The White Ribbon
Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 05:42PM 
Jeff and I have discovered the magic that is $5 Mondays at the Drexel Theater. It's one of the independant theaters in town that plays mostly foreign and independant films - though you can imagine my dismay when they hosted a Sex in the City 2 movie night. I guess they need to turn a profit every now and then.
Anyway, after going to the Drexel a couple of times, we saw the preview for The White Ribbon repeatedly. I had no interest in seeing it, but one night there was nothing else playing so we decided to check it out.
Shown entirely in a shadowy black and white format, The White Ribbon uses subtle sound effects and regular bouts of silence to slowly build suspense. Austrian filmmaker Michael Heneke said that his film "is the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature." It's German - stereotypically and historically so and the "action" takes place in a sleepy farming village where there's no question that the not-so-innocent children growing up here are the up and coming Nazis of the 1940s. Cruel patriarchs and powerless women round out the lesson in history.
I cried a little inside for poor Peepsie and gave a word of thanks to not have grown up in the village of Eichwald.
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