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Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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The Wave ("Die Welle") though looks at the issue from a different angle, examining how it can arise and entrance those it touches, and in the process makes the whole issue look fresh again. The film is narrated from the perspective of a third person, although particular scenes provide individual characters' subjective points of view. The appeal of The Wave, and by extension that of all populist-authoritarian movements, is that they provide a sense of unity, of belonging, of purpose. The Wave is based on an experiment carried out in an American high school which saw students being taught fascist principles, and the repercussions it had outside of the class. This way you yourself are tempted by "Die Welle" and you have to force yourself to think why exactly it should be wrong to oppose it.

I'm always suspicious of the phrase 'based on a true story' when it appears in the opening credits of a film.Mona does so because of her genuine left-wing views, but there is a suggestion that the popular, intelligent Karo refuses to join The Wave because it is one clique that she cannot dominate and prefers to cast herself in the more glamorous role of heroic resistance leader. There definitely was a big difference between just reading about it and experiencing it - maybe understanding how it could happen, and how human dynamism plays into it. One difference between the experiment conducted at the time in the United States and today's Germany he saw in the fact that the American students had asked themselves quite horrified how there could even exist something like the concentration camps.

Gansel explained that he did not intend to reenact Jones’ experiment, but rather show how it would be carried out in present-day Germany. Finale is spellbinding as even if it diverts a lot from the actual experiment, it still proves as a necessity to further establish a point. Putting it mildly, the movie deals with a classroom experiment about autocracy which has interesting positive and negative consequences. Neatly structured by days, the experiment begins with simple disciplines and grows to become an exclusive cult named "the wave" with its own uniform and salute. One of the former students Neel interviewed for the documentary said: "It was like learning history in the first person.The German version ended up in the film but the English version is available on an international version of the soundtrack. The members of The Wave begin spray-painting their logo around town at night, having parties where only Wave members are allowed to attend, and ostracizing and tormenting anyone not in their group. a b c d e Christoph Cadenbach: Wie Schüler sich freudestrahlend in Faschisten verwandeln In: Spiegel Online, 10. It creates this palpable undercurrent, that even with a country that already identifies itself as guilty; it still cannot escape the possibility of anarchy.

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