![]() ![]() She fills a tub of water for him (again stressing her cleansing trait), tells him that she won’t look, but now it is she who peeks, observing his nakedness. She laughs for the first time and tells him he can’t go home like that. She initially acts stern again, and efficient, demanding he help her by filling buckets of coal for heat. He is intrigued by her, and shows up at her apartment. Her uniform makes her look like she is in the military, and foreshadows what we learn later about her being a prison guard. He looks at a train and sees himself as a youth. So, we immediately know that Michael is a loner. ![]() She doesn’t even know about her, stressing his lack of openness. He does divulge that he has a daughter whom he is going to meet later. Michael, however, is already dressed, and although he was physically intimate with her, emotionally he keeps her at a distance, not even allowing for time for them to get to know each other during a morning breakfast conversation. She says he let her sleep because “you can’t bear to have breakfast with me.” We first see her naked, which means she is not afraid of baring herself. The egg Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared is for a woman he has slept with by the name of Brigitte (Jeanette Haine). The shot possibly suggests that people try to put up impenetrable fronts to shield their vulnerable inner psyches which may have been damaged by prior traumas. It is an object that appears hard and opaque on the outside, but it hides something fragile on the inside. The first image is that of a cooked breakfast egg. The movie begins in 1995, and then goes backward and forward in time. ![]()
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