The Zone of Interest
Jun 23, 2024 12:47 PM
It does provide a unique perspective on the Holocaust. It's certainly a corner of the film that I've never seen before. This difference gives the film a real edge, depicting the horrors of the Holocaust in a new and terrifying way. It achieves this approach through competing juxtapositions. It contrasts the Hawes' disorderly, troubled home life with the tragic events unfolding beyond their garden walls.
By doing this you won't have too much image or content on your mask. Instead, violence and cruelty are often heard rather than seen, as the sounds of the camp continue to infiltrate Hoss's home. This is how the movie leaves its mark. These events and fears are ignored by the family and their guests. Normalizing mass murder over the garden wall. They are fluent and realistic in their approach to events. This is dangerous.
While this is a very good way to create Holocaust fear, I don't think the movie is a good thing at all. There's no real meaning to speak of, so once the movie runs out of meaning, it's easy to want it to end so you won't be left with bad characters and terrible events for a long time. This is another tough question because I think it's a story worth telling. It's important to look at the Holocaust from this perspective and understand what it did to some people, but I'm not sure a long film is needed to show that.
I decided to watch this movie because of its sound design and it turned out to be a better movie than I expected. I think it would be boring and forgetful to focus on the house next to Auschwitz where the director and his family lived. But this is a strange and useful exploration of Hannah Arendt's idea of the banality of evil.
Holocaust movies almost always focus on actual concentration camps, where the bad guys were Nazis, or at best focus on conflicts that viewers can easily watch. What if the Nazis were beige bureaucrats just trying to do their jobs and meet their quotas? It so happened that their quota was for dead people to go up the chimney. It makes you wonder what lies beyond the unseen walls in your life.
Overall, I really liked the content and perspective of this movie. The direction of creating this campaign and getting to this point is the most important, but there is nothing to understand in this movie other than its core message. There is no real story. There are no characters you want to understand or relate to. So it's like a movie that overextends itself but still gets its message across.
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