White Ribbon - Repressed Fear

Vicky 2022-04-20 09:02:00

We all like the structure of suspense and rebirth. Often at the end of the puzzle, all the mysteries are easily solved. The original psychological relief allows our curiosity to be satisfied.

Therefore, although the open-ended ending is full of benefits, it always makes readers doubt their own IQ: is the answer to the mystery like what I think it is? Did I guess right? What did the author think?

"White Ribbon" is such a film. Although all signs point to the group of children, no one has confirmed it, no one has proved it, and no one has solved it.

Rather than saying that there is no answer, it is better to say that we do not want to believe that a group of lively or virtuous boys and girls would treat children of their own age so cruelly.

The tones of black and white, few dialogues, one violent incident after another, the murderer who cannot be found, and the omens of the "dream" bring icy tension and inexplicable fear to the film.

China emphasizes the goodness of human nature, so our family always asks our children to march toward perfection in everything—be polite, learn well, be self-motivated, love to work, be considerate..., so the children are getting more sophisticated and sophisticated. The age of lying is getting lower and lower.

Westerners believe that people are born with original sin, so priests always use strict family laws to confine their children's "sin" to achieve good upbringing for children, and all adults wear masks of perfection to ask children When they meet, they say hello and pray in advance. The adults also lead by example and ask the top executive of the village for approval for everything, including when to go fishing and when to dance with the opposite sex. Women obey their husbands unconditionally.

On the scale of moral supremacy, regardless of whether sexuality is good or bad, the same goal will lead to distortion of human nature, so the children in the movie begin to express their rebellion by violent means, but the standard of judgment is still perfect morality, so the doctor The family was murdered twice, the baron's family was murdered twice, and even in the face of their own younger brother who had just been born, they showed no mercy; thus, there have been endless self-disclosure and mutual disclosure in the previous campaigns in China.

Moral purity does exist, but people themselves are not perfect. We can pursue perfection, but don't ask others to pursue it together. "Your delicious food is someone else's poison." Unfortunately, we still have to do that.

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The White Ribbon quotes

  • Martin: I gave God a chance to kill me. He didn't do it, so he's pleased with me.

  • The Doctor: My God, why don't you just die?