The White Ribbon (2009)

Shit goes down in a pre-WWI German village: a doctor is injured when his horse is done in by a tripwire, a rich boy is humiliatingly beaten bare-bottomed, a retarded child is nearly blinded and tied to a tree, an infant nearly freezes to death, and a woman falls to her death in a sawmill. There's also this everyday undercurrent of horriblenesses like incest, emotional abuse, and unfair accusations.

The mood is successfully oppressive, but no real answers are provided and that makes for a unsatisfying whole.

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