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Perun said:
Associative minds are a terrible thing. Some things that are meant to be nice, pretty and innocent strike bad chords with me, too. Something meant to make me happy actually making me sad is one of the worst feelings imaginable... and then I start hating the world.
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So very true.
 
Is that film meant to be a documentary, or an expose (just in case anyone didn't know what happened), or is it attempting to turn the holocaust into sensational entertainment?
 
I think I'd like to find more out about it. There's a lot of media criticism, based on the level of violence and the director's previous record, but there's also a suggestion that it's a serious historical film
 
I usually really enjoy my job, but lately there have been some funky things that appear to have no good answer. Ah, well, the joys of life!

In other news, it got cold again, and is snowing/raining/sleeting/yucky. Blah.
 
Brigantium said:
I think I'd like to find more out about it. There's a lot of media criticism, based on the level of violence and the director's previous record, but there's also a suggestion that it's a serious historical film
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When reading the user reviews on IMDB I deduce it was a serious attempt, but it was very low budget and many blunders were made. There's also a docu part at the beginning and end of the film. (I haven't seen it.)

Part of one of the comments: "This is the worst film ever made about WW2 and the Holocaust. It's probably been shot at a farmhouse somewhere, no resemblance to Auschwitz whatsoever. The scenes are ridiculous, acting is dreadful. They didn't even bother with hiring enough extras to fill up a train cart and the gas chamber. It all looks like a field trip that ended up a bit badly.

Uwe Boll apparently wanted to raise awareness about the Holocaust with the younger generations in Germany, but has blundered monstrously. ..."

Another (part of another) comment, showing the "purpose?" of the film:

"... Before and after the movie, there is the 45 minute documentary which consists of a short introduction by Uwe Boll and interviews with German Teenagers (Germans, and German Immigrants), where one of them looks like a young Claudia Schiffer but does give surprisingly intelligent answers about the Holocaust, Jews and Auschwitz. In this part of this work, there is also real images and video from Concentration Camps, Hitler and the time back then.

I think it's important to remember this time, I do think the movie by Uwe Boll helps. I like how the documentary part of the movie does mention other parts of the world where today still genocide happens, just in smaller numbers. We should never forget and respect each other and care for each other, no matter race, nationality, skin color, or beliefs."

From wiki:
- Boll shot the film in 2010 from February to March in Zagreb, Croatia.
- A number of critics boycotted the release "for being 'too gruesome'".

Way more info on the German wiki page (and probably elsewhere on the net)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_(Film)

The most controversial aspect of it is that Boll says that the film pictures how it really was in Auschwitz.
 
That is a great movie. I've seen it so many times and it doesn't get old. Hope you enjoy it. :)

And in other news....raaain! So much raaain! Oh well. It's better than snow!
 
Don't know if I shared this before, but Forrest Gump is my favorite movie of all time. It's so good.
 
I said it earlier above but it's just one of those movies you can watch over and over and never get tired of it. When it comes on tv, I have to sit and watch it.
 
My favorite movie of all time is The Shawshank Redemption, interesting how both it and Forrest Gump came out in the same year. 1994 was a fantastic year for cinema, Pulp Fiction was also a movie from that year.
 
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