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to peel back the history that has been artified and commodified
Christop 2022-03-25 09:01:14
Sitting in the first row of the movie theater, I felt dizzy and nauseated for the first ten minutes. The bloody truth is in front of us, not a personal hero, but a small and powerless human nature. Ironically, the blurred background of the film is precisely the story the film is really telling. And we can't see clearly, it should be said that we have long forgotten and deliberately avoided the cruelty of this history. All pain is highly artistic, commodified, as shown in Schindler's List. Their shouts, flesh, blood, and even the stench of carrion penetrating through the screen still lingers on me to this day. This ferocious sense of reality, although expressed in different forms, makes me feel so much more. The shock at 120 days. Beginning with one child and ending with another child, it is a struggle before death, the struggle of human nature, although life is better than death, and even powerless to resort to religious belief as the last straw. Where there is humanity, there is no humanity in the concentration camps, and whether there is in the old religion, not necessarily. That traumatic era, no matter when it is opened, makes people feel the burning pain, and it must be so, unforgettable.
Extended Reading
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Saul Ausländer: I have to take care of my son. He's not from my wife.
Abraham Warszawski: When did you last see him?
[pause]
Abraham Warszawski: You have no son.
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Abraham Warszawski: You failed the living for the dead.
Saul Ausländer: We are dead already.