Life and Death Reading is a British film in 2008. The following are the classic lines of the film. Let's review it together.

In fact, restoring confidence has nothing to do with success. Every goal I set, every desire for praise from the outside world, makes what I really achieved look worthless by comparison. Moreover, whether I feel worthless or proud depends only on my state of mind at that time and has nothing to do with anything else.

2. I also remember that a small gesture of love, whether directed at me or others, will make my throat bite with excitement. Sometimes, a plot in the movie is enough to make me so excited. I'm insensitive and sentimental, and I can't believe it myself.

3. I am not afraid. I am not afraid of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love.

I'm not saying that thinking and decision-making have no effect on behavior. But what behavior achieves is not simply to realize thinking and decision. Behavior has its own origin, it is my behavior, and it has its own unique way. Just like my idea is my idea, my decision can only be my decision.

5. How long will you keep a secret?

6. When we open our hearts, we become one. When we are immersed in it, you have me and I have you. When we disappear, you are in my heart and I am in your heart. After that, I am me and you are you.

7. You are so familiar with an environment or a situation that everything you feel and accept that surprises you doesn't come from the outside, but from your heart.

8. I am not intimidated. I'm not afraid of anything. The more I endure, the more I love her. Danger will only increase my love. Will make love sharp and interesting. I will be the only angel you need. When you leave your life, it will be better than when you have it. Heaven will take you away. Looking at you, I will tell you that there is only one thing that can make your soul complete.

9. Memories are left behind, just like a train moving on, leaving a city behind. It still exists, lurking somewhere, and I can sail to it and get it at any time. However, I don't have to do this.

10. I have a feeling that she will say that she can only keep a practical distance from me as in the past. I'm afraid that she will say that those irrelevant, hidden greetings and tapes are too artificial and hurtful, so she must bear the immediate pain. How can we meet face to face again without feeling sick about what happened between us during this time?

1 1. Only one thing can make the soul complete, and that is love. Reader's comment: The object of confession must be literary youth, remember.

12. However, she looked at everything in the world and walked away. It is a kind of eyes that look at everything, deeply hurt, completely desperate and infinitely tired, a kind of eyes that no one wants to see anything anymore.

13. Is everyone like this? When I was young, I always felt confident for a while and lost for a while. I imagine myself completely incompetent, unattractive and worthless. At the same time, I feel that I am a natural talent and I am sure to succeed in the future. When I am confident, I can overcome even the biggest difficulties, but even the smallest mistakes convince me that I am still useless.

14. The purpose of doing something is not to show the world what she can do, but to hide what she can't do. This is a life in which the beginning means failure, while victory hides failure.

15. I know that denial is a specious betrayal. Although, no matter whether a person is lying or just speaking cautiously, after careful consideration, in order to avoid being embarrassed or becoming a laughing stock, it can't be seen from the outside. Some people take a denial attitude, and only they know it. However, if you lie, you will eventually take away the foundation of that relationship, just like those fancy betrayals.

16. The only thing that can make life complete is love. The only thing that can make life complete is love.

17.？ I think what you said is quite reasonable. There is no reason for war and hatred. The executioner will kill anyone who hates him or not. Because he was following orders? Do you think they did it because he was ordered to do it? Do you think I'm talking about orders and obedience now? We're talking about orders from concentration camps and guards. Do they have to obey them? He smiled contemptuously. No, I'm not talking about orders and obeying orders. The executioner didn't execute any orders. He is finishing his work. He won't execute people he hates. He's not getting back at them. Kill them, not because they stood in his way or threatened and attacked him. They are indifferent to him, so it makes no difference whether he kills them or not. ?

18. In addition, I even doubt whether my happy memory is true. Because, the more I think about it, the more I think about some embarrassing scenes and painful situations. Besides, although I have bid farewell to Hannah's memory, I have not overcome it. Hannah used to be too much for water, and I am no longer grovelling to others and ashamed of myself; I no longer take responsibility or feel guilty; I no longer love anyone, for fear of losing it, and I feel extremely sad again. I don't pretend to have a clear idea about all this, but I feel rock solid.

Further reading

abstract

After World War II, Germany, as a defeated country, was under the control of the Allies and the Soviet Union, and everything was very depressed. 15-year-old boy Michael living in Berlin? Berg suffers from scarlet fever, but he still goes to the distant library by bus from time to time to find his favorite books. For the teenager in this post-war control area, this is his only entertainment. Misa once caught scarlet fever on the road, and Hannah sent him home, and they gradually began to talk. Healthy Misa went to Hannah's house to thank her for saving her life. In Hannah's home, Misa felt extraordinary happiness for the first time.

