"The Supreme Happiness In Life Is The Conviction That We Are Loved."
ㅡVictor Hugo, Franceㅡ
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Contents
1. Preface-The Phantom For Time2. Synopsis3. Review
3-1. The Rich vs The Poor
3-2. The Poor Farmer's Wife
3-3. The condemnation about love
3-4. The Farmer
3-5. The Lieutenant
3-6. The Protagonist's Righteousness
3-7. The Mother-in-law
3-8. The Love of Nazi's Officer
3-9. What Love Is
1. PrefaceThe Phantom For Time
🎥 A couple of days ago, I watched the movie "Suite Française", which translates, "a musical composition for French". According to the description of this movie, it was written by " Jewish" who died in the " Auschwitz Camp"' during World War II, the author wrote this story based on what she experienced and witnessed in person in a rural village in the midst of fleeing from the war. In short, this movie was nonfiction but was written by the genre of novel. However, this story was known as her posthumous work which was incomplete...
I like watching movies that particularly happened amid wars, but I don't like watching movies too much. I might like nonfiction rather than fiction. Even so, fictions also lead us, readers, to contemplate motifs of what it implies underneath.
Most people might not have the experience that composing music for a loved one, furthermore ordinary people cannot even compose music like musicians.
That being said, some of them might be able to play musical instruments or sing or paint portraits or artistically take pictures or dance or make films, etc., all these things are made for a "loved one."
Among them, we, ordinary people, might only be able to write letters or poems for our beloveds, which might be an easier way to express our sentiments without a special talent as above mentioned.
However, all these things might only be left with a bygone "memory" which can never turn back the clock... yes...the "invisible memory" as if a "phantom" by which we cannot catch nor can we touch... but, it obviously exists by means of images or sounds or voices or fragrance somewhere in us... Some say that such a space might be our brain or our inmost heart...
In this respect, everything might exist for "time" itself. In the end, the collage of time will vanish, but it might become "life" and "love", though it is like a phantom.
We might live in order to put the pieces of the puzzle in the frame of time, though it cannot be seen the whole image right away... However, someday the scattered puzzles might be put in and seen with the whole image...
What is the pieces of the puzzle?... It will be the pieces of life, the pieces of incidents in our lives.
Well...someday, my blogging might also be seen the "whole" imageㅡthe purpose that I have been blogging for nearly 7 months with much sufferingsㅡthough now I cannot even know the definite aim nor can I see where it is going... like this question, TO WHERE... FOR WHAT... :
"Where Do We Come From,
What Are We,
Where Are We Going?..."
And I cannot even know how long I will be able to blog... If my blog is stopped the breath along the way, it will be the whole image just as it is that no one lives any longer... This movie might represent what life is and what love is in that memory, in the collage of time...
2. Synopsis
It happened when World War II (1939~1945) broke out. German troops which were governed by Nazis invaded France so that Paris was besieged by German troops. A great number of Parisians were thrust out to one of the rural villages in France.
In that village, a wealthy family was having a "negative impact" on "the poor", because the rich family had compelled to pay taxes or had forced their physical labors, hence the poor who were paltry farmers had to pay its taxes or labors under the condition of borrowing the properties of the rich family such as the rich's land and house, etc.
The poor, farmers, harbored a deep hostility against the rich family. The protagonist "French woman" named Lucile Angellier was none other than the daughter-in-law of the rich family and her mother-in-law wielded power to bleed white the poor in that village. Her mother-in-law was like a "peevish old cat" in order to extort earnings from the poor, unlike the protagonist French woman who seemed to have a suggestible mind.
She married the rich man who was her mother-in-law's son, unquestionably believing their "love." But, later she noticed the secret that her husband had a love affair with other women.
That being said, her French husband was also involved in World War II so as to fight against Germans, in that situation, Germans were an enemy against the French. As far as I know, Germany and France these two nations are still not "friendly" based on the tragic history namely the background of World War II.
They might be the same as a cat and a dog, the rivalry, in Europe. Two nations are a pillar of Europe except the UK is a remote island. Of course, the UK is a pillar of Europe too but is not a continent like Germany and France, which are very closely located.
