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Sophie’s choice

Sophie's Choice

The movie "Sophie's Choice" directed by Alan J. Pakula in 1982 tells the story of a Polish woman, Sophie, who suffers from the trauma of what she has experienced in Auschwitz concentration camp. The movie describes the Nazi brings enormous suffering to innocent people. Although some people survive from the camp, they can't live a normal life due to the unbearable experience. Instead, they live as already dead.
As an innocent victim of Nazi, Sophie should be supportive of her boyfriend's task about revealing the hidden crime which was done by Nazi. However, she strongly resists what he is doing. She says to Stingo, who just moves into the house and becomes a friend of ...

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she is a Nazi supporter. She feels guilty every time she thinks of the article hidden in her shoe. This innocent motive is reasonable and understandable. Why can't Sophie's forgive herself?
When Stingo shows his willingness of spending the rest of his life and have child with Sophie, she tells Stingo that she is not fit to be a mother. Then, she tells us the most unbearable experience she has gone through before she went to the camp. On her way to the camp, a German officer approved her request of releasing her child. However, the officer forces her to pick one of them, and give up the other. Otherwise, both of them will be sent to gas. She made the most painful decision at the very moment. Her soul collapsed the moment she let go with her daughter. She sent her daughter to the gas chamber with her own hand, and her son also died in the labor camp. After that, she lives as a walking corpse and running flesh.
Her peculiar family background and experience put her in a ...

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Added: 9/17/2013 09:43:23 PM
Submitted By: 19169997
Category: Film & Theater
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