Eco [she/her, he/him]

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Cake day: May 10th, 2021

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  • finally got round to watching the zone of interest

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    the film was excellent, in a truly bleak way. fantastic sound design too, i don't think any film has every made me so deeply uncomfortable and sick as this does just with the juxtaposed sounds of the happy family and the death camps. i would also say that it's the only film i've seen on the matter that came close to eliciting the same feeling as did visiting auschwitz itself, a deep disgust and anger. however by being shot in a voyeuristic, detached way the film manages to humanise the höss family while not giving any opportunity to become sympathetic to them. if anything, i think their portrayal as "ordinary" makes them more monstrous than if they are portrayed as one-dimensional villains, as even ralph fiennes' portrayal of höss in schindler's list leans toward.