The amount of information is so small, but the amount of information is so large. This is the most intuitive feeling after watching this film. Class, prejudice, war, family, immigration, so many elements are integrated into such a minimalist story and video style, Haneke is worthy of being a master. The issues of prejudice, class, and immigration presented in the film are similar to the later "Liberty Square". Haneke still tells stories of cold violence in the presentation and exploration of the relationship between images and reality. This film is a real cold violence, so cold that it makes one's scalp tingle. A large number of surveillance videos, and even the blood-splattered suicide scenes seem to be filmed under surveillance, which is eerie and terrifying.
The peaceful life of the TV presenter George, his wife Anna, and their son Pierre was shattered by a tape George picked up from their door, which recorded the Georges' house and the street outside, as they drove home or went out. Private activities such as garbage are recorded. This made George and his wife extremely nervous, eager to find out who sent the tapes, but couldn't. Soon, more tapes and letters were sent to George and his family. There's a videotape of a suburban farmstead with a drawing of a blood-spitting face on a piece of white paper, and then a drawing of a decapitated chicken on a piece of paper... such a drawing for George to do A childhood nightmare: When George was a child, on his parents' farm, an African-American boy killed a chicken with a knife, and then walked towards a terrified George with blood on his face. Through his dialogue with his mother, we know that the African-American boy in the dream is Maggie, an Algerian refugee once adopted by his mother. But at that time, George was afraid that Maggie would take away the love of his parents, so he began to spread rumors about Maggie in front of his parents, such as Maggie was seriously ill, coughed up blood, scare him by killing chickens, etc. In the end, the parents sent Maggie to the hospital. In the orphanage, life also went in the opposite direction. George is so deeply convinced that the person who sent the video is Maggie, and he believes that Maggie is haunted by the past and wants to take revenge and disrupt his life. George finds Maggie, who lives in a shabby and dilapidated apartment, based on the information he received from the videotape. Maggie could have obtained the same living resources and educational resources as George in a middle-class family, but now, he can only hide in this apartment representing the ground floor, forming a detached villa with George's exquisite, luxurious and full of books. sharp contrast.
George's suspicion of Maggie came from his own guilt, so he was reluctant to tell his wife what he really thought, or even to mention Maggie. His shame made him face this trouble alone. This also caused a rift in his relationship with his wife, who even had an affair with his good friend... George's suspicion of Maggie came from the prejudice and superiority of the middle class towards the bottom of the society. So no matter how Maggie clarifies her innocence, the deep-rooted prejudice makes George unshakable to believe that Maggie is the initiator, which is similar to "Liberty Square". George's suspicion of Maggie comes from racial discrimination and exclusion, which is a product of ideological and social circumstances. A bottom-level colored person finds trouble with a middle-class white person. What a rational politically correct analysis, what a In love and reason.
As a low-level African-American person of color, how on earth will Maggie prove her innocence? He can't do it, it can't be done. George represents the authority of this society, the authority of this country, the people's hearts and the national conditions. Maggie will never change that, he will always be a suspect. Even if he cut his throat in front of George and splattered three feet of blood, he was just a dead criminal... When his son found George's theory, George even suspected that the video was filmed by Maggie's son... Prejudice forever Existence, Maggie's death doesn't change anything, and the conversation between Maggie's son and George's son at the school gate at the end also doesn't change anything, everything is in vain. Interestingly, who is the mastermind behind the scenes? Haneke did not give an answer, which is his usual style, and the process is the answer. Maybe the "murderer" you're scratching your head to find has nothing to do with the movie at all...
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