WTF!! Who in their right mind would sit thru yet another concentration camp movie?? And with children yet!!
It's amusing that the article references "Life is Beautiful" whose star, writer, director Roberto Benigni is a committed Communist who masquerades as a comedian. The CPA picked it as its #1 movie that year and I'm sure they'll approve of another Nazi movie.
Dial it back, Deb! I agree that it is not a movie for young children. But there is an underlying and very currently chilling message in this movie.
While the young boy seems unaffected by his surroundings, being a normal 8-year-old boy who’s more interested in finding dragons and new caves, his 12-year-old sister shows the REAL Nazi sins. Worse yet, fast forward her transformation about 60 years and move it to North America, and let me know how things today are much different...
The best part about this movie as opposed to other Holocaust flicks (something I follow, as I have relatives who were there and even one or two who got out) is its subtlety. In “Schindler’s List”, Spielberg just beat you over the head with the brutality, and “Life is Beautiful” painted the Holocaust as an “alternate lifestyle”. All through this movie, the horror was just beyond reach, but always there.
I thought the ending, while you could see it coming, was still well done and thought-provoking. Of course, my moonbat movie pals wanted some follow-up scenes to see how the end would affect the other main characters. This, of course, was typical of the current “tie up everything nice and clean” movie making and I, for one, was glad the director didn’t fall into this trap.
If someone ever did “Aquariums of Pyongyang”, it could be a hit because it has a happy ending. But I’m not sure today’s liberals want us to see how a government can inflict so much horror on its own citizens. We might get ideas.