Watching a movie about the socialist period made in 2016 make me suspect about the message of the movie.
while viewing the movie, I made some parallelisms between this movie an "the 12 angry men", a Hollywood movie regarding 12 members of a jury to decide whether a boy, supposedly having committed an obvious crime is really guilty or not. Likewise here we have the union of the parents to quarreling among themselves to decide whether to sign a common petition about the recently arrived comrade teacher.
The teacher, making constant references to the Soviet Union implies socialism which was governing the Slovaks before 1992. The children being the future generations are at the center. The gentle boy, Carol, whose mother left for abroad is the future Slovakia. The Red cross comes and takes him to help him establish a brilliant future. The Red cross being the Chistianity forming a major part in the making of the Slovak identity.
The teacher has a secret relation with the father and tries to convince him for the divorce. The father, unexpectedly decide to go against the teacher.
The movie intentionally leaves many point unanswerable. Wheather the teacher is guilty or not, whether really the Mother had cased a divorce or not.
while viewing the movie, I made some parallelisms between this movie an "the 12 angry men", a Hollywood movie regarding 12 members of a jury to decide whether a boy, supposedly having committed an obvious crime is really guilty or not. Likewise here we have the union of the parents to quarreling among themselves to decide whether to sign a common petition about the recently arrived comrade teacher.
The teacher, making constant references to the Soviet Union implies socialism which was governing the Slovaks before 1992. The children being the future generations are at the center. The gentle boy, Carol, whose mother left for abroad is the future Slovakia. The Red cross comes and takes him to help him establish a brilliant future. The Red cross being the Chistianity forming a major part in the making of the Slovak identity.
The teacher has a secret relation with the father and tries to convince him for the divorce. The father, unexpectedly decide to go against the teacher.
The movie intentionally leaves many point unanswerable. Wheather the teacher is guilty or not, whether really the Mother had cased a divorce or not.