The past in Germany is not like smoke (all spoilers are careful)

Darien 2022-01-03 08:01:48

The film remained tense until the end, and there was a kind of reasoning and climax of solving the case. Many calm, clearly not scary shots, But it was full of violence, dead birds, children being pushed into the water, mentally handicapped children screaming, playing the flute, the more calm the more terrifying. Although it is a stuffy movie, it is a plot. Of course, this is a matter of personal interest. We are used to watching the big detective filming and telling the husband of the deceased: You are the murderer, or the Japanese now smiles to the beautiful woman and says: Mr. Old Ghost, we finally meet. Now it's just another form of serial murder. It's just that this time the murderer is even more gangster. The film speaks in some aspects of how Germany created these cold-blooded killers-these groups of children, the white ribbons worn by the two leading children, symbolizing purity, discipline, repentance--but all of these are Patriarchal and theocracy impose on them. Let’s take a look at the story first, or the past. For clarity, it’s not entirely in chronological order. Of course, I have added my own comment: The protagonist is a piano teacher under the Baron, and he recalls that he met his fiancée at the age of 31. And the past in the countryside before the marriage (before 1914), those vague and dusty things, in the passing time, become more and more clear. He may have experienced World War II. Of course, to understand these things, he only needs to live until Hitler is in power. The piano teacher (hereinafter referred to as the teacher) witnessed several violent incidents in the village in those two years: The first one was that the doctor was severely injured and admitted to the hospital after being strangled with a white ribbon. The teacher later learned that Clara and Martin, the pastor’s sons and daughters, and a group of children went to help the doctor’s daughter weeding. In the second case, a female worker of the Baron died in an abandoned factory not long after, when the teacher saw Martin on the bridge near the workshop to test whether God would want him to die because of his mistakes. His conclusion seems to be that God does not blame him. In the third case, the baron’s son was tortured and beaten. Most people think this is the work of vegetable destroyers. The teacher knows that the Baron’s son actually disappeared while playing with the children that day. In the fourth case, there was another barn burning incident in the village. That night, Clara, Martin and his brothers and sisters were booing in the bedroom. Fifth, the midwife's son was severely beaten and disabled. Before the incident, a little maid told the teacher that she had a dream. She dreamed that a child had been deliberately opened the window and had typhoid fever. Then the dream came true. Now she dreamed that the midwife son was beaten. The police investigated the beating incident, and the teacher provided this clue, but during the interrogation the maid insisted that she had a dream instead of hearing any thoughts. After interrogation, I pushed them away and found that Clara and the children were eavesdropping. Later, the midwife learned of the murderer from her son. She asked the teacher to borrow a bicycle to go to the police station and arranged for her son to be transferred to a safe place. The doctor who committed adultery with her (considered the biological father of the midwife son) also disappeared on the same day. The teacher found Clara and Martin again in front of the midwife's house. He made a bold hypothesis, went to the priest's house to verify, and boldly interrogated Clara and Martin, Clara responded keenly. After the pastor returned home, the teacher told her own reasoning---the real culprit was the children, and the pastor reacted strangely, saying that the teacher was stunned. Report to the official. So the matter is over. The midwife and the doctor didn't know where they went. About these weird things deformed, annihilated, and resurfaced in time. From the perspective of the piano teacher, he vaguely felt weird, but he didn't understand what was going on. It was not until many years later that he understood the strange shadow over Germany. From the above incidents, we can't find out what these have to do with NAZI. These incidents are just superficial things, just like the things that our senses can reach and the rumors we hear. In fact, the key lies in the piano teacher’s sense of touch. From the director’s omniscience perspective, we can see the living conditions and mental conditions of some families and people in these violent incidents: 1. The first victim doctor, he He was obviously a bitch who had sex with the midwife and caused him to become pregnant. After the abortion failed, he caused the illegitimate child to become mentally handicapped. After he recovered, he broke up with the midwife-on the grounds that she was ugly, smelly, lacking dignity, and had a better alternative than her-to engage in her own daughter. After the illegitimate child was killed, he seemed to take responsibility and transfer the illegitimate child away. 2. In the family of the female worker who died, the eldest son believed that it was caused by the improper assignment of the baron, so he had a conflict with Shen's father. Later, the vegetables were destroyed on the harvest festival. Everyone suspects that the abuser of the Baron’s son is a vegetable destroyer. The father slapped the eldest son three times and hanged himself shortly after being fired by the Baron. 