"The Hidden Life" took two time periods to read, but I was not tired at all. I cried as the death knell sounded in the beautiful Alpine valley like a fairyland.
How powerful is one's faith? And this belief seems uncertain. Take a look at this conversation:
Judge: You won't change anyone
Franz: (silence)
Judge: Will you judge me?
Franz: I'm not going to judge him wrong and I'm right. I have a lot of ignorance. A man may do wrong and cannot escape and cannot wash away his sins, and he may want to turn back, but it is no longer possible. But I had this feeling inside of me that I couldn't do what I thought was wrong.
Judge: Do you have the right to do this?
Franz: I don't have the right to do that?
Franz was taken out of the judge's office, and the judge sat in the seat Franz had sat, with his hands on his knees, shaking,...
death penalty!
Check out this heart-wrenching conversation:
Franz: Do you understand me?
Fanny cried for a long time: I love you, understand you, support you, whatever you do...do the right thing
Franz's calm face showed a mixture of sadness and joy, and tears filled his eyes that had not shed tears for a long time.
It's just an intuition. I can't kill innocent people. I don't have any arguments to support this view. He is just a farmer on a mountain farm, and he can't cite scriptures to prove his point of view. The priest can't stand on his side, let alone. The people in the village were hostile to their family, the mother didn't understand him, and he even suffered physical torture and mental humiliation for it, and even paid the price of his life for this (the lawyer said it was meaningless). Families will live a very embarrassing life of bereavement.
How can one person do this? Can you oppose power and offend the anger just for a simple thought?
You may not believe this man exists, but this movie is based on real events.
There is always a kind of good in human nature, it does not need to be reminded, it is actually empathy. I have a wife that I know and love each other, three lovely daughters, a mother, a farm, and a picturesque landscape. How much do I want this fairyland-like world to go on forever? The only way Franz could think of maintaining Wonderland was not to destroy it. So after being recruited, he confessed that he would not be loyal to Hitler, would not go on the battlefield, would not kill, and would not harm innocents.
The Alpine valley is so beautiful that you can sacrifice your life for it, but in such a beautiful nature, there are also a group of people who can insult and isolate people who are not indiscriminate. Perhaps the image of the valley never represents pure beauty, it may also be a symbol of ignorance, closure and cruelty. .
Fanny was indifferent and discriminated against in a familiar valley, but in an unfamiliar town, she gained the friendliness of strangers. This is what we need to be vigilant about.
The letters of Franz and his wife are like poems. If the other party is not a confidant, the letter is only an inner monologue. Perhaps the most comforting thing to the audience is that this letter is both an inner monologue and a mutual comfort between two similar souls. Encourage and support. So, what about even in the face of death?
Music and snow-capped mountains and rapids and wheat fields and wildflowers and chasing and plowshares...
The details are full of meaning:
After Franz left, the two sisters could only use cows to cultivate the land, and then the two sisters cultivated the land without cows.
The jailer told Franz to sit down, up, pull the stool, get up, sit down, pull the stool, and fall to the ground again. This is not punishment, but more like a game, but Franz has no right to refuse, so the behavior of the jailer's seemingly child's play is a crime and a personal insult, and the evil of human nature always exists in an innocent way.
After a jailer took Franz to the car on the execution ground, he was swaying and dancing on the street. He thought he was carrying out his task objectively, and that he could relax after a period of work, but he would not reflect on the evil. Life is unbearably light!
Franz had already been sentenced to death, but as he passed a fallen umbrella, he leaned over to straighten it and put it firmly back on the wall.
Franz's dialogue with the church painter is also quite meaningful: conscience turns us into cowards. The Antichrist uses human virtues to mislead people.
Fanny's father said to her: Bad things don't happen to good people.
It is better to suffer injustice than to perpetrate it.
There is an interesting but reasonable logic chain here: the daughter educated by a father who insists on justice must be just like the father, and the husband who loves such a woman must also be kind and upright. No wonder Mother Franz complains, my son wasn't like this before, since marrying you.
In fact, Franz's "different" is not without reason, he will also affect many people, even if he is so small.
The director let us see that he was trapped in a dark and narrow space without green plants, but he forgot that his soul had already given birth to light wings, the beautiful Alps, the high blue sky, the clear mountain streams and the boundless green grass, All are his incarnations.
The director made the couple's dialogue clear like the gospel lingering in our ears, and made those accusations, roars and insults unclear. This is also carefully designed by the director. They may be speaking German or dialects, but they just can't let us hear clearly, This may also be to convey Franz's heart: in the eyes of people with firm beliefs, they are like spider silk and light dust, almost non-existent, and can not damage his will in the slightest.
To end with Elliott's words--
"Because the growth of good in the world is partly due to those insignificant actions, and the reason why you and I are not so miserable is also due to the fact that those who do not hear about it, spend their lives faithfully and then rest in the grave that no one pays tribute to. people in."
"The Hidden Life" is perfect, beautiful for the eyes, ears and heart.
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