http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/michael-haneke-the-white-ribbon-cannes-2009/ The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/michael-haneke-the-white-ribbon-cannes-2009/#comment-520106 Sharon Goodier Mon, 16 May 2011 22:10:58 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12330#comment-520106 I just re-read my comment for the first time. I was so horror struck by the film that my comment must be seen in that light. Of course, I know all religions have their "calvinist" strains; the Catholic church, too, and that religion changes from culture to culture, even the same faith or denomination. Irish Catholicism is distinctly differen from Spanish Catholicism and in the states there are even big differences between east coast Christians, both Catholic and Protestant and west coast Christians or Middle America Christians of the same denomination. I agree with Michael Haneke's comment that all ideals become facistic when they are held as absolute truths, including and especially political ideals. I just re-read my comment for the first time. I was so horror struck by the film that my comment must be seen in that light. Of course, I know all religions have their "calvinist" strains; the Catholic church, too, and that religion changes from culture to culture, even the same faith or denomination. Irish Catholicism is distinctly differen from Spanish Catholicism and in the states there are even big differences between east coast Christians, both Catholic and Protestant and west coast Christians or Middle America Christians of the same denomination. I agree with Michael Haneke's comment that all ideals become facistic when they are held as absolute truths, including and especially political ideals.

]]> http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/michael-haneke-the-white-ribbon-cannes-2009/#comment-481969 Sharon Goodier Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:56:27 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=12330#comment-481969 Nobody has picked up on the Calvinist-Lutheran theology of this movie. It is so horrible that to call it religion is to insult all religions. I now understand why so many Germans did what they did as Nazis and why the world has unfolded as it has in Europe in the past 100 years. Maybe it also explains why the United States produces so many macabre serial killers -- the justitification of parental brutality in the name of instilling virtue and the torture of self esteem inherent in the religious teachings. As someone raised in a liberal Catholic milieu, I'm in a state of shock but I now understand why Ontario protestant kids weren's allowed to play with me -- they might have discovered too much freedom and fun!! Nobody has picked up on the Calvinist-Lutheran theology of this movie. It is so horrible that to call it religion is to insult all religions. I now understand why so many Germans did what they did as Nazis and why the world has unfolded as it has in Europe in the past 100 years. Maybe it also explains why the United States produces so many macabre serial killers — the justitification of parental brutality in the name of instilling virtue and the torture of self esteem inherent in the religious teachings. As someone raised in a liberal Catholic milieu, I'm in a state of shock but I now understand why Ontario protestant kids weren's allowed to play with me — they might have discovered too much freedom and fun!!

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