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A couple of observations

posted 10 years ago by greightdane
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1) Thomas is a German soldier. What would a young German soldier do in 1945 when the war finished? Well he'd most likely think that he'd soon be treated to a hasty execution. So to avoid that he changed his appearance and became a jew by getting a jewish ID card with a photo that could pass for himself. He did the concentration camp tattoo himself in the DIY style just like they were done at the time and just how simple prison tattoos are still done today. Had he been a real jew from the KZ camp, he'd be a lot more malnourished and skinny as the Nazis did not feed the jewish prisoners a lot towards the end of the war. Also he'd never have the photos that he has in his wallet from before the war as those would have been confiscated had he been in a concentration camp. Those are his own photos that he just put in the jewish wallet/ID as a place to keep them.

2) Lore has her mom's disease (it's hereditary) as she saw her mother's legs shortly before she died. At the end of the movie she notices that she herself has these same symptoms and thus knows she'll soon die. in despair, as she can not tell anyone as she doesn't want to scare her siblings in case they have it too, she makes the scene at the table and smashes the porcelain figures.

[–] Naephelia 10 years ago

I agree with 1). That was my impression as well.

But what disease are you referring to? Her mum stumbled and fell in front of the cottage, hence the wounds/abrasions.. or have I missed something?

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[–] Naephelia 10 years ago

Ok, that does really make sense!

[–] cookiela2001 10 years ago

I got the impression that the mother was raped, as opposed to having a disease- abrasions, blood, torn stockings, etc., all seemed to point to a rape. Plus, she seemed rather pissed off- more-so than usual ;) I'm thinking: RAPE!

Yes. And later we see the dead farmwoman's body has some of the same signs.

[–] AimC 7 years ago

Thanks for quoting that. Wonder why the admin deleted it.

It was confusing because there was no indication of the father being a rapist and nothing about a disease either.

[–] mechafi 8 years ago

Also he'd never have the photos that he has in his wallet from before the war as those would have been confiscated had he been in a concentration camp. Those are his own photos that he just put in the jewish wallet/ID as a place to keep them.

Those aren't his photos. One of the photos in the wallet taken in 1936 shows a grown-up man supposed to be "Thomas" hanging out with his girlfriend. The real Thomas would have been something like 12 to 14 years old in 1936.

Kai Malina, the actor portraying Thomas was born in 1989. Lore was filmed in 2011 so he was 22 at the time. The "1936" for Mr. Malina was the year 2002 when he was 13 years old.