3. The baron, the village material leader, was very angry and asked the villagers to hand over the perverted perpetrators and spend the Winter Festival in a foreign country, but his son was Someone grabbed the flute and pushed it into the water. The baroness could not bear to leave the house and said that she was in love with the second man, although the main reason for her leaving was that Germany had too much indifference, resentment, jealousy, and violence. But his husband thought she left because she slept with the man. 4. The boy who grabbed the flute was asked by his father as the assistant of the baron to hand over the flute. After being slapped and kicked, he still said no! When my father walked downstairs, he played his flute. This time he took a cane and went up. 5. The teacher’s fiancée was suspected of negligence of duty because the baron’s son was abused, and was dismissed. The doctor cared and helped him. The two should be married. Of course, this requires the wife’s father’s consent. Can you afford a wife? 6. The rural spiritual leader priest, Lutheran, believes in original sin, discipline, strict requirements for their children, children must be punished for late meals, and the tone is full of sadistic spirit. For example, if I punish you, my mother and I will sleep. No, use a whip to beat him, tie his hands to stop his son from masturbating excessively, pinch his daughter’s ear in front of everyone, all this seems to prove that he is the king of the family (every child kisses him after eating You can leave the restaurant). But the king was defeated by his daughter Clara in the end. He scolded Clara in the classroom and she pretended to be dizzy. Then she sneaked into his room and nailed his love bird into a cross shape with scissors. He hinted at his anger and concession when he baptized his daughter. When he finally heard the piano teacher's reasoning, his fear seemed to outweigh his anger. God knew what his expression was when he turned his back to the camera. So far I have basically finished the spoiler. Some details may be wrong, and some have added my own speculations. However, from the above incidents, we have also seen the so-called German spirit and how some violent incidents are strange and strange. Diluted in the indifferent atmosphere, many things did not show all its characteristics at the time, because some results have not yet come out. Take the example of China, for example, only when the Cultural Revolution took place, the May Fourth Incident, the literary criticism of the Left League, the Yan'an Rectification Movement, and even more distant events could be connected into a complete history. Judging from the above details, the film has no connection with the so-called NAZI coming to power, but from the later history, we should see that the true nature of NAZI is: racism (contradictory transfer and national mythology), discipline, and socialism (lower class The beneficiaries of the village), meticulous disciplinary violence and monitoring: 1. From the film, it is easy to see the nature of the so-called Junker nobility in Germany, buying land, presiding over celebrations, and half of the village’s livelihood is in the hands of one person. 2. The lower class are very dependent on the nobles, and the father hangs himself after the family is fired. Derived from The desperate jealousy of the lower class towards the rich. 3. The extreme of patriarchy. From the six episodes above, we can see that the role of father is very strict, ritualized kisses, slaps, and interferes with sexual privacy. 4. Discrimination against women is very explicit. Marry a female elephant to talk about business, abandon the mistress and directly say that the other party is ugly and so on. When the wife proposed to break up and gave a more literary reason, she directly asked whether there was adultery. 5. The victims seemed to be unconnected when they were selected. There were village doctors, women workers, rich children, illegitimate children of mentally retarded children, and food storage places. This proves that the reason for harm is a very pure, non-interested, violent will, a crime and punishment type event, a self-proving tendency of destruction. All the above factors constitute the rationalization of violence, and some repressive characters are bred through strict hierarchy. Give the child a toy, tell him not to play with this, and then give him another choice. In this way, children will soon become greedy for the new. But if you give a child a toy, but forbid him to play, punish him if you play. In this way, the child's desire is suppressed and distorted, and he/she who gets the toy will play frantically until the toy is disabled. The priest taught his son in the film let me see the strongest SM. But the violence that led to death brought this down again. The director seems to use metaphors here. If we can’t see the relationship between the film and NAZI, it’s because it doesn’t say which Jew has died. Many people think of NAZI’s coming to power. It seems to start from when Jews were discriminated against in Germany, but in fact, the whole of Europe is doing it. Discriminate against Jews, but Germany is the only one. This film probably also represents the deep thinking of the Germans. The previous wave talked about the future, and the white ribbon went back to the past. I think that if you are accustomed to violence in a society, violence will be renovated in a tricky way, and reach the extreme, and finally become SM. If you are accustomed to an authoritative society, your worship will be renovated in a tricky manner and reach the extreme, and finally you will become a great leader. Even if there is no violence and worship, a society accustomed to surveillance and suppression reaches its extreme, and eventually becomes a prison of self-monitoring and suppression. But only violence has always been the wheel of history and society, because it can always smash problems the fastest. And the people who get it always like to turn over by tricks, and it is a sincere renovation by tricks. But all the tricks are always invisible before we feel the body and the heart. We are always like blind people, always feeling distressed at the time, and we can only survive the past. Coming to power seems to start from when the Jews were discriminated against in Germany, but in fact, the whole of Europe is discriminating against Jews, and only Germany is the only one who has such a prominent position. This film probably also represents the deep thinking of the Germans. The previous wave talked about the future, and the white ribbon went back to the past. I think that if you are accustomed to violence in a society, the violence will be renovated in a tricky manner, and reach the extreme, and finally become SM. If you are accustomed to an authoritative society, your worship will be renovated in a tricky manner and reach the extreme, and finally you will become a great leader. Even if there is no violence and worship, a society accustomed to surveillance and suppression reaches its extreme, and eventually becomes a prison of self-monitoring and suppression. But only violence has always been the wheel of history and society, because it can always smash problems the fastest. And the people who get it always like to turn over by tricks, and it is a sincere renovation by tricks. But all the tricks are always invisible before we feel the body and the heart. We are always like blind people, always feeling distressed at the time, and we can only survive the past.

