Chapter 210: Hit the nail on the head

"I don't have any arrangements, I just want to sleep. ”

Su Changqing knew that Meluran Dora wanted to be a tour guide by looking at his expression, so he hurriedly said, "I'm too tired, the jet lag hasn't come over yet." ”

"Jet lag?" Meluran Dora is currently on vacation, without the subtlety of a diplomat: "Even if you went to bed at twelve o'clock last night, sleeping until seven o'clock in the morning is equivalent to sleeping until two o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time, you should have slept too much, in fact, you don't need jet lag when you come from Beijing." ”

This account is a bit messy, but the time difference of seven hours is really nothing, and Melulan Dora This is an excuse not to talk about martial arts to expose Su Changqing.

"I didn't sleep all night last night," it doesn't matter if it is exposed, Su Changqing has always been, and immediately found a staircase and everyone went down together: "Or let's go to the Capitol for a walk later, it's better to sleep at night when we're tired of running." ”

"I'm afraid I won't be able to go to the Reichstag, as far as I know it's being repaired, or go to the ruins of the Berlin Wall?"

The Berlin Wall, a wall built after World War II to separate East and West Germany, was officially toppled seven years ago to symbolize the triumph of liberalism.

"I'm not interested in the Berlin Wall. ”

"Why?"

"Maybe it's because I watch too many dramas, and I don't like things that are too dramatic in reality. ”

"It was not a fictional play, and countless people were given a new lease of life because of the fall of the Berlin Wall. ”

"Oh, maybe. ”

Su Changqing said as he threw the leftover bones into a small basket.

Melulan Dora stared at Su Changqing for a moment, and suddenly suggested very considerately: "Since you're tired, don't run around, I'll rest with you." ”

Accompany the rest, what does this mean, the US imperialist wants to send warmth naked?

"We can have a drink here," Melulan Dora pointed out the window into the distance, "There's an old café over there, so you can come and sit later." ”

There is a gap between this rest and the imaginary rest, and it is not warm enough.

And Su Changqing didn't think it was a break to drink wine and eat meat or drink coffee with her, he had already eaten three big pig's trotters and eaten a sausage, and he was a little tired.

The German pig's feet and sausages are world-famous, and the food safety law in the United States was formulated because the sausage filling is too disgusting, and the meat factory of that year was opened by the Germans, and mad cow disease has been rampant in Europe in recent years, and there will be no beef in this pork sausage, right?

It's not easy to live, and there are profiteers who want to harm me wherever I go.

Su Changqing, a scenic spot in Berlin, has been there before, as long as he doesn't run blindly on a cold day, he gnawed on a pig's trotter again: "Okay, don't look at the ruins, chat, drink and drink coffee, the beer here is really good." ”

Germany used to be a hillbilly in Europe, very looked down upon, the food was relatively earthy, and the hobby of nibbling pig's trotters was ridiculed for a long time, but as the hometown of beer, beer is really delicious.

German pig's trotters are cooked first and then roasted, and it is unconscionable to say that the taste is so good, and there are seven or eight ways to make it better than this.

However, China does not have a kind of pig's trotters that are internationally renowned, and its voice is too weak, but it is famous at home and abroad for eating everything.

It is really hard to say whether it is worth being proud to claim to eat everything, and later once there is news on the Internet that a certain animal is flooded, there are always people who leave a message below: Send 10,000 Chinese over and eat until the species is extinct.

Whenever he sees this kind of words, Su Changqing thinks of 10,000 incinerators or 10,000 garbage trucks.

Regardless of the image, it is not good, but some excessive beautification packaging is also quite boring, for example, there are always people who exaggerate that Westerners do not eat offal, chicken feet and other so-called dirty things, in fact, they are all nonsense, Su Changqing has eaten cream pig intestines in France when he was a generation.

He never dreamed that there was such a thing as a stewed pig intestine with cream, and the price was not low, cutting it like a pig was having diarrhea in his stomach, Su Changqing took into account the friendship between China and France for a long time, so he didn't scold the French friend who helped him order.

The history of human beings getting rid of hunger is very short, shorter than many people imagine, the so-called history of Europe and the United States not eating offal, may not be as long as the life of the village head Wang Lao Han Liu's widow, Su Changqing remembers that in "The Godfather", there is a young Vito Don Corleone who brought offal for his wife and children during the Great Depression.

