Zone of Interest
The title of the movie suggest to the viewer to look within each frame for the interesting fact or detail as things are surely not as they appear.
We were presented with a loving and supportive family of mummy and daddy and no less than 5 lovely children. The garden was lovely the house ran like clockwork, the children went to school, the grandmother came to visit, all appeared nearly ideal. But contained within each frame was one horror after another, we had teeth, ash, clothing, bones, transportation, selection, billowing chimney and 20 foot high flames lighting up the sky from an incinerator, all indicating the factory of death, Auschwitz.
This constant and quite matter of fact juxtaposition of opposing images was the central theme of the movie.
It was a new perspective I give it that, as nothing was explicitly shown, but was this relatively simple idea sufficient to sustain a movie, I'm not so sure! There were some emotional elements, the grandmother leaving, the apples, the sleepwalking, but apart from these fleeting moments the movie was quite sterile.
We were meant to be appalled, and ask ourselves why? But I found my self-dwelling on the super-efficiency of the killing machine, what characteristics permitted promotion with the Reich or the lovely wallpaper. I am not sure my limited emotional response reflects the directors intentions.
Overall, this is a 6 outta 10 me, all for camerawork and the acting, but to my mind the movie just didn't nail the emotional impact of several of the themes that were introduced.
The title of the movie suggest to the viewer to look within each frame for the interesting fact or detail as things are surely not as they appear.
We were presented with a loving and supportive family of mummy and daddy and no less than 5 lovely children. The garden was lovely the house ran like clockwork, the children went to school, the grandmother came to visit, all appeared nearly ideal. But contained within each frame was one horror after another, we had teeth, ash, clothing, bones, transportation, selection, billowing chimney and 20 foot high flames lighting up the sky from an incinerator, all indicating the factory of death, Auschwitz.
This constant and quite matter of fact juxtaposition of opposing images was the central theme of the movie.
It was a new perspective I give it that, as nothing was explicitly shown, but was this relatively simple idea sufficient to sustain a movie, I'm not so sure! There were some emotional elements, the grandmother leaving, the apples, the sleepwalking, but apart from these fleeting moments the movie was quite sterile.
We were meant to be appalled, and ask ourselves why? But I found my self-dwelling on the super-efficiency of the killing machine, what characteristics permitted promotion with the Reich or the lovely wallpaper. I am not sure my limited emotional response reflects the directors intentions.
Overall, this is a 6 outta 10 me, all for camerawork and the acting, but to my mind the movie just didn't nail the emotional impact of several of the themes that were introduced.