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The White Ribbon

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The White Ribbon	comment	The White Ribbon (Das Weiße Band - Eine Kindergeschichte) is a 2009 German Drama/Mystery film by Michael Haneke. Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
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The White Ribbon / int_1181a575	type	The Unsolved Mystery
The White Ribbon / int_1181a575	comment	The Unsolved Mystery: We never learn who committed the crimes, leaving us with No Ending.
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The White Ribbon / int_12f667aa	type	We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The White Ribbon / int_12f667aa	comment	We Have Ways of Making You Talk: The sentence is uttered by one of the policemen who question Erna about her alleged prophetic dreams.
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The White Ribbon / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
The White Ribbon / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: The midwife has been the doctor's mistress for years. At some point, the doctor dumps her.
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The White Ribbon / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The White Ribbon / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Before beginning his tale, the school teacher admits that he doesn't know the full story and that some parts of his story consist of rumors sourced from other villagers, hence why some parts of the film are viewed from the other villagers' perspectives.
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The White Ribbon / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
The White Ribbon / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: The ones who beat Karli leave a note with a quote from the Book of Exodus.
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The White Ribbon / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The White Ribbon / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Systematic repression, child abuse, hierarchy, deprivation, and a grand total of about two sympathetic adult characters... and it's only going to get worse.
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The White Ribbon / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The White Ribbon / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: The school teacher seems to be the only adult in the town without some dark secret or fanatical viewpoint. Though of course, he is the one narrating the story...
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The White Ribbon / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The White Ribbon / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The ones who beat Karli leave a Calling Card with a quote from the Book of Exodus: "You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me." Of course, the pastor also quotes the Bible (for example the Book of Psalms during the harvest festival).
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The White Ribbon / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
The White Ribbon / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The story is told from the view point of a secondary character (the school teacher). He admits that many details he only knows by hearsay.
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The White Ribbon / int_4782e35b	type	Meet the In-Laws
The White Ribbon / int_4782e35b	comment	Meet the In-Laws: The school teacher meets the parents of Eva, his Love Interest. He formally proposes to her. Her father accepts, on the condition that they wait for one year.
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The White Ribbon / int_489b4eea	type	Ignored Enamored Underling
The White Ribbon / int_489b4eea	comment	Ignored Enamored Underling: The midwife would do anything for the doctor's love.
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The White Ribbon / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The White Ribbon / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: The doctor and his daughter.
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The White Ribbon / int_614127a5	type	That Liar Lies
The White Ribbon / int_614127a5	comment	That Liar Lies: The baron asks the baroness if she slept with the man she met in Italy. She answers that she did not. The baron tells her that she is a liar.
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The White Ribbon / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The White Ribbon / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: When Piepsi the songbird dies, the Pastor's youngest offers the bird he has nursed to health to replace him. Because his father seemed so sad.
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The White Ribbon / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
The White Ribbon / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: During the harvest festival, the school teacher dances with Eva, which allows them to get closer. Eva is quite awkward and nervous and visibly there is some chemistry between them.
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The White Ribbon / int_66dbffe8	type	Schoolmarm
The White Ribbon / int_66dbffe8	comment	Schoolmarm: The narrator is a male example.
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The White Ribbon / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The White Ribbon / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Felder, a peasant, hangs himself, probably because his family is in financial trouble. The baron fired the whole family after Felder's son destroyed the cabbages.
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The White Ribbon / int_7b07e9f	type	Prim and Proper Bun
The White Ribbon / int_7b07e9f	comment	Prim and Proper Bun: The go-to hairstyle of the women in the village is a tight, tidy bun, which together with their dark dresses mirrors the conservative atmosphere of this community. The Pastor's daughter has begun wearing her hair this way, but is compelled to revert to a braid while the humiliating punishment of wearing a white ribbon in her hair lasts.
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The White Ribbon / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The White Ribbon / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: The villagers think that the doctor tried to carry out an abortion because the midwife bore his illigitimate child. Things did not turn as expected and the midwife gave birth to a handicapped son. Whether this is true or not is left ambiguous.
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The White Ribbon / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The White Ribbon / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Near the end of the film, the schoolteacher theorises that the crimes might have been committed by the village children. The pastor bars him from investigating further, so we never find out if he's right or not.
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The White Ribbon / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The White Ribbon / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: The school teacher falls in love with Eva the first time he sees her, as she rides a bicycle to go home.
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The White Ribbon / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The White Ribbon / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Someone opens the window of the bedroom of the steward's baby, who gets sick because of the cold. Erna, the steward's daughter, tells the school teacher that she had dreamt that this kind of incident would happen. Moreover, she tells him that she dreamt that Karli would be kidnapped and tortured, which happens for real some time later. Whether she really had prophetic dreams is left ambiguous.
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The White Ribbon / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The White Ribbon / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: A village with an unsolved mystery.
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The White Ribbon / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The White Ribbon / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: The entire plot revolves around parental brutality, repression and abuse against children. For example, the pastor beats his children with a cane because they came back home late, the doctor rapes his daughter, the steward beats his son because he pushed Sigi in a stream...
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The White Ribbon / int_b4fddee	type	McGuffin
The White Ribbon / int_b4fddee	comment	McGuffin: The crimes. Ultimately it's not about whodunit, but how a society will set itself up for evil.
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The White Ribbon / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The White Ribbon / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The movie was originally shot in color and then altered to black and white in post-production in order to create a distance from a false naturalism that suggests we know exactly what happened.
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The White Ribbon / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
The White Ribbon / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Klara, the pastor's daughter, kills her father's bird with scissors because he humiliated her in front of other children. This scene suggests that she could be involved in the series of crimes, but this is never explicitly confirmed.
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The White Ribbon / int_d5b7a6e3	type	Denied Food as Punishment
The White Ribbon / int_d5b7a6e3	comment	Denied Food as Punishment: The Pastor denies the whole family dinner for his eldest two children's sin of staying out late.
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The White Ribbon / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The White Ribbon / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Most of the adults are not given names in the film, instead being called Pastor, Baron, Steward, etc. This includes the narrator, who is only known as The School Teacher.
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The White Ribbon / int_e67ff203	type	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
The White Ribbon / int_e67ff203	comment	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: After his son was kidnapped and caned, the baroness goes to Italy with him. There, she starts a relationship with an Italian man. She comes back home. After some time, she tells her husband that she wants to break up with him and to live in Italy with her new lover.
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The White Ribbon / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The White Ribbon / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The school teacher gets married and leaves, and the audience never has any answers as to who or what is causing the crimes.
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The White Ribbon / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The White Ribbon / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The doctor towards the midwife.
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The White Ribbon / int_ebbf48c0	type	Silent Credits
The White Ribbon / int_ebbf48c0	comment	Silent Credits: There is no music or other sounds during the closing credits.
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The White Ribbon / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
The White Ribbon / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: The only exception seems to be the Pastor's youngest.
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