Posted on 01/19/2009 5:51:28 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
(CNN) -- The question of Jewish resistance to the Nazis -- or the lack of it -- has loomed large ever since the true extent of the horrors of the Holocaust became impossible to ignore.
Liev Schreiber, left, and Daniel Craig play Jewish resistance fighters in the World War II drama "Defiance."
As early as 1940 and 1942, Charlie Chaplin and Ernst Lubitsch fashioned satiric fantasies in which Adolf Hitler was comically humiliated by Jews (a barber in Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" and a hammy actor in Lubitsch's "To Be or Not to Be").
More recently, Steven Spielberg and Roman Polanski presented authentic stories of Jewish Holocaust survivors in "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist."
In "Defiance," Edward Zwick tells the true story of the Bielski brothers, Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell).
When the Germans and local collaborators started rounding up Jews in what was then Belorussia in 1941, murdering thousands -- including the Bielskis' parents -- the three men took refuge in the woods.
They evaded capture, scavenged, begged or stole the food they needed; they set up a camp and saved hundreds of fellow refugees -- and they fought back. Video Watch the stars of "Defiance" talk about the film »
It's a remarkable story, one that should have inspired a more exciting and original movie than this sluggish compendium of earnest debates and hackneyed battle scenes.
The timing is unfortunate. For a story that has gone neglected for the best part of 60 years, this is hardly the ideal week to be extolling heroic Jewish resistance fighters. Ari Folman's angst-laden nonfiction animated film, "Waltz With Bashir," is altogether more relevant.
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What an amusing name.
The genocide media can go to hell.
I will say it plainly: The only way Israel, the US and the rest of the civilized world can survive is to destroy the media-industrial complex in its present form, along with its allies in our hijacked academic institutions.
These whores need to review the non-fiction story of their predecessor Julius Streicher: Follow his path, share his fate.
I was disappointed that they chose to stop without complete victory.
I will pay to see it. My family will pay to see it. I will buy it when it comes out on DVD.
“When Good Men Do Nothing
by Wayne Greeson”
http://www.padfield.com/1997/goodmen.html
Unfortunate to point out evil during an inauguration? What a curious comment
If they had any sense of justice, the NYT wordsmiths would say "The timing is impeccable. ... this is the ideal week to be supporting heroic Jewish resistance to those who wish to exterminate them"
“this is hardly the ideal week to be extolling heroic Jewish resistance fighters.”
What, exactly, about the week makes it not an ideal week. Jews aren’t supposed to defend themselves? Actually, it’s quite timely, since most of the World thinks Jews are supposed to perish quietly.
Yes it is unfortunate that it brings out the bad side of certain National Socialists.
Saw the movie last night with wife. Thought it was very good, stirring actually. Wife liked it also.
CNN (and the LAT) can pound sand.
DEFY OBAMA AND DEFY ISLAM, AMERICA!!!!
This is one I want to see!
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