Getting to know "Lore"

Lore is a foreign movie, australian-german, that allows us to see the change in life of a german family when World War II is over.  The movie follows the perspective of Lore, who has been raised under the believe that Hitler was a great lider and a person with high values, while the american were "monsters" who wanted to kill them. It's a great movie with a different perspective of World War II, from the eyes of a nazi family.

The journey of Lore begging when her parents leave her in charge of her siblings, her father went to fight back the american and her mother gave herself up to the authorities. She follows her mother's instructions: go to the house of her aunt in Hamburg. All the weight is on her shoulders since she has to take care of her sister, her twin brothers and her baby brother. In order to feed them and clean themselves up, she sells her mothers jewelry. Their situation starts to get worse and worse until they run into Thomas. He is a young man that helps them in a situation with american soldiers and joins them in their journey.

I believe there begins an interesting dynamic in movie, because she threats him different for being a jew. Despite that, he gets them food and helps taking care of the baby. The interaction of Thomas and Lore evolves a lot during the movie, she starts trusting him and feeling attracted to him. One can feel the tension between them. There is no happy ending for them, the separation of their paths is quick and unanticipated. And she find her aunt in the end.

All Lore had to go thought changed her completely, even her perspective of the jews. The curious thing is that in the end, Thomas was no jew, he had the papers to help him travel. In my opinion, I believe he was a nazi soldier because of his harsh reactions, that he had the papers of the jew and the way he left.

The scenes, the script and the symbolism in the film were great. The film was directed by Cate Shortland, and written by her and Robin Mukherjee. The movie was selected as the Australian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Finally, the young actress who gave live to Lore was Saskia Rosendahl, who received an award for best actress at the Stockholm International Film Festival. 

Lore (2012) - Trailer