As the school is disturbed by more concern and suspicion, Carla decides to take care of the problem for herself. She sets up a little trap for the culprit at the teachers’ lounge, and what do you know, her laptop video camera captures another incident of theft during her absence, though the identity of the … Read more
It’s probably best to think of the film as a parable of sorts, one where an everyday institution is presented realistically, with correct procedural details, but also stands in for a larger system or set of ideals, like the jury room in “Twelve Angry Men,” the island in “Lord of the Flies,” or the ship in a tale about … Read more
It seems to me you’re also interrogating how the scapegoat is also often the furthest down the ladder, the furthest from privilege. Exactly. How much is that social status important to this story? Social, racial, all the things that determine who ultimately ends up the scapegoat. Absolutely. In the whole identity politics debate, people talked … Read more
Leonie Benesch is stunning as Carla, a new junior high teacher who has just arrived at a German school out of college when she’s stuck in a growing controversy. It starts when things go missing from the teachers’ lounge, leading the faculty to suspect a student. From the beginning, determining the identity of the thief … Read more