English title: Shame
A childless couple living in a small farm is disturbed by a civil war.
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you". This became a misquote of Trotsky, who really said an analogous sentence with 'dialectics' instead of 'war'. Replacing that with 'politics', it becomes a misquote of Pericles, who said "We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all". The man in this film is a pitiful specimen, just like the yuppie in the prologue to Idiocracy (wimps have no kids). Time rages war on us, all the time (cf. Scenes from a Marriage), this is only an allegory. Not that there are no real wars, look at Ukraine. Love is a very beautiful thing, but needs a material support to exist. Otherwise, it cannot survive its shameful nakedness.
Rating: 59
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