Nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, I no longer wondered why
every moment while watching the movie really moved me. Me and my friends
watched this film during Independence Day here in the Philippines – which
coincides with the theme of the movie about a heroine who fought for true
independence in Germany during World War 2.
It’s rare
to find movies that really move you and lingers in your mind for a long time.
For me, this film is personally life-changing.
The movie
seems to be low budget, but the delivery is pure awesome. My favorite part of
the movie was when Sophie Scholl was undergoing a series of interrogations by
Gestapo investigator Robert Mohr. The script was truly phenomenal – as it
really piques your mind on central concepts about freedom, God, society,
integrity and selflessness.
Sophie
Scholl is now among my list of female figures that I look up to. Imagine at the
age of 21 she was brave enough to die to fight for what is right under an
oppressive regime. She could have chosen the easier way – which is to be
apolitical and apathetic of the things that are happening around her. Now she
is celebrated as one of the heroes that made a great difference in German
history. Check out the wiki about her here.
I wish to
have a persona like her – wherein she stands strong to her convictions whatever
happens. Wherein she fights for what she believes in until the very end. As I
quote from the Sophie Scholl wiki:
Playwright Lillian Garrett-Groag stated in Newsday on 22 February 1993,
that "It is possibly the most spectacular moment of resistance that I can
think of in the 20th century... The fact that five little kids, in the mouth of
the wolf, where it really counted, had the tremendous courage to do what they
did, is spectacular to me. I know that the world is better for them having been
there, but I do not know why."
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