Who is a barbarian? Who has a barbaric approach? Who decides?

Waiting for the Barbarians gives us mixed feelings every time we watch it! This last scene of the movie speaks out loud...

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At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate of an unnamed empire suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
It is a fictional time and place, but the "refined" people seem very much like the British who established remote outposts over the past centuries and viewed themselves as superior rulers over the ordinary indigenous peoples. The "barbarians" here appear to be Mongolians, and the landscape looks like Mongolia, but it was filmed in Morocco.
At the walled village, the Magistrate (Mark Rylance) has orchestrated a peaceful coexistence with the local nomads. But high-ranking police (Johnny Depp) comes over with his own men to investigate and quell what they expect to be an invasion. His method is torture, get a lie, torture more, and get a different lie until he judges that he gets the truth. A barbaric approach. A few other things happen but as we approach the end of the story it seems the real Barbarians are not the ones we first thought they were...

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