Chilly, disturbing, but very well made!

Coralie 2022-01-12 08:02:10

This movie is one of the chilliest, coldest production I've ever seen. As Colin mentioned in the featurette that it would be less shocking if they were frothing at their mouth and shouting'kill them all'. The holocaust emerged with emotionless calculation and Jews were itemized to be'evacuated'. I simply don't understand how they could eat while discussing this bloody murder. And to my most surprise, many of the attendees escaped from the punishment they deserved. I think this is the most disturbing part in the whole movie.

The music at the end is a strong contrast to the movie. It's Schubert Quintet in C Major, very peaceful and bringing us hope. Heydrich referred as "the adagio will tear your heart out", did he ever have a heart I wonder?

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Extended Reading
  • Kenton 2022-03-18 09:01:05

    Gandhi said that there are seven things that can destroy mankind, one of which is that there is no knowledge of right and wrong. At the Wanhu Conference in the winter of 1942, the highest-ranking officials of the Third Reich formulated a detailed Jewish purge plan. The Germans used their unique rationality and rigor to outline and plan carefully in this exquisite villa. Assign indicators to the number of killings. Many of the attendees have doctorate degrees, and most of them are doctorates of law. The meeting lasted for 90 minutes. As a result, 6 million Jews died in the concentration camp, in the gas chamber, and in the crematorium. When a person, as a screw on a huge political machine, just obeys authority, can he be exempted from responsibility and shift responsibility to authority? Now it is an unsolvable problem.

  • Newell 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    The scene is extremely simple, a house, a table, a meeting. There is no brutal scene in the concentration camp, but it makes people feel hopeless and cold. At the end, the servants cleaned up the venue, the young people were fighting and kissing, surrounded by Schubert's C major, but they did not know that the night was coming. I'm skeptical about the British lineup

Conspiracy quotes

  • Undersecretary Martin Luther: I'm sorry, why can't you shoot them?

    Dr. Joseph Bühler: Didn't you just hear him? It is the worst thing for our soldiers to be doing. They are women, they are children. And soldiers have a sense of honor, sir.

    Undersecretary Martin Luther: There's plenty of honor in following orders.

    Lange: Sir, would you care to join my group?

    Undersecretary Martin Luther: Enthusiastically!

    Heydrich: No.

    Undersecretary Martin Luther: I will.

    Heydrich: No, you will not. 11 million, even half that number, executed in small batches, would be asinine to undertake for the reasons Dr. Meyer mentioned. Inefficient use of time, manpower, bullets. No. As Major Lange will learn, gas if much more efficient, and less public.

  • Kritzinger: Lange?

    Lange: Yes, sir?

    Kritzinger: Who were those 30,000 you say you shot, when you say, YOU shot?

    Lange: In Riga, Latvia. 27,800 I have some responsibility for. And stood by with my men and allowed Latvian civilians to kill in mobs. I received memos directing the, one would say "evacuation" of Jews who, shot and buried in soil and corpses, managed to crawl out, still alive. Not exactly war, is it? And gas chambers about to come?

    Kritzinger: What gas chambers? Gas chambers?

    Lange: I hear rumours, yes.

    Kritzinger: This is more than war. Must be a different word for this.

    Lange: Try "chaos".

    Kritzinger: Yes. The rest is argument, the curse of my profession.

    Lange: I studied law as well.

    Kritzinger: And how do you apply that education to what you do?

    Lange: It has made me distrustful of language. A gun means what it says.