Art brings a certain emotion, calm, tranquility, conflict, comfort, warmth. A few years ago, I was in tears watching this movie. Someone was laughing next to me, laughing at me, no matter how much I watched a movie, I could cry.
World War II, Nazis, Jews, family and friendship constitute a sad but warm story.
Film color composition is good. I like the first shot, a train passing through the snowy white mansions. But the people on the train were sad. A mother fled with her two children, and her son died in her arms.
In 1938, when the Nazis were arresting the Communist Party, her mother was suspected of being a Communist Party member and sent her daughter Liesel to a family in Paradise Street for adoption in order to take refuge.
Arrived at a strange home, cautious and uneasy. But the warmth of her adoptive father quickly reassured her, and her father (the adoptive father) saw that she was holding a book, but it was the Gravedigger's Handbook. She was illiterate and asked her father to read it to her.
The next day, a neighbor, Rudy, came to find her to go to school with her.
"I just think you need a new friend" is a warm sentence.
On the way to school, Rudy proposes to run a race. If he wins Liesel, he will kiss him.
Liesel asked: "Why should I kiss you"
Rudy replied, "I don't know, does the reason matter?"
This is not making friends, this is flirting with sister!
Go to the parade together. The Nazis are burning books (the full name of the Nazis is the National Socialist Workers Party, unified thinking, burning books and pit Confucians), and the heroine picked up a book and put it in her arms at night. Dad came to find her home, and the book was smoking in his arms while walking. But her father didn't blame her. She would be imprisoned for hiding books.
Max, the son of his father's comrade-in-arms, also came to their house for refuge because he was Jewish. Due to lack of food and clothing on the way to escape, they arrived at their home very weak. Lying in bed thinking of family, fate, tears. Liesel reassured him that it was okay, I used to cry a lot when I first came.
Max and Liesel reading together in the basement
Silently grow up in the stories of those characters, become discerning between right and wrong, and become strong and wise. From the very beginning, I followed the people and shouted slogans and followed the Führer. Later, I shouted unscrupulously I hate Hitler, and the Führer shall die. Words always have the greatest power to awaken the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty in people's hearts.
Max was in the basement every day and couldn't see the outside world, so he asked Liesel to paint the outside world. One day Liesel brought Max a snowball. It was snowing outside. Liesel and her father packed a lot of snow to the basement to fight and build a snowman. It brings more light and warmth to Max who has been in the basement for a long time.
Max whitewashed a book with a portrait of Hitler into a diary and gave it to Liesel, asking her to write her story down.
One day, my mother asked Liesel to bring the washed clothes back to the customer's house. The customer was an officer's wife. She found that Liesel likes to read books, so she asked Liesel to read books with her every day when she brought her clothes. Later, the officers found out that she would not be allowed to come.
In order to read to the unconscious Max, Liesel went to the officer's wife to steal books, and was discovered by her good friend Rudy. Rudy said you had a lot of secrets that you didn't tell me, and what about your best friend. Rudy pressed Liesel to see if there was a Jew hiding in her house, and she promised her father would not tell anyone that it was life-threatening. Rudy said that one spit means no, and two means yes. Liesel trusted Rudy. Just when a classmate heard it and asked them what the secret was, they refused to tell him, so he grabbed the book in Liesel's hand, and the middle book fell into the river. Rudy jumped into the river and helped Liesel get the book back to her. This pure heart is very touching.
The Allies bombed Germany, and everyone ran into the bomb shelter. Dad played the accordion in the dugout. Music can soothe your inner fears.
At this time, Max could finally come out of the basement where he had stayed for several years to breathe the free air. While tens of thousands of people are hiding in the bomb shelter in fear, a Jew is thanking God for the beautiful starry sky.
In such an ignorant society, the support of family members, the trust of friends, the infection of music, and the distant and close stories in the books comfort the soul and make Liesel understand the sin and beauty of being a human being.
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