Die Wand (2012)
AKA: The Wall
Directed by: Julian Polsler
Starring: Martina Gedeck (Woman)
Country: Austria; Effed Up European Movies
Language: German; Effed Up German Cinema
Runtime: 01:47:47
Genres: Sci-Fi, Violence Against Animals
Plot – Spoilers:
A woman arrives at an Alpine hunting lodge with an older couple and their dog. The dog isn’t particularly friendly to her and neither is she. But they’re soon left alone together when her friends head to the nearby village and fail to return. The woman and dog’s isolation and forced companionship is made complete when they discover an invisible wall that prevents them from leaving the place. The wall runs wide, and in time, the woman finds there are enough mountains, forests and warm pastures for her to roam at will. And enough supplies to keep her alive for a while. But with no living human in sight, there doesn’t appear any respite from the inevitable despair of her growing loneliness. Animals unlike humans seem to abound within this wall, and they eventually become a source of responsibility for her and a reason to keep living.
Most of the film is a continuous sequence of beautiful shots interrupted only by the woman’s inner ramblings on the seasonal changes, death, her animals and the guilt of killing to survive. A slow-moving work recommended for those that might enjoy watching humans in isolation.
did i miss something? didnt see a wand die
It was an incredibly good movie. I am deeply moved. Her life feels to me like a reall hell. It represented all I hate: loneliness and hard futile work. She had her friends who have left her one by one. I feel I will do the same If I were her. Im not sure. This is very possible that I wouldn’t survive the first autumn because of my health. Im even not sure if I will be able to fight without my antidepressants. Maybe the first difficulty or first depart of my friend would crash me. She has survived though all that happened. What an incredibly strong and smart woman she was. She was also so good and full of love. She represented all that I define as a human being. Strong and beautiful.
Artsy shit
Examples of Christian organizations being afforded more rights than the German Faith Movement
Part 2
“While HJ members were allowed these prerogatives, the same freedom of religious expression was not granted within the HJ to paganist organizations like the German Faith Movement (or DGB). When the DGB attempted to use a passage from one of Schirach’s poems in a promotional flier, the leadership of the HJ voiced its disapproval. Writing to the head office of the Gestapo, the Reich Youth Leadership Office complained: “The Reich Youth Leader has never given the German Faith Movement permission to use this poem for its propaganda purposes. That the Reich Youth Leader moreover has forbidden any propaganda activity in the Hitler Youth for the German Faith Movement is proof that the quote has been misused.” Schirach’s office requested that the Gestapo confiscate all copies of the leaflet.”
— The Holy Reich, pg. 249-250