Aux mains des hommes

Je n’ai pas pu ressentir cette douloureuse odyssée au plus profond de moi-même étant donné que la personne qui l’a subie l’a fait volontairement et à plusieurs reprises. Dit d’une façon plus cynique : à force de chercher les problèmes, on les trouve. Dans Aux mains des hommes, on ne critique pas la foi, on ne prône pas l’idéalisme et on ne condamne pas le mal qui prend sa source dans les replis obscurs de l’homme. Non, on se contente en fait de contempler passivement la confrontation extrême et tragique qui se manifeste. Courageux et puissant. (30/06/2013)

It’s something like a cross-breed between the German film Stations of the Cross and the Greek one Miss Violence. It’s not easy to watch, and gets heavier the closer it is to the end. But I have a little problem with the credibility, since the film is inspired by real events. Tore is portrayed as someone with a blind faith, as a naive boy, but not as a retard. But to allow those atrocities to be committed to him, he has to be at least a little retard (which I guess he actually was). And it wasn’t about him, either. He wanted to protect that young girl whose name I’ve already forgotten, but as a non-retard he would have assessed the situation in a completely different way. Moreover, when it comes to his decisions as a saviour, his repeated lies feel inconsistent (bruises caused by playing football); a fierce believer like him wouldn’t act that way. (07/11/2014)