In the movie The Son (2002) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne tell the extreme and inconceivable relationship between Oliver and Francis. Oliver is a woodworker. Francis is a young man who has just finished a retention period for committing a crime during an act of robbery: he killed a child, Oliver’s son. Their relationship is a delicate path, an ongoing process to be built step by step. Similarly fragile and challenging is the path toward the encounter between some of the victims and some perpetrators of terrorist acts that took place in Seventies. This path is described in Il libro dell’incontro (The Book of Encounter). This essay offers a comparison of this application of Restorative Justice and the movie by the Dardenne brothers (and generally, with all their production, which is characterized by a deep ethical tension and a remarkable narration of deep humanity). The comparison will highlight two different languages, whose dialogue, however, seems to be rich and able to show the most intimate aspects of difficult relationships.
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