The White Ribbon is the b&w winner of the 2009 Palme d’Or that was directed by Michael Haneke. It seemed begin with a statement like that because it is rather difficult to pinpoint what The White Ribbon is actually about, I could recite the plot or what happened on the screen but that wouldn’t quite explain its meaning. I think that it is about the cruelty or evil perhaps that is inside us all. I think that it is about the fact, that just because we are trying or we believe that we are trying to do good, that the nature of cruelty doesn’t change. Cruelty is cruelty with or without good intentions. Some people say that it is about the birth of Nazism, I think that is a bit of an too easy explanation. The main culprit is never, really revealed (it is rather easy to guess who it was) but that is just because that was not the point of the movie. It was meant to show cruelty or rather punishment. The cause or reasons behind it didn’t really matter.
It is up to everyone to decide for themselves what The White Ribbon was all about.
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