I've studied what has recently been dubbed the "holocaust" for well over 50 years and have unearthed all kinds of things, smuggled out personal documents of victims as well as Nazi records. The period was a historian's dream. The Germans and their allies, particularly the Poles, where so many camps were located, were very proud of their achievements in butchery and slaughter and maintained vast and impeccable records, the bulk of which were captured.
Still, I never heard of this situation. Of course and film that purports to tell a "true story", or better yet, "based on a true story" is usually utter nonsense. Based on a "true set of fictions and blatant lies" is synonymous with "based on a "story".
Still, it doesn't matter. Horror on this level creates its own mythos. The mythos becomes the reality the second the reality ends.
And that story then enters eternity. So this version, whatever the case may actually have been, an idea, a partially carried out notion be a few people, or nothing at all, still serves its metaphoric source of origin well.
There are enough heavily documented acts of retribution and acts of staggering courage during and after incarceration, that only the most virulent of demented anti-semites could deny as they are as real as gravity.
The movie? Terrific and committed acting. One of the better films on the aftermath of the death camps. Its literality is questionable and I'll look for citations, but that isn't so important. There are many references to certain specific that are absolutely confirmed, by photographic records as well as survivors and of course Nuremberg.
Germans don't merely provide the best photographic sexual pornography. They also loved taking pictures of their medical experiments and before they perfected the and industrialized and fully mechanized their death camps, they enjoyed photographing hundreds of people digging their mass graves and then lining them up and placing a 9mm bullet in the back of their heads, lining them up so they would fall into the pits in an orderly sort of way. All captured on film, and so much more.
A montage of real footage in a great documentarians hands would be a devastating film.
Meanwhile, it seems that sometimes the spirit trumps the letter. After all, it is the impulse, the thought made manifest. The myth of christ, "if you sin in your heart" etc. Christ himself, like Krishna and all the rest, there is zero historically reliable evidence o suggest even existed.....but does that matter.
The idea is far more powerful and enduring then anything a starving ragged "prophet" might have actually stated thousands of years ago.
Ideas confer infinities and timelessness, not physical realities.
That's what this movie is about to me. Reality becoming myth and myth becoming reality. It's a great piece of work this with wonderful acting.
Still, I never heard of this situation. Of course and film that purports to tell a "true story", or better yet, "based on a true story" is usually utter nonsense. Based on a "true set of fictions and blatant lies" is synonymous with "based on a "story".
Still, it doesn't matter. Horror on this level creates its own mythos. The mythos becomes the reality the second the reality ends.
And that story then enters eternity. So this version, whatever the case may actually have been, an idea, a partially carried out notion be a few people, or nothing at all, still serves its metaphoric source of origin well.
There are enough heavily documented acts of retribution and acts of staggering courage during and after incarceration, that only the most virulent of demented anti-semites could deny as they are as real as gravity.
The movie? Terrific and committed acting. One of the better films on the aftermath of the death camps. Its literality is questionable and I'll look for citations, but that isn't so important. There are many references to certain specific that are absolutely confirmed, by photographic records as well as survivors and of course Nuremberg.
Germans don't merely provide the best photographic sexual pornography. They also loved taking pictures of their medical experiments and before they perfected the and industrialized and fully mechanized their death camps, they enjoyed photographing hundreds of people digging their mass graves and then lining them up and placing a 9mm bullet in the back of their heads, lining them up so they would fall into the pits in an orderly sort of way. All captured on film, and so much more.
A montage of real footage in a great documentarians hands would be a devastating film.
Meanwhile, it seems that sometimes the spirit trumps the letter. After all, it is the impulse, the thought made manifest. The myth of christ, "if you sin in your heart" etc. Christ himself, like Krishna and all the rest, there is zero historically reliable evidence o suggest even existed.....but does that matter.
The idea is far more powerful and enduring then anything a starving ragged "prophet" might have actually stated thousands of years ago.
Ideas confer infinities and timelessness, not physical realities.
That's what this movie is about to me. Reality becoming myth and myth becoming reality. It's a great piece of work this with wonderful acting.