The Zone Of Interest: Why The SOUND Will Frighten You
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- I review, breakdown and explain The Zone Of Interest. I discuss the 2024 film which is focussed on Auschwitz and the horror that was in the sound, the soundtrack and the terror that it emitted. I react to the background score, it's link to the behaviour of Rudolf and Hedwig, and the decision to focus on the audio over the visual effects.
00:00 Intro
01:02 The Background Noise And Getting Used To Death
04:11 A Conversation (Getting Killed Over An Apple)
05:35 The Background Visuals
07:07 The Piano Melody
08:49 Outro
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Do you think The Zone Of Interest should win an Oscar for it's sound? I've not experienced sound in film like this before... i'm rooting for it in that category! Let me know your thoughts beow!
It really could, in my opinion. It was so creepy to listen to and extremely disturbing!!!
I totally agree!
Yes. It should win.
My Oscar expert friend and I totally agree that Zone should (and may) upset Oppenheimer for best sound. It is hands down some of the best and most important sound ever created for a film. Almost like another character….
Yes
It was so genius how they displayed the horror of the camps without being gratuitously violent. And it stayed with me more than other movies about this subject. The gunshots, screaming, the train, the hum of the incinerator were easy for the family to ignore, but it is impossible for the audience to forget. Brilliantly done.
Yeah I really didn't expect it to be like that when I went into the film, but it was crafted so well and made it so much more powerful for that!
Exactly, not showing the violence happening but keeping it as the background is what made it even more horrifying. Plus the apparent sounds of the furnace. I also feel the opening scene with the almost total darkness was meant to be the inside of a gas chamber before or during incineration.
Gas chambers were filled with gas, not fire. The incineration of the bodies took place in the crematorium.
this movie lacks of expanaition what was actually happening inside the camps, some people are uneducated, some are too young to know, some are denying history but that different thing. i'm reading a lot of comments with poeple being confused, a 30 seconds explanation with numbers just before the movie would be very helpful for review to understand better and feel the horror of those events
@@BrainPilot I Cant Imagine How That Baby Will Grow Up Like If He Grew Up And Heard A Shooting Sound Then He Would Look Back At His Life
Imagine the irony of Hedwig Hoß tucking her children in at night and reassuring them that there are no monsters in the closet or under the bed.
The movie should win, but not only because of its historical value. It is filmed without the actors knowing which of the different cameras was actually recording. That's very interesting. Also the fact that the horror is in our minds and not shown on screen makes it even more disturbing...
It is a big pill to swallow.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with you
It won an oscar!
@@diegovargasdiego Best sound, best foreign film, best adapted screenplay are some of the awards. I still prefer Oppenheimer both both films are genius.
This film brought to life the famous comment from Arendt re Eichman during his trial - the banality of evil. The worst evil is done in the daylight by those who barely think about what they are doing - it’s just another day to them…
I saw review by someone who said these men weren’t thinking. They were just doing. Everything was about action and results. I was long interested in the effect of men in the einsatzgruppe squads and the effect of mass killing on these men. Alcoholism, nervous collapse, suicide. Nothing can justify what these men did but they aren’t robots.
Having read extensively about the Holocaust in the years since Nuremberg and the Eichmann trial, I have come to disagree with Arendt's original assessment, or more precisely I think it's an incomplete picture.
These men understood exactly what they were doing, and absolutely possessed the agency to put a stop to it. Men like Schindler and Hosenfeld and Rommel and probably many others are evidence enough of that. They had become so desensitized to the humanity of their victims that they simply stopped caring about the evil of what they were doing. Men like Eichmann instead rechanneled their conception of virtues towards things like "industriousness" and "loyalty" and "respect for authority," instead of "compassion."
They were also so self-deluded that they thought Germany was at the precipice of victory against the Soviets, and so believed that their crimes would ultimately never be prosecuted.
I agree that these people knew what they were doing, but I’m not sure they had the agency to stop anything. There were plenty of people that spoke out against the regime, and most of those people were strung up in local town squares or sent to camps (and possibly their families too). Most people were far too scared to do anything or simply indifferent and preferred to turn a blind eye; to act took incredible bravery. I think people like these were attracted to these roles either for ideological reasons and/or professional ambition; or they were plain evil.
@@garrybye4415
I've seen the Munich footage, of hundreds of perfectly arranged rows and rows of German soldiers, the pomp and circumstance of Nazi theater, the atmospheric lighting. It's not hard to see how these people could get caught up in the frenzy times.
