The film often produces films whose importance goes beyond the intentions of 'author, cultural objects worthy of analysis and discussion but often end before you start. The wave phenomenon happened with (2008), the last work of the young Dennis Ganzel, who already Napola (2004) had shown to be able to move within the sociology of youth. The film's story seems to tell the truth, very articulate. In the sixties, at a school in Palo Alto, California, the history teacher Ron Jones decides to teach children the origins of totalitarian systems and create a movement that's soon out of hand. After a few mishaps (fights and beatings, no wonder, given the years), the professor concludes the experience. It is silent until 1972, when the story was taken up by American journalist and writer Todd Strasser The sign will dell'0nda (Archimedes, p. 160, € 8.20,) novel for teenagers very popular in Germany. Dennis Ganzel has scripted with Peter Thorwarth, drawing a film that reconstructs the current situation in Germany and in the story. The teacher Rainer Wenger (Vogel Jünger), much loved by children, young and mild anarchist sympathies, the lessons in the week "theme," robbed of his course on anarchism, is to hold a course sull'autocrazia; and usual question (could return to Germany the Nazis?), in which children with more common sense of adults, answers no and that it is time that the Germans stopped the current bear not blame them, decided to demonstrate in vivo the genesis of an autocratic group: like not to Hitler as so many have wanted to see, one of the many political groups of every sign, from Plato's Republic forward. Order, strength, discipline (now removed all concepts from education) turn boys who find a leader, the professor, a name, the Wave, then a symbol, adopt a uniform, greeting, shaking each other and they help out in schools. The situation soon escapes from the hands, especially by the reprobate, and leads to a brawl during a game of water polo. Now all against Wenger, his wife, Anke, who leaves him, his colleagues and the dean, and reluctantly decided to dissolve the Wave. Catalyzes the last meeting the need of a scapegoat against Mark (Max Riemelt) and it does "stop" and then highlights the situation, The wave melts and invites children to go home. One of the loyalists, who wanted to be his bodyguard pulls a gun to stop the comrades; stupidly injures one of them and then killed himself. The police take away the teacher between the eyes of the distraught students, and a still image frame is on its last expression dismayed about what happened.
The film is told from the point formal honest direction, with a lot of pace, many concessions to the style of the show, good music that emphasizes the highlights. What does a good job in Gansel, you guys do not move in stereotyped forms of the many show (Or tv-movie, as are now called) for adolescents, but in their adolescent spontaneity. They say, for good and evil, absolutely credible. Some sequences, like that night when the boys put their mark throughout the city, which winks at The Warriors (1980) by Walter Hill, the use of editing and music that refers to John Carpenter, the sequence of the party on the beach or the terminal nell'asettica hall where students gather with their uniform, they betray a certain skill but never takes the situation in hand. Maybe it's the script to fail, compressing the transition from group fed up with students a strong community within a week. Several critics have tried to establish parallels and connections between Wave and other films. From the recent class (2008) by Cantet, in which the subject was that of racial integration, the most daring have taken (wrongly) to Lord of the Flies (1963) by Peter Brook, based on the novel William Golding, where the return to the "state of nature," diligently transformed a group of British students in a "Wild Bunch". In fact wave is nothing but the "dark side", the Shadow, the reverse the lucky (and overrated) Dead Poets Society (1989) by Peter Weir. Laggù Professor Keating (Robin Williams) calls himself "my captain" ideal connection to Whitman and the "American myth", here Reiner returns to the traditional hierarchy and re-become "Professor Wenger", and there is to warn Americans of the fifties on guard against conformity, here to explain to the young Germans of the new millennium as a movement not approved structure which is likely to produce conformity, and there the faithful re-build a professor of youth artistic coterie, The Society of dead poets, heir to Keating, organize here scratch a political movement, which they themselves baptized, and there the teacher pushes the students to find their own individuality and explore their own egos, but here leads them to withhold their individualism and to explore the self in the community form, in both cases the teacher, loved and esteemed by the children, is viewed with suspicion by colleagues who do not forgive him the charisma and originality of his work, in both cases one ends up killing the faithful, decreed the deportation and death (and presumably in the case of Wenger crash) teacher.
dark side, shadow, negative aspect. Good feelings against evil teachings. European American democracy against autocracy. Like most critics have flayed hands applauding the goodness of pedagogical Keating, now wonder about the result (neo-Nazi). Because if the operation starts from the initial application of the Wave, its meaning is lost. Critics 'democratic' is out of hand the matter, the similarity between the Wave and the totalitarian system, for convenience let's call it Nazi, is not less than the totalitarian system, which for convenience we call communication. And the uniform (white shirt and jeans) that all equate to Nazi uniform, is no different from the common currency (the one of the Pioneers, all'eskimo and red scarf, up to today Cuban hat and a sweater) or that of another group, dall'hippy paninari seventies to the eighties yuppie incravattato, from punk to the skin. And the processes of exclusion / inclusion in the group are equal in all primary and secondary groups, from middle-class town on the outskirts of the band, from the Communion and Liberation FGCI when there, away from the group of trade unionists that the ultras . So there is no need to bother the Nazis to realize that in every group there are specific roles that range from the viceleader leader, knows that any freshman psychology.
But let's get out of that eighth, which was once called social democratic or petty bourgeois and look at the sociological phenomenon and its future. Are we really sure that a movement of groups of young people, even suspicion of autocracy, is really a regressive? However, which resulted in a totalitarian regime? What really suppress individuality to the community? Replacing the values \u200b\u200bof primary-group defined as a "band" than those of the primary group defined as a "family" is necessarily negative educational impact? That the figure of the leader has a negative function anyway?
Reading the film beyond the intentions, beyond the didacticism inherent and politically correct teaching of a film that will not be boycotted, we realize that is not true. That perhaps Ganzel is playing dirty. Before we have a group of students from families with poor examples, little motivation to study, lack of values \u200b\u200band identity, existential loneliness and mired in political and racial and economic diversity that sets them against each other. In a second step we have a community of equals, where the distinction turkish-East German-West German has lost its meaning as the term has lost its meaning rich-poor or gender, where everyone helps and protects the other and Everyone feels strong and accepted, and where you do not accept the new order is simply asked to leave and not is persecuted. Reason initiators of the various troubles that occur are strangers wave, punk band from the Karo brother, Marcus's ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Ulirch) that blocks the entrance to the pool, or fugitives, as the same that Karo with its leafleting against the Wave exacerbates the tensions of a normal game of water polo. And victims of the wave systems are particularly weak points, those who were in another system. So what's the problem? The suspicion is that the critics "democratic" use the bogeyman "Nazi," not to think about the outcome of the various totalitarian Marxism, or maybe not talk about the group itself heal the contradictions of the individual, and indeed, as taught Proudhon is more than the sum of the individual. Or as he put Eizenštejn, the individual took place in the collective. Maybe what we want to suggest is that every political movement is in fact totalitarian, and therefore the only way of doing politics and non-political (ol'antipolitica?) And the mea culpa that the good Professor Ron Jones recited about his experiment was aimed at the "democracy"-type liberal that he (unknowingly) put in doubt by the Black Panther against whom the Weathermen, the Tupamaros, the Vietcong and Feydhain around the world was struggling. This democracy liberal who comes from overseas, exported to blows air strikes, passed off as the only non-totalitarian dimension of existence, "open society" Popper, contrary to the "closed societies" from Plato onwards. Because if the Wave is undemocratic, it is also revolutionary, and alive. Paraphrasing our Yankee masters, the only good democracy is dead.
Ulysses Ursini
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