Saw the film “The Ogre” today. The film stars John Malkovich as Abel who though a misfit and a troublemaker in the society does things which can be termed as grotesque and yet remains an empathetic green character. He is the kind of idiot who identifies with children and animals and believes that he has personal power and can guide his own fate.
The fable is expressionistic and shows how young adolescent boys are drawn to German mythology and Nazi ideology
The unusual thing about this movie in general was that it was made in the English language, in spite of it being very European, crawling with references to Goethe, the German folklore and the Nazi dogmas.
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