2º – The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
Shaping up in a small German village shortly before the outbreak of World War I, the story shows the local residents’ attempt to discover those responsible for strange and cruel acts. Directed by Michael Haneke, ‘The White Ribbon’ starts from an individualistic premise, sketching a figure of evil that fits into a single individual, from a collective, terrifying point of view, denouncing evil as intrinsic to our origin. A great movie, which, however, charges a lot psychologically from its viewer.
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