"White Ribbon" is amazing. On the one hand, it has a strong alienation effect on the narration, symbolic expression, and the use of pre-narration, and on the other hand, some fixed-camera shots have to be substituted into it. For example, the scene where Martin was pumped by the cane. The camera position is fixed: the door opens, Martin walks out, and goes back with the cane, the door closes. There was silence, followed by a piercing scream. In these dozens of seconds, the audience, like Martin, silently waited for the inevitable violence to come, as if it was not only Martin but us who were to be whipped. Maybe this is what makes this movie so good: it combines calm thinking from a high point of view and a long distance, as well as the necessary empathy and a sense of substitution, so it is worth pondering over and over again.
View more about The White Ribbon reviews
