The film is destined not to be a reassuring movie. The sharp black-and-white picture after decolorization, the drill bit that probes into the dark space of human nature, all the way down, touching the hardest core, power.)
The film is set in a small village on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War. The director uses black-and-white images and memories to narrate the deeply hidden violence and crimes that took place there. The film as a whole does not adopt an omniscient narrative approach, but looks at a series of unrelated crimes at the time from the perspective of a bystander. The focus of the director is not to find out who is behind the scenes, but how violence and crime itself spread quietly among the children, in sharp contrast with the purity of the meaning of "The White Ribbon".
This is really a movie that people dare not recommend, dark, cold, distorted, tyrannical, cruel, numb, and sinking. Negative adjectives about human nature are superimposed on the screen.
