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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  • Darby 2022-03-21 09:02:51

    Like documentaries, group dramas are reliable, and real stories in history are cruel. My two favorite language in the movie, one is that the officers are out of the villa, the soldiers are having a snowball fight. Second, at the end of the movie, the housekeeper walked out of the villa slowly, turned off the lights, and the environment dimmed a little bit, only the empty conference table under the moonlight was still dimly lit. History moves on, but what ever happened was real.

  • Toby 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    A group of people were sitting there in a meeting, but when they saw me living in the end, their backs got cold, a fear of sending out their own vests.

Conspiracy quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: Col. Eichmann carefully edited the stenographic record of the conference. Copies were distributed to the participants to be read and then destroyed.

    Narrator: General Heydrich flew back to his headquarters in Czechoslovakia where, in a few terrible weeks, he had earned the nickname: The Butcher of Prague. In the spring, two Czech patriots trained to assassinate him and dropped from a British bomber succeeded in wounding him. In reprisal, thousands of Czechs were rounded up and shot. Heydrich's wounds grew infected, he fell into a coma and died.

    Narrator: Eichmann, as Heydrich's deputy for Jewish affairs was left to finish what they had begun at Wannsee. He considered it a matter of honor.

  • Adolf Eichmann: [berating a group of young soldiers outside passing the time by having a snowball fight] STOP IT! Stop it!

    [all stop and stand at attention, Eichmann approaches one]

    Adolf Eichmann: You! What are you doing? You're in uniform!

    Soldier: I'm sorry, sir. It just seemed to happen.

    Adolf Eichmann: [angrily slaps him across the face] Not in uniform, nothing ever "just happens".