Kawasaki‘s rose

The year is 2009. Pavel Josek, an eminent scientist and former dissident, is due to receive a state honour for bravery. During the filming of a television documentary about his life it comes to light that at the beginning of the 1970s – under pressure from the secret police – he played a part in the discrediting of a former friend, who was ultimately forced to emigrate. The film recounts events that took place over thirty years earlier without using a single flashback. The family drama sheds light on the practices employed by the secret police to discredit its opponents. An emotional story of guilt and atonement, the pitfalls of memory and the need for forgiveness.
                
                
这是一部关于良心审判与宽恕的电影。从婚外情，小孩顽皮偷窃，到历史环境下错与对的选择，最终都逃不过良心的审判，也许正因此，忏悔录、日记和回忆录这样的文体才绵延不绝到今天。
这个世界不是天堂也不是地狱，拯救或者沉沦，都在人的良知选择。
让人动容的是，电影最后，这位英雄在公众面前道歉，以及，前secret police在家中安享晚年，接受儿孙的生日祝福。在天鹅绒事件之后，公众对旧的机器运作者采取了宽容态度，虽然公众中的有些人在年老后的今天开始后悔，但是他们当初采取的态度依旧是令人钦佩的。
导演来到银幕前，告诉观众说，电影里每一个故事都有现实的根源，只有一点，在公众面前道歉的事情至今尚未发生，只存在电影里。电影的戏中戏，为电影主人公所拍摄的纪录片，其初衷正是以防历史的遗忘。但似乎历史总是遗忘的。当一代人接替另一代人生活在这世间，具体的历史一定是会被忘记的。可是，希望良知不会因对待某个具体历史事件的粗暴态度而泯灭。所以我想，对待很多事情，人们需要的不是简单就事论事的道歉，毕竟再诚恳的道歉也不能消解和抹去过去的苦难，道歉中真正有意义的是道义的声张，是良知的抬头。而且我想，总是会有这么一天的。