The mother-in-law, as French, harbored a bitter enmity against German troops than anyone else, for her son was a French soldier who might have been the Allied Forces against Nazi back then. Besides, no one was confident that his son would survive amid the war...that's why...
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Meanwhile, German(Nazi) troops invaded that village in full force, by doing so, they lodged in that village, some of the high-level soldiers like officers or lieutenants stayed at rich homes, accordingly one of the German officers was lodged at her rich home. Therefore, they were able to be "together" like so...
In the meantime, German soldiers who might have been thirsty for a sexual relationship as lustful young men in loneliness and in exhaustion amid the war made love with French women in the woods, how could they dare make love on the cozy bed at homes?... Most likely, it might have been impossible...
By the way, one of the mean lieutenants intentionally decided to stay at a poor and dirty farmer's home in order to flirt with the farmer's wife. He despised the poor husband and wife who couldn't be educated as much as he had been educated.
Eventually, the poor farmer shot a gun at the lieutenant so as to protect her wife while they were tussling, for this reason, the village people were faced harsher difficulties, because as soon as it happened, Nazi headquarters commanded to execute the ruler of the village, and the village people were plundered their precious properties by German troops.
The German officer who lodged at her home looked very cultivated, intelligent, decent, polite, and attractive. moreover, he was able to play the piano sentimentally and even compose music.
Having said that, he was a cold-hearted German officer who valued the "community spirit" of Nazis rather than his personal spirit that was why he was able to become the officer of the Nazi.
When Nazi headquarters commanded the officer to execute the ruler of the village, he fired a gun at the ruler as if he had no warm heart at all. By the way, he fell in love with her, the protagonist French woman, she seemed to fall in love with him, too... I don't even know why they had to fall in love with each other, there might have been a lot of factors, I might just as well omit the reason, for love might be driven by unavoidable attraction or fate...
Even so, above all things, she would have been led by " his presence" itself including the unique melody of the piano that he played the piano in person... Who would dislike seeing the attractive scene as a woman?... Moreover, she could also play the piano as the rich, for she was an educated woman unlike farmers, namely the poor. She seemed to be educated well on how to play the piano as much as the German officer. Thus she was used to listening to music, that is to say, she had a sensitive ear to feel the music, so that she would have understood "his heart" at once through the melody that the German officer composed and covered it by piano.
After finishing his work, he used to play the piano at her home; the piano was hers. Whenever he played the piano, she covertly listened to his unique and emotive melody in her room. The piano sound made her feel tension and heartbeat toward him...
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When he was playing the piano in his room, as usual, one day she went to his room, and then they were together. She seemed to feel all his presence, looking closer at him and listening to the sound of a piano. However, they could not have a conversation enough, nor could they meet covertly, though they lived in the same house. Plus her mother-in-law monitored them as always what would happen between him and her... Because she didn't want her lovely son to be forsaken by her daughter-in-law and the German officer who was an enemy of her son.
One day when her mother-in-law went forth the house, he and she were embroiled in making out...; their breathing started getting faster, he gently caressed her whole body, enfolding her body with his arms and kissing on her warm and moist lips deeply... At last...at last... as the climax was about to begin..., her underwear was taken off on the bottom..., and then her beautiful legs were spread out for him, he...
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But they couldn't even make out enough on the cozy bed, they just had time for a while like that, leaning against a wall... because her mother-in-law suddenly came back home, so while he and she were perplexed at the very moment...
Meanwhile, the poor farmer's wife visited her home to ask the urgent need that she wanted to save her husband from the difficulty of the murder case. For her husband killed the German lieutenant. Nevertheless, she was jealous of the protagonist French woman and had abominated as a poor farmer's wife behind the curtain.
When she visited the protagonist home, she became aware that the protagonist French woman and the German officer fell in love with each other through her intrinsic intuition, well most women can sense it like the farmer's wife, and then she condemned their love, sarcastically saying like this:
" How dare you love him! He is our "enemy" amid war! Look! my husband might be killed by the brutal German soldier! Despite are you dreaming a sweet romance with the German officer? Huh? Huh? Tell me! Come back to earth, Right Away! Do you want to betray our homeland because of love? DO KNOW YOURSELF ! " (emphasized on my own word).
