George's childhood story is very similar to "The Kite Runner". In "The Kite Runner", in order to monopolize his father's love for him, the boy lied that the servant's son stole his watch, and the servant left with his son, Soon the little boy and his father immigrated. When he grew up, he learned that the servant's son had been killed by the Taliban for guarding the house for his family. In order to rescue his child, the grown-up boy went deep into the organization and finally completed his own redemption. In this film, in
order to prevent his parents from adopting Majid, who has become an orphan, the young George lied that he vomited blood. The parents did not believe him, so he lied again that his father asked him to kill the rooster. Majid cut off the head of the rooster, and the blood splattered. All over him, the headless rooster struggled and flapped its wings on the ground. Majid was taken away, and this nightmare of killing chickens has haunted George ever since.
As an adult, George has a family and a room, and becomes the host of the reading column. But he kept getting pictures of children vomiting blood and videotapes monitoring his home. George thought that the culprit behind it might be Majid, so he went directly to Majid's house. Majid denied that it was his own doing. Despite this, George still did not give up his doubts about him, so when his son did not return home at night, he The first thing that came to my mind was Majid. Majid was taken away by the police and his son came back. It turned out that his son went to another place. One day, George received a call from Majid. He came to Majid's house, and Majid slit his neck in front of him, proving that it was not his own doing.
However, George still did not give up his prejudice, he turned his suspicions on Majid's son, although he was well educated.
Under the "hidden camera", the film uses ubiquitous surveillance to force George to tell about the mistakes he made when he was a boy. Although this fact was revealed, George still did not take off the tinted glasses of the high class, and it seemed that he did not think that he had killed Majid. Childhood mistakes and knots will follow people throughout their lives. Although people have grown up and mature, their views on things will not change, and their choices in dealing with things will not change. The "hidden camera" is like the eye of God, he can see into the evil of human nature.
Like "The White Ribbon," Haneke does not address the culprit or motivation behind the violence in this film. Violence has always been the motif of Haneke's performance, from the unprovoked killing in "Fun Game" to the violent murder in "White Ribbon" to the self-mutilation caused by sexual repression in "The Piano Teacher" to the intimidation in this film. From the torment of illness and mental depression to the death because of love in Love, violence has always run through Haneke's entire filmmaking career, whether abstract or concrete.
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