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A pair of old people can't walk in the new sunshine after all
Marjolaine 2022-03-25 09:01:19
A low-key film, related to the story. After the war, the former Nazi officer Max became the night shift concierge of the hotel. He met his former lover Lucia by chance, and brought back a sadistic past in the concentration camp. The hero and heroine who want to put aside their past identities and live a quiet life are not tolerated by the remnant Nazi organizations that try their best to cover up their crimes. The two were trapped in the apartment, the food was decreasing day by day, and despair shrouded their heads. On the dark and windy night of the last night, Max put back on his Nazi uniform, put on a girly skirt for Lucia, and drove the car until dawn. The two walked on the bridge, arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder, leaving a calm back, like a pair of intimate lovers strolling leisurely, watching the city wake up. The old couple are in a new era. The jingling morning bell is signaling the arrival of dawn, as if it is also an elegy for the two of them. Two gunshots, both fell down...
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Katheryn 2022-03-28 09:01:11
The Stockholm Syndrome in the context of World War II, it is indeed a bold perspective to express the relationship between Nazi officers and persecuted women through SM, and the continuation of this morbid psychology after the war and the desperate pursuit of destruction all reflect the difficulty of the trauma of World War II. Healing, in the first half, it feels good to say something, especially the cross-editing of the opera and flashback, which reflects the director's artistic ability. As for the second half, it seems a little tired.
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Rosanna 2022-03-28 09:01:11
Although the war trauma and sadomasochistic packaging doesn't prevent it from being a touching love story and also a good embodiment of the sexual instinct/death instinct thesis, the music and the actors' soulful performances definitely add to it. Looking at each other in tears, Charlotte Rampling
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Bert: Good evening, Max. I'm not too late, I hope. I still have to prepare the show. Stravinsky, "The Firebird", as we planned.
Max: No show tonight, Bert. I, um, can't leave the desk.
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Max: I don't give a damn about this trial. It's a farce.
Klaus: The trial is not a farce.
Max: Yes, it is! It's a farce! It's a game - a game for freaks!
Klaus: The freaks are you and your whore.