My Interpretation

I think it's a film about lack of communication and how it ends up leading to conflict, be it social conflicts or more intimate quarrels (and even sometimes war... I'm just sayin'). Many sequences throughout the film seem to adress this issue, not only the 8-minute long opening shot but also the subway scene, that scene at the supermarket (Anne and George really suck at communicating with each other), the Kosovo war (which is mentioned but not shown) and the cold, distant relationship depicted at one point between the son and his father, which results in the son leaving his father for good.

I like to think that Haneke's Time of the Wolf is a continuation of Code Unknown. Mankind's foolishness and inability to communicate (as depicted in CU) eventually led to its demise (as depicted in ToTW).

I definitely have to watch it again though, because the "Love has a language all of its own" catchphrase has been bugging me for a little while. Maybe Haneke is trying to tell us that the only way to communicate is through love (amour) and tenderness? He once said in an interview that when he was young, the sight of a child being hit by his mother had traumatized him, which would explain why he stigmatizes child abuse so much in his films, especially in The Seventh Continent or The White Ribbon.

You're not a vegetarian, are you? I've never met a vegetarian I liked.