1995 West German , 43-year-old Mike is a successful lawyer. He is not a high-ranking position, but he lives a wealthy life. Despite this, he rarely sees him having a comfortable and happy mood. He always looks thoughtful and has a lot of thoughts. Even after he and the girl are happy, he indifferently ignore the other party's emotions and feelings, and prepare breakfast on his own routine. He does nothing perfunctorily, until the girl slams the door and leaves bored, and cannot see him trying to keep or explain, let alone ripples in his heart. Looking at the subway passing through the window, thinking thoughts brought him back to West Germany in 1958 in
1958 in 15 years old. He suddenly felt uncomfortable on a tram covered by rain. After falling from the east and getting off the car, he felt dizzy and vomited. Hannah, who happened to go home, saw all this, enthusiastically wiped Mike who had been soaked by the rain with her handkerchief, and brought a bucket to help clean the vomit on the ground. Seeing Mike's trance, she hugged and comforted Mike with warm embrace. "Everything will be fine."
, when she returned home, she was soon found to have scarlet hot . Under the care of her mother, she gradually recovered her health after a few months. Hannah's enthusiastic help in the rain that day, she always kept it in her heart. Perhaps out of politeness, she brought a bouquet of flowers to Hannah's house to express her gratitude.
The second time Hannah showed unusual indifference and the scene was once embarrassed. After being at a loss, he thanked him and prepared to leave, but Hannah stopped him and said, "I'm going to work too, and I can go all the way later."
15-year-old Mike stood obediently in the corridor waiting. Through the crack of the door, he happened to see a mature 36-year-old woman. The adolescence of her adolescence was instantly attracted by Hannah's figure, until the two of them looked at each other, and the shy Mike ran away shyly. But this scene remained in the mind of young Mike.
The next day, Mike, who was deeply attracted by Hannah, came to Hannah's house again. When the door was locked and at a loss, Hannah walked up from downstairs with two buckets of coal. Seeing Mike standing in front of the door, Hannah was also shocked and immediately said to Mike as if nothing had happened: "There are two buckets of coal downstairs, lift it up." The tone of speaking was not at all polite, as if they had known each other for a long time, so it should be natural.
When Mike, with a coal ash on his face stood in front of Hannah again, seeing Mike's embarrassed and restrained look, Hannah lowered her head and smiled, "Boy, you have to wash..." Putting the water in the bathtub, seeing Mike's helpless and shy look, Hannah said, "Don't worry, I won't peek."
Mike lying in the bathtub looked at Hannah through the pane, with a restrained, awkward, and indescribable comfort and joy overflowing her face. Hannah brought a big towel and wrapped it around Mike. Hannah, who also had a naked body, stood behind Mike. Hannah was 36 years old this year.
After this passionate joy, Mike became even more addicted to it. He could not escape the desire for a mature woman. He always runs to Hannah's house whenever he has time. Hannah also guided Mike to gradually understand the joy of fish and water.
Until one day Mike took back a book and read the wonderful clips to Hannah with interest. Hannah immersed in it and praised her without stinginess. When Mike handed the book to Hannah and said, "You can read it too." Hannah pushed away the book she handed over and said, "I prefer to listen to you reading..."
Hannah praised Mike for being very good at it in her praise. When reading aloud, Mike didn't know how to answer. When she smiled awkwardly, Hannah's face showed a very angry expression and asked, "What's so funny?"
Mic's self-confidence was greatly encouraged during the interaction with Hannah. Mike, who used to be silent in front of his classmates, can now show great athletic talent in the game and help the team score points continuously.
One day, Mike came to the route of the car where Hannah sold her tickets again and deliberately got on the last car. He originally thought that Hannah would rush over to rush to him when she saw her, but after she found that Hannah saw her, she turned around and avoided it.Mike, who was unknown, came to Hannah's house the next day and wanted to ask or explain something clearly. Hannah was furious after seeing him and loudly scolded Mike for not wanting to see herself at all. No matter how Mike explains it, it is in exchange for a sentence: "You can't affect my emotions at all. You are not important enough to affect my emotions. The resentment between the two people is gradually escalating. Mike also realizes that his prank is too much. He is like a child who has made a mistake and reveals his true thoughts to Hannah.
