, Nellie escaped from the concentration camp at the cost of a fractured face, but returned to her original form, a Jew, she returned to Berlin to find her husband, but her husband did not. Say to her: "You look like my wife, can you pretend to be my wife and take her property?". Under the heavy atmosphere of the film, any kind of brightness is very ironic, but she was required to wear the red dress she used to wear, wear delicate makeup, and step on high heels to imitate her previous self. She couldn't smile. She asked: "If you came out of the concentration camp, would it be so bright?" Her beliefs were broken from the inside, loyalty, love, kindness, but she was trapped in it and could not escape. The atmosphere created by the film was so heavy that it was almost suffocating. The director's deliberate arrangement further strengthens the film's heaviness. She hinted to her husband again and again, but he ignored him intentionally or unintentionally. At this time, the friend who rescued her committed suicide, and she learned that her husband was the one who betrayed her and had already divorced her.
The phoenix itself is a totem belief, which symbolizes eternal life. No one can live forever, but hope can. In the letter left to her by a friend who committed suicide, she said: "I don't understand why Jews choose to forgive again and again." But at the end of the film, after a long hesitation, she chose redemption and forgiveness. She retracted the gun that had been rubbed for a long time. And when she was singing a chant with a friend, he found the concentration camp number on her hand. The sun was shining and the greenery was full of greenery. She turned and walked towards the sun. The singing did not stop, she was singing to the sun. The phoenix represents indelible hope. In the end, she did not kill him, but gave herself redemption and hope, and this hope and redemption is exactly what the film wants to embody from despair.
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