The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band)

[Hibbyradge]

Aye, twas compelling, but I'm still in the dark as to what it was all about.

Any of you bright young things care to explain in single syllables or less?

[grammyb111]

I was equally stumped. I thought it might have something to do with society's tendency to corrupt, with the idea that perhaps these children would grow up to be as bad (if not worse) than their parents. As the first signs manifested themselves in the older children at the beginning and the younger ones learning from their actions by the end that may be the case?

I can’t remember when the film is set, but would it be these younger ones that would have been the beginning of the Nazi movement? Initially the children tried to hit at their oppressors (the Dr in the beginning) and after that failed (the Dr lived, and damaging the crop didn’t have the intended effect either), they then went on to attack those who couldn’t defend themselves (the boss’ son, the handicapped boy and the bird) with the intention that it would hurt those that hurt them. By taking out their grievances on the weak is the director showing that is society’s natural reaction, with the Nazi movement just being an extreme example of that?