I believe this love exists

Carson 2022-04-19 09:02:44

I watched the 1970s film "The Night Porter" by Italian female director Liliana Cavni at noon. The legendary famous European controversial erotic film, but the sex scene in it will not be more than any Hollywood love film, so I thought it was an abridged version.
(Reminiscent of the domestic clean book "Jin Ping Mei", at every critical moment, there will be a "delete two hundred words here", leaving a string of ambiguous small squares, which makes people tickle. So my life ideal is One is to read the entire "Golden Vase" once, but unfortunately it has not been realized yet.)
But aside from this point, this movie is still very cool. It is about the love between a Nazi officer and a Jewish girl in a concentration camp. More than ten years later, the two met again in Vienna and gave their lives for this love.
Someone wrote a film review questioning that the relationship between the two is not love, but a perverted SM relationship. Whether it's SM or not, two people are willing to sacrifice their lives for it, that's enough.
And their relationship was questioned, only because one was a Nazi and the other was a Jew. The relationship between the two social groups is the murderer and the murdered. According to common sense, it is impossible for individuals in the two parties to have love. But, that's how love happened. I believe in the possibility of such love.
The cinematography and music are beautiful. Mozart's "The Magic Flute" runs through the entire film, unintentionally giving the film a poetic mood.
As perverted as the Nazis were, German officers were cool, from uniform to spirit. Watching too many WWII films makes me feel this way involuntarily.

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Extended Reading
  • Norberto 2022-03-27 09:01:19

    Se ho voluto vivere come una talpa c'è una ragione.

  • Watson 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    Ha, the release date was April 3, 1974, and I was watching it on April 3, 36 years later. Charlotte's temperament is really unique, especially her eyes, which are unforgettable and unforgettable. I met her in Ozon's Poolside Murder (she should be almost fifty in this film), and I was very impressed with her at the time, perfect profile.

The Night Porter quotes

  • Hans: I'm only here to ask you some questions on behalf of myself and the others, and to have a look at you. Look, I could have come at another time to see him too, but, I don't need to speak to him. I don't need to speak to him... in front of you. Useless. With this business of the trial, he's... become too diffident.

    Lucia: He's right.

    Hans: What do you mean?

    Lucia: Because then for the first time he saw you all clearly. Nothing's changed, has it?

    Hans: You're wrong. We've all had our trials. Now we are cured and live in peace with ourselves.

    Lucia: There's no cure.

    Hans: It is you who are ill. Otherwise, you wouldn't be with somebody who made you...

    Lucia: That's my affair.

    Hans: Very well. But nevertheless, your mind is disturbed. That's why you're here, fishing up the past.

    Lucia: Max is more than just the past.

    [Lucia crawls under a table]

    Hans: Listen. Why don't you go to the police? If you want to, I'll take you. Hm?

    Lucia: Dr. Fogler, I remember you so well. You gave a lot of orders.

    Hans: Then you can't have forgotten that your Max was an obedient Sturmscharführer. Remember?

    Lucia: I don't remember.

    Hans: I certainly can't oblige you to remember if you don't want to.

    [clears his throat]

    Hans: I'm only here to ask you to testify, to find out... if the situation in which you find yourself is of your own choice.

    Lucia: I'm all right here.

    Hans: Yes. You both want to live in peace, right? One lives in peace... when one is in harmony with one's close friends, when one respects an agreement. Tell Max that. We could have denounced him to the police for the murder of Mario. But we didn't. Max is ill. He mustn't be too far away from us! He's locked you up here. We could go to the police about that, too, no?

    Lucia: I'm here of my own free will. This chain is because of you, so none of you can take me away.

    Hans: If we wanted to carry you off, would this chain stop us? You poor fool. A chain can be cut. None of us is thinking of violence.

    Lucia: Hmm, I know how your, your witnesses end up. Max told me.

    [Lucia crawls out from under the table, away from Hans]

    Hans: Max doesn't know what he's saying or doing. His mind is disordered.

    Lucia: [crawling into the bathroom] Get out. Go away. Go away!

    [slams the door]

    Hans: If you change your mind, if the chain grows heavy... call me.

  • [last lines]

    Bert: Well?

    Klaus: He doesn't answer. It's off the hook.

    [lights a cigarette]

    Klaus: Tell me, Bert. How long have you known Max?

    Bert: Let's not talk about it.

    Klaus: You don't, er... dance for him anymore?

    Bert: I've lost him.