It's what a movie should be
I really like the tone of this movie. The atmosphere created by the camera, costumes, props, tone, and background music is enjoyable. The best part of the movie is to show the pain caused by war in a small way. For example, the heroine sees the broken walls on the side of the road in the car. huge trauma. There is no magnificent war scene in the movie, but the dilapidated scene after the gunpowder smoke can make people deeply appreciate the aftermath of the war.
The film revolves around two families, one is the British Army Colonel Lewis and Rachael came to Hamburg, Germany in a cold winter to reunite with her husband who was in charge of post-war reconstruction. pregnant, but neither of them mentioned it. One couple was a good-looking couple; the other was German architect Stefan after the war. His wife also died in the war. He was requisitioned by British officers and was homeless. Fortunately, he was taken in by Lewis and temporarily lived in the attic. He was ready to leave Germany after the visa was obtained.
The conflict initially started before Rachael and Stefan, because Rachael did not agree with her husband leaving Stefan's family and all the previous servants to continue living with them. She wanted to live a two-person world with her husband, so as to bridge the relationship between the two because of their late son. However, husband Lewis obviously has his own plans. On the one hand, he does not want to displace those people and cause greater hatred between the Germans and the British. On the other hand, he may not want to face his wife alone every day. After all, he also feels the death of his son. I feel so guilty that I can't get out. Rachael hated the Germans because his son died in the bombing of the German army, and then implicated Stefan. No matter how friendly and servile Stefan was, Rachael did not give him a good face. She even felt that the servant was also very unfriendly to her and spoke ill of her behind his back. , once said to the servant in broken German after dinner with her husband, "Your cooking is delicious", but the servant laughed and said nothing. She felt mocked and complained to her husband, who told her that she It's actually "you're delicious", making a joke. Rachael learned from a conversation with Stefan that his wife also died in the war, and has since felt sympathy for what happened to him.
In the process of applying for a visa, Stefan was harassed and humiliated by the British in every possible way. When he returned home in a rage, he met Rachael's cold eyes again, so he didn't know whether it was anger or an outburst of animal desire. He kissed Rachael forcibly and was slapped in the face by Rachael. But the two knew each other, and with Rachael's husband's indifference and frequent absence from home, the two gradually began to be ambiguous and had an affair, and even did not want to pull it out when Lewis came home and even walked to the door. Of course, the two became more and more daring later, and Stefan took Rachael to the cabin on the mountain.
Stefan eventually got a visa and asked Rachael to elope with him. At a dinner party, Rachael decided to have a showdown with Lewis, but he never said a word. In the end, Lewis was the first to discover the clue. The two were in a hurry to drive home. On the way home, they were attacked by Nazi remnants, and the young driver was killed. The next day, Stefan was about to take his daughter to leave Germany by train. Rachael decided to leave together, leaving Lewis sitting on the sofa crying. The two finally said goodbye and told the words that had been pressing on each other for a long time. In the end, instead of getting on the train, Rachael went back to Lewis. In the face of derailment in marriage, the British are still very calm, unlike us who cry, make trouble and hang themselves, which is quite admirable.
Rachael and Stefan almost became a desperate mandarin duck, but in the end reason prevailed over emotion, or what Rachael really loved was Lewis, and it was just an extramarital episode with Stefan that was not true love.
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