The Zone of Interest | DISTURBINGLY BRILLIANT 

(Steve here) Gives context we hadn't known, thanks, and thanks as well for watching!

Also, the wife makes this comment when the servant has done nothing wrong, except set a place for her the wife's mother at the breakfast table.

The house servants were not Jews they were locals. She tells her mother that.

Well Hedwigs mother has left the home and written a note maybe expressing some disdain so Hedwig feels slighted by her mother leaving and lashes out at the maid .​@@dinkster1729

​@@kaykay2031They were Polish

(Steve here) Thanks for the kind words and the clarification. Although I'm not normally a supporter of the death penalty, I would be hard for me to argue he didn't get justice being handed over to the Poles

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews THE ZONE OF INTEREST movie. Here are my thoughts after just watching "The Zone of Interest" and coming home. I had heard about the movie and watched many reviews. I had even heard about what the director said and felt he just demonized Jews while making a movie about the Holocaust and thus proves he is an ignorant fool. But I figured I must see this movie as it isn't maybe even about the family and more about the culture. So I went to see it. I was pleasantly surprised for the following points: 1) The father is damned. How? He stands to process the Jews from the train and thus is doing the work on the days that matter for a death camp called Bergen-Belsen & the general concentration camp of Auschwitz. They don't show it, but then the reason must be that they want to show you the idea of not damning him. You saw nothing. The director tipping his hat to his hate, so to speak. 2) The wife is damned. How? She finds a diamond in toothpaste and wants more. Why? Because in the processing there is very little the workers are allowed to take from the Nazi state as all is categorized and documented. Stealing from the Nazi state a diamond is her crime. She wants to do it more as taking toothpaste will not be cared about with the Nazi state and she knows the diamonds are untraceable anyway unless documented by being found by the workers in the camp. 3) The mother-in-law is damned. How? She realizes a woman is suffering (a Jew) who out bid her in an auction and is not worried about her. She shows no caring for her or any of them (Jews). What she hates is the burning of human flesh, the noise, and the proximity of it all to her personally. She never voices a concern for her grandchildren and their safety or upbringing. These are the three main characters and they all are damned. They are Nazis; they should be damned. Do all people who view this movie get this message? No. Some may think only of how they existed in a moment and chose and performed based on the stimuli that affected them. Of course they did. Don't we all? What is the lesson of the holocaust? Let us look at facts in regards to Triblinka and learn the lesson of the holocaust. In 16 months, 68 Germans with the help of 360 Jews slew over 600,000 Jews. The field had some evidence of buildings having been there. Nothing would have been known of the facts of Triblinka had not the Nazi state kept meticulous records of their accomplishments. What is the value of this movie? It does not show anything that would damn them. You only hear of the suffering and killing and know this man is in charge of all of it enough to be promoted to improving efficiency in all Nazi death camps and concentration camps throughout all of Europe and efficient enough to be brought back to the largest and most famous death camp and concentration camp in the history of the whole world: the death camp called Bergen-Belsen & the general concentration camp of Auschwitz. History records that the Nazis in trials after WWII and over the radio in South America while still free abroad after WWII stated aloud "Six (6) million was not enough." This is significant. It means the Nazis did not care about the fourteen (14) million killed in the holocaust. Why should Nazis care about slaying Poles, gypsies, and dissidents in Europe against the Nazi state? The HONOR and the GLORY of the Nazi mindset was in killing the people of Yahweh in large numbers. Americans today are now being asked in universities throughout our great land and through the speeches of the Democratic politicians within the Senate and Congress whether they will be antisemetic or if they support Israel. I find it absolutely amazing that the impetious for this question was Palestinians beheading Jewish babies or male children, burning alive Jewish mothers, and the fucking of Jewish female minors in cars as they drove them to Gaza Strip. It is abhorrent and explains why Yahweh's Holy Bible states upon Palestine being whole it melts in Isaiah 14:28-31 which is a time when Anti-Christ is identified for the whole world to know and this text states "None shall break rank" meaning Anti-Christ will melt inside Palestine whole not long after it is made whole per the text. Yahweh then declares in the Holy Bible He will destroy all nations off the face of the Earth for all nations will have been against Israel per Zechariah 12:3 and Zechariah 12:9. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7jd48jTsZYI.html

(Steve here) Thanks for a well thought out perspective. Thanks for watching@@ReligionOfSacrifice

@@ReligionOfSacrifice you’ve been sucked in by a few long-since debunked media fibs, eg. there were no beheaded babies, no rapes, and the only people burned alive (and there were plenty) was because the IDF went in with tanks and helicopters armed with bombs that can do that, under orders to make sure no terrorists got out alive, regardless of civilian casualties

(Steve here) Loved this. Very insightful. Appreciate hearing that Hoss repented before his death. Although he suffered the consequences for his actions in this life, I hope he finds forgiveness & peace in the next

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews It struck me also that digestion is a key theme in this film.

(Steve here) Agreed the drone sound was brilliant, especially in context with the whole film

(Steve here). Thank you for sharing your story. Yes, people will respond to these films in different ways although I believe they remind us to never forget

(James here) Thanks so much for watching. I've seen SHOAH, it's an absolutely devastating film. Probably one of the most important and powerful documentaries ever made, but almost certainly one I will never watch again.

