Nothing is white around here...

Rating: 9/10 (19 November 2012)

This movie achieved something where many other similar works exploring on the darkest sides of humanity failed to accomplish - choosing the right medium, mood and a right balance to demonstrate so powerfully the sick, unfathomable downfall of human nature.
Shot in black-and-white, the medium was a perfect way of revealing features that helped focus the attention of the viewer to guess what truly was the beginning of all that is evil. But by spending too much time thinking about it, anyone will miss out the bigger picture, that is probably a small flaw in my opinion in that it leads the audience astray from the bigger truth.
The movie knows not to reveal too much, for evil is not something that can be explained by any root or cause...it is manifested by all the repercussions and external influences making waves within the surrounding environment and to future generations.
Even more so in a society where people are trapped within the limited knowledge of what they can immediately see and feel, under the absence of TV and internet to escape from the collective mental cage, and in a small village where even the darkest secrets are in no way easy to be hidden to everyones else including the children, this psychological collateral damage is amplified