It is scary that a mere 80 years after Hitler committed suicide in 1945 the centrality of the Final Solution of the "Jewish Question" in Nazi ideology gets barely a mention these days. Even more scary perhaps is that outside of Jewish circles, October 7th 2023 hardly raises an eyebrow save for the shock horror at Israel's response to Hamas’s genocide.
Maybe the Jew is no longer primarily a victim. The new Jew, the muscular Jew might be taking over the narrative. Just a thought. Frankly it disgusts me the way people love Schindlers list Jews and hate the IDF.
I understood the film rather differently. The world being described is a place where people knew what has happening to the Jews but pretended otherwise. This is a fairly accurate description of the Allies in WW2. The central sequence of the film occurs in Dachau. It’s a long, very well developed and horrifying sequence that puts the Holocaust front and centre and it’s here that the full horror of Nazi Germany is revealed, both to the film’s characters, and us the audience. The world, or at least the British, refusing to acknowledge the full horror of what happened, is described by the UK government refusing Vogue permission to publish Lee’s photographs from Dachau, and thus the intention of the filmmakers is made clear. I came away from the film with a clear warning that it could happen again.
Nothing wrong with highlighting the fact that Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust, but it is wrong to gloss over the fact that they were the most important victims. The Nazis hated other groups, but they hated and feared the Jews because they believed they had immense power. That was why they sought to kill all the Jews they could lay their hands on. And ideas about the immense power of Jews are still very much with us.
The ironic thing is that Kate Winslet played an ex-Nazi in a previous film, so if she's now playing a Jewish photographer, it means she's really come full circle!
This film crawls out of the pit of holocaust denial that appears to be gaining momentum. The incremental process has begun and before long we will hear louder groanings as the pit monsters gain traction and the idea gains momentum in progressive settings.
I know what Baddiel would say about this - And he'd be mostly right
Now people don't even like "Dead Jews". They prefer invisible ones. Dara Horn, maybe you should rethink your premise.
It is scary that a mere 80 years after Hitler committed suicide in 1945 the centrality of the Final Solution of the "Jewish Question" in Nazi ideology gets barely a mention these days. Even more scary perhaps is that outside of Jewish circles, October 7th 2023 hardly raises an eyebrow save for the shock horror at Israel's response to Hamas’s genocide.
Thanks Dave Rich for the article - it's part of the holocaust distortion trend which has increased since 10.7.2023.
L'shannah tovah
Maybe the Jew is no longer primarily a victim. The new Jew, the muscular Jew might be taking over the narrative. Just a thought. Frankly it disgusts me the way people love Schindlers list Jews and hate the IDF.
I understood the film rather differently. The world being described is a place where people knew what has happening to the Jews but pretended otherwise. This is a fairly accurate description of the Allies in WW2. The central sequence of the film occurs in Dachau. It’s a long, very well developed and horrifying sequence that puts the Holocaust front and centre and it’s here that the full horror of Nazi Germany is revealed, both to the film’s characters, and us the audience. The world, or at least the British, refusing to acknowledge the full horror of what happened, is described by the UK government refusing Vogue permission to publish Lee’s photographs from Dachau, and thus the intention of the filmmakers is made clear. I came away from the film with a clear warning that it could happen again.
Nothing wrong with highlighting the fact that Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust, but it is wrong to gloss over the fact that they were the most important victims. The Nazis hated other groups, but they hated and feared the Jews because they believed they had immense power. That was why they sought to kill all the Jews they could lay their hands on. And ideas about the immense power of Jews are still very much with us.
This is how woke Hollywood rewrites history
The ironic thing is that Kate Winslet played an ex-Nazi in a previous film, so if she's now playing a Jewish photographer, it means she's really come full circle!
This film crawls out of the pit of holocaust denial that appears to be gaining momentum. The incremental process has begun and before long we will hear louder groanings as the pit monsters gain traction and the idea gains momentum in progressive settings.
Thanks for the review. I’ll skip it. I’m a bit of a Holocaust movie connoisseur.