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews Thanks for your responses. Given what is happening in Gaza and Israel these days makes everything so much more complicated (as if it wasn't before!) The film I always hark back to is Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies". (Based on Wajdi Mouawad's play.) Maybe it's because I'm from Montreal and grew up knowing many people from Lebanese, Moroccan and Armenian communities, Villeneuve's latest films are definitely more popular (deservedly so) but as someone who has worked in conflict areas (Indonesia, 1997-2002), "Incendies" gets right to the heart of what real people have to deal with in real situations, whether with family, neighbours, peers or any kind of societal institutions. Cheers, Lisanne

(James here) Another absolutely incredible movie, INCENDIES was the first Villeneuve movie I ever saw. I had no idea what I was letting myself in for and it absolutely blew me away.

Hello, Lisanne, I am from Belarus, living in Montreal for over 30 years, and about your age.​ Just letting you know that your story moved me very much. The Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies" left me wounded in heart. And yes, in the context of what is happening in the world these days, one can't comprehend the carnage and 'eye for an eye' situation. This movie is very relvant to the present situation - "normal", "loving" people going through their lives, duties and everyday chores. Looks like history is repeating on itself. My kids are teenagers, and I will try to convince them to watch the film, hoping they understand the tragedy of a situation. Thank you for sharing your story - it went straight into my Belarusian heart ❤. P. S. All my great and grandpaterents fought in the WW2, hiding in the woods as partisans. My grandma, being 18-19, was inserting the explosives into the railways to cut the ammunition and provision supplies to the nazi occupants. Was once caught, but could run away thanks to a local policy who knew her father and let her to escape.

(Steve here) Thanks Peter, the film truly highlights the horror. And I'd like to believe I would be incapable of committing these atrocities

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews hi Steve. Your analysis of the film was great. I enjoyed the conversation. It was accurate about the film’s intentions and realizations. I’ll be looking for more of your reviews, peter

Very much appreciated @@peterwhite7428

There was a lot going on in Germany at this time which contributed to this evil manifestation.

(Steve here) Interesting, if that's the case it was achieved and with so much more👍

I think Rudolph came from a bourgeois family, but his father died when he was a teenager so that would have had an influence on the family's financial situation. He was supposed to got to the seminary to become a priest, but, instead, he lied about his age and went off to the First World War. He was a child soldier. Could that experience have turned him into a sociopath?

(James here) My head is a messy place. I'm surprised I get my name right sometimes. Thanks for watching!

(Steve here) Interesting perspective, perhaps you're right

I think the mother could not get a good night’s sleep. She knew what was happening but it was just all a nuisance to her.

I was mesmerized by the film. Brilliant. Will see it again.

(Steve here) Yes, the mother's abrupt departure has a number of interpretations@@margkropf5541

I thought the mother was fine with it by daylight, but alone at night she couldn't ignore the full dimensions of it.

Much appreciated Christopher, glad we could help get you through the work shift

Thanks so much and thanks for listening!

(Steve here) Thanks for the clarification and informative response

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews you are very welcome. Thank you for the review

(Steve here) Totally agree with your thoughts. Regarding Hedwig and the gardener, I need a second viewing but am certain Hedwig was also enjoying extracurricular activities

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews maybe you are thinking of the novel. That’s in the novel, but I don’t think it is in the movie, but now I want to watch it again! 😀

I thought Hedwig was just exercising her power over the gardener. He was at her disposal and she made sure he knew it. Monstrous.

(James here) Yeah they were Poles, my bad. Not sure this level of nitpicking makes for particularly constructive discussion of the film, though - but thanks for watching anyway.

@@DeepDiveMovieReviewsI agree...many people lose the forest for the trees and forget that not only Jews were victims of the death camps. Polish, Czech, old, young, disabled... Thanks for your in-depth narrative on this incredibly disturbing look at so-called 'normal' Nazi life.

Say what now?

(Steve here) James and I are film critics, not historians. We rely on others, particularly our listeners, to kindly point out historical events we may have missed or assessed incorrectly. For example that the housekeepers were local Polish women and not Jews as has been noted by some of the audience. But condescending comments without suggestions add little to the environment of film appreciation we are attempting to cultivate here.

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews A simple google search would have revealed that Hoss testified at Nuremberg, but was tried in Poland and was hanged at Auschwitz, near his home. I can't call it "a villa" either. It's not Montecito or Buckingham Palace, just a nice house for a large family with a lovely garden that they are proud of.

(Steve here) If you are asking if I compared "cancel culture" to the systematic extermination of 6 million Jewish people, the answer would be a definitive NO

(James here) I mean, thanks for watching, but please feel free to leave your moronic bullshit at home.

@@DeepDiveMovieReviewsWhy even bring it up though? Lots of people cancel other people. And that's fine. It's better than giving them a shot in the jaw or a slap in the face.

@@DeepDiveMovieReviews Quick question here: is the film dubbed or does it have subtitles in North America? I'm hard of hearing and I would prefer to watch it with subtitles.

@@dinkster1729 It has subtitles. Go see it!🙂