Young Torless Essay

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Film Narrative The movie Young Torless revolves around four kids (Beineberg, Reiting, Basini, and Torless) who live in a military boarding school. Beineberg and Reiting are a sadistic couple of students who blackmail Basini for stealing money from them. As a result, the two classmates physically and mentally torture and abuse Basini rather turn him into the schools authorities. Torless, rather than partake in the tormenting of Basini, he analyses the tormentors behaviors. Key Concepts Young Torless was on the journey to becoming a man, self reliance, and understanding the gap between the rational self and the obscure irrational self. Torless was alone at boarding school in the beginning and had no opinion about anything. Later in the movie it is revealed he joins Beiting and Beineberg, while attempting to maintain a distance with punishing Basini during secret and sadistic night time meetings (45:00 mins). …show more content…

Basini is to inform the headmaster on everything he did, to lure him away from the tormenting of Beineberg and Reiting. Themes The story shows young Torless parents being sent to boarding school, he had no opinion, never stood up for himself, and made a false start in the beginning. We can see that when he was running away and the reaction on his face (1:18:00 mins). He joins some students in the school who have power, he did whatever he been asked to do he did that so he can understand them. Later on he chooses the correct path by helping himself and his friend Basini. In the end of the movie he made a speech(1:24:00 mins) in front of the authorities of the school that made them think that he needs to be privately educated and the boarding school is no longer a place for him

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