Good stuff. Well, not really. Heavy subject matter, if anything. And the retching sound at the end was all too real for me (as someone that once went through an OD).
Honestly, I do like the subject matter of fascism (and especially neo-fascism nowadays). There's the pre-fascist era, when it was just being developed, from the 1890s onward, and then there's when it was actually coined by Benito Mussolini onward. And then there's post-1945. Operation Paperclip, the rise of the white power movement in the 1980s and the terrorist attacks of the 1990s. And not to mention the "fourth empire" of the Ku Klux Klan during the Obama years.
I live in Virginia and that's where the fiasco at Charlottesville happened with people invoking the "great replacement theory" meme, and you can connect that to "white extinction anxiety" during the late 1800s to 20th century.
The movie evoked all these thoughts for me and the normalization of it. I see it with several of my family members too. We are living through the growth of a new fascism in the United States, I feel.
Linking a previous comment I made on Zone of Interest because I'm a little too busy to comment rn
Yeah Zone isn't about the banality of evil, it's about the mundanity of evil
Anything can be made mundane. Just ask a manager at some fancy party night club where the customers are having the time of their life every night but he’s just adding up receipts, ordering more product, and doing the other mundane things that running any business entails. Lol. That would also be a good movie i think. The mundanity of capitalism/bureaucracy/ etc.
I think the director said it was about the benality if evil, but I dont see how when the woman screamed at her slave that she would have her husband turn her to ashes.
I'm kinda skeptical Glazer said that, he doesn't strike me as an Arendthead
Perhaps he was referring to the commandant or the contractors he was working with, not the wife