Sex and Germans

Rating: 9/10 (15 September 2011)

OK, so a woman in her thirties has sex with a fifteen year old boy. I know that it is politically correct to assume that this causes the exact same trauma to a boy as the reverse would to a girl. But it doesn't. Boys and girls, men and women, are not the same. You can pass laws saying that they are, but that doesn't make it so. You could pass a law that says that cats will henceforth be considered dogs, but that won't change anything's fundamental nature. This film leads you to believe that the Ralph Fiennes character was scarred for life by his teen-age experience. He may be weird, and distant, but so are a lot of people who had differing experiences. And by the way, I guess you can really count on Germans to keep their mouths shut. Don't tell the court about Schmitz's illiteracy, don't tell anyone about the camps and ovens. Jeez.