A wonderful chemical reaction took place in the relationship between two people, and lust turned into love. He and Hannah met more and more privately, and they spent their own happy time in Hannah's apartment. Hannah often asks Misa to bring different books and read them to her slowly. The contradiction between Michelle and Hannah gradually broke out in the process of getting along. Michelle tried to resist the sense of obedience brought about by the age gap and wanted to get rid of her naivety and cowardice. Finally, one day, Misa went to Hannah's apartment and found that the building was empty. This fruitless love came to an end.

Before graduation, Misa took part in the trial of Nazi war criminals as an intern. On the trial bench, Misa never dreamed that Hannah was sitting on the war criminals' bench! The trial has begun. It turns out that Hannah was a guard in a Nazi concentration camp. Perhaps out of remorse or ignorance of the law, Hannah confessed to the accusation, and because she didn't want to expose the fact that she couldn't read in front of everyone, she accepted an important task that didn't belong to her. Misa now has the ability to help Hannah clarify the facts. Out of condemnation of Hannah's crimes and unwillingness to expose his relationship with Hannah, he chose silence and even didn't have the courage to encourage Hannah. Eventually Hannah was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Many years later, Misa began to send Hannah a tape that she read aloud, which made Hannah rediscover the meaning and courage of life. Through word-for-word comparison between tapes and books, Hannah learned to read and write! Start writing to Michael. Michael never came back. Maybe he wants to escape the feeling of remorse; Maybe he didn't have the courage to face Hannah. This made Hannah feel extremely lonely. Hannah should be released from prison. When Michelle came to prison, she saw Hannah, who was already white-haired. Although she promised to provide Hannah with material help after she was released from prison, she refused to communicate with her heart. Hannah committed suicide in despair.

Helping Hannah deal with her last wish didn't get Michael out of his remorse. He finally chose to talk to vent his inner pain.

Role introduction

Hanna. Schmitz

Actress Kate? Winslet

Hanna. Schmitch is illiterate and keen on listening and reading. The stronger she yearns for the beautiful things in the cultural world, the more she wants to protect her self-esteem. In order to cover up the fact that she can't read, she will lie, hurt the person who loves her, a contradictory individual, and finally commit suicide in prison.

Eichmann

Actor David? Klaus

Eichmann is a dedicated, rigorous and diligent official, who is very efficient every day by burying himself in schedules, reports, statistics of wagons and heads. As a literate person? Expert? But giving up personal thinking, judgment and dignity runs counter to Hannah's pursuit.

Middle-aged Eichmann

Actor Ralph? Fiennes

Middle-aged Eichmann is more calm and mature.

Related information: "Reader" Author: The only responsibility of a writer is to tell the truth.

If someone asks what is the most famous German literary work in China in recent ten years, the answer will probably be The Reader. With the great radiation of Hollywood on the big screen, the author Ben Harder? Schlink's name is also familiar to readers in China. Although Schlink is only an amateur writer, Reader has been translated into more than 40 languages since the publication of 1995, leading the reading trend in the United States? Oprah's book club? Recommended. There is no doubt that readers are easy to read and sell, and the love, dignity and redemption carried by the novel itself also add thickness to it. At noon in mid-February, 65438, the reporter of Global Times had a face-to-face opportunity with Schlink at Einstein Cafe on Bodhi Avenue in Berlin.

Pay attention to the relationship between the post-war generation and the war generation

As soon as I saw you, Benhard? Schlink's slim and handsome appearance is hard to reconcile? Over half a year old? Be with each other. At the age of 67, he was enjoying teaching? Mother of modern universities? Humboldt University in Berlin. Schlink has made great achievements in the legal field. He was a lawyer six years ago. Sino-German legal dialogue? One of the experts has been to Beijing. Although Schlink published his first novel at the age of 44, people now call him more a writer than a professor of illegal studies. Readers are undoubtedly his most dazzling symbol.

Speaking of readers, some public opinion is used to comparing it with? Reflection? 、? Nazi? 、? Tuyou? And other words. In this regard, Schlink responded: For me, how to deal with the relationship with relatives and how parents explain to future generations are the contents I want to embody in the book. When schools and society are involved in such events, a network is formed, and this network's love and concern for the parties, social unity and national identity is reflected in the works. ? This is in line with Schlink's statement two years ago, namely? Life and Death Reading is not about the Nazi or Jewish Holocaust. Is it a book about the relationship between the post-war generation and the war generation? .

