The fact that this has a higher star rating than an innocuous film like, for example, Fantasy Island is revealing and ugly. It is vile that this movie, which was used to justify a genocide, has people feeling no shame when they say: "this is an openly wicked piece of antisemitism, BUT...."
Why is it so difficult for people to understand that there can, by their very nature, be no redeeming features for a film which is part of a…
What a profoundly important piece of anti-revisionism this is. It's important that we confront the *facts* of the Second World War and the Holocaust so that when we say "Never Again" we mean it. In recent years, so much of our understanding of the period and the event comes from fairytales which de-emphasise collaborationism, widespread antisemitism and Nazi leanings across Europe, and even the Red Army's successes including their role in liberating Auschwitz. Its not politically convenient for a lot of folk to admit all of these facts but they were, and remain, facts.
Absolutely impenetrable if you're not from America. The therapy on display here feels like a modern form of Indulgences where you pay money to someone on a continual basis to grant you the "knowledge" that you're living right - this is inconceivable to me. I understand and appreciate the use of therapy in certain instances whilst also believing its a weirdly over prominent feature of liberal, well-off America and something that American celebrities turn to because they have too much money. I hate this!
Stanley Kubrick one correctly noted: "The Holocaust is about 6 million people who got killed. Schindler's List is about 600 people who don't".
Flee is about one person who found content refuge after fleeing his war torn homeland, but this doesn't really address the issue at all. In fact, many of the aspects about this movie seem to exist to placate and comfort us.
Amin is the documentaries focus point - he has a tragic back story but he is…
