On the battlefield, the figures of women are equally striking.
In the age of gunpowder,
They are undoubtedly the phantoms that history cannot forget.
And those female spies who are active in the depths of darkness,
It is our protagonist today.
Condensed on them is the tragedy of an era that is doomed to be unsolvable .
Year 2009,
In that era when the censorship mechanism was not so perverted,
Chinese audience,
It is a privilege to enjoy a legendary film from the Netherlands on the big screen.
And it is said that Ang Lee was also inspired by this movie.
A year later, in 2007,
Filmed the " Lust, Caution ".
This movie is,
"Black Book"
The film is set in the Netherlands in 1942, occupied by German troops.
The heroine Rachel, as a member of the Jews hunted by the Nazis,
Hiding in every corner all the time.
By chance, I got the chance to go to the British-occupied area.
With the help of his father's lawyer,
The heroine thought she would be able to escape the bitter sea with her family, but she was betrayed.
All family members lost their lives.
The heroine who survived by chance,
By chance, it attracted the attention of the German captain.
So it was arranged to lure the captain to gather intelligence.
In this process, I discovered the gentle side of the German captain,
and fall in love with it.
However,
But he was betrayed again when the rebels rescued comrades in prison.
After finding out the traitor, he succeeded in revenge.
Ended up incognito in a rural high school in Israel.
The so-called black book is the collusion between lawyers and the German army.
Harm the Jews and plunder the ledger of Jewish property.
In Lust, Caution,
Behind Wang Jiazhi is the country and the nation,
In "Black Book",
The heroine's body is more wrapped in the flame of revenge.
Director Verhoeven mentioned,
At first I just wanted to create a movie about World War II,
Later decided,
What he wants to emphasize is that "human nature is not black and white".
the complexity of human nature,
It can be said that it is the entry point for serious thinking about all works of art.
In Lust, Caution,
The bloody Fang just wanted to defend the country,
But Kuang Yumin, who has love, sympathy and guilt for Wang Jiazhi,
There are those who are willing to give their bodies but,
Wang Jiazhi, who was lost in deep contact with the target again,
Mr. Yi, who is ruthless but also tender in love.
Likewise, in The Black Book,
The complex character design can be said to be the soul of this movie.
From the very beginning, the screenwriter told us,
The heroine will always be a character who dares to love and hate.
The plot of listening to the radio on a boat by the river,
Not only in the plot to let the heroine survive,
Expose the background that the heroine was a singer,
those charming shots,
It exudes the sexiness of actors and characters,
Her flirting with little boys,
Immediately painted one,
Longing for a romantic image even in brutal war times.
And later, the humiliation and humiliation when jumping off the boat to escape,
In the face of dangerous improvisations on the train,
Even the heroine in order to get close to the German captain,
Do not hesitate to dye the pubic hair yellow to hide from the German camera,
It also reveals the heroine's firmness to revenge.
By the way, in these two films,
The leaders of the action group seem to like to carry private goods.
For Capps, when his son was trapped in German hands,
I would rather sacrifice the heroine in exchange for my son,
No longer hide the contempt for the Jews in your heart.
For Lao Wu, he tied assassination and revenge together.
so that the eyes are blinded,
She doesn't care about Wang Jiazhi's mental state.
Except for the protagonist,
The film's portrayal of the villain is also intrusive,
The guile of the lieutenant, the cunning of the general,
Contrasted with the captain's personality,
Perhaps because of the tragedy of his wife and children,
It made him weary of killing,
Maybe the screenwriter is trying to raise this profound question,
Human nature is undoubtedly complex,
That being the case, when one sins against another,
Will he have a chance to be forgiven again?
In many cases,
Both sides of the conflict of interest are in the name of justice.
After the liberation of the Netherlands,
The Dutch people's campaign to punish "Dutch traitors" is running high.
In the movie, the crazy group tramples on the dignity of the heroine.
How can you expect
A crazy group of people who voluntarily give up thinking,
Can we uphold the last bottom line of human beings?
All justice, black and white,
It has different meanings in different people.
As Erich Fromm argued in Escaping Freedom,
"Negative freedom" is when a person breaks through traditional authority and obtains freedom, which is the typical freedom mentioned in Sartre's existentialism. For the first time, he became a person instead of living in a collective. However, having got rid of the original bond, he also faced loneliness and powerlessness, "becoming a tool for a purpose other than himself". In contrast, "positive freedom" means "the full realization of one's potential and the ability to live actively and spontaneously."
——"Escape from Freedom" [US] Erich Fromm
Needless to say, there are only a handful of people who can achieve positive freedom.
That being the case,
The so-called black or white, the so-called positive and negative energy,
How many interests are compromised behind?
At the end of the day, I think,
in this world,
All moral laws cannot be separated from one principle,
That is the non-violation of human freedom .
And the freedom here,
Refers
freedom of life, freedom of love,
Freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of action.
I think freedom,
Interact with people's goals of self-realization as tools and ends.
And it is worth noting that,
The freedom of each individual must not violate the freedom of another.
But man as a social animal,
Born to seek approval, seek approval,
In the process, it may cause harm to others.
So people seek a power above the individual,
To pray for the protection of the liberty of all.
In ancient times, people believed in mysterious power,
but not true;
Later people voluntarily submit to power, but always tyranny.
until now,
The laws we made, the morals passed down,
Always reverting to the whip in the hands of the slave master in the course of time,
hit us hard again.
So to this day,
We are still constantly improving the law,
To question morality and make a change.
Not to mention in those turbulent times a hundred years ago.
The female spy who gave her body to her country,
But in exchange for an imperfect life.
This is a kind of helplessness, fate is the most shrewd screenwriter.
those who died,
Like the waves thrown on the shore, that was her destiny,
You can feel sorry for him,
But all I can do is sigh a tragedy,
then,
You will also turn around and walk yourself into the sea.
"Who says life is a tragicomedy?
Life is more but helpless”
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