9/5/2023 0 Comments A hidden life![]() ![]() Malick has always dealt with dualities existing within man("nature vs. I'm not sure if Malick intends to separate morality into 3 different categories (good, 'not good', evil). Jagerstatter: "If God gives us free will, we're responsible for what we do, what we fail to do, aren't we? If our leaders are not good, if they're evil, what does one do? I want to save my life, but not through lies." We can't remain silent in the face of evil. ![]() Jagerstatter: "I don't see things as you do, Father. Your only responsibility is to your family. You have no basis on which to reach a judgment as to the justice or injustice of this war. In a utilitarian sense, no obviously not, but the movie is attempting to grasp at something different.įather Kreutzberg: "You aren't responsible for their actions. I think thats what the movie is trying to get at. Is my silent opposition worthless, or is there is something in the act itself that has value to it? I boycott and refuse to buy things from Amazon even though the rest of the world uses it. The way I view it in my own life is I personally believe Amazon to be a harmful corporation. Is this enough for someone to take up arms against? I don't think so but I also think thats a very consequentialist way of framing the situation and context which is not what the movie is going for. Rather, he realized that they weren't good stemming from the racist propaganda videos that they showed him while he was a soldier. He didn't fully realize the scope of the horrors of the Nazi regime. Jagerstatter didn't consider the Nazis to be evil, he considered them to be not right which are two different things. I still disagree with you on the viewpoint of the movie because I dispense with what you view as the most important question in the context almost immediately. Well thats a far different and more interesting critique than the comment that you had originally and its more relevant to the film and its goal and purposes. What distinguishes Jagerstatters supposed martyrdrom from mere pride and stubbornness? To that end, what are Jagerstatter's thoughts on Christians who take up arms against their opponents? Are Christians the Bad Guys for not "turning the other cheek" as all Good Christians should? Are Christians the Good Guys for using violence against Nazis, who Jagerstatter himself considers evil? That would probably be the most important question in the context of Jagerstatter's passivity against participating in a violent struggle against invading Nazis, and yet Malick never poses it. Moreover, I don't think Jagerstatter's unshakeable piety was beneficial to anyone around him at all. Malick's choice to have the crudely caricaturized and jingoistic Bad Germans speak in their native tongue without subtitles, while the Germans that Malick has deemed honorable get to have subtitles, is a great way to "otherize" people in a movie ostensibly about the unspeakable evils of ethnic hatred and prejudice that are the folly of all human beings. It's not the film itself that I found boring, so much as it is the way I found Malick's engagement with the source material to be, especially with his sweeping, monumental montage style. I think A Hidden Life is Malick coming to his senses and deciding to combined on what he made in the 70s and what he was doing in his experimental phase.ĭo you think this movie was some sort of comeback for Terrence Malick? ![]() Diehl portrays him as a person being true to higher moral principles and obligations of goodness, regardless of those who think differently.Īlso, as I said on another post, I think this movie is a comeback for Terrence Malick after making his last 3 movies being at his most experimental, to the confusion of anyone who see these movies. I really like August Diehl as Franz Jagerstatter, who portrays him as a man who is being tested on his Loyalties and whether or not he should serve the Nazis. I was really impress with this movie and just love the cinematography that Malick implemented. I just recently watch A Hidden Life, a 2019 film by Terrence Malick, The film depicts the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
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