Hannah changed the rules of the game. Every time the two people meet, Mike must first read an article to her. During each reading, Mike also feels Hannah often gets deeply trapped in the story characters and plots in the book, either smiling happily or crying sadly.
From then on, reading aloud became a convention in the date between Mike and Hannah. Even before joy,
The days of getting along are always happy, and the days of getting along require some surprises. In order to let Hannah feel more happiness, Mike invites Hannah to have a hike Cycling, two people in love, two bicycles with wind all the way, the beautiful scenery of the wind blowing the wheat waves and the wind that intoxicates the air, filled the laughter of the two people along the way.
Stopped in the shop, and the store delivered the menu. Hannah looked unnatural and rapid with the menu. When Mike asked gently what you wanted to eat, Hannah replied: "What do you eat, what do I eat?" Yu Guang turned to a group of children next to him who were also hiking and outing, and he looked at the menu. Mike said and said and laughed. Didn't realize the embarrassment on Hannah's face. After eating simply, the female shop owner politely said to Mike: "I hope your mother can satisfy today's meal..." Mike didn't answer a word, and gave Hannah a deep kiss in front of the female shop owner.
Passed by a church, and the elegant and melodious singing was being rehearsed in the church, which attracted Hannah. He walked into the church and sat quietly in the last row, enjoying the performance of the choir with emotion. As the singing rose and fell , tears filled his eyes, and all this moved Mike, who was standing by, quietly admiring Hanna's beauty, like an angel.
soon got the opportunity to be promoted because of Hanna's excellent performance, but it seemed that Hanna did not show any joy in this promotion, but was arranged to work in the office, seemingly anxious.
Mike also celebrated his birthday, and the classmates specially prepared for a birthday celebration. Mike, who was not online at all, decisively refused the arrangements and invitations of his classmates, even if one of the beautiful female classmates who had a very good impression of him.
left his classmate Mike Fei and ran to Hanna's house. I had no idea that Hannah seemed particularly anxious and irritable because of her promotion. The two of them had another fierce quarrel. Mike told Hannah that today was her birthday, but in order to see you, I even turned down the birthday party specially held for me by my classmates. And Hannah did not explain the reason for her anxiety and irritability.
A little calmed down, Hannah put water in the bathtub for Mike, but she wiped Mike's body seriously without any expression. Then the two kissed deeply, and she looked so attentive. She held Mike's face for a long time, looking so reluctant. After some tenderness, Hannah told Mike that it's time to go back to your classmates. And Mike didn't notice anything unusual.
After socializing with classmates, when Mike returned to Hannah's residence again, the building was empty, and the piece of paper was not left. It was obvious that Hannah didn't want Mike to know where she was and whereabouts.
Time flies very quickly, and it is 1966. By this time, Germany had ended the war, but the trial of the Nazis was continuing. At this time, Mike was already a top student at Heidelberg Law School and participated in a special seminar on "Analysis of the Crimes of the Germans" organized by Professor Luo.
Never expected that in this trial that was watching, Mike heard and saw Hannah who had been away for a long time.Hannah, who had been eight years later, is sitting in the dock at this moment. The court is accepting the accusation from victims and survivors for the crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp guards against Jews during the World War II .
Hannah was accused of killing Jews in the concentration camp while serving as a guard in the Nazi concentration camp. Survivors accused Hannah of having a special hobby during her concentration camp, always liked to select young girls, first arrange accommodation for them, provide food, and then let the girls read it aloud. However, afterwards, the girls were sent coldly to the gas chamber .
In an air strike, the church was hit by a bomb. Facing the burning church, as a guard, Hannah and her accomplices, instead of assisting in escaping, locked the church door, causing 300 Jews to be burned alive.
