- Also known as:
- Question Humaine
- Rating:
- 100%
- Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2007
- Predominant Genre:
- Thriller
- Plot:
- Corporate psychologist slowly uncovers the real reasons for the increasingly-erratic behaviour of the CEO of a multinational chemical company.
- Themes:
- Compassion
- Totalitarianism
- Political Correctness
- White supremacy
- Similar To:
- Beat that my Heart Skipped
- Mephisto
- Best Performances:
[Question Humaine]
Yuppie culture is used here as a metaphor for the White belief that civilization is only possible in exchange for emotional repression.
This exceptional film explores issues of how Whites could allow the destruction of 6,000,000 Jews yet still call themselves civilized. Whites do this by conflating the Personal with the Political such that how to fit in to a corporate culture, yet still retain ones humanity, becomes a critical issue. Rather than effect a complete separation of both, so that Whites could obtain personal satisfactions from a private life they have not renounced, Whites try to make emotional repression - itself - a source of pleasure; the odd behavior it causes being labeled: Personality.
Thus, the empty and circular arguments relating to work–life balance become ends in themselves as a vain means of evading real-world issues such as Humanity versus Greed. Systemic White supremacy then becomes easy to explain as a result of the need to find admirers and followers in the absence of anything for which to admire Whites. While White guilt and scapegoating also become suddenly explicable as the inevitable consequence of a guilty conscience, as well as the need to blame others for decisions Whites, themselves, make.
Ultimately, this flawlessly-acted film understands a basic tenet of Nazism: Before you can turn your enemy into untermenschen, you must first do the same to yourself.
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