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21One of the best and most impactful new films I’ve seen in a long time. So much nuance AND hitting you over the head with its themes at the same time.
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22The NYT sucks, and on the topic of Israel it sucks the most.dontfeartheringo wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:45 am At this point it seems like the lady doth protest too much, honestly.
Naomi Klein got the point: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... a-genocide
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23The banality of evil.andyman wrote: Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:25 am I found the economic aspect compelling though - his wife is obsessed with the perfect home, luxuries, being pampered, and their prosperity is built on the bloodshed of an oppressed class. They literally compost their garden with human ashes.
I feel as though the Nazi's bureaucracy around the death machine has been seen/written about before (the mundane logistical planning as though it were any other industrial problem, the banality of evil), however the peculiar focus on how Höss is just "going to the office" to provide a certain quality of life for his family, and the couple's blocking out of the sounds next door, have pretty grim parallels around political consciousness in the modern global capitalist era.
I thought it was a great movie.
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24Wow. So much to chew on with this movie, but the moment sitting with me is Hoss telling his wife all he could think about at the party were the logistics of gassing everyone there, and she quickly changing the subject. The capacity of horror they (we) willingly accept, deem necessary even, vs. where they draw the line.
Shooting most of it in the daylight without any history book graininess drives the point home even more, and we need it more than ever. NC wf 0.
Shooting most of it in the daylight without any history book graininess drives the point home even more, and we need it more than ever. NC wf 0.
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25100% the scene that continues to fuck with my brain as well. That an him puking right after that.penningtron wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:01 am Wow. So much to chew on with this movie, but the moment sitting with me is Hoss telling his wife all he could think about at the party were the logistics of gassing everyone there, and she quickly changing the subject. The capacity of horror they (we) willingly accept, deem necessary even, vs. where they draw the line.
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26The wife luxuriating in the fur, checking for hidden treasure.
The wife noting that the payoff for their investment in Nazism and its intention to depopulate and repopulate was close at hand, their dream of a purist’s farm life.
The wife noting that she could easily convert her domestic authority to one lording over immediate death.
People can be bribed to do almost anything, and achieving one’s dreams at the expense of others is all too familiar.
The wife noting that the payoff for their investment in Nazism and its intention to depopulate and repopulate was close at hand, their dream of a purist’s farm life.
The wife noting that she could easily convert her domestic authority to one lording over immediate death.
People can be bribed to do almost anything, and achieving one’s dreams at the expense of others is all too familiar.
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27Super boring.
I get everything you describe, etc.... but it just didn't move me. I mean, what they tell and how they tell it.
I must have the weirdest taste in movies, rarely get the hype.
I get everything you describe, etc.... but it just didn't move me. I mean, what they tell and how they tell it.
I must have the weirdest taste in movies, rarely get the hype.