...the flowers coming into bloom fertilized with the ashes of the dead from the crematorium! -- and the close ups of the flowers with the screaming in the background, and the bees buzzing on the flowers like flies on the dead, I felt....
Probably the most horrific film I have ever seen! As a History teacher (and someone who has visited Auschwitz), I found this film compelling, provocative and horrible. The banality of evil has never been depicted so profoundly. Yes, worthy of an Oscar.
God bless our world war 2 veterans
This movie deserves 10 Oscars for Sound
I hope it picks up the awards for it! The sound is just something else
And for the screenplay
"The family had become desensitized to the sound of death..."
I saw this yesterday and every single person in my cinema stayed seated until the credits had completely rolled and the lights came on because of the score playing over the credits. I've never experienced an audience being so transfixed
This happened in the screening I saw too. Every person stayed and listened to that horrific end credits score.
Even just thinking of the movie’s sound gives me chills
It's so chilling. The best i've hear sound being utilized in a film in such a long time
Those gunshots and screams were interruptions in the pervasive ominous sound that I heard as a sort of "industrial hum"--evoking both the brutal efficiency of the murders committed and the exploitation of slave workers in the factories set up as adjuncts to the camps.
One of the few films that shook me to my very core just by how it portrays the Banality of Evil from start to finish!, but I absolutely loved it though, everything was to near perfection, the acting, cinematography, the score by Mica Levi, sound, camerawork and so much more!, glad to see Glazer is making films that makes any viewer think!, really incredible film overall!!
Ashes in the winds,
voiceless requests, unequivocally denied,
***
We want to live.
I was freaking the fuck out during the opening credits alone
Yeah that opening section where it was just black was so haunting!
We arrived a few minutes late and the first scene we saw was the family down the river swimming & picnicking. Need to see it again to see what we missed, if the opening was anything like the ending - that’s monumentally important.
@@russlowe if you’re able to catch it again I would definitely recommend getting there for the very beginning. Unnerving.
duuude yes! i bought this movie on amazon last night and watched it and the opening was so long and my husband, my 16 year old and I just kinda of looked at each other and my daughter finally says "well, 2 minutes in and I'm already feeling uncomfortable "😅 the whole movie it was so well done!
Well luckily you didn't miss anything, it was just a dark screen and birds chirping right before the river beach opening scene.
the scenes of the boy over hearing the apple convo and the one where Rudolf is lying down reading a book and trying to "relax", to me were super intense. And that ending, for a second i was confused but when i processed the connection....wow.
Terrifying metaphor of our times as well.
Exactly like living near a slaughterhouse. Everyone ignores the horrors.
I worked at a slaughterhouse for 3 months as a mantinence electrician had to ask my boss for a move because it was getting to me
Totally agree. No one cares about the suffering, torture, and mass slaughter that happens every single second of the day at factory farms.
@@AndyFurze you're vegan \ plant based now, or you just keep ignoring facts?
I liked the last part of the movie, as Hoss descends into darkness he takes a glance at what the future would look like based on his making in the concentration camp, like his own Ozymandias vision.
Scariest part of this film is how ordinary people can do monstrous things.
I have been haunted by this film ever since I watched it two weeks ago. And yes, the sounds 😮
It has leftnme wanting to know more about what happened to the family after the war. I knew about Rudolf Höss's fate, of course, but when you start to dig into the others' lives, and it is also chilling (so far I have only found info anout the wife, one of the daughters and the youngest son - and his own son.) I also needed to try and understand the many symbolism present in the film which eluded me (the negative shots for one)
Thank you for your videos which I enjoy a lot (Ted Lasso, The Gilded Age and The Last of Us mainly 👍)
Thanks for sticking around on the channel for all of those shows. I really appreciate that!
This movie has stayed with me too. I have also felt compelled to look into the people it was based on. I rewatched it again so I could focus on parts I was unsure of what it meant. I’m now listening to the audiobook which is of course different from the film but is also showing the banality of evil.
Rudolf is a man who loves with his family. He dosent love his job in fact he finds it aggravating and annoying, working long hours just wanting to come home to his loving wife who cooks him dinner and his children who gift him with presents and birthday dinners. His house is located near a lake where he has picnics. His wife is and that he has to leave and go somewhere else on business. Their garden is the dream garden any housewife could ask for. Their servants heed their word and give them anything they choose. Swimming pools and cocktail party’s fill their days…. Oh yeah and they also happen to live right next door to one of the most closest depictions of human hell ever created on earth. A Nazi death camp which main goal is to exterminate thousands and thousands of people where her husband works. Children screaming and crying don’t disturb but add Audio joy to Hedwig and her house. The sound of bugs and and crickets at night in our normal suburban town are substituted for screaming gunshots and crying. Sorry to be so graphic but the film wants to put u in that mindset . Is it pleasant? No. But not every film should be.
