4 minutes of life

Wava 2022-04-20 09:02:25

Looking back on old films, there is a 2006 German "4 Minutes" that caught my attention, because some people commented: It is impossible for real good things to be popular.

This once high-profile film seems to have failed miserably at the box office.

There are no beautiful women, no handsome guys, no cool stunts, no dialogues that play with words, and no twists and turns in the plot. "4 Minutes" is destined to not attract more attention and more dissemination.

In her late 80s, Mrs. Kruger spent her life teaching piano in prison, although she did not receive a salary. The cold and rebellious teenage murderer Jeni, a talented piano player, was accidentally discovered by Mrs. Kruger. The old her and the young her began to play a game of cat and mouse. The old one was a cat, and the young one It is a cat, the old one is a mouse, and the young one is a mouse. They are chasing their respective goals, and they are chasing to have intersections and differences. On the surface, the old one is trying to make the young one’s genius show, gambling. All the property, life, reputation, "stud", put her on the stage of the finals, as for her, the talents that exist in her, for her, are just for her own entertainment and need to be shown to others ? Do you need to gain fame and fortune? It doesn't matter, for her, talent is like her own dreams. It's enough to know it and spend the night with her. After all, everyone can dream, and everyone has their own dreams.

The game of cat and mouse finally reached a consensus, the little girl went to the stage of the final, for 4 minutes, played the old piece of her choice - not the frantic "damn black music", but the lyrical Schumann piece, I don't know the song, but I know that he is a mature representative of romantic music, who spent the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum due to hereditary schizophrenia.

When she was young, she did not go against the wishes of the old one, playing Schumann's tunes, but she combined "damn black music", and in 4 minutes, all the grievances, anger, and grief in her life, all of them. They are presented one by one, just like the tree in Wuthering Heights, crying, shouting, and tearing in the wind~~

The applause was given to the little one, and Luo Mo left it to the old one. The game of cat and mouse is over. As a child she went back to her prison to serve a life sentence. The old she continued to live in her memories until the end of her life.

They don't care about you, they don't care about me, they don't care about time, they don't care about history, they just gave themselves 4 minutes of their lives.

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Extended Reading
  • Nils 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    A movie with a pattern that is quite similar to "Mind Catcher", with some "selfish" old teachers, genius but eccentric genius music talents, in a prison, they interacted with each other's complicated historical emotions. The final four minutes of wild piano performance is very interesting.

  • Helmer 2022-01-22 08:03:41

    The piano teacher discovered that the female prisoner had a talented Jenny, but Jenny had a violent temperament and gradually understood each other during the process of getting along. When the piano teacher was young, the female lover was tortured by the Nazis to explain why she stayed here and also found Jie. Ni is not a real murderer, but a conviction for her boyfriend and the experience of being raped by her adoptive father. Hannah played very well, and the expression of anger was vividly expressed. It is said that she did the solo in the film by herself, and she admires it.

Four Minutes quotes

  • Gerhard von Loeben: I hope you win, Jenny.

    Jenny von Loeben: I hope you die, Daddy.

  • Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: Strange how hard it is for both of us.

    Jenny von Loeben: What?

    Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger: ...to be friendly.