Review on 📀 Young Törless DVD by Warrick Batebi

Ideas about the origin of evil have led many philosophers to ponder the dilemma of its location. Some claim that evil is taught when children are born with a blank head. Despite the notion that children are born a blank slate, children without formal education can commit great evils. All that needs to be present is a situation that allows the child to express their unkind cruelty. Thus, evil can be found in those moments when the child lets his imagination run wild. Perhaps imagination is the source of evil, especially when boredom sets in. Anyway, young Törless visualizes the moment when evil is born in a group of teenagers at a military academy in the desolate lands where only the best of families send their sons. The film begins at the Neudorf train station, where the parents of the teenager Törless ask that his peers take good care of him. Parents' pleas for their son's safety gets a little overwhelming, but it shows how much they love their son. It's important to understand how secure Törless was when raised by his parents. This shows how innocent Törless is of the cruelty of the world he is about to be privy to. A group of teenagers whose parents left Törless return to a small town, providing additional insight into a teenager's socioeconomic position in society. . They go where they want without caring for the world, as if the world is theirs. Teenagers visit a local inn, where they buy wine and gamble without considering the consequences. Nothing seems to affect them as they enroll in a military academy, where they attend school to become high-ranking people in society. The story is based on the first novel by utopian writer Robert Musil, set in Austria-Hungary. Kingdom 1906. Director Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation stays fairly close to the novel as it shows military academy students discovering the nature of power through self-knowledge. The power these students discover leads them to humiliate, intimidate, and torture a fellow student who stole money from one of the other students. The protagonist Törless initially wants to report the theft, but is persuaded by two other students to punish himself. up to respect. Instead, he embarks on an intellectual journey investigating the humiliating behavior of two of his peers. Ideas about how evil and good coexist within a human begin to bewilder Törless as he struggles with his desire to deepen his understanding of the evil nature within himself. He continues to flirt with evil and tries to stay on the side of good, but eventually comes to a clearer understanding of what is right and what is wrong. Many themes seem to concern Törless when he contemplates the evil within. Some of the questions he ponders touch on different aspects of his life, such as trying to understand his sexuality, women and their anatomy. Törless' curiosity about women has an obvious connection to his mother, as he seems to seek maternal love in women. This is even hinted at by a prostitute played by Barbara Steele. The strong macho-sadistic tendency at school awakens in Törless a boyish curiosity to continue exploring what it's all about. This almost suggests at times that Törless might be gay, but that never becomes apparent as he's still trying to find his own path to his own identity. The young Törless made several comparisons with the Nazi regime, which are clearly present in the structure of the psyche of the academy students. The sadistic elements that dehumanize the student enough to intimidate them are the strongest elements that reflect this notion. The strong autocratic control they exercise over the young thief in the military academy heightens the notion of fascism. In hindsight, this military academy served as the education machine for new generations of young extremists, bigots, and heartless hypocrites who thought they were superior but lied about their desires and behavior. cinema world. The film isn't technically advanced, but the way it tells the visual story with plenty of thought-provoking shots and cinematic moments is stunning. The shot where Törless and Beineberg are sitting in a café, where Törless is examining the waitress's neck and hand, is nice. However, this scene is followed by an even better shot in which Törless and Beineberg look at each other in silence for a good 20 seconds until the waitress drops the glass on the floor. These shots are good examples of how well Young Törless is filmed as they leave viewers with a very contemplative cinematic experience.