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That's such a weird thing to predict, though!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)
Chaki, that movie looks A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:26 (seventeen years ago)
It's about a hottie Nazi, or "hotzi", who is also Jewish. This is where you go OMG.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:40 (seventeen years ago)
Man, check out the director, Henry Bean:
How do you feel about the way the Holocaust and the Jewish experience is portrayed onscreen? Is the film, in any way, a response?
In some way, it is. It's not like I sat there and thought of it as a response, but implicitly and intuitively, I'm very uncomfortable with the fact that the Holocaust had become an industry. That the Holocaust is now a genre of filmmaking. That the Holocaust has become really the religion of so many American Jews. That's the form their religion takes: it's about their slaughter. And I think it feeds into the conflict in the Middle East — this competition of martyrdoms: who's going to be a bigger martyr? Why are people bragging about how much they've suffered? Why shouldn't they be ashamed about how much they've suffered? I hated the Roberto Begnini film. And I hated, for similar reasons, Schindler's List.
You weren't the only one, from the reviews I remember.
In many ways, those films are about triumphs of the human spirit — and where the Holcaust is concerned, there should be no triumph. It's a catastrophe, and to make it upbeat is horrible. I've read that Schindler's List has convinced some doubters that the Holocaust existed. There's an irony in that: in some way, it's almost a form of Holocaust denial. It doesn't deny that it existed, but it denies what it was. It pretties it.
Have you ever seen a depiction you liked?
I don't think so. I liked The Passenger. The thing is, when I was a kid, there was nothing on "the Holocaust." There wasn't the word "Holocaust." Nobody called it that. It was 1973 before someone used the word "Holocaust" in conversation with me. I don't want to say it was invented — it was a real event — but it's been invented as the cultural phenomenon that it is.
― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 04:58 (seventeen years ago)
I agree with most of what he says there, but I think the last sentence could just as easily be said about the Revolutionary War or slavery or Vietnam or almost any massive historical event that takes on cultural significance.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 05:10 (seventeen years ago)
lol, he was the screenwriter for Basic Instinct 2
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 05:18 (seventeen years ago)