A character is a fictional historical fact, but it was made into an emotional movie because of the wrong narrative method

Andy 2022-11-07 17:03:34

Two and a half stars. poorly executed. With regard to the Parisian anti-Semitic period in question, the film manages to add to the tone and music of sadness and injustice, but whether it's Thomas' sentimental character setting (reporter or writer?) or strong narrative and unconvincing The development of the plot feels like fiction rather than history.

I haven't read the original book, but the loopholes in the movie's plot can't be closed. Is it a little too coincidental? The female reporter wants to investigate the history of Jewish concentration camps that have not been recorded in French history, but the old house of the husband's family happened to be a Jewish house. If during the German occupation of Paris, the female protagonist's father-in-law's family moved into the vacant Jewish apartment within a few months after Sarah's family was taken into the concentration camp, the father-in-law family took the house from Sarah's family. It is most likely in that historical context, but the father-in-law's family is not an obvious villain in the movie.

Thomas's acting career is not wide, but judging from her performance in "Bitter Moon" as a high level, she has also shown the delicate emotions of the heroine in this movie. But that was supposed to be Sarah's story. Since it is a movie titled "Sarah's Key", even if the two story lines are parallel, it should strengthen Sarah's main line and insert a female reporter as a sub-line, but this film makes people feel that Sarah is only one of the story. story.

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  • Julia Jarmond: And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.