Explain this shit, Germany

Explain this shit, Germany.

I also saw this thread on Sup Forums.

I like that movie

That's a really good movie, what's your point?

I dont consider it anti nazi propaganda. Haneke is smarter than that.

Never saw this or was advertised it. What is it about?

The boy in the striped panties was a better movie

>Haneke is smarter than that
>says Sweden
This is the guy who framed a thriller around the Algerian massacre. Haneke is the most anti-Europe director out there.

It's about a German village in 1914 prior to WWI, where mysterious things are happening, like falling wires injuring horse riders etc. and nobody knows who does it.
It follows the life of a teacher, the family of a protestant preacher and a single mother of a boy with down-syndrom.
It's a fascinating story about rural German Empire society .

It's also a story that basically implies Christianity led to the rise of a fascist dictatorship in the Third Reich. The village is called "Eichenwald" for fuck's sake.

>The Boy in the Striped Panties
Sounds like some kind of weird Holocaust Trap porno

Oy vey have to remind goyim that their religion is root of all evils and everything was completely fucked before enlightened je... i mean (((liberal))) rule

>It's also a story that basically implies Christianity led to the rise of a fascist dictatorship in the Third Reich.
Holy fuck, I watched this movie 3 times and it never ever felt related to the third reich in any way.
>Eichenwald
Wow, it's literally oak-forrest, one of the most common things you can find. Especially with the oak being the most prominent German tree ever.

>Look at what the director himself said
"Deshalb ist ‚Das weiße Band‘ auch nicht als Film über den deutschen Faschismus zu verstehen. Es geht um ein gesellschaftliches Klima, das den Radikalismus ermöglicht. Das ist die Grundidee"
"That's why Das weiße Band isn't a movie to be understand as something about German fascism. It's about a social climat the enables radicalism." He even talks about communism in another quote. It's about how a society of pressure makes people act, and protestantism is just one possible thing.

You're seeing ghosts.

so why did he make the movie in that time period, about white Christians and how horrible they are? I read the interviews he gave on it, and he said it could have been about a Muslim village. so why wasn't it?

It's a good movie, but with a subversive agenda.

>Palme d'Or

All I need to know to tell me that it's globalist propaganda trash.

>so why did he make the movie in that time period, about white Christians and how horrible they are
>White Christians
Well, it's Germany 1914, of course they'll be white Christians. Also he's a protestant German, so he can protray Christian Germans and their society much more closely than a culture that is much more foreign to him.
Also it's a time setting you don't see too often. How many movies about muslim communities have you seen? I bet you it is more than a German community before the World Wars. It's something new but far away enough to get stylized yet ring familarity to the audience.

Or is your main complaint, that he didn't make a backwards village in the backwaters of Germany 100 years ago not look good enough?
My mother saw it and she said from what her grandmother (who lived in that time period) told her, it makes a lot of sense and captures it quite well. So what's your main issue here?

>So what's your main issue here?
well, the obvious Nazi uniform parallel in the poster for starters. it's so obviously a film that tries to explain Nazis as this evil force begetting an even worse evil force. when WW1 ends, the evil children in this movie will be on the front lines of the brown shirts and eventually lead the country to another, even worse war.

at least that's what Haneke implies. It's not only my interpretation.

hell, the opening line of the movie: that occurred in
our village, because they may cast a new light
on some of the goings-on in this country...

says it all really.

>Nazi uniform parallel
What?! That's what a boy was wearing at the time. And if you're saying that the white ribbon implies the swastika ribbon on Nazi uniforms, I may remind you that such a thing was also worn by communists during the Weimar era.
>because they may cast a new light
on some of the goings-on in this country
I literally can see this also talking about WWI and how it came to be.
I mean it could reference how the DDR came to be such a totalitarian state, if you want to get it further.
But I really do think, this is not about German fascism. Again, he said it himself.
And from what I'm reading, it's not the common narrative to see it as
>This is totally the reason why Germany became nazi and it's all the Christians fault. He implies it heavily. Unless you show me many critics who agree with you on this.