Maria Braun's marriage started very dramatically - a wedding ceremony was held amidst the sound of gunfire, and a notarized signature was completed under the cannon fodder. Maria found the marriage certificate in panic and asked the witness to sign, as a daring lover. The characteristics of women who dare to hate and dare to act are shown here. On the second day of the wedding, her husband Herman went to the battlefield, and he has not been heard from since then, and his life and death are unknown. Despite living a lonely and deficient life, Maria still sticks to her love and goes to the station every day to wait for news of her husband with a sign of missing people. The station is full of women: haggard, expectant and numb.
Maria said there were fewer men and no one needed a wedding dress. The war has caused more men than women, and in this era, women depend on men to survive. Without men, women will go hungry. At first, Maria just waited day after day for Herman to come back, persevering despite the hard times. Until one day, when she got the limited food sent by the American soldiers, Maria suddenly realized that she could not go hungry because of her beauty and wisdom, so she exchanged cigarettes with her mother, and got an expensive brooch to change into a sexy skirt and do it. trendy hairstyle. She understood that life is not a fairy tale, pure love can't fill her stomach, and tears have no effect on reality. When she saw her husband's photo, she resisted crying and turned to solve the dinner problem. Maria has always been a realistic person, and she decides to go to a bar as a waitress to trade beauty for a full life.
The world is so cruel, the survival and love that women need are all in the hands of men, but fortunately - Maria can control men.
Maria met Bill, a black soldier. Ironically, Hitler believed that the Germanic nation was the best race in the world. However, the war initiated by him caused Germanic women to live by pleasing blacks.
Bill fell in love with Maria and proposed to her, but she told him, "I like you, I like to be with you, but I can't marry you, I'm married to my husband." Oswald said, "We can't get married, but I can be your lover." Maria still has Herman on her mind, even if the bar owner forbids her, even with Bill, she always wears a wedding ring , this marriage that exists in the memory may just be a fantasy, a kind of distance beauty, but it is the only thing she can protect. Mary's mother also wanted to protect her marriage. After her husband died for many years, she often took out his clothes and sewed it up, so as not to forget her husband. This is what the world expects of a woman, and this expectation denies a woman's emotional needs, and Maria doesn't, she doesn't want to suppress herself.
After learning of her husband's death, Maria wanted to start a new life. She was pregnant with Bill's child and planned to name the child after her husband in memory of Herman. However, her husband came back suddenly, and the love that Maria had been thinking about day and night came back, standing in front of her alive, for which she smashed her lover's head with a bottle of wine. Herman took the blame for his wife and went to jail. Seeing that the reunion was destroyed again, Maria's marriage still did not come to her side.
In order to live a happy life together after her husband was released from prison, Maria decided to go to Heidelberg to find a job. At this time, she was much smarter than when she needed someone to remind a man to watch her in the bar. She knew what she wanted, so she carefully planned the encounter with Oswald. With her beauty and wisdom, Maria was very Be his mistress soon and become the real owner of his company. Oswald gave Maria flowers and chocolates, she threw them in the trash, she didn't need love from Oswald. Oswald never understood why Maria wanted to identify herself as a mistress and employee, because he didn't know that all she wanted from him was sex and money, and that her love was in the weekly prison visits. Maria confessed her relationship with Oswald to her husband. The husband asked, "Are people out there like this now? It's cruel." Maria replied, "It feels bad right now." The husband stopped talking, He couldn't blame his wife. In the harsh reality, in order to survive, people must put down some things, including self-esteem and morality.
Herman signed a deal with Oswald in order to share his property, and suddenly disappeared. Facing this sudden change, Maria could no longer control her emotions. She confronted her mother, porter and secretary. Yelling loudly, and at this time, she learned the news of Oswald's death, lost all love, and Maria returned to the restaurant where she met her lover for the last time, without drinking, while a couple at the door were making out, The world seemed to be kidding her.
The sudden appearance of her husband made Maria very happy. The love she had waited for 11 years finally came back. She was as happy as a girl in love. However, the relationship between husband and wife seems to be somewhat restrained. Is this love that has been waiting for many years really just an illusion? The last explosion was just right for Maria, because whether it was an accident or her deliberate arrangement, Maria could no longer bear the test of life. After waiting for 11 years, she got her husband. The fate of "transferring" himself to the capitalist for money. This is no longer the love she imagined, and how will she face this embarrassing marriage in the future? The explosion just set her free.
The film has a lot of great long shots, including the crowd at the station, Maria bringing a cigarette home, meeting up with a dress dealer, getting news of Hermann's death, a family picnic, and crossing the dance floor to find Oswald at a family dance Talks, etc. Among them, there are many pictures that use door frames and wall holes for secondary composition. These shots are very rich in content, showing people's living conditions and reflecting the director's perfect scheduling ability. For example, after Maria received Herman's "death news", the director did not let us see her expression immediately, but after passing through the wall, we saw her go through the doorway and run to the mountain behind the house. The window, we can see the sad Maria in the background, and this is done in one shot.
There are a lot of framing in the film, when Maria feels bad for her husband, when she gets a goodbye letter from her husband, when she gets angry with the secretary, etc. These are times when she is in a bad mood or even mentally disordered.
The film is also very good at creating atmosphere with the contrast of light and shadow. Bill was standing under the blinds when he learned that Maria was pregnant, his eyes were in the shadows, he loved Maria, but he didn't want to have a baby with his mistress. And when Maria saw Herman who suddenly appeared, her eyes were in sunlight, and the rest was in darkness. She saw her long-awaited lover, but she betrayed her husband. At this time, she was in a very difficult situation. embarrassment.
A classic movie worth savoring.
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