The two were simulating or relived almost everything in the concentration camp that year. Desperate imprisonment, crazy desire, attachment and hatred for each other, only blood can make each other happy. When they met, death was like a knife in the past, pushing them to despair step by step.
The fragmented flashbacks in the film reveal a little bit of scenes that took place during the concentration camp. Both Lucia and Max have painful scars on their bodies. These scars are time bombs on their bodies. They are each other's fuzes. When they met, the fuzes had been ignited and then burned slowly. When Lucia grew up, she was the wife of a musician. She was elegant and beautiful. Everything in the concentration camp at the age of 14 didn't seem to harm her life. She thought she could escape from this city and all of this, but she still couldn't help but keep it. Down. She couldn't walk away, she had to stay, because that person was here, the military doctor in the concentration camp, played with her and attached to her, that person witnessed her youth. And these heavy past events crushed both her and him.
Perhaps from this perspective, human nature is sometimes the most complex and innocent. When the violence occurred, how many people chose to obey, and when the violence ended, how many people chose to forget. It’s just that some people really forget when they forget, some people think they have not forgotten, some people pretend to forget when they remember, and some people never forget, but the past will grow in their hearts, and one day they will Kill them.
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