soul exit

Berta 2022-04-20 09:01:12

"The wall has ears, and Fu Kou is on the side." It is estimated that our Cultural Revolution period was similar.

Among the similar films, "Eavesdropping Storm" is not as sharp and forbearing as "East and West", but I replayed its ending three times, an empty street, an unknown man with countless eavesdropping secrets, dragging his realistic The identity is peacefully walking on the way to deliver the letter... The final freeze-frame "this book is for me" is a pun, meaning meaningful.

Let us have very concrete beliefs about morality, something so abstract and elusive that can be interpreted and distorted at will under the pressure of some totalitarian politics. And from this, find the exit of the soul.

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The Lives of Others quotes

  • [last lines]

    Buchverkäufer: 29.80. Would you like it gift wrapped?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No. It's for me.

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: An innocent prisoner will become more angry by the hour due to the injustice suffered. He will shout and rage. A guilty prisoner becomes more calm and quiet. Or he cries. He knows he's there for a reason. The best way to establish guilt or innocence is non-stop interrogation.