There are feelings that you just can’t express, such as the feeling towards the movie, the reader.
Hanna’s self-contemptuous: her feeling ill at ease seeing those playing kids during the suburb trip; her tears in the church; her fear to the pan and paper in the court and the awe she showed towards the library in the prison. All these revealed Hanna’s self-humiliation.
While she’s strong enough. She face directly to facts, she never deny what she had done. Her granted and innocent rhetorical question even beated the judge, yes, what you would do? Can you give me a better answer, I am a guard, I do what they told me to, did I have any other choice? No, she didn’t. The judge knew that, he did, while he just ignored it. He, and other people in the court, they wanted to get someone to undertake all the responsible of the guilt of the Nazi, to burden their hatred.
Hanna didn’t deny anything, she couldn’t. She cannot exposure her most humiliating disgrace, even though she had to pay so much for it.
Whose tragedy it is, what should I say, Hanna’s? Or maybe the entire human, we are so narrow to forget or to forgive, how can we disdain Hanna? While how many Hanna it was in War World2? Countless! Why should she bear the entire fault for the history? And how could she bear that?
Again, Hanna is just guard.
And, what you would do?
Friday, August 7, 2009
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I don't know if she posed that same question, "what would you do" to the judge in the movie as she did in the book. I thought it was fitting. I especially liked that Hanna makes us cross boundaries of what we feel.
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