They asked if I feel a sense of responsibility as a Jew to watch this. In an explosive confidence felt rarely in my life, I said no, this desire to watch this movie is beyond any responsibility.
More is clear to me now.
I believe part of the narrative, post-holocaust, American Christianity focuses the story of the Holocaust around these concepts: heroism, reason, and responsibility. And, finally, a movie with none of these distractions.
Heroism is not the story of…