After that time, the protagonist got to dislike the German officer, for she was blamed by the poor farmer's wife in that way. However, the protagonist French woman might have been better than the poor farmer's wife in many waysㅡher educational backgrounds, social standing, beauty, wealth, etc. Who would like to accept such derision?.... Her self-respect might have been marred by the poor farmer's wife.
And then, the protagonist's mind was wavered by the shame that she cherished love toward German officer, she thought that her love would be a "fantasy", in doing so, she determined to help the French farmer who had to flee from the village.
Besides, she and her mother-in-law furnished their own house to harbor the French farmer who needed a safe shelter to hide. For he was being tracked by German troops.
Along the way, the German officer ordered his men to kill the ruler of the village caused by the headquarters of Nazi, and then some of them fired a gun at the ruler of the village altogether, so that the ruler of the village was shot by multiple bulletsㅡ I don't exactly remember how many his men were there, but there were manyㅡ so to speak, it was not a single bullet...
The German officer discharged a gun at the ruler of the village once more at the conclusion in order to murder him completely, because after he shot the ruler, he immediately commanded a doctor to check up his death if he perfectly died or not. Perhaps, in one sense, he might have wanted to set him free from the gunshot pain as soon as possible... It might have been his last consolation for the dying ruler... In another sense, it looks excessive to kill... Because the ruler of the village was already shot by multiple bullets...
As soon as the guns were shot at one time, there was blood all around... After it happened, she got to avoid the officer... In addition, she was condemned by the poor farmer's wife because of her romance with the German officer.
One day, the officer informed her that his troop had to leave from the village soon by which Nazi headquarters commanded him to go away so that he eagerly wished to meet her again after finishing the brutal war... Thereafter, she discovered his last gift on the piano in his room where he went off... It was the sheet music that the German officer composed in person entitled "Suite Française."
She slowly read his music composition that would be his heart, mind, and voice..., pointing to its sheet music with her fingers one by one in front of the piano. At the exact moment, her heart, her heartsore eyes, and even her whole body seemed to be in deep grief without saying anything... and the sheet music was quivering in her hands... She seemed not even to breathe, while she was reading his sheet music with her heart... At that very moment, this movie's OST, the very sound of piano Suite Française, echoed down in her heart like the German officer was playing the piano directly for her...
In the meantime, Nazi headquarters commanded the German officer named Bruno von Falk to detect and arrest the French farmer as a murderer who killed a German lieutenant. The intelligent German officer already seemed to sense that she harbored the farmer at her home, despite he wanted to respect and trust her saying that she didn't help the farmer in some way or otherㅡin fact, her word was a lie.
After all, she asked the German officer to issue the free passage so as to help the farmer's escape by stealth, fooling him and making an excuse that she had to visit Paris for her neighbor's request. The German officer allowed the passage(right of way) to be issued at the risk of his life, knowing all her hidden intent. Why would he do that?... It might have been "his love" for her...
Eventually, she drove her mother-in-law's car in order to help the farmer who had to flee to Paris, the farmer crouched in the truck of the car as if a woodlouse. However, they were uncovered at a checkpoint, and then the French farmer fired a gun at all German soldiers, and he was also hurt by a gunshot wound.
Just at that moment, the officer arrived at the checkpoint alone, he might have been concerned about her safety... Nonetheless, she aimed a gun at the officer with fear, because she seemed to regard him as the French's enemy. Regardless, the officer helped the wounded farmer to get in her car and allowed her to flee from them...
She was not even able to say goodbye to him in panic, leaving the officer alone at the checkpoint... He didn't say anything either, only looking at her car that was fleeing to Paris...
The German officer couldn't stop seeing her car that was becoming more distant from him... more and more....and...more... distant from him... There a cloud of dust was only rising. In doing so, the movie finished with the last comment, giving lingering imagery is, this:
A few years later, at last France was freed from Germany, which says, the war ended, but she heard of his news by a rumor that the officer died without a specific death cause amid the war.
