I don't honestly think it was about the roots of evil

Rating: 10/10 (20 December 2009)

The evil was well established in the movie, from long time ago, from the glory of the Holly Roman Empire in Germany, from the height of the bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Empire.The core,the inner, enormous value of this piece is not about that. The movie is a fantastic inventory of objects and faces, an anthropological exposition of the German features, a live museum,a magnificent docudrama... The texture of the whole environment, the details of the set are altogether a masterpiece of film directing . Given this fantastic set we are set to immerse ourselves in every moral nuance of the story, of every common and flat sentence given by the voice over. I enjoyed every second, every frame of this gem, with a thirst hard to describe. When it was over I wanted to last three more hours. I had the (bad?)luck to watch(or try) the enormously overrated Romanian''Police,adj' after this and it didn't but make this one more majestic and strong. Haeneke is the master philosopher of the 21 century of cinema, he looks at the main issues of history and ethics with the authority of a Dostoievsky, Wittgenstein, Rene Girard.What he has to say is to be listened and learned with the greatest love and devotion