All of that came to an abrupt end in mid-air.

Freda 2022-01-25 08:08:11

I don't think Michael and Hanna actually ever fell in love.
"The Reader" is good-looking, not because it is a love movie, but because it uses a staggered love to bring us too much thinking beyond love.

When the boy met Hanna, he gave her the most obsessive love in his life.
Youthful, attached, pure, scorching hot, endless desire, beauty in the sun... He watched her swimming in the sun, the lake water soaked her clothes, her body was covered with golden nude makeup, She is as beautiful as nature, he wrote poems for her, and he sang for the unwavering and unwavering love he had never experienced before. It was her who made him, who grew up in a cold family, richer and more fulfilling.

Don't be afraid,
I'm not afraid of anything, the
more painful it is, the more I like it.
Danger can only make me more afraid, it
can make love sublime and
bring love to love.
I am your only angel. When you
leave the world, it will be better than entering this world.
Heaven will bring you back.
I look at you and say:
There is only one thing that can make the soul whole, and
that is love.

Everything came to an abrupt end in the afternoon when Hanna suddenly left, like a roller coaster that suddenly lost its centripetal force at a high altitude.
Melancholy and disappointment after orgasm.

There is no woman who can surpass Hanna again, and it is not necessarily that they do not have Hanna's beauty, but the eyes in the young man's heart, never diverting his gaze, with poetic warmth, to outline the undulating curve, touch the plump Flesh.

There are many people who say that there is no need to make this film an R rating, but I think it must be.
Trying to start from Michael's point of view, what he can't forget the most is Hanna's body like in the oil painting, their loveless sex, and the pure love in the bright spring.
As much stimulation as those pictures give to a child who has just tasted human affairs, it should give us as much in the movie.

If it weren't for the reunion in court eight years later, maybe it was just a beautiful secret.
When the boy grows up, he becomes extraordinarily unique because of this secret. Unlike those boys who are eagerly waiting to find a girl to experience the forbidden fruit and want to pass adolescence quickly, he has maturity beyond his age and brings With a little mystery.
Maybe he can bury this secret for a lifetime, maybe he can always keep Hanna as his favorite, maybe he can always take that bright summer as a kind of happy consolation.
But the truth was so cruel, eight years later he learned that Hanna, the goddess, was the Nazi guard who killed 300 lives.

In court, Hanna innocently and ignorantly said "Yes."
She killed 300 people 20 years ago and the heart of a teenager 20 years later.
This secret could not be beautiful in the young man's heart. When he knew that she treated the children in the concentration camp and the way she treated him was read aloud to her, he shuddered, and the panic in his heart overturned all the remaining beautiful thoughts. An admirably beautiful summer picture, only stink and pitch black after being splashed with ink.

That night, Michael found a girl of the same class who liked him to have sex. In fact, from that moment on, he was the same as everyone.
Love is still there, but the lover is dead.

This is a tragedy of the times. The 21-year-old difference between them is a chasm of the times that cannot be filled, a generation that was brainwashed by the Nazis and lacked human understanding, and a generation that reflected on the Nazis’ overcompensation for humanity. People of one political party, or people of two religious beliefs are far more different.

Hanna didn't know the meaning of her actions until she died, and she couldn't understand it either.
The time she really fell in love with Michael was only in prison, because he was her only hope and dependence, and he could make her feel that she was still needed and had meaning in life.
It was only then that Michael didn't love her anymore, or, in other words, couldn't love her.

Does Hanna really understand love? This may all be an issue.
Her personality was incomplete from the beginning. She was inferior and self-respecting, unable to identify with her true self, but believed in a self that was higher than her ideology. (She had sex with a teenager, but when she heard the paragraph describing sex, she told the teenager that you should be ashamed.) She never needed him, and she heard Michael and her saying, "I can't live without you." Still in a In the afternoon, she brushed the milk bottle and packed her luggage safely and left indifferently. The order of indifference she maintained in her heart was not for others, nor for herself, but for her self that was higher than her ideology. This is the sadness of that era.

Love often grows wildly on the road full of thorns, which is basically the routine of all great and touching romance films.
But when love is suspended in the history of the fault, what else can you sense besides the love that can no longer be touched?

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Extended Reading
  • Belle 2022-03-23 09:01:33

    This movie is of great significance to me. I specially found novels to read, and I also wrote fan novels. This movie vividly records the years of high school from the side. The fall of the Berlin Wall represents the arrival of a new era. The sins of a generation need to be flogged and encouraged with conscience, culture, and constant vigilance. The past is in the past and cannot be changed. Responsible, we can create a new future, full marks.

  • Gloria 2022-03-23 09:01:33

    I thought I forgot, but I was reminded every moment, even after many years, this is still a secret that belongs to me alone, even you don't understand

The Reader quotes

  • Professor Rohl: Societies think they operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law.

    Professor Rohl: 8000 people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only 6 of murder.

    Professor Rohl: The question is never "Was it wrong", but "Was it legal". And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time.

  • Michael: What are you doing? What is this? Why did you behave as if you didn't know me?

    Hanna Schmitz: You didn't want to know me! You could see I was in the first carriage. So why did you get on the second?

    Michael: What did you think I was doing? Why the hell did you think I was there?

    Hanna Schmitz: How should I know? I've been working. I need a bath, and I'd like to be by myself. Would you please leave?

    Michael: I didn't mean to upset you.

    Hanna Schmitz: You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.