Because the Nazi officer helped to escape them. Nazi headquarters might have treated him as a "betrayer" against Nazis.
There was only left "his spirit" with the musical compositionㅡSuite Française that he wrote music for her. It might still be echoing deep in her heart... without anyone knowing... But, she will only know it as his alive presence... And it might still be circulating in her heart and in her blood vessels... as the melody;
"Suite Française."
3. Review
- Notice that this review cannot be an absolute criterion.
The Rich vs The Poor
Who would want to be born as the poor?...
No one will want to be the poor and the weak who were disregarded in our society. Despite if someone was born as the poor, the weak, non-white people, the disabled, the rabble, etc., then he must live just as it is, embracing all the inequity...
On the contrary to this, if someone was born as the rich or the strong, he lives like a tyrant, domineering its power to the poor or the weak. Because it is the principle of this world, so that what if someone is killed or becomes a victim therewith, unfortunately, it is an inevitable fate which there is no justice. That might be a cruel life to all humans who have to live in this fallen world... What we humans must do for that cruel life is, might be this, "Be patient"... If not, there might only be left a "self-murder" or "self-destruction."
The Poor Farmer's Wife
Everybody might detest that kind of the rich like the farmer's wife in the movie, standing against the rich and being envious of the rich.
Nevertheless, when she was faced with the difficulty that her husband would be killed by German soldiers, she only relied on the rich protagonist French woman, namely the power of the rich, in doing so she wished his husband would be saved from Nazis, how ironic it is...
Furthermore, she thoughtlessly condemned the protagonist's romance. Contrariwise, what if she was the protagonist herself as the rich, what would she do?.... She might have fallen in love with the German officer more than the protagonist, not as a poor woman... She might have bitten off more than she could chew.
The Condemnation About Love
Well... it looks like a very complicated matter to define what love is... Meanwhile, both the farmer's wife and the protagonist French woman simply seemed to define love that would be an unnecessary "fantasy", even the protagonist felt shame that she dreamed to have such a romance with the French's enemy, German officer, amid the war.
Many people might treat love as a "fantasy" like these women... What about you...? Do you think so, too?...
Well, in some sense, it might be right. For a human nature itself might not be able to love "others", plus love can never be owned like "visible objects", though couples couple up with making love through "visible" their bodies. But, their spirit might not be able to feel love, but rather it might be simply the stimulation of the erogenous zone.
What people define love as fantasy is, might be this; love is "invisible" and "spiritual", so it might be called a fantasy, even so virtually everything we humans do is like the fantasy that is confined by elapsing time so that it becomes the past, the history, the fantasy, and the phantom. Not only love but also everything, all that is just swept away by lapsing time.
At this point, I don't want to confine the definition of love like people decisively deem like this: "Which one is wrong or right?", even if it becomes adultery... That being said, I don't agree with adultery itself, rather, I would like to focus on the predestined fate.
What if someone falls in love with him or her like these characters in the movie, then it might be their own destiny whether or not it becomes adultery so that if they fall in love with, it would be a proper situation in God's eyes, which is not as a human's perspective. For ultimately God Himself might let it be. However, that couple might have to take the consequence, although God let them become adulterers through varied circumstances, thus and thus... How unfair it is!...
If that fate was given to them for "the moment", whether or not it comes from hell, they will be supposed to fall in love with each other... What more should they do?.... What good is to argue about the conception of the discernment of good and evil in that love...? What is the very good and what is very evil?... Why should people discern good from evil? Someone said, " life is neither good nor evil, but is only a stage for it. " Like this, love might be neither good nor evil... However, the Bible itself seems to discern good from evil that is why the Bible looks too ironic...
Adam and Eve who were an ancestor of human beings were punished due to the discernment of good and evil by the tree of knowledge of good and evil in Eden. I assume that the discernment of good and evil would be derived from a man's conscience. What if the discernment of good and evil becomes the punishment of God or the sin, why would God give humans a conscience in our minds?
God should not have given a man's conscience per se in our mind, but He seems to give it to all human beings to discern good from evil, which looks like an unsolved question forever...
