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russman4.5

Just make the man some couscous

Willow Maclay4.5

There is one scene in this film at around the one hour mark that takes this film from good to great, and really resonated with me on a personal level. This scene involves Emmi breaking down in front of Ali after she realizes how differently the world now treats her. In this scene I saw something that I rarely get to see in cinema and that is a real understanding of oppression through the uncaring eyes of a world that doesn't value you anymore. In Emmi's case this involves her interracial marriage to a man much younger than her. She's looking at something that she has never seen before and she doesn't know how to react to it. She wants to carve out a place in the world where she can have a fulfilling life with the man she loves, but the reality of her situation makes that world nonexistent. She breaks down. She doesn't recognize the world anymore because it changed as soon as she stepped outside of the boundaries of what was perceived as normal in Germany in the 1970s. It's a heartbreaking scene and the moment where I fell in love with this film.

Sam4.0

"Making couscous" is a fantastic euphemism for fucking