First of all I have to warn you I will talk about the movie "White Ribbon" by Michael Haneke and probably going to be spoilers, so and if they do not want to know what it is or how it ends is better than stop reading ^ ^. There are also spoilers for "The secret of your eyes" by Juan Jose Campanella.
I must admit that my main interest in seeing this movie lay in my disagreement with the Oscar that was awarded to "The secret of your eyes" as best foreign film. Now I have a solid reason to say that in my opinion, this award was unfair and possibly the result of that "secret .." is a classic exponent of this social awareness against the dictatorship so fashionable at this time worldwide and particularly in Argentina where the institution of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are running for the Nobel Prize for Peace. The simple linear story of "The Secret ..." the performance of a large but little commitment to national television actor and, of course, the final punishment of the wicked and the final victory of love make this a film that fascinates the crowds.
regret that introduction so dismissive of the film Campanella, I think the film has some good points, enough to make wearable its 2 hours long, including the one which is most likely best performance by Guillermo Francella's career, the scene at the stadium of Racing, makeup, lighting, hot spots including Good Aires. And yet I think the movie is too pretentious in its attempt to become an instrument of denunciation to the top of the dictatorship in Argentina.
Such a claim is, in my opinion, much better run by the German film that competed and lost to "The secret .." by the award for best foreign film. "White Ribbon" is not intended to give a full explanation of the origins of mass insanity meant that Nazism or fascism, but rather than show, is included at family of a small population of northern Germany, pointing out how we live the horror every day without even realizing it and without recognizing it as horror, simply because it is part of our customs. I think this is a fundamental point, because in these times when we speak of tolerance towards the door to outside and does exactly the opposite of the door within postulated by Haneke is a twist ma sa daily hypocrisy: if others do is a mess, if we do is right and necessary.
"White Ribbon" is showing us how the rituals, rules and crimes wicked parents drastically affect the lives of children, leading them to become beings without the freedom to think differently, without power love yourself and certainly no ability to love others. The parent-child relationship is the basic line of the story and think it's very fitting that the director returns to this theme of family that seems trite by the hundreds of books that all social sciences have written about it, but that even with all the material remains a mystery. The appearance a father who sexually abused his daughter, a parent who is subject to the laws of the higher powers to try to keep your family and especially that of a parent not only imposes a harsh hand but law who turns himself into the law to which their children are inclined are marking the unfolding of history.
The director has the good sense to leave the mystery surrounding the film without a resolution by the outbreak of the First World War, ie agresióny interrupts a process that illegitimate violence is the way to start of violence and global standing of nations, of which the inhabitants of that small German town were quick to participate.
The scene in white, black and gray works beautifully to convey an atmosphere of hidden secrets and terror that we know are (because they live with us, we create and make them grow) but decided to cheerfully ignore and attribute them to others.
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