There are many words of conscience in the Bible like this: John 8: 9, Acts 23:1, Acts 24:16, Romans 2:15, Romans 9:1 Romans 13:5, 1Corinthians 8:7, 1Corinthians 8:10, and the rest. The word of conscience in those passages is being repeated 27 times! in the New Testament. For example, in Acts 23: 1 ...Paul said, " Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day."
In other words, it sounds like that we people should discern good from evil based on our conscience, if that is the case, is it not going wrong based on the punishment of the knowledge of good and evil? So again, how contradicting and confusing it is that the Bible states!...
Anyway, the more people are absorbed by the conception of good and evil on the basis of the Bible, the more people might have to rely on self-styled pastors, endlessly asking what is a sin or what is good and which one is good or which one is evil, thereby pastors become their spiritual idol. It might be meant that they were already brainwashed by pastors' indoctrination. In fact, there might be no reason to ask "what is good and what is evil" or " what is sin and what is not" to such pastors, no matter who they are. They may not know what the very truth is either!
That is pastors' "religious business" to make money, which magnetizes their followers who can give a donation for their livelihood. For this, pastors have to lure their flocks ㅡas possible as they can doㅡ to ask "the question of what is good and what is evil" on and on through social media sites or churches. Because they have to make their followers to only rely on pastors themselves who pretend to know everything about the Bible.
Another example, what if someone kills others, then it might also be a given fate, therefore he or she is supposed to kill other people like that, and then if there is also given punishment in response to, then they ought to receive the punishment as well.
All these examples are like the case of Judas' Iscariot, who was predetermined to sell Jesus, but Judas Iscariot had to receive the punishment whether or not he wanted it, for it was his own destiny that he had to do it necessarily.
Who can elude the predestined fate, whatever it is...?
Who can restrain the attraction of love, including sexual desire, like this movie scene...? What if it was a given fate, then no one would be able to abnegate...
But, what is more important is that this movie seems to question what love is to viewers vice versa because this movie doesn't define what love is... In addition, they, the German officer and the protagonist, have never confessed their love to each other certainly, there was no definitive definition of what love was in them. But, at least, the German officer seemed to devote himself to her in danger which he might have been lost everything he had such as his success, his family, his fame as a German officer, even his life...
He became a betrayer against his homeland Germany, though it was Nazi, namely the German officer became a betrayer for the sake of " France and the French" that was why this movie title was also entitled "Suite Française " in a broad sense. He was different from the protagonist French woman.
No one will want to define his love as fake or selfish, even though he was a cold-hearted German officer who killed thousands of Jews and other people for the sake of Nazis. In contrast, her love might have been self-centered; she might have concentrated on only for herself, that is to say, her homeland, her neighbors... in other words, it was a "blood relation" like her mother-in-law only championed France and the French. The protagonist French woman and her mother-in-law might have been another Nazi...
The Farmer
He might have represented as the spirit of "France and the French", which says that he might have been symbolized as "the French Revelation" that revolutionized against the rich, the nobility, the strong. Despite what if he endured all the inequity, then lots of people would not die due to his wrath namely because of his self-righteousness.
The Lieutenant
He might have been symbolized as "the strong", whereas the poor farmer might have been represented as "the weak". The farmer was not able to walk normally because he was none other than a cripple. Anyway, the lieutenant was "murdered" by the farmer who was the weak reversely, for the power that he wielded against the poor farmer turned out the main factor that he was killed by.
The Protagonist's Righteousness
She might have thought that she would become a patriot if she helped her neighbors and her homeland amid the war, abnegating her love towards the German officer who was an enemy against France and the French. And she concluded her love was simply a fantasy, and then decided to help the poor farmer against the German officer. But, her belief might have been "her own righteousness."
However, her own righteousness turned out murder cases, besides it became the cause that more and more people in the village were killed; in addition, their houses were in a mess by Nazis who were on the rampage here and there in order to detect the hidden farmer, for the protagonist French woman harbored the farmer at her home by stealth.
