"You must be very unhappy to be so mean"

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2012)

A very sinister and disturbing work, fittingly shot in black and white, "The White Ribbon" quietly and insolubly shows a hand-me-down chain of wickedness and cruelty. Those who are powerful suppress and abuse the weak, who in turn do the same to the weaker.
Simplicity of style, and the eerie black and white cinematography, often only showing the bare minimum, compounded to my frustration with the characters.
Although incomplete, the story is still presented in a way that in your gut you know, you just know, what happened and who did what.
This is an interesting movie exploring not what happened before WW2, but what happened before WW1 to cultivate a generation that was bred on "malice, envy, apathy and brutality."