's society, and she is definitely a ruthless character. But during World War II, in war-torn Germany, all Maria's efforts will eventually be engulfed in gunpowder smoke. We are just passers-by in history, some people are remembered by history, and most people only experienced dozens of times from birth to death. year.
Maria's unfortunate fall in love with a marriage she actually never existed began with that frantic wedding. The huge portrait of Lenin was blown to the ground by a cannonball, Germany was dying, the regime was about to collapse, and Maria's marriage would be as fragmented as this country, and we saw it for the first time in the broken wall of the bombed church. Maria, Maria in a wedding dress is like an angel, and the worry on her face also seems to be that of a child who is afraid of missing her favorite TV show. During the war, she and Herman hurriedly said the sacred "I do", The war was going on tensely, and this supposedly peaceful wedding was like a taut string that would snap at any time. Another round of bombing began. Relatives and friends who attended the wedding rushed out of the church. Even the priest was unwilling to continue to preside over their wedding. They were ready to escape. Maria anxiously called out to the people who were fleeing from the ruins. She desperately saved the certificate proving her marriage, forcing the terrified priest to witness the marriage on it. Maria may think that she will enter the beautiful marriage life, but the cruel reality makes her have to send her husband Herman to the front line for the night on the second day of the wedding.
Fassbender designed Maria's life from the beginning. He wanted Maria to die in his fateful marriage. I remember someone said that everyone came into this world with a mission and a purpose, and Maria Maybe he was destined to give all his years to marriage.
Maria was deeply caught in the cycle of marriage and couldn't extricate herself. Her fantasy not only created a picture of a warm married life for her that she had never seen before, but also caused her to act and work hard for it all. Of course, when she found that everything was just her own illusion, the fantasy was like In the end, the chemical reaction between the gas that was not turned off tightly and the lighter ignited was normal, an explosion, and everything was over.
Marriage is sad. When she waited hard for a simple promise, when she embarked on a dead end that she had designed for herself for the marriage life she had never had before, when she was pleased with everything she had created one second ago, she found out the next second. It turns out that she has long been out of her control and has become a deal in the hands of others. Will she still stick to her marriage that has long been divorced.
It's a tragedy
Therefore, in the end, I have to say that Fassbender did not use a lot of crying and helpless tears to pile up a tragedy, but used that seemingly faint helplessness to describe a woman's deep despair for love and marriage.
Maria smoked cigarettes, which gave her a headache, but couldn't quit. And the cigarette that gave her a headache, just like the marriage that made her desperate, sent her to a dead end designed by herself.
Maria's life has only marriage but no love. If there is love, it only happens between her and her paper marriage contract. Paranoid people are easy to go to a dead end. Fassbender knows this well, and also understands that paranoid people are most likely to create tragedy. He put all his love and hatred for women on Maria Braun. He had loved and hated mercilessly. He turned all this hatred into Maria's fate. Maria's innocent despair was just right.
If you say that you don't use tears to express sorrow, smiles to express happiness, and death to express fear, you can call it a master's pen, and Fassbender is naturally worthy of the title of master.
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