Snail Girl--This is for you

Barbara 2022-04-21 09:01:21

Halfway through the movie, a character from a traditional Chinese folk story suddenly popped into my mind—the Snail Girl.
In the story, Tianluo girl silently pays attention to the boy in the room every day, so she quietly falls in love with him. He washes and cooks for him every day, and makes many offerings. But she remained silent until an accident made the young man discover her existence. So we met, everyone was happy, and we performed a love story with a lot of fantasy style.
Just like HGWXX/7 in this movie.

While watching the movie, I kept thinking about what moved him. Let him go from a ruthless, cold-blooded, cool-headed, terrifying interrogation, a state machine dedicated to East Germany's allegiance to a state machine that steals books from a surveillance subject's home and tears when he hears the "Sonata of the Good Guys" A full-faced citizen who will write long dramas and even hide evidence in order to tell lies, until he ruins his "future"...citizen.

It was art that moved him, or was it the long-term surveillance of other people's lives that caused him to think about and resist the system that he had been in for a long time in the "system", was it his secret love for the heroine, or was it his underground identity that made him suddenly realize One can truly live in another identity.

Could it be that walking into a "correct" person's life caused him to jump out of this system?

ps: the soundtrack is really amazing

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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.