The White Ribbon (2009) Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
The White Ribbon (2009)
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 146 min | 6,30 Gb
Audio: Deutsch AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
BDRip 1080p | MKV | 1920x1080 | x264 @ 5760 Kbps | 146 min | 6,30 Gb
Audio: Deutsch AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Director: Michael Haneke
Writers: Michael Haneke, Michael Haneke (story)
Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
IMDB - 62 wins + Nominated for 2 Oscars
Filmed beautifully in black and white with subtitles, The White Ribbon is a movie that will leave viewers with a lasting residue long after it ends. The film portrays the residents of a northern German village, dominated by a baron, sometime before World War I.
Inhabitants of this village, young and old, are sliding down the slippery slope of moral decline. The men in leadership positions - a doctor and clergyman, for example - are detestable, especially in their treatment of women and children. The most brutal scene in the movie, perhaps, was not one that portrayed physical violence, but verbal abuse towards a woman that served faithfully as caretaker, and more, for the town's widowed physician. As for the some of the children, although it is only suggested, it appears that they are budding sociopaths that perpetrate despicable acts against others.
Weeks after seeing this film, I started thinking more deeply about the children in this town. I realized that they would become young adults during the time Hitler would rise in power. They live an incubator in which the cruelty that they experience they, in turn, perpetrate against unsuspecting victims. Their circumstances are such that they are being unwittingly primed for carrying out the atrocities that will come to characterize their future in Nazi Germany. The White Ribbon is a prequel for the rise of the Third Reich.
Seeing this film led me to wonder about what present times are a prequel for.
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The White Ribbon (2009) Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
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