A brief interpretation of the core discussed in this film.
The second film review, with serious spoilers, mainly wants to analyze Haneke's play method.
The first and most poetic part is the hidden camera, which is invisible like a ghost, like a hand of fate or a justice judge, reversing the fate-changing lies and rumors committed as a child, and reverting the fate of the parties involved. Relink together. Let the unsettled memory that was hidden be uncovered and re-examined.
The male protagonist was born in a family of manor owners. The parents raised the child of an Algerian working couple who originally lived in his home, because his parents were violently massacred by the French government and thrown into the Seine during a national independence march in Algeria. But the six-year-old male protagonist is jealous that the boy has invaded his own territory (from here on, it is also a metaphor and microcosm of the political relationship between France and Algeria), so he fabricates a lie that the boy is coughing up blood, and induces the boy to cut off the head of the rooster in the manor , and eventually the boy was forced to be sent to an orphanage.
The hidden camera (the judge of fate) rediscovered the unease in the male host's heart, and the male host was once again unable to face the violation of his own domain, thus repeating the old trick, intimidating the grown-up Algerian orphan, and passing him through. Injustice and framed, and finally forced him to death.
Lies are one of Haneke's film themes, and it's a man's lie, at the root of his cowardice and selfishness.
The male protagonist acts cowardly in the film, conceals everything and hides his heart. In order to cover up the lies from being exposed, he will use tricks and more lies to solve his secret actions. Because this is the price of lies. We fabricate lies for selfishness, but we are condemned by our own (heaven and earth) conscience. Selfishness and cowardice hide lies in the dark corners of our hearts and never see the light of day.
When the judge of fate (the conscience/justice of the world) tries to open the black box in the hero's heart in a more direct way, the deep fear and cowardice fight back desperately, and finally lead to bad results again.
The women in Haneke's films are the embodiment of honesty and bravery. The mother in the film never hides anything, always openly confesses what she knows. She made no secret of her fear and fright. She went directly to her friends for help, she went directly to her husband for the truth, and when her husband hid the truth, she was angry and criticized him. The most touching moment was when her husband finally declared the secret of his childhood that was buried in his heart because of the serious consequences. Although he still firmly believed that the other party's perversion caused self-destruction, the other party deserved it. Even at that moment, the husband was still blind. selfish and unable to see the truth. However, the wife did not evaluate any right or wrong, but just walked gently to her husband's side and put her hand on his shoulder.
This is the great moment, the moment of the Virgin, and putting her hand on her husband's shoulder is clearly not forgiveness, but understanding beyond forgiveness. That is a basic kind of compassion that is directly and precisely linked to the basic goodness of others. The basic good here is the moment the husband opens his heart. He finally confessed that it was the moment when all the deep darkness in his heart was opened, and it was also the moment when the light came in.
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