best movie i've ever seen.

A different way of telling a story

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Poor quality sound and very dirty messy print. The transfer was not good either with film slipping and bad aspect ratio. Effects were generally pretty convincing - hope they weren't real. There was not a lot of thought or creativity involved. They just thought of the sickest things and made people do it. Most noticeable is the thought that people actually acted in this. This is impressive and bumps the score up a little. I've never seen anything like this made before it. I only watched the first half hour at normal speed, then sped it up to 1.5 speed. I got what was going on and didn't like it. This is all about humiliation, degradation and sodomy. There were also sex stories. The concept was pretty horrifying and harrowing. I didn't like it. Sick twisted and wrong - certainly not enjoyable.

This film shows the brutality of the human soul when power is distributed unevenly. It also portrays violence and depravity in such a manner as to allow one to witness a real distinction between our common method of filming such acts versus the reality of such acts, this film directed towards the latter. One would hope that in the future of all societies such depths of moral corruption simply would become impossible to bring forth. The atrocities to be witnessed during this viewing are something that our past has contained, but hopefully our future will not.

This movie is a sadistic and disgusting excuse for art. This is just darker version of pornography. Numerous countries banning this movie is understandable. Nothing in this movie conveys any message. No lesson to be learned from this piece of ridiculous excuse for a movie. This is just the filmmakers quest for quenching their sexual and sadistic desires. This is one of the movies nobody should ever watch. Skip this if you love movies.

This movie is about a group of children who attend a boarding school. Each day the children all sit around and listen to their headmistress, Madam Salo, tell stories of her childhood days, growing up in an orphanage and what it was like as a teenager during World War 2. The film is shot beautifully, and gives an authentic 1980s feel. Would recommend this movie to a high school student studying German history at school, or a history buff who is looking for an insight into the lives of young people during WW2.