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The storyline is actually quite simple. Two narrative lines, 1. In 1942, France persecuted Jews. A little girl under twelve locked her three-year-old brother in a closet to protect her brother before being sent to a concentration camp, thinking she would be able to go home soon. When she realized that she might never be able to go home again, she tried her best to escape from the concentration camp. After a long journey back to Paris, she found her brother's body decomposed in the closet. Sarah's personality changed as a result, and she also chose to commit suicide after middle age.
2. In 2010, Julia, a female journalist, was about to write a historical article on the persecution of Jews in France in 1942. The story was discovered while gathering information, and of course sarah lived in the same house where her brother died in the closet that her husband had just bought and was being renovated. She refused to move in, at the same time she found out she was pregnant and her husband was too busy with his career to want the child. After the investigation into sarah's story ended, she divorced her husband and gave birth to a child by herself, named sarah.
The movie is a bit anticlimactic. The theme of "the persecution of Jews" in the first half has been expressed in various ways in movies, novels and television. As for this movie, it is neither innovative nor blameless. Among them, a few shots are handled well. The back of the first anna who escaped from the concentration camp and the sound effect of high heels. The panning shot of the refugee camp and the advancing shot of Sarah escaping from the camp and swimming in the river. impressive.
The second half was pretty perfunctory. When Sarah grew up, she married, had children, and committed suicide. The female reporter's own family crisis, while continuing to pursue the story, piecing together the whole story from her adoptive parents, her family, her children. Both stories lack conflict.
The best stories always have a conflict in the first ten minutes of the end.
The little girl's acting is very good. The other characters are flat, with no distinct character traits. Even female journalists.
The movie is touching and makes me cry. But this is because of the material. In the face of killing and death, even the crudest way to tell a story can be moving.
History is always inexhaustible. I just saw a sentence yesterday, history is a bitch, everyone can be as good as possible.
Hu Shi put it nicely: History is a little girl, anyone can dress her up.

Anyone can tell the same story in their own way.
From a certain perspective, history is death and rebirth, repeating itself in cycles.
All races are fighting against beasts.
This is an eternal theme.

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