The movie begins by showing a 15 year old kid named Michael Berg drenched by the rain and on the verge of collapsing. He then finds a building to shelter himself from the rain, but suddenly he starts to vomit. At that point, a character named Hanna Schmitz enter the scene and feels sorry for the kid, yet certain indications starts to unravel as we look closely how this character behave around this kid, which shows us a lack of affection in her life, specifically a masculine touch. The kid leaves afterwards to his home, but the next day goes back to Hannah's apartment to thank her for her act of kindness. Hannah asks the kid to put the flowers on the sink, while she changes her clothes. Taking into account that the kid is in puberty age, sexual attraction would naturally occur. Michael Berg is tempted to look at Hannah's body but he is caught in the act, and therefore run away because of the shame. However, we are inclined to think that this is the end of the story and Michael would go back to his life and the natural order of nature is restored, yet he goes back to her apartment and doesn't find her up until she is taking the stairs. She look at him in the eye and tell him to fill the two buckets down stairs with coal. In doing that he gets himself dirty, and Hanna suggest he should take a shower, but unexpectedly she gets naked too, and, we know, men never say no to sex. The relationship from there develops and more visits continue, as they start to know each other's names, and discovering their interest, one of them being that Hannah loves hearing stories. One day a fight takes place between the kid and Hannah, and she decides to leave the next day breaking Michael's heart. Ultimately, Michael goes back to school and starts focusing on his law studies to become a lawyer. One day at court he discovers that one of the accused is Hanna Schmitz. He starts discovering the dark side of the woman he passionately loved. Colleagues of Hannah at Auschwitz start to blame her, and accuse her to be in charge of trapping 300 Jews in a burning building. The judge asks Hannah for a sample of her writing to verify if she's the one who wrote. Here we need to understand something we missed earlier, Hannah's love for hearing stories from Michael wasn't because he had an exceptional way of reading, but because she didn't know how to read or write by herself, and she was awfully ashamed of that. Her embarrassment and pride not to admit that she couldn't read or write in front of people cost her life in prison, while her colleagues were sentenced for only four years and three months, which is ridiculous in my opinion, they should've been buried under the prison for what they did not Hannah, although some blame is on her too. After 20 years in prison, Michael remember Hannah's love for stories and start recording books on cassette and send them to Hannah to enjoy them. Hannah uses those recordings to learn how to read herself, so she can sends letters to Michael. The letters started to arrive at Michael's doors, and the more he ignored them the more they were arriving; until one day he decided to pay her a visit. Hannah's saw the gaze Michael is giving her and she knew that was not she once loves. Afterward she decides to suicide and end her misery.
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Tenet
(2020)
A great idea but it needs some background in physics
30 November 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The movie began with some action sequences, which I really enjoyed and thought to myself that this is going to be a typical action movie where the protagonist tracks the evil character and tries to stop him, like in the James Bond movies, but as you delve into the movie you begin to realize that within this whole plot is the good old idea of time machine, but not typical time machine as we think of it. The concept of time travel in Tenet is that when you go back in time the whole world around you keeps moving on, but you keep going back in time. It is similar to Benjamin Button reversed aging process, going from elderhood to youthfulness. To be honest, a first time viewer of this movie will be confused to the events taking place, but I recommend if you are going to give this movie a shot, at least do a brief research on reversing entropy in objects.
Les Misérables
(2018–2019)
An excellent adaptation for an excellent novel
3 January 2019
I just finished the first episode and the excitement I feel is like no other. For the first time, I feel like the novel of Les Misérables has finally caught the eyes of some brilliant director who can bring out the full potentials of the story to light . Now right from the beginning when you watch, you can sense that there is something special about this show. The cinematography, the acting, and the outstanding story are all mixed together to exhibit a work that I might personally claim to be far better than the previous versions of Liam Neeson and Hugh Jackman.
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