For the beautifual and stubborn heroine, who is especially attractive for her smile with raised corner of the mouth, the keeper is the trauma that Englishman wants to keep under the water. And the film is about what will happen when the trauma under the water surfaces .
The trauma, ,who is kept shoveling the excrement in the toilet in the prisoners' camp, appered in the spotlight, that is, on the English football court, and deep into the English country, the typical English idylic country landscape. Therefore, what test the man's power is not the ability to fight in the war, or battle on the football court, but the courage to face the trauma, which is neither good or bad in itslef. Rather, it is something that happened and considered to be the trauma even though it might be something eles all together.
The trauma maybe the Nazi who volunteered in the German army and earned the iron cross for his cruel and barave cime of war against the Jew; it may be also the joyfulness of a child who finised his dinner with the presence of his parents and finally got the change to rush to his companion waiting outdoors. The trauma, that is, the keeper and the war criminal, is also the strong and invicible line of defence and also the child under the surveilance of his parent. In a word, it can be powerful and destroying as well as weak and dependent. However, the trauma is trauma, which is the incident that you stay with you and will torture your nerves, either bring about the sadness or joyfulness, the jouissance. It might be something that you should have done and it burdens your guilt ever since. And this trauma will strike back, causing the loss.It is all about the loss and gain, anger and peace. When you get angry, you burst into the action, and then you will loss. Therefore, the trauma is about the balance.
What decides the nature of the trauma is the subject's attitude towards it. "We move on, or we bury outslef". That is right the attitude toward it. It is this something that moves still that keeps us on the right track, and pay back the courage to forgive and accept. Abide with me, in life or in death, that is the right attitude toward it, toward the trauma.
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