Regarding Su Changqing's statement that the tearing down of the Berlin Wall is acting, Melulan Dora, who is of German descent, is a little difficult to let go: "Why do you think that the tearing down of the Berlin Wall is acting?"

"Because this matter has been publicized beyond tearing down a wall, and deliberately giving a certain meaning is through the choreographer, not to mention that the so-called huge meaning does not really exist, and many things in the bones have never changed. ”

"How so?"

Su Changqing talked about "Reader", and yesterday he read this story and had another experience.

He told the story roughly, a German teenager fell in love with Hannah, who was twenty years older, and met again after the war in the war criminals court, etc.

Melulan Dora was surprised when she heard this: "Are you saying that this Hannah, who likes to listen to her little lover's reading, is actually illiterate, and cannot be the head of a concentration camp, so she cannot be a war criminal, but in order to conceal the fact of illiteracy, she would rather risk being hanged by the post-war court?"

Yes, Hannah felt a strong sense of shame about being illiterate, and insisted on hiding the secret despite all odds, and was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment, losing her freedom but retaining the last shred of dignity. ”

"The Reader" was filmed ten years later, and the starring role is Kate Winslet, who will become popular with "Titanic" Rose this year.

Melulan Dora obviously did not consider such a predicament, and was a little unable to react for a while: "But that teenager is already a lawyer, and he can testify in court for Hannah, and it seems not worth it to lose his freedom just for the sake of self-esteem, and even to make the war trial meaningless." ”

This is the contradiction of the drama, which is more important than dignity or freedom.

Hannah, the camp administrator, a screw in the state's criminal machine, never doubted or challenged the legitimacy of the order when she was ordered to select female prisoners and send them to Auschwitz to die.

When the church where hundreds of Jews were held caught fire, she was guilty of burning many people more than how to maintain order and prevent the prisoners from escaping than about opening the door to save their lives. ”

"You just asked the teenager why he didn't testify in court, and the reasons are complicated. It was very hot in the restaurant, and Su Changqing completely relieved himself from the cold, so he drank beer very frequently: "First of all, testifying cannot exempt all homicides, and secondly, their generation is ashamed of the crimes of the previous generation and has resentment."

But he still loved Hannah, and continued to read to her with tapes and teach her literacy while she was in prison. ”

Melulan Dora quickly reacted: "This story has the flavor of exculpating war criminals, although individuals are small in front of the will of the country, but after all, they have the ability to choose. ”

"What if it's a thoroughly illiterate person who doesn't have the ability to choose?"

"You're setting up an extreme situation, but that doesn't change the facts of the crime. ”

"Reckoning with war crimes is secondary, it's a story of shame, lies and arrogance. ”

Melulan Dora was a little surprised: "Oh?"

When Su Changqing wanted to write this story for real, he realized that this was not an anti-war introspection film.

After the First World War, Germany's literacy rate was over 90 percent, and it stands to reason that Hannah, as a state functionary, should never be illiterate.

It may be a great shame that a nation that claims to be the best in the world should have illiterate civil servants.

Hannah must have gone to great lengths to lie and keep this secret, she had no remorse for killing a large number of Jews in the camps, and she never apologized, but she was so angry about her dignity that she was imprisoned for life.

This is the arrogance of self-esteem, and the arrogance that is maintained at the cost of lying and paying a terrible price is the essence of the story. ”

Su Changqing felt that this story was also very suitable for the Japanese, and the Japanese even performed more vividly in this regard, and there were only a handful of people who sincerely apologized after the war.

After Kate Winslet finally won the Oscar for this film, Melulan Dora saw that there was an element of exculpation for war crimes, and the judges could not fail to see it, but the film still won the award.

The judges knew very well whether the film was anti-war or not was secondary, the reader was reading civilization, and the story was selling the theory of civilizational superiority.

"Some things have never changed, but in a different form. ”

Of course, this is a good story, it is self-boasting when it is written by Europeans and Americans, and if Su Changqing writes it, I am afraid it will be a sarcasm to the point.

"I am once again impressed by your talent. Of course, Melulan Dora also figured it out, and took a sip of beer with a smile: "As a friend, I sincerely advise you, don't think about making this movie, why bother?"