The miserable events of Babel, another everything-is-connected drama, were also sparked by a child's actions; here, in Michael Haneke's least grim but still dismaying film, the child's act is reprehensible, a truly callous moment that sparks not moribund events like in Babel, but human, compelling events and by movie's end, it is pretty clear the code referred to in the title is society's broken moral code and that the movie's loosely connected stories are commenting on the tendency of people to hide their "real faces" or mute their true feelings to rascist taunts overheard on a train, to the plight of refugees reported in the news, or to the bullish behaviour of the powerful.
★★★★☆
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