Today, Kiff kept up his pursuit of watching a lot of interesting movies by encouraging me to see Zone of Interest. Although the movie itself was in subtitles - something I am definitely not fond of seeing - I have to admit I was taken by the movie.
The movie itself is based on a fictionalized account of a commandant at a concentration camp in Germany during WWII. The director updated it to be a real account of the commandant of one of the worst camps in Germany. It highlighted how the commander tried to keep his family separated from the harsh realities of what was going on in the camp...and how the family dealt with it.
Despite being in German (some of which I was able to understand), the movie was powerful, gripping, and moving. The visual effects symbolized the evil that occurred at the camp while also masking it from the audience purposefully...similar to what was happening to those who lived near it. The sounds - and distant sites - helped evoke a powerful image of the war and the people who perpetrated the atrocities at the camp.
It is definitely one of those movies that will stick with you!
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