The Zone of Interest concurs up more questions than answers, despite being a huge success at the Oscars and gaining praise across the globe I felt I needed to dig a little deeper to get to the essence of this movie.
Depersonalizing a collective easily facilitates densentization and compartmentalization… As a Jew, not actually ‘seeing’ the suffering, I was able to depersonalize; hence , I quickly became desensitized to the sounds surrounding the scenes. Only when Glazer filmed the actuality of the camp (the crematorium, shoes, luggage) did anger come calling… The diamond in the toothpaste-overlooked-stuck in my mind. At any rate, I was somewhat deflecting because the reality of the situation is improbable in terms of living on the grounds of a death camp where plumes of burning flesh was continuous, the stench would have been unbearable… Eden, Hell and the normalization of the horrible-the turning of the unthinkable into the mundane-is probable, notwithstanding, historical…