Glazer is a genius filmmaker and writer. Love seeing him receive praise. This is a haunting masterpiece. I hope it wins best picture. Glazer spent years researching and working on this. I need to read the book now. This is a brillant review.
I justed watched the movie and you nailed it. Just hearing and not seeing is knowing. This movie uses our mind which is capable of feeling the horrors amplified a thousand times. Quite an experience. What a movie.
Glad you enjoyed the video and also agreed!
I watched it for the first time today, very unsettling, the sounds make you think it’s happening at full capacity 24 hrs a day.
Yeah it's truly horrific!
The only time the smell comes in play is Hedwig mother running away.
The sound of the girl with the heat thingy made me super uncomfortable and scared I have no idea why
This is what Sgt. Schultz meant when he said " I know no--THING!"
Watching now and so far there’s creepy and unsettling that basically you’re just watching people live ordinary lives while on the other side of that wall they know damn well what those sounds are and they are not phased at all to have any conscience whatsoever. This is honestly how I feel most people were and they knew what was happening despite claiming not to. How could they not? !
Makes you wonder what we don't see/hear that we should.
it's that scene in the middle w/ the shots of the flowers in conjunction w/ the sound of mass murder.
Creepy.
Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤
Agree with so many others: thank you to the office of Drs. Benoche, Tuminia, and Klein and staff for doing this - very sweet!
Good video 👏👏👏👏👏
Even a Monster needs a Home life and a loving family
Superb, I almost feel I don't need to see it.
Thanks for the review. I definitely want to see this film .At first I felt I couldn’t watch but now I feel it is very relevant to the times in which we are living. That people can be so detached from horrors and brutal cruelty to what is taking place in our world today .
The home was so clean and idyllic. The garden was pretty with many features that gardeners love.
The sound was malevolent and sometimes barely audible so that I would lean in and sometimes not be sure of what I heard. As the movie goes on I started to feel dread and sometimes incredulity back and forth.
The sounds felt as powerful as visuals and words.
what i keep thinking about now, is the smell. it must have permeated the air, everything - the stench from the ovens. that is what really horrifies me.
Truly haunting and chilling.
Yeah the sound really is
I watched it 2 nights ago. It was so creepy and crazy to think people could live next to all that.
Humans are disturbing
Truly genius
the true horror is that within us all resides the heart of darkness.
A perfect illustration of Plato's cave. Let's watch the movie instead of paying attention to the real moment by moment slaughter and starvation of innocents just the other side of that other wall now, today, in our own time.
The fact that the audience is moved more by this film than by the reality of our own time says more about the decadence and corruption of our collective psyche than anything else.
I've seen the movie, I have been to Auschwitz- Birkenau. That villa is within the camp. It is privately owned so the cinematic villa is recreated. Total denial from the cinematic family regarding the noises and crematorium smoke. This is juxtapositioned with the understanding of the obtaining the fur coat and lipstick from"Canada"- the nickname for the facility where Jewish possessions were processed/confiscated and the family reaped the rewards
The last time I felt this way about a movie it was after watching The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
The colour of the scenes in the garden is odd - with a sort of washed out, blue-ish cast. I don't think this is accidental, it could be to suggest the happy intimacy of home movies.
1940s atmosphere
Yes, I had the impression that the palate of 1940s home movies shot on color stock.was intentional, to create authenticity.
@@greggi47 It works
It reminds me of the impact of 'Christiane F'
😂😂😂
I'm sorry I missed it in the cinema I watched it at home and I can only imagine the difference
Can someone help me to understand the name of the composer of the simple piano piece played by the girl? And, is the name of the piece Sun Beams? Thanks
“Sunbeams”- a resistance song composed inside Auschwitz by the Polish Jewish prisoner Joseph Wulf
@@Vtones25 Thanks a lot!
Don’t forget the music in this film: the overture prepares our ears for what is to come, and a stentorian theme, like Tibetan Buddhist ritual, blasts in at certain key moment. This music is a character in the story, like the ‘voice of god’.
