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Journal Article
A Hidden Life on the Way of the Cross: Terrence Malick and the Cultivation of Character
2025
Overview
Keywords Terrence Malick, Franz Jägerstätter, Second World War, Nazi Germany, Resistance Terrence Malick's film A Hidden Life (2019) tells the true story of the Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter and his family as he was called up by the Nazi regime in the Second World War to serve its war aims. Robert Sinnerbrink has identified six key elements in Malick's style: a minimalist approach to the presentation of character; a focus on the location in which the story takes place; the integral use of voice over, Which often does not correspond to what is depicted on the screen; the organization of the narrative into \"episodic sequences\" based on motifs; the reliance on camera work that conveys a sense of \"animated witnessing,\" that of a disembodied presence following the narrative; and the concern to emphasize the \"\"elemental' presentation of earth, sky and fire.\" The great conundrum of the film for modern audiences may well be, \"Why was Jägerstätter different from everybody else?\" Why did he refuse do his duty as everyone reminded him-to his town, his country, his family, and his race, in contrast to almost all the other men his age? Among the best are Rosenstrafse (2003), which tells the story of how \"Aryan\" wives of Jewish men successfully protested in the streets the arrests of their husbands, ensuring their release; Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), a film that focuses on the arrest, trial, and execution of a leader of the White Rose student group based in the University of Munich, which distributed leaflets condemning the Nazi regime during the Second World War; Valkyrie (2008), which portrays the resistance activities of Colonel Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg as he conspires with military leaders to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the failed bomb plot of 20 July 1944; and Alone in Berlin (2016), a film that shows how a middle-aged couple who lost their son in the war resisted the Nazi regime by writing oppositional messages on small cards and leaving them in random places for strangers to find and read.· Each of these films is based on historical events and real people who actively resisted the Nazi regime.
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University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Philosophy and Religion
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