The story is based on the real "Winter Stadium Incident" during World War II. This tragedy, aided by the Vichy government, is a past that the French chose to silence and forget. On July 16 and 17, 1942, the Paris police were ordered by the Nazis to arrest tens of thousands of Jews, including thousands of children, who were first concentrated in the winter cycling competition stadium and then sent to Auschwitz in batches. , died in a gas chamber. And the tragedy caused by the war in "Sarah's Key" is the epitome of the thousands of Jewish families who were brutally murdered in this context.
At the beginning of the movie, Sarah and her brother Michelle were playing around under the quilt, and everything seemed so cheerful and bright that when the police broke into the house, the momentary tension broke all the peace and harmony, making people feel uncomfortable. A hint of shock. Sarah felt the abnormal atmosphere, and her mother's panic and anxiety could not be concealed. She flew back to the room, let Michelle hide in the closet, and then locked the door, holding the key tightly in her hand. Sarah didn't know that her decision at this moment would take root in her heart like a seed wrapped in the haze and despair of war, blooming flowers of regret little by little, gorgeous and hideous.
I thought that humanity was being blinded by killing and discarded by selfishness at this moment. So sad, so helpless and speechless... I don't know exactly what was behind Hitler's racist promotion, but I saw the unspeakable pain that Jewish families suffered because of it. Inside, tens of thousands of Jews were confined to the house. For several days, there was no toilet, no food, only a small amount of water. Sarah was tortured in her young heart. The Jews beside her died and went crazy, and her mother also She could only hold Sarah tightly in her arms, unable to do anything. However, what tormented Sarah even more was her brother Michelle, who was still locked in the closet. They made an agreement, but the current bad situation far exceeded Sarah's expectations. She was anxious, and her father was humble and urgent. He asked the police officer to pick Michelle back, and he was undoubtedly refused and beaten. In those pale years, all requests seemed so pathetic!
However, this is just the beginning, the dehumanizing massacre will always be crueler than we can imagine. Soon Sarah's family was sent to the camp - the transit station leading to Auschwitz. In the car, the father hugged his mother and Sarah tightly. All the Jews in the car were terrified and uneasy. In the movie I was impressed by the old Jewish man sitting across from Sarah, showing his finger, a dark ring full of poison, and saying, "They don't have the right to decide when I go to God, I decide for myself. !" Hearing this sentence, my heart throbbed suddenly, this is a kind of dignity in a miserable and desperate fate. And Sarah's eyes looked at the old man helplessly, I really feel for her, Sarah really understands death a little bit, but she is only a nine-year-old child...
In the camp, men and women are separated, women Separated from the children, groups of Jews were taken one after another to Auschwitz leading to death. In the end, only the children were left in the camp. Death was a matter of time. Sarah began to wake up and she decided to run away. , even if it wasn't for herself, but also for the promise she made with Michelle, as if time stood still for Sarah, she just locked him in the closet to protect Michelle, and it was too late. So Sarah and her friends ran away together. Even the guarding police were touched by Sarah and felt pity and intolerance. Yes, they were just children. Although they were Jews, so what? A faint gleam of human kindness flashed its original brilliance, faint but shining. She was kindly accepted by the farmer and started an urgent journey home. She couldn't wait any longer, Michelle, she even made an appointment with her!
However, war, slaughter, death, everything has long been different from the original appearance, all become strange and terrible.
Sarah's screams, tears and struggles, the shock of the house owner, the silence of the farmer and his wife, I instantly understood what was going on. This silent tragedy that was buried in the closet was caused by this. The perspective in the film comes from the Juliet reporter. She learned in the interview that the shadow in Sarah's heart grew bigger and bigger from that day, until the shadow devoured Sarah's body and mind and her meaning to life. I really feel sad for her, but I feel angry and helpless for that era. It's not her fault! The peasant couple must have said this to her more than once, but to her whose fault could it be? As outsiders, we will never be able to truly experience Sarah's grief. We can do nothing but heartache and tears.
If Sarah didn't lock him in the closet to protect her brother, but took him with her and was caught with her parents, then I think, let alone being sent to Auschwitz to be killed by poison gas, it would be better for her brother With a young physique, he has no chance of surviving. However, at the beginning, with a decision by Sarah, everything was different... Sarah was destined to take her brother's death to her own and bound her soul with a suppressed and breathless guilt. And she was destined to have a car accident that wasn't an accident on the rainy seaside.
At the end of the movie, Juliet told William the name of her youngest daughter-Sarah, William, a man in his fifties, cried uncontrollably. I understood the intention of the movie. The new life of the film, her birth is fragile and twists and turns, just like us after the war, we have witnessed the tragedies one by one, we must not forget, we must remember the pain and gloom of the past.
Don't forget the history, cherish the present!
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