Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
I’m very glad that I saw this film. Walking away from the screening, it made me glad that cinema exists. It’s not something I would have chosen to put on naturally but I feel enriched for having watched it.
That said, the feel deviates significantly from the trailer. The trailer makes this look like a dark comedy, where as actually it is a dark film with elements of humour. Without the humour is the sugar that helps the film’s intensely…
While most Holocaust films focus on the victims or on the challenges of resistance under dictatorship, but this is a really interesting exploration of what it’s like to be a perpetrator, a supporter, or a fellow-traveller.
“There’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism” is often used as a phrase to justify doing less for socially just causes, but this film reminded me how easy it is for many people to do nothing, and even actively support unimaginable horrors…