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hungry-hobbits · 5 months

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we watched zone of interest last night and i thought it was a beautiful, well done, and harrowing film.

you can tell a lot of the criticisms for the film are based around the fact that people misconstrue "romanticism" with showcasing how terrible people can continue living normal lives in the face of atrocities - which isn't anything different from your average citizen, it's just that the involvement levels are different.

the unfortunate thing is that terrible people are capable of living normal lives; they fight about their husbands jobs relocating them, they grow gardens, they tell their children bedtime stories - what people dislike about this is that it forces you to remember that every person is capable of the same under certain circumstances, and that kindness is a choice.

#zone of interest #i thought it was beautiful and thoughtful and harrowing #like it was genuinely a wonderfully done movie showcasing just how much people can force themselves to ignore and pretend to be ignorant of #like hedwig arguing with hoss about not being able to stay in their home that is literally in a fenced off corner of auschwitz #the way they were fighting about it felt like something a normal couple would argue about - because to them in some regard #they were a normal couple - the dialogue all felt so natural which added to the horror of whats going on. here's the summer garden and our #pool - meanwhile hedwigs mother flinching every time she hears the guns and dogs because she's not used to it but hedwig isnt phased #she's more so annoyed by the sounds

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