Through the pun of caché, it not only shows the hidden camera/perspective/voyeur, but also the escape and concealment between people, and then exposes the eternal social issue of French refugees. Most people talk about metaphors, Haneke's skills are really good, the language of images, lines and the hero's dreams, his conflict with his wife, and the "reconciliation" in the last scene.
But what I'm thinking about is that as a story, event, it's very important to hide the photographer behind the camera, and I can't accept the idea of "who shoots it doesn't matter anymore". Rolls of videotapes control the male protagonist's behavior, and even determine his position. From the two pictures of the little boy that suddenly appeared before and the conversation with his wife, what I feel is the male protagonist's sins committed in his childhood. fear and even subconscious guilt introspection, although this does not mean the resolution of racial conflicts. But the videotape gave the male protagonist sufficient reason to suspect Majid, which in turn provoked contradictions and led to tragedy. Knowing that Majid died, he was reluctant to let Majid and his son go, and he deliberately concealed from his wife what Majid had emphasized before committing suicide. I think it's his habit of hiding the cacher, and his inner fear. For a videotape that threatened his family, work, and even his entire life, he used his own evidence to convince himself to sue the Majid family. Although the other party denied it, he had reason to doubt them. This was a question of whether the male protagonist should trust him.
And it was these tapes that brought him to the issue, the filmmakers behind it. If it wasn't for the guidance of this video, the male protagonist's prejudice against his childhood was wrong. Is the behavior of a six-year-old child really out of racial hatred planted in his heart, not to mention the kindness of the male protagonist and the mother. This tape is also a key factor in the conflict between the male protagonist and Majid because he threatens himself.
So who is it? The possibility of this question is worth exploring, because the videotape does not exist objectively and only reveals the problem. It not only opens up the side of middle-class social elements, the contradiction between France and Algeria, and even the coexistence of Western society, it also promotes the story. Decided the choice of the male protagonist, both in action and in his heart. Thinking about this problem is also thinking about possibilities, and different possibilities can also dig deeper problems, which are worth thinking about.
The role of the male protagonist is unavoidable (interestingly, he is an Algerian in reality), and we will always be willing to sympathize with the weak side of Majid when we bring it into the audience's perspective, which makes it even harder to believe that it was Majid's son. The answer is unknown, and some people will make excuses for the unknown answer - "It doesn't matter who shot it".
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