Before I went to this movie, I was thinking about a case when 3 Christians were excommunicated because they opposed of sending their priest to a monastery. This is the first excommunication in Romanian Orthodox Church since Middle Age.
The problem with group rejection is that you are left alone without its support and resources, and maybe you are attacked by your former group. In Middle Age it could be very bad for them. (If they were Catholics living in Western Europe maybe they could be burn to the steak.)
Sometimes the groups define themselves as in opposition to the others. Think about football supporters: the supporters of Steaua are define themselves as enemies of the Dinamo supporters.
And because in the groups it exists a tension this tensions can be relieved by an attack to an another group.
In a high polarized society where the power of groups is not balanced this leads to violence.
In "Woman in gold" movie , Nazi's decide that the Jews are not longer Austrians and they decide to exterminate them. Excluded from the large group of Austrians and without a police force to protect them, the Jews are a live bait for all kind of looters and for all kind of sadist who love unleash their hatred on the weakest one.
The facts from 1938 Austria will happen in Romania in 1947 when communist took power with help of Soviet Union, the great fighter against fascism.
People will be chased and thrown in prison, fortunes and art confiscated. Art will be considered decadent.
Minorities will persecuted.
Profiteers will pray on the widow and the orphan.
Social climbers will lick the boots of the new masters.
Using the true story of recovery the "Adele Bauer Bloch" portrait from the Austrian government, the director Simon Curtis describes the fight of an old Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann with her inside demons.
The family of Maria Altmann was a rich, well integrated jewish family in Vienna, who was thinking that were Austrian. This till Nazi's came and deny their identity, put them the label of jews, inferior race, looted their house and leave them at the mercy of criminals.
During the looting the portrait of Maria's aunt, Adele Bauer Bloch was confiscated and put in Belvedere gallery under the name of "Woman in gold".
Finding the some letters from her deceased sister, Maria decides to fight for the identity of her aunt and she reclaims the painting.
She and a nephew lawyer aided by a son of a Nazi, battle the arrogant bureaucrats of the Austrian government, who as their Romanian counterparts put all kind of paper barriers in front of the ones that claim their rights.
Because it is an american movie and not a real Romanian trial, Maria Altmann wins the trial and sells the painting to a New York gallery for 135 millions. She donated all the money.
This movie made me think:
What is your identity? What you think about yourself (Maria thought that she was Austrian)
Or the label that others stick on you? (Austrians and Nazi's thought that she was a Jew)
How can you stop someone to deny your identity?
Of course a system in which your identity is determined arbitrary (church,communism,fascism) is bad.
If your identity is determined by the majority of population, it is also bad, think about the discrimination against afro-americans and irish emigrants in USA.
Maybe the identity should be determined by a law that guarantees equal rights to all born in same country. Then all will assume that identity and nobody will deny it.
The problem with group rejection is that you are left alone without its support and resources, and maybe you are attacked by your former group. In Middle Age it could be very bad for them. (If they were Catholics living in Western Europe maybe they could be burn to the steak.)
Sometimes the groups define themselves as in opposition to the others. Think about football supporters: the supporters of Steaua are define themselves as enemies of the Dinamo supporters.
And because in the groups it exists a tension this tensions can be relieved by an attack to an another group.
In a high polarized society where the power of groups is not balanced this leads to violence.
In "Woman in gold" movie , Nazi's decide that the Jews are not longer Austrians and they decide to exterminate them. Excluded from the large group of Austrians and without a police force to protect them, the Jews are a live bait for all kind of looters and for all kind of sadist who love unleash their hatred on the weakest one.
The facts from 1938 Austria will happen in Romania in 1947 when communist took power with help of Soviet Union, the great fighter against fascism.
People will be chased and thrown in prison, fortunes and art confiscated. Art will be considered decadent.
Minorities will persecuted.
Profiteers will pray on the widow and the orphan.
Social climbers will lick the boots of the new masters.
Using the true story of recovery the "Adele Bauer Bloch" portrait from the Austrian government, the director Simon Curtis describes the fight of an old Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann with her inside demons.
The family of Maria Altmann was a rich, well integrated jewish family in Vienna, who was thinking that were Austrian. This till Nazi's came and deny their identity, put them the label of jews, inferior race, looted their house and leave them at the mercy of criminals.
During the looting the portrait of Maria's aunt, Adele Bauer Bloch was confiscated and put in Belvedere gallery under the name of "Woman in gold".
Finding the some letters from her deceased sister, Maria decides to fight for the identity of her aunt and she reclaims the painting.
She and a nephew lawyer aided by a son of a Nazi, battle the arrogant bureaucrats of the Austrian government, who as their Romanian counterparts put all kind of paper barriers in front of the ones that claim their rights.
Because it is an american movie and not a real Romanian trial, Maria Altmann wins the trial and sells the painting to a New York gallery for 135 millions. She donated all the money.
This movie made me think:
What is your identity? What you think about yourself (Maria thought that she was Austrian)
Or the label that others stick on you? (Austrians and Nazi's thought that she was a Jew)
How can you stop someone to deny your identity?
Of course a system in which your identity is determined arbitrary (church,communism,fascism) is bad.
If your identity is determined by the majority of population, it is also bad, think about the discrimination against afro-americans and irish emigrants in USA.
Maybe the identity should be determined by a law that guarantees equal rights to all born in same country. Then all will assume that identity and nobody will deny it.
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