I’m old enough and know Haneke’s work good enough
to just press stop button after 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Because this is how
long opening credits roll. And they are written in these tiny little words on pitch
black background without any music and/or sounds and you get pretty good
impression about how this piece of shit will proceed.
And it proceeds into some post apocalyptic
future and of course Haneke doesn’t feel a need to explain the cause of this
apocalypse. It’s just too trivial and because – stupid me – this isn’t really
Mad Max action type of flick and it’s more about how people react in extreme
situations. No, wait – it’s not about people in general, it’s about how family
- as a basic cell of human society - acts and ultimately reacts when it’s
violently torn apart. Or maybe not? Is it the other way around and was I
watching small and intimate drama about young girl feeling alone after losing
her father and finding her first romance in that annoying kid stealing shit of
other survivors? But no, I’m sure it cannot be THAT simple. The kid probably
represents some figure from 256th bible paragraph and that scene with another
naked kid standing in front of the fire surely means something? Or am I totally
wrong and this is about decline of the western civilization, because the last
shot shows train (crucial symbol along with the bicycle) coming from the east
and that clearly symbolizes arrival of Chinese people liberated from the
communism. But in that case it cannot be about decline, it’s rather about
prevailing of the west, right!? Is it possible that - after all - this is Mad
Max remake, but done according (homage?) to fucking Dogma 95 rules? It
obviously pays to do movies shot with static camera in bleak colors without
music. If you’re lucky enough, you’ll maybe get Nicole Kidman for your next
“project”.
God, this is getting too confusing indeed.
I need to go online and find an interview with this almighty auteur to find out what was the
message he tried to convey to me. And how the hell he managed to get money for
it…
Awful stuff, there’s really and honestly nothing
even remotely interesting about it. I mean – it has to be really bad when even
Isabelle Huppert and Béatrice Dalle cannot make it watchable, right?
1/10
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