Keira Knightley is still beautiful.
Under the whole pattern of World War II, how did people regain their lives after the war? How to treat psychological trauma? (Losing relatives, destroying homes) How to face and deal with hatred between enemy countries? These three questions involve the pain and fate of countless people and are difficult to answer. There is no universally acceptable answer.
If the film is only from a family, only one example and not about all living beings, if the small is seen as the big, the evaluation may be higher. But the film opens with a macro perspective. The camera focuses on the devastated city after the bombing, and many people who are dazed and sad in the ruins. This gives people a psychological expectation. This is a macro and large-scale movie. Originally, for the historical fact of World War II, people's impression of it is big, and it is indeed big. Therefore, when the perspective and plot of the film are gradually narrowed, the story of a family, the story of the hostess cheating on the male mistress, and even the explicit sex scenes, the audience will inevitably be disappointed. In the context of World War II, the story of this family is too beautiful and curious.
But when I watched it, I found that the more interesting part of the film is that it presents several ways of dealing with grief. The heroine's family lost a son in the war, and the German family lost a wife. The heroine hated Germany and the Germans because of the death of her son. The death of her son hit her too deeply. The grief quickly broke her. She pretended to be strong, but she really needed help and needed to tell people about her burdens and sorrows. . The one person who can help her should be her husband. But her husband was busy with work and looked indifferent. The heroine looked forward to rebuilding family harmony and intimacy with her husband, but seeing her husband as usual, cold and alienated, it seemed that he was not affected by the death of his son at all. The heroine complained to her husband in her heart, Also, because of her husband's indifference, she couldn't express her inner sadness.
The husband accepts the death of his son more than his wife, because he does not want other families to experience the pain of losing a loved one as he usually does, and he is full of care and consideration for the enemy.
The German accepted the death of his wife and kept his memory of his wife. The way he dealt with his grief was to find another mistress for the family. The heroine and his wife should be similar to a certain extent, the heroine is not completely a substitute, the Germans also like the heroine, but my impression is that the Germans have a series of behaviors to make her a woman. The owner's motivation is more than liking.
The heroine was immersed in her own grief, and finally she was able to release her grief and let herself accept the fact that her son died. The German appeared by her side in time when she was most vulnerable. The love between the heroine and the German has a sad shadow.
When the husband was finally willing to speak his mind, the heroine chose to return to her husband. The heroine still loves her husband. It's just that the death of their son and the grief were blocked between them, and now everything is unraveled. After all, the German's wife is not the heroine's position, so she came back. It was sadness and vulnerability that made her go to Germany. If the heroine goes with the Germans, she will actually lose herself more or less and lose her subjectivity. She will always live in the aftermath of the war, and she will stay in the position of the German wife.
By the time the heroine came back, the family had found a way to face the grief, deal with the hatred of the war, and they got through the grief. However, this is just a family experience.
Finally, highlight Keira Knightley...beautiful!
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