secret life

Sarina 2022-03-23 09:03:02

There are often scenes of the sky in the film, from the pure blue sky of the Alps to the gray sky above the high prison walls. The sky is the opposite side of the dirty world. It is the power of nature and the prison. The only palpable guide to hope. The melodious sound of the bell also echoes repeatedly in the film. The sound of the bell is pure and melodious, symbolizing the holiness of religion and the cleansing of people's hearts. fair? The use of church imagery is deconstructed. The church represents God's measurement and judgment of human kindness and justice, but the church here has become a tool for ideology and an authoritative preaching for ignoring the people. It is not difficult to recall the various crimes of the dark church in the Middle Ages. Is history moving forward as politicians say? Has the efforts of hundreds of years of democracy returned to the starting point of the feudal era? Instead of directly expressing the war, it expresses the living conditions of people on the edge of the war, and on the contrary, it can better express the depth of the damage caused by the war itself.

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  • Lorenz Schwaninger: [Talking to his daughter Fani, who is also Franz Jägerstätter's wife, about Franz's imprisonment and the resultant mistreatment that the family is facing] Better to suffer injustice than to do it.

  • Closing Title Card: ...the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. -George Eliot