When Nina said, "Nothing outside can hurt me anymore," she broke herself into pieces: the unprotected, the broken, the irredeemable, and the one of the intact and regenerated core—one of the core pieces has been waiting, waiting for the opportunity to mend a new and complete self-no matter how riddled with holes, the new self must be worthy of love.
In the ruins, Nina not only repaired herself but also did her best to rescue others. But what did she get in return? When the woman in the title is about to be killed, Nina comes to the rescue, but when the woman flees, she locks the door, leaving Nina to feed the wolf. So, when a woman who was dragged from the street later said to her, "You know Russian, tell him! I have a family!" Experience has made her not allow herself to be an unnecessary scapegoat again.
The man in the film, whose honor is supreme, chose to commit suicide. Trample life for honor, or trample "honor" for life. Which is higher and which is lower? Does life have meaning? Or, the existence of life itself, is the meaning?
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