Will such a heavy writing responsibility become an unbearable burden for popular works? Schlink's response is short:? A writer's only responsibility is to keep his works authentic. ? But how can it be true for a novel that is fictional in itself? Schlink said? Although the novel is a literary work, whether the social events and historical fragments reflected in it are fictional or truly reflect the social reality at that time depends on the writer's attitude. In my opinion, realism is a writer's responsibility. The novel needs to reflect the events at that time, and the characters in the novel need to choose the attitude towards historical events, whether to face or cover up. ?

With this foreshadowing, readers can easily understand Hannah's behavior. Schlink said in an interview with American talk show queen oprah winfrey in 2009. If you look at the Holocaust period and biographies reflecting that history, you will find that Hannah's story is by no means a case. ?

The Third Reich is an unhealed wound in the hearts of Germans.

1945, the end of the Third Reich. 1989, East and West Germany merged and the Berlin Wall collapsed. When the Berlin Wall fell, Schlink lived in Bonn, West Germany. Two months later, he came to Berlin and became the first visiting professor from West Germany to Humboldt University.

The ups and downs of German historical changes inevitably left a deep imprint on Schlink. When talking about this experience, Schlink said? As a German, I feel sorry for the split between two Germans from the bottom of my heart. In the 1970s, I went to college in West Berlin, and I had many friends from West Berlin and East Berlin. Moreover, during the separatist period, many former German celebrities were attributed to the territory of East Germany, such as the famous novelist Feng Tana, which made me feel very sad. So after reunification, I am particularly willing to return to Berlin. ?

Schlink recalled:? When I saw Berlin, I naturally thought of my childhood. German cities in the 1950s, like Berlin at that time, had a gray sky and few pedestrians on the streets. The reader is talking about that era. So my writing is also around my personal life and experience. ?

The fall of the Berlin Wall not only affected Schlink's creation, but also became a great creative topic from 10 to 20 years after German reunification. But now there are not so many German literary works that pay attention to that period. Does this mean that history has faded out of people's sight? Schlink said? To be exact, the Third Reich is an unhealed wound in the German mind. Our nation suddenly had such an experience in 1933, and no one can really understand and understand the profound reasons behind it so far. ? So, Schlink wrote this before:? The pain that my love for Hannah has caused me is, in a sense, the fate of our generation, as a German. ?

So, for contemporary German young people, has this wound healed? Schlink replied? It depends on how these young people live now. If he chooses to live in the present, there is no wound. If they pay attention to history and understand the past, the wound is still there. ?

He also said:? With the growth of the new generation, the reflection on history is being carried out in another form. If my father or grandfather is a Nazi, the parties concerned will have a psychological burden, but the younger generation will not face such a situation, so they can reflect on history from another angle. ?

Literature should face ordinary readers.

German novels have always praised profound ideas, but they are inevitably boring and difficult to understand, which makes readers, especially foreign readers, afraid. When talking about German contemporary literature, Schlink said. German narrative style makes readers more difficult to understand. Many of my writers and colleagues tried to write novels in a special language, but they lost many readers. ?

Schlink's works seem to be an exception. In this regard, he said: As a scientist, scholar and critic, I am writing in the simplest way. My mother is Swiss. When I was a child, she told me that in a democratic society, we should speak what others can understand. ? Therefore, Schlink disapproves of dividing culture into elegant culture and popular culture. He insists that literature should face ordinary readers, not cultural elites. Under the influence of cultural democracy, he hoped that his works would be favored by ordinary people. Schlink once described it this way: I always dreamed that my books would be put in the bookstore of the railway station. People see them, buy them and read them on the train. ?

Schlink has been to China, but not as a writer. He said:? I went to China once six years ago to participate in the Sino-German legal dialogue. At that time, I was discussing social issues with some professors in China and Germany, and I could write some good works around these issues. ? When a reporter asked about his views on Beijing, Schlink briefly described it as follows: I have seen the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, which are places I have always longed for. I have also been to the Great Hall of the People and some universities, but I have little contact with China society. ? As a legal expert who knows the socialist system in East Germany and has paid attention to China, it is hard to make people believe that his view of China is just like this, perhaps because the Germans are rigorous and cautious.

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