This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Mike. He could not have thought that Hannah left to join the Nazi Defense Forces; he couldn't have thought that the woman he once loved deeply was actually a murderous demon. The result of the chance encounter caught Mike off guard. He simply couldn't accept this reality.
When the court took out a report, accusing the report of Hannah of writing and asking Hannah to compare her handwriting on the spot, Hannah stared at the paper and pen handed over to the court for a long time, but she was unable to start writing.
Mic instantly recalled the days when he was with Hannah in the past, why did Hannah always like to let him read aloud; why did Hannah seem anxious when facing the menu; why did he tell Hannah that you can read books yourself, Hannah pushed the book away without thinking.
Hannah is illiterate, she is illiterate and can't write!
Return to Law School , facing classmates’ doubts: Six women made 300 Jews burn to death, what else do we need to know? Mike was speechless when he was asked about this question.
Is there anything more beneficial to you than admitting that you are illiterate, thereby reducing the punishment or even changing the entire judgment? Being stuck to this illiterate secret is the best choice to relieve one's shame?
Finally, at the last moment when he followed Professor Luo's advice to talk to Hannah, Mike chose to give up. During
, Mike visited Auschwitz concentration camp and saw the piles of shoes; saw the crematorium in the concentration camp; saw the environment in which the concentration camp lived, and his hatred for Hannah exceeded the love he had thought about day and night, and he could not convince himself. Finally, Hannah was sentenced to life imprisonment for suspected mastermind massacre of Jews. More than 0 years later, Mike divorced and brought his daughter back to the small town he once lived in. Here are all the traces of himself and Hannah when he was a teenager. The pain that spreads over the sky tortures Mike every minute.
Open the book he had read to Hannah, and an unstoppable urge made Mike start reading for Hannah again. Hannah soon received a tape from Mike in prison, and when she turned on the recorder and heard a familiar sound, Hannah was completely out of control.
Mike kept recording reading tapes for Hannah. Hannah, who was never literate and didn't read books, walked into the prison library for the first time. Based on Mike's reading, she found one book after another, began to read literate word by word, and slowly learned to write, but through learning, she used only words that could be written crookedly, and all the letters sent to Mike were sank.
Another 20 years passed, and Hannah received a commutation of her sentence for her good performance. When Mike received a call from the prison and informed the news, he decided to go to the prison to meet Hannah.
This year, Mike was 43 years old; Hannah 63.
The meeting between the two was excited and calm. Mike still couldn't let go of what Hannah had done during World War II, and Hannah still called the familiar name: "Boy"
After a week, Hannah was arranged to pick Hannah up and start a new life. Mike left the prison with an extremely complicated emotion. Preparing for Hannah's release.
A week later, what Mike got was the news that Hannah was standing on a pile of books and hanged herself in prison. Walking into the cell where Hannah once lived, Mike regretted it.In fact, he had already forgiven Hannah in his heart, and it was only him who couldn't get out of it. After fulfilling Hannah's last wish, Mike also decided to share his story with Hannah with his daughter. Only by sharing secrets can one be free and the cage can one become a fence, although they have only been together for a summer. But it became the mark of his life.
The more Hannah listens to reading aloud, the stronger her yearning for beautiful things in the cultural world. The more fearful she is of her inferiority complex with her illiterate identity, the more painful her disgust with her Nazi identity. Until that last meeting with Mike, a hug she wanted was also rejected by Mike indifferently. She then understood why people cursed her, resisted her, and hated her. Perhaps only death is the final destination.
Even if she committed suicide, she wouldn't want her books to get dirty by her shoes.
Stephen Deedley works were staged at the same time in the United States and Germany in 2008.
At the 81st Oscar in early 2009, the film won 5 nominations, including Best Actress. In the end, Winslet won the best Oscar for the film. There are a large number of large-scale shots in
films, but looking at this video from a sexual perspective is obviously not serious. Although the film is a feature film about love, it is also a profound reflection on World War II. Whether it is a winner or a loser, the harm brought to people by war will never be erased.
Who will be the winner of a war?
Who will be the loser of a war?
For humans themselves...
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