The whole story seems light and tasteful. The mother of the heroine Liesel is a dissident from the Communist Party. She gave a pair of children to a German couple. Impression: The heroine will struggle for a lifetime. . . The good news is that the heroine fell in love with learning and reading, and the most important thing is that she fell in love with the carrier of knowledge-books, in that dictatorship period when Hitler "burned books and pit Confucians".
Not long after, the accordion-playing adoptive father helped Marx, a handsome black-haired Jewish man with thick eyebrows who fled. He was still clutching a book when he slept. The heroine didn't sleep in the middle of the night, got up secretly, and stretched out her small hand to the sleeping Max, with the book in her hand. After that, the two of them also gradually cultivated a deep relationship that was hard to part with family members. When Marx was seriously ill and in a coma, the little girl went to the Nazi officer's house to "borrow" books without fear of the risk, and read to the big brother with thick eyebrows day and night.
The film conveys a message to us that the life of the German people is actually not very good, and the war has always had a heavy toll on the people. When Little Loli and Little Zhengtai Rudy shouted, "I hate Hitler!" by the calm lake, this dissatisfaction and oppression finally broke out. But they still lived in fear, enduring air raids and bombings. The adoptive father was so scared that he and his wife cried because he said a word for the neighbor Jews, and the officer wrote down his name.
In the end, the people closest to the heroine left one after another. First brother Max, then childhood sweetheart Rudy's family and adoptive parents were killed in the air raid. The blond little Zhengtai Rudy finally thought about saying "I love you", and closed her eyes before she finished. What's very dramatic here is that everyone's bodies are super intact, just a little bit of dirt, and even their pajamas are intact.
At the technical level, the actors' performances and scenes were very successful, and almost every role left a deep impression on the people, such as the loving kindness of the adoptive father, the knife mouth and tofu heart of the adoptive mother, the cuteness and humor of the neighbor Xiao Zhengtai, and the love for the heroine. The handsome Jewish man Marx has deep eyes and a mournful beard. . . hmmm. Of particular note is the soundtrack, composed by John Williams, who has collaborated with Spielberg on several occasions.
This movie is much lighter than other movies with the same background, (the heroine easily reminds me of "Black Book") and it is also more pompous, with the narration of death, so it seems more unreal, maybe this is This is the main reason why professional film critics don't love it.
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