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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Extended Reading
  • Lloyd 2022-03-23 09:01:20

    I am willing, with the joy of peace and tranquility in my heart, to remain silent for a lifetime until the years no longer follow me.

  • Hope 2022-04-24 07:01:03

    Humanity under the wheel of history is like a grass

The Lives of Others quotes

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Go away. I want to be alone.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam Sieland?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Do we know each other?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: Actors are never "who they are."

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know what I'm like.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I'm your audience.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I have to go.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Where to?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: No?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No.

    Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?

    Christa-Maria Sieland: And you are a good man.

  • [Wiesler enters the elevator at his apartment building. A young boy with a ball joins him]

    Junge mit Ball: Are you really with the Stasi?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Do you even know what the Stasi is?

    Junge mit Ball: Yes. They're bad men who put people in prison, says my dad.

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I see. What is the name of your...

    [pauses]

    Junge mit Ball: My what?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: [thinks for a few more seconds] Ball. What's the name of your ball?

    Junge mit Ball: You're funny. Balls don't have names.