Movies
Related: About this forumI watched "Zone of Interest" last night on Max. It was a strange, yet powerful movie. I visited
Auschwitz -Birkenau, a few years ago, and was overwhelmed by emotion and horror. While I understand the goal of this film was to show how German people tried to live their lives by ignoring those horrors, I thought it was confusing in places and left me wondering what was happening with Rudolf Hoss at the end. I did not care for the long periods of color-only screens nor the 'music' during the credits. At first, I thought Max wasn't streaming and restarted the thing.
The scenes shot in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum made me wonder whether I could ever be a part of the cleaning crew or if I would become desensitized to the dehumanization of the victims. I think that was the main point of the film: to make us ponder our relationship to the human cruelties happening around us today.
What were your thoughts?
Chalco
(1,354 posts)Would I have ignored it? I'll never forget telling a Jewish friend that I wanted to visit Auschwitz to feel how horrible it was. She said, "I can never go there. Too many of my family died there."
So, there was the movie with a family living next door and living the good life. But, that was true of many at the time. I don't know.
In every city I am in I walk by the homeless. Who am I?
Upthevibe
(9,019 posts)I'm planning on watching it this weekend.
Thanks for your input....
Paladin
(28,717 posts)I guess I'll watch it, but having read what it's about, I don't think I'll enjoy it very much.