“I did what I could to make him a proper man. I locked him up, hit him until my hand was swollen”“Maybe it wasn’t enough. Some people need the double dose.”Supposedly Michael Haneke's favorite film, which of course it is. It's basically 80 minutes of people being gross, closed minded, homophobic, and cruel to each other (and animals). Martin Sperr must have been truly disgusted by those sugarcoated idealizations of pastoral life when he wrote this. It's horrific. But also superbly shot. The visuals are quite reminiscent of Yugoslav Black Wave, so I liked that, although Živojin Pavlović did this kind of thing better, with more humor and less real animal entrails being disemboweled in lingering close-ups.
A Taboo; from ever to eternity! Homosexuality is a matter of ages that still today remains a taboo for a large portion of the globe. And more than half of the world's population do not approve of same sex relationships. It is even harsh in religious areas, especially rural underdeveloped places; "Hunting Scenes from Bavaria" directed by Peter Fleischmann offers a realistic view of rural life in southern Germany, specifically Bavaria; a place completely different from the modern Germany itself... a place of having no respect for lives "other" than their racist ideologies and sexist beliefs. In "Hunting Scenes from Bavaria" a young man named Abram returns to his motherland and starts to work as a mechanic there. In a small place like his village, everything is questionable, from the smallest things to one's sexual orientation and emotional preference. And everyone, especially a foreigner is more prone to be a suspect of holding odd sexual tendencies. This strange drama exposes the severest aspects of narrow-mindedness and prejudice resided in the depth of villagers' minds and souls with scenes full of atrocity and brutality which I believe that not every audience can bear watching the film easily. The reason why the Bavarian community were so hard on the matter is the fact that there wasn't any legal term such as illness or pathological situation in their law back then; a term that could protect its citizens from being a target for abolished notions and Nazy mentalities. Yes, there is an obvious Nazy mentality that wants everything in line with whatever it dictates. There was a scene where Abram's mother played by Else Quecke said that she used to beat him every day. It was there that I couldn't stop thinking about Abram's sexual preference. Many scientific studies have proven the fact that there is a strong relationship between parental abuses in childhood and men's homosexual tendencies in the future. There I could understand why Abram became or chose to be a homosexual in the first place. But what I couldn't understand was the horrifying fact that such a mother ended up with the decision of annihilating his son whom she has thrown him herself to an abyss like that. Although it was difficult to watch and endure all those cruelties and heartbreaks, but the film's documentary spirit was a strong point which I can't resist mentioning it; I mean, isn't it so symbolic yet realistic to find a community's primitive instincts no where but in the middle of a barbarous killing scene? And no matter if the killing ground is prepared for humans or for pigs! The action remains to be inhumane! I'm astonished that I came up with this film at this very day; Media in my land are streaming news about a cinema director, Babak Khorramdin, of age 47, not only got killed and stabbed to death but mutilated and abandoned too, by his own parents... He wasn't a homosexual though. What I mean by pointing to this news is that, how far human beings can go, and how evil can they be in degrading themselves to animals, that they can earn an strength so wicked to kill a being of their own blood? Evidently, much! Faeze Pourpeyghambar
Challenge 2024 – bedeutende deutsche FilmeNa ob wir da wirklich rüber machen sollten?! Nach DDR -DEFA Klassikern hat es mich in die BRD und eine niederbayrische Dorfgemeinschaft verschlagen.Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (1969) zeigt die Engstirnigkeit und Intoleranz der bayerischen Dorfgemeinschaft und hält der Gesellschaft damit einen schmerzhaften Spiegel vor, indem er die Mechanismen der Intoleranz und sozialer Ausgrenzung gnadenlos offenlegt, die schließlich zur Hetzjagd führen.Es geht um Abram, der ins Dorf zurückkehrt und aufgrund seiner Andersartigkeit und Homosexualität Opfer von Misstrauen, Ausgrenzung und Gewalt wird."Sowas hätt's früher nich gegeben"Peter Fleischmann inszeniert die Geschichte in einem dokumentarisch wirkenden Stil, mit realistischer und authentischer Darstellung von Gruppendynamiken und Vorurteilen.Hanna Schygulla und Angela Winkler sind in sehr frühen Rollen zu bestaunen.Für Soziologen ein Fest. Präzise Sozialkritik und fernab vom heutigen deutschen Weichspül-Kino.Ein wirklich beklemmendes, hartes und ziemlich großartiges, kleines Stück deutsches Kino.Seh- und Untertitelempfehlung !
