Friday, February 29, 2008
The ending
I found the ending pretty sad. First we see Vladek and Anja's reunion after the war, and Vladek says, "We were both very happy, and lived happy, happy ever after." But we know that's not true. Anja eventually committed suicide, and Vladek became a miserable old man. And in the last line, Vladek confuses Art with his dead son, Richieu. It's as though the tragedy of the past will never really be over for this family.
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Yes, indeed. I had similar feelings about the ending. And I found the photograph of Vladek in the concentration camp uniform terribly poignant, not just because it let us see him as a person, not a mouse, but also because the photo was taken after he was liberated, when he was healthy and handsome again — he put on a new, clean uniform and posed for a portrait in a concentration camp outfit, as though to say this was me; I was there.
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