Moreover, her righteousness might also have been the root that the German officer would be executed by Nazis... Perhaps, she should have rejected the favor of the poor farmer's wife, strictly speaking, the protagonist French woman should have let the poor farmer die just as it is as a murderer who killed German lieutenant on no account. Because poverty and weakness cannot be justified to kill other people... For instance, if someone kills other people even by mistake, despite he will have to shoulder all the responsibility for his murder..., no court will sentence an innocent about the murder case... That is life as well...
I'm sorry to say this; her righteousness looked inappropriate in my eyes because although she didn't help the poor farmer, France would have been freed from Germany by "the unavoidable destiny", which means "the huge flow of history." In that respect, her own righteousness might have been just "worthless "and "trivial" like the example of the wise sayingㅡ" The elephant does not feel a flea bite." In other words, she was like a flea bite, and the huge flow of history was like the gigantic elephant...
She got to dislike the German officer who killed the ruler of the village unlike the first moment when she met him and fell in love with him, and she seemed to judge him as a brutal murderer. At last, she simply regarded him as the beast that heartlessly killed people, but what about herself ?... What about herself ?...
Because of her own righteousness, the ruler of the village had to be killed and lots of inhabitants in the village had to be afflicted by German soldiers, plus she and the poor farmer killed German soldiers at the checkpoint, though she didn't kill them in person; she indirectly promoted the murder case because of her own righteousness that she wanted to help escaping the poor farmer, in a broad sense it was for the French and France, her homeland.
Strictly speaking, both she and the farmer were murderers. Nevertheless, How dare she can blame the German officer as a killer?... What is more important is that she might have been the indirect factor that the German officer was killed by Nazis later... Because he who helped the protagonist French woman against Nazi might have been executed as a betrayer...
Besides, she seemed to fear how other people would judge herself like Judas Iscariot, who sold Jesus without anyone knowing lest he should be judged as a betrayer from other people, which might have been his "self-respect" as though the protagonist French woman behaved like that. She might not have wanted to be vilified any longer by the poor farmer's wife and from other neighbors so as to keep her "self-respect" in this way.
There are some parables about that; one of them is this: A certain farmer wanted to sell his donkey so that he led the donkey to sell for the market, and then people ridiculed the farmer who didn't easily ride on his donkey, so the farmer rode on his donkey, and then, people mocked the farmer again, looking at the exhausted donkey;
" Look, you are so cruel man, why don't you let free your poor donkey? Your donkey seems to die soon! You must carry your donkey on your shoulder instead of riding on lest your donkey should be dead! , understood? "
Thus the farmer felt abashed about his indifference for his pitiful donkey, then the farmer really shouldered the donkey as if a heavy suitcase! But when the farmer arrived at a river, he who had to cross the river with his donkey which was placed on his shoulders stumbled over stones and fell into the water with his donkey, after all, the shouldered donkey was swept away by a fast-flowing stream. This is the parable that I read when I was young. Anyway, it circuitously tells us a message of what happens when we people are restless by the condemnation of other people. As a result, he lost his donkey...
The Mother-in-law
She only wanted to care about those who were involved in herself such as her son, her homeland, her neighbors namely the French, which might be another "Nazism" like Adolf Hitler...
The Love Of Nazi Officer
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On the flip side, he might have been identified with a drastic "killer" as a Nazi officer. Why would he have to do that?... Why was that...?
Well, the Nazi officer might also have been a "victim" under the irresistible flow of history, plus he was "brainwashed" by Adolf Hitler. According to gossip, Hitler was "crazy" to eat sweet chocolates, so that all his teeth rotted! Thus Hitler was very scared of his "dentist" than anyone else. His dentist was the most fearful presence to Hitler himself because, in those days, the branch of dental treatment was not fully developed like today. For this reason, Hitler's dentist must have treated Hitler's decayed teeth without safe anesthesia as if Hitler enforced the medical experiment on living bodies!
Even so, most people will like eating chocolate as well; from time to time I like eating a "dark chocolate", which is not decorated with flowery stuff, that is to say, which is simply made with a square-shaped.
After World War II ended, plenty of Nazis were regarded as war criminals who made World War II and killed innumerable people therewith, for this reason, they were executed too. According to gossip, Adolf Hitler killed himself with a gun alone in the underground bunker, but it is still not accurate information of how he died.
