At the end of the film, when the filmed showed "Inspired by Stefan Zweig" (corrected: "Inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig"), several details that I didn't think about but when I saw the last line I suddenly felt very clever.
There are actually three “Zweig" in the movie, two of which are obviously "writers", writers of middle age and youth. But these two at best are just metaphors from identity. The role that really echoes Zweig is of course the protagonist Gustave. In the film, Fiennes is similar to Zweig from his appearance at some point as well as the temperament in the photo.
Try to understand from a few questions: 1) Why does Zweig commit suicide? 2) What is Gustave dead for? 3) What are the characteristics of Gustave? 4) What is the commonness of Gustave and Zweig?
1) Why does Zweig commit suicide? A large part of the reason is because the humanitarianism in Europa, where he thinks as a palace of art, culture and humanity, has retrogressed and been demised. The world, in which he speaks his language is exactly the executioner who destroyed all of this.
Why do we say this?
In 1941, Zweig said:” I'm here to apologize before you all. I'm here in a state of shame because my language is the language in which the world is being destroyed. My mother tongue, the very words that I speak, are the ones being twisted and perverted by this machine that is undoing humanity."
The subtleties of the Zweig's language can be reflected everywhere. He said that words such "as undo humanity" rather than “destroy" can be reflected as, in his opinion, Nazi's behavior is not the destruction of humanity to destroy humanism, but rather the retrogression of human spiritual civilization, which led such extinct behavior. After the Nazis came to power, they blocked the works of Jewish writers and artists, but at the same time they madly praised German culture and art. After the invasion in France and other European countries, the Nazis spared no effort to embezzle art work. This kind of contradictory, distorted, and extreme behavior, is rather a retrogressive behavior contrary to the development direction of human spiritual civilization than a total destruction.
At that time, Europe was committing suicide in the opinion of Zweig. His homeland no longer existed, and the one that exists was not his homeland. Even if he is carefree about food and clothing and well-famed. But "homelessness" is the most terrible thing. The spiritual home has been lost, and no hope can be seen. "I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labour meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on Earth"
But what made us upset from Zweig’s work is that there are actually many suicidal ideas in his works. But he still let the characters in his book persevere, like Dr. B in "The Story of Chess". The torture he suffered was, to a certain extent, also the torture of Zweig, but Zweig could not persist.
2) What did Gustave die for? 3) Gustave is a person with characteristics 4) What is the commonness of Gustave and Zweig?
Gustave said to Zero "You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity".I think this is the scene where this film has a tribute to Zweig. I believe that humanitarianism still exists, even if it is very weak.
Gustave is a very particular person. He has to spray a perfume even on the way to escape. He can keep talking everything related when buying a candle and is considerate when leaving money to the broken leg cobbler. He is a pure and kind person who knows how to appreciate the beauty of the heart. He pays attention to the color of the nail polish of Madame D. He’s totally honest about his attitude towards the beauty and ugliness. He praise the beautiful snow on the escape. Even if he had to be shaken from the edge of the cliff and only had a few seconds to pant, he would still recite his favorite poetry aloud.
When he escaped from the prison, he asked Zero about his girl. When the siren sounded, he still said that I can't listen to you now because the sirens are ringing, but you must tell me later. If you don't pay attention to this scene, you will probably think that he’s so unnecessarily verbose and why is he talking so much about seemingly unimportant details when the situation is urgent. Is it because the director deliberately wants the audience to be nervous? I don't think so. Gustave is who he is. He asks Zero about his girl, because he really wants to understand from a friend's point of view, not because he just got out of jail trying to have a warm up small talk. Because he had to interrupt his friend's narrative because the urgency, it seems very rude to someone like him. So he sincerely explained and made an appointment to continue the conversation in the future. This also caused him to misunderstand the reason that Zero didn't bring him clothes. Correction: At first Gustave was slightly unhappy because Zero didn't bring fake beard, fake nose and couldn’t let him disguise himself. Then he got angry that Zero also forgot his perfume. He was too angry that he condemned the place where Zero came from and his immigration status. But after Zero explained that he lost his family after the war and became a refugee. He made a very serious and almost an exaggerated apology. A large part reason of his apology is actually he was blaming himself, blaming himself on how he can think of others like that.
Looking back, why did Gustave die? He is defending his friends and defending himself. Needless to say, defending friends. Defending yourself means that even if Zero was not his friend, he would not sit down and watch the soldiers. If he just sat there and ignored the soldier who bullied bullied Zero arbitrarily, or anyone else, he would lose his own humanity and conscience, or that in this troubled world he believes that the only remaining humanitarians does not exist anymore.
Gustave and Zweig are echoing, but he is not a reappearance of Zweig. This work is only inspired by Zweig [and works], not the style of Zweig. But you can also get some similar feelings from Zweig's novels, such as unconsciously sighing feeling after closing the book or a sadness that you are not particularly sure about, such as the absurd celebration of life in the tragedy.
If Hitler has to hate a writer, Zweig must be on the list, a Jewish uses German to made the best of German and literature.
Off-topic: This movie has great casting, which is a feast.
05/05/2014 Put a USNews review (http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/14/hints-of-history-in-the-grand-budapest-hotel), did not pay attention to the movie before Places, a few statements about the Nazi image involved in the film: Note that after the movie occupied the Grand Hotel, all the flags were replaced with the ZZ logo. 1) The English abbreviation of the Nazi SS is SS, and German is Schutzstaffel. If you search the SS logo and banner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel), you will see a very similarity to the flag in the movie. 2) The similarities between ZZ and SS. 3) Z can represent the fictional Replublic of Zubrowka in the movie. I don't know why I think these arguments are quite interesting.
Submitted March 10, 2019 at 04:09AM by chantervinn https://ift.tt/2Hpdwuh
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