As the foreman of the Paris Hotel said to Dieter, "I have served the King of England." The hero of this film also used such a tone to recall his own life. In the vicissitudes of time, a small but well-rounded waiter realizes his dream of becoming a millionaire step by step in the turbulent "big era". Dieter's face always had that confident and energetic smile on his face, which made people feel the great wisdom of ordinary people. Like Kundera's novels, the film embeds the Czech nation's grief in it, making people sigh at the passage of time, and those hidden pains that are still difficult to be healed by the years. But unlike those characters in Kundera's writings who are penetrating through life but still entangled in them, Dieter is obviously more approachable, allowing us to see the bottom-up wisdom of the Czech nation.
The film is light-hearted, rhythmic, and makes me fascinated by the lighthearted moments of Giuseppe Donatore's films. After watching it, I found it more like Chaplin's "The Great Era". When Dieter argued with the professor that "man is the offspring of evil, stupidity, and crime", it was precisely the ascension of human nature, which downplayed doctrine, class, and ideology, and returned to the most simple beauty of human nature.
After watching the movie, I understood the sentence at the beginning - "My happiness often comes from the misfortune I have encountered."
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