This is Hitler's word:
"Who Says I Am Not Under The Special Project Of God?" ㅡ Adolf Hitler.
At this point, we viewers might want to ask regarding the guilt whose fault it was like this movie asks it to viewers. In one sense, the Nazi officer simply obeyed the commandments of the Nazi as a German and a Nazi employee for a living as well.
And the German officer devoted himself to the community spirit of the Nazi than his personal spirit that was the slogan of Nazism and Fascism and Chauvinism. Even he killed people for his nation Germany and left his family to prioritize his nation's needs, even though he could have earned money for a living as a Nazi officer. That being said, no one could have guaranteed that he would survive amid the war... For the military rank of Nazi never grantees his precious life.
What is good to make money for a living in the face of his death?... What is good to follow such a drastic idea? Despite such crazy ideas made people crazy back then, even they made a decision to die for Nazism...
Killing people was his loyal commitment for his nation Germany, however, on one level, he might have been a patriot. But the world demanded that Nazis had to be executed as war criminals. In the court, they reportedly answered, " we just did it as our nation wanted." Yes, they were right, for they were also "victims" due to Nazism by Hitler and by each of their destinies and by the huge flow of history and so on, all these things were irresistible fates. Can it be a self-justification? or Should it be an execution?... Whose fault it is?... Whose fault... Even so, no one will want to champion Nazism or Fascism or chauvinism... In a narrow sense, all these things might be rooted in dreadful self-centeredness.
Somehow, the Nazi officer prioritized "love" over the needs of his nation. He became a betrayer against his nation or Nazis regime after falling in love with the protagonist French woman, thereby his egocentric mindset might have been abated for his loved one, in the bigger picture, he would have been freed from Nazism because of love. That Nazism was rooted in the mindset of irrational racism in a manner of speaking.
Having said that, he was still a heartless killer... What contradictory its situation is!... Notwithstanding who can affirm that he was simply a Nazi, so to speak, a murderer, a brute? Yes... he killed uncountable people. If so whose fault all these things were? Was it because of the Nazis? Hitler? the war? the flow of history? fates? If not, because of love?...
In the bigger picture, all these things might have happened by God who made World War II, too. As a matter of fact, everything in the world might be happening by God's providence if He really exits. In my case, I cannot deny the existence of God completely..., though it is still doubtful frequently...
If God exists, then we humans might not have to be immersed in the concept of good and evil. That being said, it is not meant that I agree with doing evil doings such as wars, crimes, murders...etc., what I want to say is that we people might have to consider what perspective God has about all these things not as a man's view only under the knowledge of good and evil.
Even so, I think that the Bible itself is contradictory, provocative, brutal, and capricious, etc., even though many theologians and pastors assert that the Bible has any kind of flaw, in other words, they say, " the Bible is an absolute truth."
For one example, as mentioned above, the Bible states that a man's original sin was caused by knowing the knowledge of good and evil in Eden, so while we humans should be freed from the concept of good and evil. However, the Bible itself ironically underscores the notion of good and evil, it is kind of "black-or-white thinking", so to speak, there should not exist a vague "grey zone" like these antitheses: the chosen vs the forsaken, heaven vs hell, angel vs devil, the spirit vs the flesh, sin vs righteousness, death vs life, master vs slave, etc.
Anyhow, such "black-or-white thinking" might have been caused to make many wars including religious wars... Some theologians or pastors assert that equivocal postmodernism is demonic, which means that postmodernism is neither black nor white as though a grey zone. In plain words, postmodernism does not define an absolute truth, rather, embraces all conceptions like a fusion or melting pot, for postmodernism doesn't stress the drastic black or white thinking.
Another example, the Bible says, whoever calls the name of the Lord, they will be saved; " ESV Act 2:21... Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." But those who are chosen by God might only be able to be saved. I don't know who "everyone" is that the Bible mentions. Are they the chosen? or Are they the forsaken? or Are they both the chosen and the forsaken?... They might be the chosen, because if they are not the chosen, then they will not even call the name of the Lord. Even so, there are fake believers among them who also call upon the name of the Lord like the very chosen... so it might not be "everyone."
