We should enjoy this poetic beauty comfortably

Serenity 2022-03-23 09:03:02

The first half of the film is a poetic pastoral life, with picturesque scenery, towering mountains, gurgling water, and rolling wheat waves; the love here is sweet, the couple from acquaintance to marriage, full of chance encounters, enjoying The sweetness of love; the life here is quiet, the small village is like a paradise, everyone helps and loves each other, and lives a simple life.

Sometimes, I think, this is the paradise of my dreams, or this is the rural childhood I have always missed. My hometown is also a hill in front of the village and a small river in the back of the village. The neighborhood is harmonious and everyone lives peacefully.

What makes us lose these beauty, sometimes not only war, but sometimes our minds, our desires, war is a predatory violence that brings endless disasters.

However, now that there is no war, we still give up this poetic beauty. Even if there is no war, we publicize and forget some things, and we still have desires, so we abandon the beauty of our hometown and come to a strange city to work hard.

Do you miss the feeling of waking up in the sun when you are busy and have no time to sleep? Do you think of the tranquility of the country road when you are in a traffic jam on your way to get off work?

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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