I thought that Ida and Wanda corresponded to the victim and the perpetrator, but it turned out that these two images only needed one carrier: Wanda, Jewish Wanda, and "Red Wanda". Because of events such as genocide, European countries after World War II were generally faced with the problem of how to think about "evil" (Tony Judt). But unlike Western Europe, people in the post-war Soviet and Eastern countries have to endure totalitarian oppression in addition to the pain caused by the war. Taking Jews as an example, the situation in Poland, where the film takes place, is that anti-Semitism has always existed here. Before the arrival of the Germans, the situation of Jews was already very bad. Although the extremely cruel incidents did not continue after the war, they were rehabilitated. The same did not happen, and discrimination still exists. At the same time, there is also a (often justification for discrimination) voice of criticism that Jews played disgraceful roles in the Polish authorities during the Cold War, as interrogators at the Ministry of the Interior, or in the film as interrogators. As a judge in a public trial with the purpose of cleansing and of a performative nature. While this cannot be used as an excuse for the discriminator to evade responsibility, from the perspective of this segment of the Jewish population, at least on the surface, privilege is effective in counteracting discrimination. So there is a situation in the film where the Jewish Wanda and the "Red Wanda", the victim and the perpetrator are all in one. If, as I understand it, Wanda committed suicide as a racially discriminated Jew, then there is an absurd vision of dying as a victim and being commemorated as a perpetrator. Ridiculous and pathetic, but true and familiar. At the end of the film, Ida tries to experience Wanda's life, but finally gives up. Clearly, comfort and compromise are not the options advocated in this film. The peculiarity of Polish Jews made a certain serious thinking about history and the present a realistic and urgent problem that people had to face. Avoid letting the heat of the discussion cool off. Because of this, the film's efforts to recreate that scene from a concrete, human point of view are all the more worthy of our recognition.
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