When we are together, be kind to each other.
The eldest son stood up angrily, his eyes burning with fire. He looked around for something to dissipate his anger, glanced at the TV in the corner, stomped over, and kicked his feet violently - the TV screen shattered to the ground. The younger son asked incredulously, "How do you make me behave in the future?", and then walked out of the room without looking back. The daughter looked disgusted and pulled her husband to get up and leave the room.
What happened to make the family so furious?
Their widowed mother of sixty remarried to an Arab auto mechanic twenty years her junior.
In Germany in the 1960s, the combination of these two men was simply too striking. In terms of age, a woman of 60 years old and a sluggish man and a man of 40 years old are as strong as a cow; in terms of race, one is a proud Germanic nation, and the other is "not so black" who only deserves to be a laborer. black people; they couldn't eat together, they didn't understand much when they spoke, and they listened to different music.
They are inferior to each other. The woman went to the man's place to look for him, and was mocked by the man's co-workers as "grandma"; the man lived in the woman's house and was regarded as a "pig" by the woman's friends.
They are also warm to each other. They saved up little money and went to fancy restaurants to order food at a loss; they walked hand in hand on the road, pretending not to care about the pointing and unabashed glances of passers-by; under the dim light of a small bar, Dancing together.
They all have fears, but they pretend not to care.
But how can you be completely indifferent? Human beings are social animals, they are puzzled by relatives and friends, rejected by neighbors, and even going downstairs to buy something will be rejected. People, always pretending to be able to live very unrestrainedly, that the sea can be wide and the fish can leap, and the sky is high and the birds can fly. In the end, I will cry secretly in the middle of the night, and cry when no one is there:
"I always pretend that I don't care, but in fact I do care, they are all dirty pigs." The woman cried heartily: "This is my husband!"
What did the woman do wrong? It's considered an "old bitch". What did the man do wrong? Only worthy of doing "ditch work". It's just because they don't live by the rules, they don't fit in the whole social value system, but they just want to live a warmer life.
The composition of the film is amazing. Fassbender seems to be deliberately using some freeze-frame footage to make his point—a silent protest, perhaps. The first scene in the film is of a woman walking into a bar and ordering a Coke. The camera stops for a long time on her tired, flabby cheeks, as if to tell us her low self-esteem and loneliness. And the picture of dining in a restaurant: two overwhelmed but confident people in their new life, and a waiter with a prejudiced look behind them (it was Hitler's favorite restaurant).
The biggest feature of this movie is "simple". It is said that it took Fassbender only 15 days to achieve this masterpiece, the actors were not "carefully selected", the heroine did not have a delicate face, and the male protagonist was still Fassbender's lover. As bisexual, Fassbender is clearly at ease with this social prejudice, and also expertly distressed. There aren't even any transitions in the movie. There is no need for any thrilling things to happen in the transition from one episode to the next. After all, this is just a matter of two ordinary people, two unknown people who will not be cared by too many people. , two people we pass by countless times on the street every day.
We can see the relationship between people in society through these two people.
Fassbender died of drugs and alcohol at the age of thirty-seven. Maybe until the end, he didn't know how to not let fear consume his soul. Maybe all we can do is just like the movie says:
When we are together, be kind to each other.
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