Nothing to do with Nazis

Kyle 2022-03-26 09:01:15

about people.

The black and white feel is good, quiet, and with its own microdermabrasion effect, the people and scenery are particularly textured.

It was deliberately shot in black and white, remember it was Nolan, it was a suspense film, and black and white can better set off the tense atmosphere. I didn't know anything about the movie before watching it, so according to the routine, I thought maybe it was a suspense movie, but I was wrong.

This movie is scarier than suspense.

From beginning to end, the film is alcohol and coffee, as well as fascism. I thought, maybe it's about the Nazis?

But I was wrong again.

Yes, the film is about Nazis. From the actors at the beginning of the episode of "Underground Romance between a Conscientious Nazi Party and a Jewish Woman", to the last time when the grandfather recalled the past and shouted "Long Live Hitler" in the tavern, the film must have experienced fascism with Germany, and then abandoned it after the war. about fascism. After all, this post-war German theme is very common in German films.

However, how to explain the appearance of the "obese woman" Eureka? Blame the sudden visit of the neighbors and alcoholics, the male protagonist's father is talking about the past, how to explain it?

It turns out that all people can't let go of the past. Nothing about Germany, nothing about Nazism.

The male protagonist's eyes are forever covered with melancholy and confusion. Seeing him reminds one of Milan Kundera's Thomas who "stands in front of a window in his apartment, looks across the courtyard, and stares at the wall of the house opposite, not knowing what he should do". On the surface, he was looking for something, looking for the swallowed bank card, looking for the most common kind of black coffee, looking for a passerby who could hand him a lighter.

He was thinking, and he told his father that he dropped out of school without telling his father, just to think. He couldn't understand why the people around him were saying strange things, why they were trying to avoid something. So, he needs black coffee, he needs to calm down and think. However, the world seems to refuse to give him a chance to think, only to give him cups and cups of vodka and beer, anaesthetize him, anaesthetize him again, anaesthetize him until he can't think and can only escape.

Eureka acted in an absurd drama, forcing the male protagonist to say that he loved the fat her when the sex was about to climax. When Eureka pierced the sore spot of the drunkard, the drunkard suddenly showed a hint of sorrow, but soon became angry and turned into fists and feet... The male protagonist has experienced all this, he looked at the brightly lit streets and buildings under the night sky, whether he would feel the surrounding Is everything weird?

Fortunately, there are old people.

"Night of Surprise", the male protagonist's friends are all playing rock and roll in the room, but the male protagonist slips out by going to the toilet and sleeps comfortably on the grandma's massage chair. Later, the male protagonist entered the tavern. As always, there was no black coffee. While the male protagonist was smoking a cigarette and planned to continue to use alcohol to numb himself (note that the male protagonist ordered vodka and beer here, the alcohol content was more than before), a An old alcoholic came over.

"Yo, there's a lone wolf here."

So the old man chattered about the past. Life seemed to come alive again. But 60 years later, people here are different, and everyone speaks an incomprehensible "language".

Perhaps, as the old man said, when he hit rocks, he was only worried about one thing, and that was that he could no longer ride his bike on the road. But why do people avoid the past? Why are they so nervous when it comes to Hitler and see him as a heretic.

When the grandfather died, I was very sad, and finally the "truth-teller" died. what does that mean? How much will he need to open the scar?

And this person who told the truth was actually a lonely old man who didn't even know what his surname was.

A few minutes of quiet street scene flashed by, how many undercurrents are hidden under the quiet appearance?

Finally, the male lead found his black coffee, and yes, he figured out why people are weird. So he combed his hair again, dressed like everyone else, but his eyes said that he would always be the lone wolf.

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Extended Reading
  • Thaddeus 2022-03-29 09:01:10

    On the plane, it's ok

  • Liana 2022-03-20 09:03:10

    It really captured the taste of [Sweet Life] and swept the 2013 German Academy Award.

A Coffee in Berlin quotes

  • Julika Hoffmann: [to a thug] what kinda guy are you? Let me guess. You were born an alcoholic because your mom couldn't stay off the booze during her pregnancy. How could she, when she got beaten up by daddy when he came home from the pub?

  • Café-Shop Angestellte: So, what it'll be?

    Niko Fischer: Coffee, please.

    Café-Shop Angestellte: To go, right?

    [pause]

    Café-Shop Angestellte: What kind?

    Niko Fischer: Just normal coffee.

    Café-Shop Angestellte: Wanna try something new? Today's special is the Marocchino. For 2 Euros extra, you get a doughnut or a seed roll, all homemade and organic.

    Niko Fischer: I think I'll stick with the coffee.

    Café-Shop Angestellte: Sure, we've got two kinds: the Arabica and the Columbia Morning.

    Niko Fischer: Which coffee tastes most like a regular coffee?

    Café-Shop Angestellte: I like both.

    Niko Fischer: I'll take the Columbia.

    Café-Shop Angestellte: The Columbia, then.

    [pause]

    Café-Shop Angestellte: You want milk. We've got soy milk.

    Niko Fischer: No, thanks.

    Café-Shop Angestellte: Okay, then. Three Euros forty, please.

    Niko Fischer: Without today's special. Just the coffee.

    Café-Shop Angestellte: Yes, three forty.

    Niko Fischer: Three forty for a regular coffee?

    Café-Shop Angestellte: Yeah, that's the Columbia.