You don’t know how beautiful a leaf is. I am fascinated by the seemingly calm and flat narrative, but in fact it contains a powerful narrative method. And "Book Thief" is such a movie. It uses plain lens language and a slightly sentimental tone of death to tell us the legendary story of a little girl: in the winter of 1939, a 9-year-old girl Lisai Er and his younger brother were sent to foster care by their mother in a poor couple's home in Germany. Unfortunately, the younger brother died on the road. After the funeral, Lissel accidentally got her first book, "The Gravedigger's Handbook." With the help of her adoptive father who played the accordion, she learned to read and fell madly in love with it. But that was the period of tyrannical fascist rule. All the books were burned, and she couldn't help but start stealing books from the mayor’s house. . In the chaos of war and hardship, she looked tenaciously for sunshine and rain like a wild flower, and used the power of reading to save the suffering people around her. The movie is starring Jeffrey Rush, an old drama bone, and is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name. It is true that this is a film about Nazi brutality and the cruelty of war from the side, like "Anne's Diary", "Pan's Labyrinth" and "A Beautiful Life". But I think "Book Thief" and "The Reader" are the most similar in essence, and both stories took place in Germany during World War II. The German woman Hannah in "The Reader" is paranoid and even ridiculous. She asks the teenager Misha to read literary books for her after having sex without telling him that she is illiterate, and even prefers to be sentenced to life imprisonment at the last minute. I don't want to admit this in public. I saw a similar plot again in "The Book Thief". The little German girl Lissell fought angrily because her classmates laughed at her illiteracy. She was eager to learn knowledge in the cold and dark basement, and fell in love with reading. Ignoring the death and horror of war, I read a local book stolen, almost religiously fanatical. At the end of the movie, Death finally took the souls of all the relatives and friends of the little girl by the hand of war, but chose to let her continue to live happily until she was 90 years old. why? Contrasting with the killing of people on the battlefield, the little girl's eyes widened in surprise by the power radiated by reading and writing. While collecting souls on the battlefield, he pondered the esoteric nature of humanity: why human beings are cruel. The killing, on the one hand, there is love from the heart? What an exquisite fable: Reading the love and hope that radiates, even the god of death is daunting! A nation that can quietly tell stories and play the accordion happily when facing death is destined to be undefeated. This is like the people on the Titanic who play their violin to calmly welcome death. This is the power of the spirit, and this This spirit comes from reading. Reading can make you deep-spirited, elegant, outstanding, and even calm and calm when facing death, just like Socrates accepting the death penalty for the authority of the law. Germany has the highest density of bookstores per capita in the world, with an average of one bookstore per 17,000 people. The capital Berlin is the city with the most bookstores in Germany, with an average of one bookstore for every 10,000 people. According to statistics, 12% of the world's books are in German, which is only 1. 2% of Germans, this has to be said to be an astonishing number. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the most reading-loving people in the world. On the other hand, in China, even if some local governments occasionally organize activities such as book festivals to stimulate reading, the reality is still not optimistic. Even in large cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, there are only a handful of physical bookstores that often close down, and most of the survivors have difficulty operating. Compared with the massive population in China, the number of physical bookstores in China is just a drop in the bucket. Despite the rise of online bookstores, it still does not help to improve the status quo of reading. According to a survey conducted by UNESCO: China's 1.3 billion people, after deducting textbooks, on average, each person reads less than one book a year. On the other hand, the Jews who are the world's number one in the number of books read each year, on average, read 64 books a year ("The Chinese read less than one book a year", published in the "Shenzhen Evening News", May 21, 2013). There is no denying that Chinese people would rather eat, drink, have fun, pray to God and worship Buddha than read a good book seriously. It's not that there is no time, but that the ideas rooted in the mind are wrong. In the concept of the Chinese people, reading has never been the primary productive force, let alone belief. Especially in this special period of economic expansion and material desire, the choice of reading and making money will naturally move closer to the latter, and even feel that it is good to be a rich illiterate. But on the contrary, the Germans will feel that not reading and being educated is more terrible and more shameful than poverty or even death. You may think that the Germans are rigid and conservative, but at this point, I have to applaud and cheer for the Germans. Of course, our country also lacks the strong reading culture of Germany. The respect for power and wealth in our culture is far greater than reading, because reading cannot bring real benefits. Therefore, the Chinese people lack the cultural awareness of reading in their blood. Unless for exams or coercion or lure, otherwise he will not take the initiative to watch. The result of not reading is that everyone becomes an empty shell, just talking, but not thinking. When there is no spiritual support, society is generally in a state of manic restlessness. All kinds of sensational remarks and all kinds of words and deeds without a bottom line emerge in an endless stream, which are all manifestations of the emptiness and spiritual crisis of the Chinese people. People who don’t read live a lifetime like animals, and people who don’t read are a mess of loose sand. Even in the most difficult moments, a nation that maintains the habit of reading can retain a minimum of dignity. But if reading is abandoned, even in the seemingly most prosperous era, a tragedy of corruption and degeneration of the entire nation may occur. We always complain that the Nobel Prize is not given to the people of the country, but does a nation that has difficulty even studying deserve a Nobel Prize? Don't make it to the end, the streets are full of reptiles with empty heads and waists. It is both sad but also makes foreigners laugh talk. I can't help but miss the lovely and pure era when "the morning hears the Tao, and the death can be done at night", so what's the point of idealism? It's a pity that there are fewer and fewer people seeking truth and truth, but more and more people are betraying their souls. Reading is the ladder to heaven. If your soul has fallen into hell, it’s not too late to read in time.
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