Sometimes what we need is the courage to reflect, not forget. even wipe him out.
Sarah's Key Elle s'appelait Sarah
The story is divided into 2 jumpers to explore the truth of the past from the perspective of modern people.
After watching the film "The Key to Salad", I don't want to say how I feel in my heart. Because most of the literary and artistic films with the theme of the 2nd World War can make the viewers have such a feeling.
I looked up France under the Vessian regime in 1940, Bey's current French fascism, and the events of the Winter Arena in the early summer of 1942. What I want to say is - in this dark moment, should the great, beautiful and romantic France reflect on the fact that it once slaughtered the Jews as a murderer?
In World War II, death is inevitable. Death has brought too many stories. At one end of the story is a Jewish house. In Paris, France under the Petain regime and appeasement policy, the police brought indelible disasters to the local Jews. The protagonist of the story , the closet key in the hand of the Jewish little girl Sarah is hope and deep despair. . .
When the girl escaped from the concentration camp, took the key protected with her own life, returned to Paris thousands of miles away, and opened the key that once belonged to her own closet, the truth was given to her own brother's body.
It was mentioned at the beginning of the film that most young people in France do not know that history. . . And they will not understand that the truth of that period of history is so cruel to their motherland, a disgraceful stain.
Back to the present, the protagonist reporter on the other end did not hesitate to create a estrangement with her husband, her parents-in-law, and even close relatives for the truth, just as she said: this is the price of the truth.
I believe that the reporter originally wanted to know the source of the in-laws' house (the in-laws' house was the home of the little girl's family of four). When the source got the answer, the reporter's nature made her continue to explore. .
As a reporter from the United States, she will never understand the truth that the French have always wanted to forget and erase.
Identity and humanity have always been thin threads interspersed in the two storylines of the film. . .
The Jewish identity of the French Quarter has always plagued the little girl Salad. She dared not identify with her Jewish identity, because of this identity, her family was gone, and because of this identity, her brother died because of her. Although the salad was sheltered by the kind French farmer and grew up. But I don't think she's at peace, she's suspicious, she's angry, she blames herself and feels guilty, and she tortures herself at the same time. Her humiliation once made her also disapprove of the future France,
She went to the free and unrestrained America, but the reality made her understand that Jewish identity was also discriminated against in post-war America, which is why she would discuss and even quarrel with her American husband about the identity of the child in her stomach. , why did she rush to get her 6-day-old child to be baptized in a Christian church, and why did she hide her child's Jewish ancestry for more than 50 years. Why spend your life in alcohol and drugs all day and night, why kill yourself in resentment of your life.
I think the French director Gilles Bagette wants us to know that racism is still unresolved today.
War is a secret contest between winners and losers; ethnic discrimination against the entire world has nothing to do with war, it is a self-contest of human superiority and frustration.
Sarah is the loser, the weak and the desperate. What she is powerless against is the war, the world, and herself.
And today's Iran, Syria, why not.
At the end, the reporter divorced and raised his daughter alone and named it Sarah. The continuation of life is so beautiful.
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