Another take from me was in later scenes, you see Hoss in meetings and social events in Berlin - there’s lots of conversation and background hubbub, and you can’t help scan this sound for horrors . . . .
Another Brit director with a talent for sound is Peter Strickland. ‘Bait’ and ‘Enys Men’ both have unique sound-worlds. All owe a great debt to David Lynch, Francis Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard and Stanley Kubrick for their pioneering focus on sound in the medium.
Hell yeah Andrew Dominick was the one that got me thinking about sound texture in film with the Assassination of Jesse James, very Lynchian and strange tone and textures for what's ostensibly a western.
They did a pretty good job on the location. It looks like the real camp.
Genius
I really don't know if I could stomach this movie.
Nor me. It's too real. It's genius.
It was hard for me just watched it last night,
Excellent film.
Yeah it's amazing!
Just watched The Zone of Interest. This movie made me so uncomfortable that the background noises were so creepy, but this is a great movie. Love Performance from Christian Friedel was so subtle that it was so powerful not to show too much, but my favorite was Sandra Huller her performance was fantastic. it was a great show this woman had no care in the world. This is my favorite performance from her, and this dude is in white lotus season 3, so My The Rating of this movie is 10 out of 10. i think this is perfect
INCREDIBLE MOVIE
I expected to actually HEAR at least a little of the said sound 😑
The grandmother in the film could be the twin of my grandmother.
I hope she's not like her inside
where is the sound?
So why cant we hear the sound?
I should've carried a pencil and paper into the cinema. There are a lot of tiny things in this film.
Yeah it was incredible!
@@BrainPilot this film will last a lifetime. E.g. swindlers list
Out of the ashes
Anne Frank the whole story
Correction: Schindler's list
Watch it a second time when you know what Hoss is thinking when he looks at the ceiling of the ballroom at the party! Hits different.
The sounds were more imporant than the dialogue. This film was very very very hard to hear. It was horrific to watch the children playing with human teeth. The few views of Auswitz showed smoke, orange light and the sight of the striped pajamas. The reverse B&W photos of the girl hiding fruit for the workers was haunting. But the sound was definitely the driving force throughout the film.
But the Villa was located near Auschwitz I, not Auschwitz Birkenau were the main huge extermination facilities were located, and were the full horrors of the factory of death took place. Right?
There was a singular chamber and crematorium in the main camp too but it wasn't used as much as the birkenau ones
Also the birkenau crematoria would have been visible from the main camp anyway it was only a mile or two away and also the smell of it wafted for miles around
@@aidencurl2532 I asked about the location of the villa, not other things. (
The one in Auschwitz I, was an obituary converted in a gas chamber and they made changes after the war, as the guides report).
I think the objection that the house was located some distance from the actual murder site misses the point. The film needs the slight distortion of distance to make its impact on viewers. Some artistic license can be overlooked.
@@greggi47 no point to be missed on my question, that simply asked the actual location of the villa.
The background noise -- constant rumble -- could not have been accurate. Auschwitz I was not an execution camp (although many thousands lost their lives there). Instead, the camp served as a transit camp for prisoners and slave laborers. It did have a single crematorium in the center of the camp to dispose of bodies but was used sparingly. The execution camp, Auschwitz II - Birkenau, was over two miles away and could not have been seen.
Most likely the noises from over the wall were the sounds of prisoners and guards, sometimes shots, trains, and motorized vehicles from the road next to the house. But I understand the necessity of the noise in the film, although probably not very accurate.
I highly recommend reading Rudolf Hoss' memoir of his time as camp commandant. He wrote it in prison while awaiting his execution. It sets the stage for this movie and provides a much deeper understanding of the reality of life from the other side.
Man I hated Hedwig the most lol
Interesting, but couldn’t you have stopped talking for a while to let us hear the sounds? Or was there a copyright issue that prevented it?
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talking about sound. you seem to like the sound of your voice - way too many words to describe something, you could have simply shared samples of it
God Bless our World War 2 veterans
There aren’t really words. It seems wrong to say this is a good or great film.
Oppenheimer sound >>
No wayyyy!
this movie lacks of expanaition what was actually happening inside the camps, some people are uneducated, some are too young to know, some are denying history but that different thing. i'm reading a lot of comments with poeple being confused, a 30 seconds explanation with numbers just before the movie would be very helpful for review to understand and feel the horror of those events
you talk and talk and talk..... but never go to the point or hearing that "SOUND"
Movie isn't out yet, you want him to use clips from a theater bootleg or something?
