Word: darkeness
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...Verhoeven: There's a big difference in that the tone of Soldier of Orange is less shadowy and dark than Black Book; the attitudes of the Dutch are clearly less positive than what we showed in Soldier of Orange in 1977. The darker material we found at that time was useless to us then. But Gerard Soeteman, who wrote both films, and I were fascinated by it, and put it to the side. It was only in 2001 that Gerard solved the script...
...Well, first of all that they will be grabbed by the story, and not be able to leave, even to go to the toilet. But it is as important that among the dark, shadowy, deceitful betrayals the movie says there is something positive to build upon. I think that the fact that two people, one of them an anti-Semitic Communist and the other a Jewish girl, come together at the end and do this thing - killing the common enemy - says that although things will never be completely OK, there are moments that are OK enough...
...bare shoulder flashes on the screen to the riffs of a flamenco guitar. A feminine hand on an unclothed waist follows, and the gorgeous face of a dark-haired woman appears with--yikes!--all her wrinkles in living color. The camera pulls back, and-- double yikes!--she's naked. Next, a grinning full-figured woman with silver-streaked hair. Then comes an age-spotted shoulder. Finally, a long-legged beauty with cropped gray hair and--egads!--a lined neck and a furrowed brow poses in the buff, save for a pair of dangling earrings and a cuff bracelet...
...stops at Kibuye's stadium, it is surrounded by children, who watch in excitement as the huge screen is inflated. Thirteen years ago, this was the site of a massacre of tens of thousands of Tutsi - many of them buried in a mass grave adjacent to the stadium. That dark chapter of Kibuye's history is obliquely addressed in one of tonight's movies, about a love affair between a Tutsi girl and a Hutu boy. And the audience laughs and cheers, raucously rooting for the couple...
...traveling companion, Mak cuts a charming figure. But his portrait of the last century is almost unremittingly dark. The mayor's scythe sweeps through the book as Mak tours Verdun, Guernica, Auschwitz, Stalingrad, Dresden, Chernobyl, Sarajevo. With an itinerary like that, there are predictably few joyful moments to be had. The book is filled instead with a sort of dreadful comedy that drove Samuel Beckett and others to see Europe as a theater of the absurd: the jaunty optimism of soldiers setting off to World War I (home by Christmas!), the apocalyptic hope of the survivors...