appendix:

Excerpted from "The History of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, The Holocaust and Jews in Germany"

Himmler is not the product of a normal era, nor is it the product of normal, healthy or caring parents. His father Gebhard Himmler was an extremely rigid, pedantic, and compulsively observing principal of the law. He was a representative of the most common and terrifying type of totalitarianism in the German school system at that time. Professor Himmler’s father was an ordinary policeman with a clear habit of totalitarianism. He used the same principles to raise his own children, educating them to be cautious, tidy, orderly, and obedient. Although the young man turned to his mother who was quite spoiled for help, hoping to be free from his father’s strict control, he still internalized his father’s strict, rigid, racially superior, and arrogant values ​​into unconditional truths. All things that are gentle, sensitive, spontaneous, or loose, struggle and treat them as unconditional bad things. There is considerable evidence that Himmler had a particularly difficult adolescence because he did not meet the strict standards his arrogant father wanted him to meet. The stern father strengthened the young man's dream of becoming a brave officer and leading the warrior into battle, but this dream was shattered in a wrong time combination. When Himmler completed his studies at the officer training school, the war was over; and the young Himmler lacked a strong physique and determination, which was enough to prevent him from becoming an inspiring leader.

He also disappointed his hierarchical parents because he had not pursued a college education course, which allowed him to obtain a prestigious career. Himmler studied agriculture at the Technical University of Munich, and he continued to do so in the crisis-ridden era after the war. In 1922, he was awarded a diploma in agriculture, but his job prospects were in an abyss. He worked as a technical assistant for some time, engaged in fertilizer research. He is lonely, wandering, insecure, and eager to gain a sense of meaning and purpose in life. He found this meaning by joining the Nazi Party and replacing his stern father image and stern value system with something else.

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  • Stefan 2022-01-03 08:01:48

    Boring, another way of anti-plot. Hanneck’s best film is "Cache"...

  • Jana 2022-03-29 09:01:04

    First of all, admit the power of this film, the embryonic form of the Nazis, the darkness and violence in the heart, and the evil of the entire German nation. But before the truth was revealed, it was really unnerving. I watched the film at 5 o'clock, fell asleep several times, and replayed it again. …

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?