Repeted genocidal scenario in Gaza and Cisjordanie
Yes, I suppose people just had no choice in the end.
Visited Auschwitz November 2023 saw this house omg something I will never forget
I bet! When I visited I wasn't aware of this house. It must have been some experience seeing it in person. I imagine it's something that is unforgettable.
Everything about it is shocking and heartbreaking and the house is just over a wall how people could carry on with there normal life is terrible
And now Israel is hearing the screaming and begging
Just like israhell with comfort life, other side is Palestine with full of horror. Who did that? People who lives in comfort by taking other lives
Little if anything has been made of the similarity between the zone of interest and the Peace festival--both walled off from the horror happening on the other side. WHEN the Peace festival is discussed , people say--how dare they do something so terrible to such peace-loving people at a peace festival , rather than expose the fact that it shares a wall with people who are living a horrible life and not for 5 years as with the Jews but for 75 years, not to mention the years that preceded when the Jews came to that land and started killing the Palestinians and taking their homes. Not only is this NOT mentioned by the public who knew of this film but it was NEVER mentioned really at the academy, just the term Gaza was mentioned a couple times by the producer Mr James Wilson but with NO emotion or outrage and NO emotion ever in the audience who's enjoying their la de la life while babies are being shot and children are being killed and maimed and women killed day after day after day.
I'm noTt impressed with this film and I'm definitely NOT impressed with HOW it was presented and received at the academy with NO recognition given that we're actually living this now. THIS is NOT history. WE are living this now and we are forced to live behind a wall even though unlike the Germans including the good Germans we are protesting; we are fighting; people are self-immolating and this speaker at the academy acts like no one's doing anything. He is doing NOTHING & the academy did NOTHING but people are doing whatever they can to protest the horror of the Zionist Jews massacring an entire people.
And there was no attack on Israel on the 7th, nor intention in the Hamas charter for Israel to be destroyed? ?
Yes, very interesting film, outstanding use of sound - but that said, many films have excellent sound, to be fair. Remember also, that what is over the wall, which we do not see, is what the writers of history told us it was, not the actual reality. And there has been a lot of claims, some with definite evidence, that some parts of the story are not as they have been told, or at least open to further investigation. The attraction itself, has over the years lowered the amount of occupants liquidated from 4.5 million, to around 1 million or less today. That is a huge reduction. Most likely, the family would have thought over the fence was basically a "work camp", period. They would not be aware of what we believe today, whether it be truth, or a type of truth based on revision or exaggeration to create a type of secular religion of Jewish identity. You see, this film is psychological programming of a sort, we bring our modern propagandized knowledge of history, back to an artificial historical lab, played by actors who represent real people, and then we use our minds to fill in the missing parts of the story. I think this films stands as a testimony to how central secular Jewish individuals have created a sense of identity from this place, they wallow in it, and how it is constantly used by Israel to endorse and support their actions, no matter how terrible and inhumane.
I tend to agree with you. In a way its similar to slavery of a century and a half or more ago as a reason to exploit today's taxpayers and voters and black Americans themselves and produce nothing but harm to society by constantly picking at a well-healed scar and reopening it again and again and people begin imagining their "own reality" of what slavery was instead of the reality, which was something in between. There are people who milk the victim mentality over and over, to the point that Obama was literally telling the families of the 5 police officers who were assassinated while sitting in their patrol cars were essentially to blame for their own deaths because of their white racist anti-black attitudes, when one of the cops was Asian and another was black or Latino, I think. That is still disturbing. The Holocaust was almost a sacrifice in order to give Jewish people a homeland. It was horrible whether the numbers were 10 million, 6 million, or 1 million. I could go on and on about these things, but it gets dull.
A lot of talk, but no sound
You talked all about the sounds but we weren't able to hear any of them cuz you wouldn't stop talking
How about going to the cinema and actually watching it?
I was expecting and would have liked to hear samples of the sound that was so impressive. This video was very disappointing.
Exactly.... terrible. Just a poor AI narration.
Me too.@@SportCampTirol
In order for him to have the sound samples you are asking for he would have had to bring a recording device into the movie theater and that's illegal.
@@RemyCT63 If he'd stopped talking for a few seconds during the clips he showed, we would have been able to hear a few samples.
Then don't make the video in the first place and waste everybody's life... @@RemyCT63
10 Minuten verschwendet....
Gazazone ist in 2024 ist schlimmer.
