{"id":90549,"date":"2022-09-19T21:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/sparta-2022-review-it-is-the-most-controversial-film-of-the-year-this-portrait-of-a-pedophile-scandalizes-more-for-what-it-does-not-show-than-for-what-it-does\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T21:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:25:56","slug":"sparta-2022-review-it-is-the-most-controversial-film-of-the-year-this-portrait-of-a-pedophile-scandalizes-more-for-what-it-does-not-show-than-for-what-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/sparta-2022-review-it-is-the-most-controversial-film-of-the-year-this-portrait-of-a-pedophile-scandalizes-more-for-what-it-does-not-show-than-for-what-it-does\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sparta’ (2022), review: It is the most controversial film of the year: this portrait of a pedophile scandalizes more for what it does not show than for what it does"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most important tasks of cinema, and above all of cinema that is screened at festivals, is that of scandalize us, make us see the corners of society that we would never approach<\/strong>stand face to face before a mirror of reality that can reflect attitudes or situations that give us true and absolute disgust. And that is the word that best defines ‘Sparta’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Throughout its 100 minutes, restlessness and disgust take over the seats<\/strong> hopelessly while we watch with impunity a pederast managing to set up a judo school in which children in their underwear are always by his side, showering with them and taking pictures of them to observe them later. Many people have left the screening saying that there is no controversy because it does not teach anything. But The terrible thing about Ulrich Seidl’s film is not what it teaches, but what it does not teach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Until the last minute there were doubts about whether ‘Sparta’ was going to be screened in San Sebasti\u00e1n or, on the contrary, it would become an ‘A Serbian film’, which would only increase its mysticism. Let’s remember that the screening of the Austrian film was banned at the Venice Film Festival<\/strong> after Ulrich Seidl was accused of exploiting Romanian minors during filming and not properly explaining to parents what the film was about. It would be fine if the movie were a shepherd boy taking care of his cows, but it turns out that the film is about pedophilia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In fact, what ‘Sparta’ intends is to raise a false debate: Would you leave your children with a violent but protective father or with a teacher who takes good care of them but is really a pederast<\/strong>? Seidl shows the dichotomy of this character both in his moments of weakness (taking photos of them in their underwear, rolling on the floor with them) and in his subsequent regret. If the idea was for us to feel sorry for a pederast, the shot was not very successful<\/strong>: since the cake is discovered, it is impossible to see the tape without the blood running cold in each scene.<\/p>\n

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