Murder of Innocence reminds me of the movie The Reader a few years ago. Although the former is dressed as a crime film, the latter is remembered for its shocking and peerless love, but the perspectives of the two films are the same-how to treat the war criminals of World War II in the modern world, especially when that person has a close social relationship with you, which side will you stand on from the perspective of social justice or personal feelings?

I believe that most people will choose justice. But the actual choice is not that simple. The reason why the two films connect people's complex emotions and make the story dark is precisely because war criminals are ordinary people-in modern society, they have jobs and families and live an ordinary life like us. When they bury their past, you know nothing about their past. When one day you suddenly find that your close lover or relative has played a very evil role in history, how will you face it?

Like readers, Murder of Innocence raises extremely cruel questions. Interestingly, the leading men in these two films have gone from law school students to society and become real lawyers. Compared with family ties, both of them tend to have more serious social feelings and stand on the side of human justice. The hero in The Reader is extremely ashamed of his love for life and death with Hannah (Kate Winslet), and Lai Ning, the lawyer who defends the murderer Colleen in Murder of Innocence, is also very heartless. He took no account of the feelings of his ex-girlfriend, not to mention the feelings of Sepp Mayer, a father-like deceased, and resolutely defended the defendant.

Many viewers can see from these two films that modern German society is still reflecting on World War II, so they appreciate them very much. But from a deep feeling, I think the reflections expressed in these two films are subtle and do not follow the same path. We can clearly see how the war affected generations after the war. They are still plagued by heavy moral shackles. Whether it is the descendants of war criminals or the descendants of victims, everyone is truly facing challenges and sorrows in concrete life. This is also the cruelty of war, and it continues in another way.