As a history and French lover, I watched this film with a learner mentality from the beginning. Although I was still a learner at the end of the song, I thought that what I learned had changed.
The general direction of the film is still the popular World War II and Jews in recent years, but the director did not describe the big war too much, but focused on a small person, who was not even an adult at the time, and was very concerned about Vichy's behavior. Start with the child who doesn't understand, and complain through her life, which arouses our deep thinking.
There are a few details and a few people in the movie that have been stuck in my mind.
First was Jacques, the man who left the apple for Sarah from under his feet, the man who pulled up the barbed wire with both hands to let her escape. Sarah moved him twice with her eyes, which must be said to be a triumph of humanity. But this kind of human victory is too small in the whole play, just like the red flag of victory is slightly white in the clouds in the distance. In the end, Jacques covered his lips with the back of his barbed hand and looked into the distance, maybe he was praying or crying, I don't know.
When Sarah and another partner went to a small village after a long day of running, they wanted to ask someone nearby for a drink, but they were ruthlessly rejected. "Are you still a watchdog?" Jules said to the dog as he drove them away. Perhaps, this sentence is a mockery of the Vichy government.
But in the end, humanity prevailed. If Jacques's victory cannot be seen throughout the film, Jules' upbringing is arguably the most touching event in the film. When he said "Long live Hitler" to the soldier and sent him away, the world was full of sunshine.
Of course, the female reporter was the clue to this incident and a character that moved me very much. She flew from France to the United States and then to Italy. This is her obsession with the truth, or her stubbornness to ideals and her commitment to history. respect. If you look at some journalists in a certain country, you may be able to appreciate the respect I have for her.
In the end, Sarah died. She chose the rainy day, the blue car, and the forever please. But she at least remembered what the old man said in the car to the concentration camp, "There is poison in this ring, no one can decide my life or death, no." Now, the new sarah can live happily, standing In front of the window, looking at the world of lights.
I didn't realize until the end that the title of the film was elle s'appelait sarah. Sarah couldn't save her brother after all, maybe his brother couldn't survive no matter what, that key just made him die with more dignity.
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