Sonata for a Good Man

Sanford 2022-04-21 09:01:21

"Each day in early autumn and September is blue
Young, tall trees stretch up
like love and grow lush like love A
beautiful and clean sky above us
A cloud moves slowly
It's so white and flawless
and if you believe
it from the bottom of your heart will always be by your side."

What kind of curiosity led the secret police to take the book, and what kind of determination led the system's machine to decide to turn its back on the country it was loyal to and help the writer?

At the beginning of the film, when Wesler was teaching the interrogation skills to his classmates, one of the students said, is it inhumane to not let the suspect eat? Wessler explained the question with a blank face, and at the same time drew a cross under the student's name on the roll. Because the requirements of this system have nothing to do with humanity and freedom, but whether to be loyal to the system, and Wesler is always practicing the life creed brought to him by this doctrine; he did not go to the officers' dining area at the dinner table, he said, equality always needs practice to get it. Perhaps only people who believe in this doctrine will serve the system so ruthlessly while demanding themselves strictly.

It was only when the monitoring started that his life was introduced into another world, which conveyed different information, perhaps bringing him new cognition, or awakening his long-repressed essence. The description in West Germany's book brought a different atmosphere to his life. Unlike the whole political atmosphere, the world in the book has the most simple nature; there is also the sonata, the melody of the piano is no longer an intentional sing-along. , but conveys the most real emotions: pain, nostalgia, reluctance, sadness, which can only be understood by those who really listen with their hearts. When the light of the camera hit Wesler's right face, I saw tears and the real listener. people.

Maybe it was being awakened, maybe it was being moved, maybe it was the most essential thing in human nature that was pulling Wesler out of the eavesdropping room and began to help his eavesdropping target.

"You are art yourself." The writer's love was restored. While tampering with the wiretapping records again and again, he also enjoyed listening to the writer's real thoughts and the true face of the world in the part of the wiretap. I think maybe there was a little curiosity that made him want the writer to write it down and take him to the Feel real and free. The world the writer brings to him may be different from the world instilled by the system, but I think it is the same as the world he wants, equality, fraternity, and freedom. When the writer began to reveal the unknown secrets of East Germany, Wessler also saw the real face of the world: the high-level political circles were only for their own interests, and the speech of more people was suppressed and persecuted. Perhaps this is why Wessler is determined to help the writer: from his panic when he heard the writer being searched in the wiretap room, to his composure when he interrogates the writer's wife, to the risk of sneaking into the writer's home and taking it away Evidence against the writer.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he walked out of the cellar silently; a few years later, he saw the author's new book, he walked into the store, picked up the book and walked to the cashier, when the clerk asked him if the book was going to be packaged as a gift At that time, he said lightly: "Yes, give it to yourself."

"You are a good person." So, this is a sonata dedicated to good people.

View more about The Lives of Others reviews

Extended Reading

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.