When We Are Dying Film Analysis

The film widely revolves around Liesel Meminger, a nine years old girl from Germany who was given up by her biological parents to live with Hans and Rosa Huberman. Surprisingly, the narrator of the film is death, and all these events take place in 1939 shortly before the break of the Second World War in Molching. Hans becomes an important person in her life especially after her brother’s death as he dedicates time to comfort her to learn and read as well as comfort her during those hard times. Later on, she learns that’s her parents were persecuted by the Nazis after being suspected to be communist. Notably, the mayor’s wife saw her stealing a book from burning book activity and later invites her to study in her library.
Death is one of the main characters that is widely focused and used in the film. Despite giving the abilities of a living being as well as being the cynical narrator, death has the duty to carry away the souls of individuals who have departed recently. Thus, death has been used to shed light on the religious-philosophical theory considering that most religions do not believe in death and to many, it is a bad omen. Despite trying to focus on colors as a way of distracting itself from the survivors of
This philosophical theory is widely spread across the book as the Liesel questions the existence of morality in the society as well as the reasons as to why bad things happen especially to the good people. To Liesel, the Jews, and the Communist are good people but face persecution from the Nazis led by Hitler. Hitler maintained his intentions of fully eliminating all Jews from the face of the earth especially in Germany by terrorizing them into immigration and those who were left behind were ultimately rounded up and forced into concentration camps and labor