I watched "Zone of Interest" last night on Max. It was a strange, yet powerful movie. I visited [View all]
Auschwitz -Birkenau, a few years ago, and was overwhelmed by emotion and horror. While I understand the goal of this film was to show how German people tried to live their lives by ignoring those horrors, I thought it was confusing in places and left me wondering what was happening with Rudolf Hoss at the end. I did not care for the long periods of color-only screens nor the 'music' during the credits. At first, I thought Max wasn't streaming and restarted the thing.
The scenes shot in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum made me wonder whether I could ever be a part of the cleaning crew or if I would become desensitized to the dehumanization of the victims. I think that was the main point of the film: to make us ponder our relationship to the human cruelties happening around us today.
What were your thoughts?
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