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Gremal · 10-11-2007, 09:58 PM

I just watched it as well and did not like it. There are many, many, many, many very important stories to tell from the Holocaust. Why would anyone want to make a movie about a "good" nazi commander...a Jewish woman who watched her family massacred and then slept with the nazi commander...a resistance fighter who was portrayed as worse than the nazis...I could go on and on and on about all the things that were WRONG with the decision to make this story into a movie. Wrong on so many levels. The film was doomed from the start no matter how good the acting or how gorgeous the picture quality.

My great uncle Lou, a virtuoso pianist, survived the Holocaust by playing for the nazis...they'd take him all over Europe and make him perform like a clown. To his dying day he refused to so much as listen to Wagner again or set foot in France, Germany or other countries where he had seen Jews face the most inhuman treatment imagineable. Let's be very clear...the problem was not infighting in resistance movements or questions of morality amongst Jews.

The other thing that REALLY bothered me about this movie was the way they scripted it so that the nazis referred to the resistance fighters as "terrorists", just as we refer to jihadists in the present day. This was a parallel the filmmakers decided to pursue (that doesn't get in a movie by accident) and one which I found totally abhorrant.

10-11-2007, 09:58 PM	#2
Gremal Blu-ray Samurai Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Feb 2007 Location:Daddyland Home Theater Gallery:49 Blu-ray collection:184	spoilers... I just watched it as well and did not like it. There are many, many, many, many very important stories to tell from the Holocaust. Why would anyone want to make a movie about a "good" nazi commander...a Jewish woman who watched her family massacred and then slept with the nazi commander...a resistance fighter who was portrayed as worse than the nazis...I could go on and on and on about all the things that were WRONG with the decision to make this story into a movie. Wrong on so many levels. The film was doomed from the start no matter how good the acting or how gorgeous the picture quality. My great uncle Lou, a virtuoso pianist, survived the Holocaust by playing for the nazis...they'd take him all over Europe and make him perform like a clown. To his dying day he refused to so much as listen to Wagner again or set foot in France, Germany or other countries where he had seen Jews face the most inhuman treatment imagineable. Let's be very clear...the problem was not infighting in resistance movements or questions of morality amongst Jews. The other thing that REALLY bothered me about this movie was the way they scripted it so that the nazis referred to the resistance fighters as "terrorists", just as we refer to jihadists in the present day. This was a parallel the filmmakers decided to pursue (that doesn't get in a movie by accident) and one which I found totally abhorrant.