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Don't sell off, the movie recommended today is it--
come out of nowhere
Aus dem Nichts
The film won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Golden Globe Awards
Director Fatih Akin is a descendant of Turkish immigrants.
In 2007, with the film "On the Other Side of Life" , he won the best screenwriter in Cannes that year.
As an immigrant, all of his works focus on the living conditions and spiritual world of inter-ethnic groups in the new era of Europe .
Ten years later, the director meets us with this story that also focuses on immigration.
Ten years later, the situation has not gotten better, but worse.
Diane Kruger , the heroine of the film , was once questioned as a vase.
She 's Princess Helen in "Troy," and she 's the female spy star in "Inglourious Basterds."
This time, with his explosive and infectious performance, he won the Cannes Film Actress in 2017 .
Enough to shut up those who question her acting skills.
The film continues the director's neat three-stage narrative structure . Each segment begins with a DV recording.
Chapter 1, Family
The heroine , Katya (Diane Kruger), met her current Turkish husband , Nuri, while she was in college because she bought marijuana .
Not long after Nuri was imprisoned for drug trafficking, Katya insisted on marrying him despite her family's objections.
The two held a romantic wedding with the blessing of a group of inmates.
Fortunately, Nuri also worked hard and taught himself business in prison.
After being released from prison, a studio was opened, and the two had a lovely son. Katya was at home with her husband and son with peace of mind.
Have a peaceful and beautiful day.
Sadly, the harsh reality tells us:
Happiness will not come quietly, but disaster will come out of nowhere .
An explosion sends Katya into hell.
During the day and afternoon, the three of them were still talking and laughing. After only a few hours, they were separated by yin and yang from their husband and son.
The film does not describe the explosion, but features a scene of Katya crying until she loses her strength.
You can feel the heartbreak of losing a loved one through the screen.
She didn't expect that what happened next made her even more broken.
The police came to investigate the case, only obsessed with the identity of Katja's husband.
1. Is your husband religious? Is he a Muslim?
2. Is he Kurdish?
3. Is he an active politician?
The police preconceived that the case was guided by religion, race, political leanings and so on.
Media reports are also evasive, saying only that the bomb killed a jailed drug dealer and his son .
In the eyes of the public, those who have been in prison are bad people, and they are bad people all their lives.
Even more chilling, even his relatives think so.
Only Katya knows that she lost her beloved husband and lovely son.
If the family doesn't understand, let them get out of the way. If the police are not reliable, then go check it yourself.
Katya recalled during her investigation that when she was leaving the store, a young woman had left her bicycle in front of the store.
Since it was a new car, she kindly reminded the woman to lock it, otherwise it would be stolen.
Looking back now, there was clearly a bomb there!
Katya intuitively felt that the man was a Nazi, otherwise her husband and son would have been killed for no reason.
Katya lay crying in her son's bed during the day, and relieved her grief by taking drugs at night.
The inaction of the police chilled her.
Husband and son will never come back, what's the point of being alive.
It would be better to die to be reunited with them in heaven.
As she slowly sank into the bathtub water, a call from the police station rescued her.
The police have caught the suspects and proved that they are Nazis.
Chapter Two, Justice
We often say that justice will be late, but it will not be absent .
I believe that Katya also thinks the same as we think, that the law will give her a fair trial.
The suspects, a young couple, both extremists of neo-Nazism, showed no remorse in court, but instead joked and laughed.
Katya looked at them, trying her best to control her emotions.
The trial was a torment for Katya .
In particular, I heard the forensic doctor's almost cold-blooded tone to describe the damage process caused by the explosion to the husband and son.
Katya could not imagine how much pain her beloved had suffered before she died.
More cruel is yet to come.
Despite all the evidence that they were the murderers, the opposing defense lawyers tried their best to find loopholes in the prosecution and break them.
Katya's testimony is not credible because of her drug use experience.
What 's more, the defense found a Greek to perjury , saying that their husband and wife were on vacation in Greece on the day of the crime, and artificially created alibi.
Just when everyone knew that they were the murderers, because the key evidence could not be implemented, the court had to declare them—
innocent .
Katya has completely lost faith in law and justice.
Justice was not late this time, but was directly absent .
Chapter Three, The Sea
Justice can't be done, and he can only kill the murderer himself.
Women are weak, but mothers are strong.
Katya followed the couple to Greece and followed the tutorial to imitate and kill her husband and children with the kind of explosives.
The next morning, while the couple was out running, she sneaked to the RV where the couple was, put the explosives under the car, and ran to the bushes to wait.
The first time, she hesitated, and after a while, she took the explosives away.
Lying at home at night, I repeatedly watched the video on my mobile phone of a family of three playing at the beach.
She thought about it.
Although the lawyer kept calling and telling Katya not to lose heart, he had already prepared the above materials.
But we know that this time, she no longer hesitates.
She chose to burn both jade and stone .
This silent ending is more shocking than any words.
At the end of the film, the camera slowly rises towards the sky.
The background music played a low-pitched female voice.
Everything was still so peaceful, as if nothing had happened just now.
We can easily associate this film with "Three Billboards" in everything.
The murderer is also at large, and justice cannot be served. The protagonist chooses to complete his revenge in his own way.
The difference is that the final protagonist of "Three Pieces" realizes that "hatred will only lead to greater hatred" , and finally reconciles with himself on the road of revenge.
In this film, after experiencing grief, anger, numbness and calmness , Katya finally chooses to end with a "tit for tat" .
choose to take revenge in this way,
I choose to meet my husband and son in heaven in this way.
This ending seems to be "three injustices", but it is actually a silent protest of the director to the current immigration situation in Europe .
Video subtitles display:
Between 2000 and 2007, the German Underground State Agency shot and killed nine immigrants and a policeman, and carried out a series of bombings.
There is only one reason for these atrocities, the victims were not people of orthodox German ancestry .
The rise of neo-Nazism has made immigration and refugee issues an unsolved problem in Europe.
Fighting violence with violence seems to be the only way.
But hatred also breeds hatred .
As said in the movie "Shame" that Xiong pushed a few days ago , reconciliation between two people is easy, but reconciliation between two ethnic groups is quite difficult.
Apart from nationality, race, religion, we are all the same human beings.
But we have never been able to truly understand each other.
Reminds me of a previous international news that the United States, Britain and France jointly launched a strike against Syria.
The war has devastated Syria .
It is always the people on the battlefield who suffer.
There is a scene that Xiong Jiujiu can't forget,
The tearful eyes of the Syrian kid ask the person on the other side of the screen what we have done wrong .
if it is possible,
I want to touch the head of a child,
Say to him:
It's not your fault,
but them.
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