It's a punchline movie.
The ending ties it up well and puts it in proper perspective. Human perspective.
The movie, for me, is largely symbolic, archetypical. Lore is not really a person she IS the immediate post-war Germany.
Everything that she experiences, all her opinions, all the opinions she is exposed to and indoctrinated with, are the points of view of millions of the German populace.
How she deals with it, or denies it is how Germany dealt with and denied it. The 'it' being the entire ethos that permitted/enabled WWII.
In a sense all cultures are a form of mass hysteria, mass hypnotism. Societies indoctrinate as part of their nature, actually part of their definition is the values with which they indoctrinate their populace.
If the values are extreme and violent, the populace often follows. It the society fails at its aims and is physically destroyed, then the population becomes valueless and must die or reinvent itself.
Post WWI German society didn't die, so this is a movie about the pressures, the pressure cooker, in which gave birth to its reinvention.
So, as a piece of symbolic representation, it's magnificent.
There are no plot holes, every bit of dialog, every image, in necessary for understanding.
And patience is required. The viewer assembles all the images, all of Lore's perceptions.
And the pressure cooker cooks.
The ending ties it up well and puts it in proper perspective. Human perspective.
The movie, for me, is largely symbolic, archetypical. Lore is not really a person she IS the immediate post-war Germany.
Everything that she experiences, all her opinions, all the opinions she is exposed to and indoctrinated with, are the points of view of millions of the German populace.
How she deals with it, or denies it is how Germany dealt with and denied it. The 'it' being the entire ethos that permitted/enabled WWII.
In a sense all cultures are a form of mass hysteria, mass hypnotism. Societies indoctrinate as part of their nature, actually part of their definition is the values with which they indoctrinate their populace.
If the values are extreme and violent, the populace often follows. It the society fails at its aims and is physically destroyed, then the population becomes valueless and must die or reinvent itself.
Post WWI German society didn't die, so this is a movie about the pressures, the pressure cooker, in which gave birth to its reinvention.
So, as a piece of symbolic representation, it's magnificent.
There are no plot holes, every bit of dialog, every image, in necessary for understanding.
And patience is required. The viewer assembles all the images, all of Lore's perceptions.
And the pressure cooker cooks.