Whoever deserves it will get it.
On 20 October 2006 it was time. The police stood at the door. Rang, spoke to the answering machine, threatening to gain access by force. What had happened? The Bible-believing Christian and a music teacher Uwe Romero from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Bissingen at Teck had not three of his children brought to school. The instruction was "neither Christian nor value-neutral" Romero said at that time compared to the mirror . The fact that in Germany there was compulsory, Romero does not matter. There was a big drama. "The policemen brought the excited and crying children to school," Süddeutsche Zeitung described the then. A year ago, finally got the Romeike political asylum in the United States, where they now have the right to teach their children at home.
Germany has what the theme of "home schooling" As a special position in Europe. For here there is no education, but a compulsory education. While home schooling in other countries such as England and France is possible, therefore, he will be allowed in Germany only in extreme cases. Although home schooling is not the topic of Yorgos Lanthimos' Kynodontas , but also in Lanthimos three children dependent on the care of their parents. holds on an idyllic property a manufacturer (Christos Stergioglou) his family captive. In agreement with his wife (Michele Valley) should their son (Christos Passalis) and the two daughters (Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni) do not leave the premises. From the outside world they get to anything.
passing aircraft toys - a faith that the father is replaced by upright, because sometimes one of them landed in the garden. During the day while away the time children in that they lead meaningless competition for the attention of her father. For example, who can last the longest air. And if father is in a good mood, then in the evening looked even a family video or music of his grandfather one, whose real name is Frank Sinatra and translated the words of the father ad hoc. Everyone seems happy. The parents, because they protect their children from the dangers of the world. And the children because they know no better. Until the father thinks he has to satisfy the sexual desires of his son and brings an outsider home.
That Kynodontas this year for an Academy Award as best foreign language film nominee, is surprising. Because the film is anything but mass appeal. Compare arrange Lanthimos' second feature film between the Enfants terribles Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke one. And the Greek seems no doubt influenced by Haneke, Von Trier, Pasolini, and the like directors who are pursuing ways to controversial socio-cultural approaches. In one scene the father obtained from a dog trainer the progress of his Doberman. This show, however, not yet "how we want your dog to behave." Similar to the Doberman dog trainer appears to be the father in turn, to train his children. The results are often absurdly comical educational activities.
Because happy times threatened to increase family room and consolidation, if the mother announces she's pregnant with twins and a dog. Only to appease: "I might avoid giving birth." On demand degenerate Zombies then to yellow flowers and a sudden intrusion in the property cat is dubbed "the most dangerous animal there is." Nothing that happened is, of father and mother ignored every little thing becomes part of their skeleton lies and the parties ultimately the victim of that same. "You can not trust anyone anymore," the father says in the third act, in which blurred the boundaries between morality and ethics last. True to the Marquis de Sade ". Each universal moral principle is a perfect fantasy"
Lanthimos has succeeded Kynodontas an extremely fascinating film in which not much is spoken or acts, but this in no way results in it to lose its attention. That one actually knows nothing, either in medical terms deal with the children, whether they believe that there are several, their property-like "enclaves" are or why should actually found a lost brother on her own behind the wooden fence to live in the garden not interfere. Things are just the way they are and by the audience as the children immediately accepted. That they have preserved of their behavior in the naive innocence that they wanted the parents is a prerequisite for the functionality and authenticity of the showing.
The production of the film is minimal, just like the game of those involved. The dialogue is wooden and often recited without emotion, love and lifelessness a reflection of the souls of children. Maybe an analogy to Genesis it are the daughters, who explore the limits of their "paradise". So unconventional and well fail Kynodontas , it still seems unlikely that he actually wins the Oscar. What is the merit of the film for the Greek cinema does not diminish. Moreover, home schooling is illegal in Greece. But as said already de Sade: "There is no course of action, and like them appear no matter how immoral, the somewhere in the world tolerated for granted or even approved would. "
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