... like living on a kibbutz and listening to Gaza get obliterated.
Now Israel is doing this 😂... we will wait 30 years for how sad what is now happening was.
I found the constant humming sound in the background to be so annoying I only lasted 20 mins into the movie.
Annoying af.
It is the sound of an efficient machine for murder and exploitation. It is industrial hum, and the sounds of thousands of people living in close proximity. Not annoying, ominous.
@@greggi47 I understand what the sound was to represent but I felt it was overdone.
It's very funny, people don't realize that the story in this film is the same as what the Palestinian people are experiencing who continue to be subjected to endless genocide, I hope my comment is read, thank you
The Palestinians celebrated October 7th they celebrate every terror attack they launch and have rejected every peace deal in exchange for statehood. Hamas uses their own civilians as human shields.
Thank you. And where are the ovens now? And what of the Hamas charter that vows destruction of Israel? @@baldingeagle8404
I've seen it, read lots of reviews. Too artistically pretentious. I tried believe me and I'm into cinema and originality but it just doesn't do it for me. Too stylistic, lacks substance. Unfortunately and excuse the pun but it's been done to death. I seem to be the only voice of dissent. That would land me in a camp if I lived in the Nazi era?
100% AGREE.
Ironic how you call it pretentious and then explain why in the most pretentious way
@@Titanicdork133 I like it, good healthy debate. You've got my number, I'm no contortionist but I can certainly blow smoke up my own ass. Oh, did I need that!
@@Titanicdork133 I still think it's a pretentious waste of time, however!💋
Way overrated
You talk too much...we should be allowed to hear what your waffling about mate....
I was frightened at the beginning and then i fell alseep 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Boring ass movie
Movie was horrible absolutely horrible literally nothing happened
You know that was kinda the point right? They went about their mundane lives smiling enjoying their pretty house, garden and swimming pool, as if nothing was happening literally a few meters away. They didn't care.
@@Zeitgeist6 they didn’t care and neither did I
I am fascinated and troubled by this. How could one be so obtuse and either unable or unwilling to see beyond the surface. It’s a shame. It’s a masterpiece. I encourage you to challenge yourself and see it again, perhaps solo.
@@russlowe how many times did we need to see the characters in the movie walk around the garden or walk around the house turning off light switches?? You want to see a real movie about the holocaust? Try boy in the stripe pajamas or son of Saul or even Schindler’s list. This last 5 minutes of the actual aushchwitz is what needed to be replicated throughout the movie.
@@Zeitgeist6 Son of Saul, Boy in Stripe Pajamas and Schindler’s list is far and beyond better than this. They actually depict what it was like. There was no climax to this movie.
Worst movie A24 has made and I went in knowing what to expect. I knew it would be mostly dialogue and focusing on good picture but all in all, not great.
If you know the historical timeline of Hoss's career then it makes more sense. But most people don't have a clue. My only complaint was the subtitles were tiny at the bottom of the screen and appeared so fast having no time to read them. That's was really frustrating.
@@RemyCT63 I liked the movie and I say I expected more but honestly I’m not sure what I even expected more of. Maybe if I did a bit more research I would have gotten it more.
Agree. Waste of good concept. Not all that but you can't not like it, it seems which is very National Socialist in itself.
See it again. Plain and simple. Read about how Glazer made the film and why, and see it again solo. It’s a masterpiece and you’re missing it. It’s extremely profound.
@@skipbennyI honestly don't know what research you'd really need to do to understand this besides just the basics of the Holocaust and how camps were utilized. May I ask what about it you didn't like? In my opinion this is one of the best Holocaust films ever made. The use of on screen Jewish suffering is something that has disturbed me since a child. While there are certainly ways to do it with care after Schindlers list Holocaust movies more or less entered the realm of "Oscar bait" and while there are many good ones there are far more exploitative ones. When it comes to the Holocaust the lesson to be learned from it to me is not really the suffering of jews or other victims. While that's important what takes precedent is how that violence came to be. How normal people were turned into cogs in the well oiled machine of mass murder. This movie exemplifies this idea masterfully in a way I don't think I've seen on screen before.
You neglect to mention the nearly constant, very low-pitched, industrial HUMMING noise emanating from the camp. Whether this is intended to represent, for instance, an actual noise from the electrified fences, or whether it is included as part of the abstract music-and-effects score is not important because either way the effect is the same: It emphasizes the nightmarish quality of everything that is just below the surface of apparent tranquility.
The fact this is currently a reality is sickening