12 окт. 2018 г.

The Reader (2008)

Hanna: You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

Hanna: You don't have to apologize. No one has to apologize. War and Peace, kid.

Professor Rohl: Societies think they operate by something called morality, but they don't. They operate by something called law.
      You're not guilty of anything merely by working at Auschwitz. Eight thousand people worked at Auschwitz. Precisely 19 have been convicted, and only six for murder.
      To prove murder, you have to prove intent. That's the law. The question is never was it wrong, but was it legal. And not by our laws, no. By the laws at the time.

Hanna Schmitz: What would you have done?

Rudolf: You tell us to think like lawyers, but there's something... disgusting about this.
Professor Rohl: How so?
Rudolf: This didn't happen to the Germans. It happened to the Jews... Six women locked 300 Jews in a church and let them burn. What is there to understand? Tell me! I'm asking! What is there to understand?... I started out believing in this trial. I thought it was great. Now, I think it's... it's just a diversion.
Professor Rohl: Yes? Diversion from what?
Rudolf: You choose six women, you put them on trial, you say, "They were the evil ones, they were the guilty ones." One of the victims happened to write a book. That's why they're on trial and nobody else!... Do you know how many camps there were in Europe? People go on about how much did everyone know? Who knew? What did they know?... Everyone knew! Our parents, our teachers. That isn't the question! The question is, "How'd you let this happen?" Better, "Why didn't you kill yourself when you found out?..." Thousands. That's how many. There were thousands of camps. Everyone knew.

Professor Rohl: What we feel isn't important. It's utterly unimportant. The only question is what we do. If people like you don't learn
from what happened to people like me, then what the hell is the point of anything?

Michael: What do you feel now?
Hanna: It doesn't matter what I feel. It doesn't matter what I think. The dead are still dead.

Ilana Mather: People ask all the time what I learned in the camps. But the camps weren't therapy. What do you think these places were, universities? We didn't go there to learn. One becomes very clear about these things.

Ilana Mather: What are you asking for? Forgiveness for her? Or do you just want to feel better yourself?... My advice? Go to the theater if you want catharsis. Please. Go to literature. Don't go to the camps. Nothing comes out of the camps. Nothing.

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