What fascinates me most about Fassbender is that paranoid gaze. Following his gaze, let me discover this "Fear Devouring the Soul", to me this is his most touching one. Amy, a 60-year-old cleaning lady, mustered the courage to open the door of a strange bar because of the rain. In addition to the strange eyes and the faces of foreigners in the bar, it was this Muslim guy named Ali. Amy lost her husband early. Years of hardship taught her to respect and be patient. When Ali met Amy, his outward indifference could no longer hide his heart that was ready to melt at any time. The two fell in love while dancing like no one else.
Ali tells Amy that fear eats our souls, which is both a proverb in his native Arabia and a mirror on the road of their love. A 60-year-old cleaner falls in love with a Muslim guy, what a tough thing to do in Germany. Not only do they have to overcome the cynicism of their neighbors, the indifference of their families, and the hostility of society, but they also have to experience the inevitable boredom and labor pains of love. Ali, this strong man, has such a fragile heart. At the end, he kept slapping himself in the mirror because he laughed at the garage where he was working with his colleagues and laughed at Amy, who came to him, because he was old and ugly. He hated himself. Let fear consume the soul.
Amy and Ali ended up together, but Fassbender showed the cruel side of the fairy tale, Ali fell to the ground, and the doctor told Amy that he had a disease, which she was told was incurable and that every Will come again in a few months. Fassbender seems to tell us through the doctor's mouth that good things are accompanied by diseases, whether it is society or love, all we can do is to persevere silently, and don't let fear engulf others and ourselves.
It is a pity that Fassbender died early, and future generations can only see his spiritual legacy through movies. In my eyes, his short life seems to have been lived to fight the diseases in human nature.
He is great by paranoia.
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