On the contrary to this, Ephesians 1: 4~5 states unlike Acts 2:21; Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will. ESV.
In this passage, the Bible mentions who will be His sons, the chosen, though it obscurely describes the predestined people by the word "us". Who can be "us" that the Bible means? ...Nobody will know who can be "us." But God will only know them...
Similarly, the Bible looks fickle, contradictory, confusing etc... Besides, there are also many contradictory expressions in the Bible. Who will know the very truth?... Of course, the very truth will be Jesus [Christ] Himself, it will not be the Bible nor theologians nor pastors, no matter who they are.
Nazis killed innumerable people. Despite they might simply have obeyed the commandments under the regime and might firmly have guaranteed it was "right". But after all, they had to accept all the responsibilities corresponding to such bloody murders, even if God might have allowed all those things behind the curtain. In that respect, the Jews might have been massacred by Nazis or Adolf Hitler. Because the Jews killed Jesus[Christ] by their religion Judaism, although it might have been God's own volition to be done. What if someone killed thousands upon thousands of people like the Nazi officer in the movie, then it will be a heinous sin from the viewpoint of humans, however, it might become righteousness in God's eyes. Likewise, God's view might be different from a man's view.
Humanly speaking, it might be truly unfair and exasperating... Nevertheless, we humans might have to accept all the cruel unfairnesses and resentments in our lives without any alibis as God's creations, which means that we are not God Himself who can do everything arbitrarily as He only wishes.
Nazis might also be the same as the ill-fated Judas Iscariot, whom God predestined him to sell Jesus, but Judas Iscariot had to shoulder the responsibility in response to, which means that Judas Iscariot killed himself cruelly. In a similar fashion, Nazis might simply have obeyed under the regime despite they had to be executed like the predetermination that God already planned to kill them that way.
What Love Is...
As I said before, we might not be able to define what love is, but love may be the "sacrifice" that the Nazi officer demonstrated in the movie. Frankly, I think that whatever we humans do in our lives, it turns out sin and pain itself from birth to death, along the way, love might produce far more pains... For it demands one's sacrifice... In other words, an egocentric self must be broken in pieces in the face of love... so that it gives us much pain...
Love might be an inevitable infatuation like a deep addictionㅡ the preoccupation toward the loved ones. What if anyone is faced with that love, he might have to hold up until it is naturally extinguished... Such various sentiments in a man's mind and heart turn out an "anguish in the name of love ..." We humans might call it as love...
Despite nothing is guaranteed to gain rewards, while we humans love others... In general, we people tend to grab hold of love through the convention of marriage for the compensation of our love such as money, house, family, children, better social welfare and social status, more profitable job, demandable sexual relationship, steadiness for a mutual dependence... something like that...
But, it might not be able to become an ultimate reward for love... Many couples are being divorced with much suffering due to the convention of marriage. On the other hand, a marriage can be the den and stronghold of crimes such as family violence, adulteries, and murders, etc. I often read the tragic news that happened at home... Typically, fathers or husbands kill all his family. What is sadder is that children become victims because of their inhuman parents. Those who grow up in a tragic family, they have to suffer from mental diseases all their life long or become criminals...
Just we humans might be living only for the moment and the time for love without any guarantee and without even receiving any kind of rewards like this movie; the Nazi officer and the protagonist French woman didn't guarantee anything... They couldn't even confess their love...
No one knew when the war would end back then... He and she could have been killed at any time amid the brutal war, hence they could not have met again forever...forever...forever...
There was no promise of any kind in themㅡso to speak, their "remarriage" so as to receive the reward for love. The Nazi officer loved her only for the time...without any rewards. Instead, there was only his sacrifice for the moment like the cloud of dust was only rising, when she went away from him far away... far away... far away...
The dust will vanish soon like so...
He became a betrayer against the regime of Nazis, embracing all his risks, so while he might have been executed without even knowing her...
Yet His love might still be echoing deep in her heart...
with the melody,
with the invisible spirit,
his love...
Suite Française.
It may be confessing,
" I Still Love You."
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