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Quoting Salon.com
"Downfall"
This German film about Hitler's last days is so powerful and compelling, you may actually find yourself feeling sorry for Der Fuhrer.
By Andrew O'Hehir
Full Article
I don't believe in censorship. That's why I'm voicing my opinion, freely, of Mr. O'Hehir's review.
I read all of it and I'm still ticked. I guess I shouldn't be since Mr. O'Hehir makes sure to say that he knows it's a bad thing to feel sorry for Hitler, but.. but.. he's so human!
When we recognize him, in Ganz's shuffling, gray-jowled homunculus, as an especially pathetic example of our own species, when we forget for a second all our valid reasons for despising him and casting him out and instead look on him with compassion -- that is the triumph, albeit momentary, of art over history.
No, it's the triumph of how humans really don't give a rat's ass about anything as long as it doesn't affect them over what should be humanity. Hitler was human? Big surprise. He suffered when his big master plan to kill every living thing that didn't measure up went up in smoke? Really? Watch me not really care. The story shouldn't, and hasn't been, about how much you feel for the poor Austrian - but how, as human-oid as he was, he managed to still go ahead and do the things he did without any regrets.
I'm sure people will rather not touch this with a 10 foot pole since, hey PC is in, but not for long in these redneck days.
I don't know what is the right thing to do.( POV )
"Downfall"
This German film about Hitler's last days is so powerful and compelling, you may actually find yourself feeling sorry for Der Fuhrer.
By Andrew O'Hehir
Full Article
I don't believe in censorship. That's why I'm voicing my opinion, freely, of Mr. O'Hehir's review.
I read all of it and I'm still ticked. I guess I shouldn't be since Mr. O'Hehir makes sure to say that he knows it's a bad thing to feel sorry for Hitler, but.. but.. he's so human!
When we recognize him, in Ganz's shuffling, gray-jowled homunculus, as an especially pathetic example of our own species, when we forget for a second all our valid reasons for despising him and casting him out and instead look on him with compassion -- that is the triumph, albeit momentary, of art over history.
No, it's the triumph of how humans really don't give a rat's ass about anything as long as it doesn't affect them over what should be humanity. Hitler was human? Big surprise. He suffered when his big master plan to kill every living thing that didn't measure up went up in smoke? Really? Watch me not really care. The story shouldn't, and hasn't been, about how much you feel for the poor Austrian - but how, as human-oid as he was, he managed to still go ahead and do the things he did without any regrets.
I'm sure people will rather not touch this with a 10 foot pole since, hey PC is in, but not for long in these redneck days.
I don't know what is the right thing to do.( POV )