Brilliant. This has got to be one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time. Visually beautiful and terribly haunting it engages the emotions as well as the old grey cells. Kate Winslet creates another complete and complex human being who you can empathise with while at the same time hating her choices.
Current temperature: here 73F/23C, there 18C/64F
Berg, in my opinion, did not better than anyone else. He felt ashamed to admit the relationship with Hanna, and even to visit her when she got in the prison. Hanna is so sensitive, she felt his constraint when she holded him, so everything became chinchin, not communication. She knew Berg didn’t have the courage to face her or the past.
So strong was her self-contemptuous that she could never accept the pity of the “Kid”. Her ending was not a choice, it was an ending.