Chilly, disturbing, but very well made!

Coralie 2022-01-12 08:02:10

This movie is one of the chilliest, coldest production I've ever seen. As Colin mentioned in the featurette that it would be less shocking if they were frothing at their mouth and shouting'kill them all'. The holocaust emerged with emotionless calculation and Jews were itemized to be'evacuated'. I simply don't understand how they could eat while discussing this bloody murder. And to my most surprise, many of the attendees escaped from the punishment they deserved. I think this is the most disturbing part in the whole movie.

The music at the end is a strong contrast to the movie. It's Schubert Quintet in C Major, very peaceful and bringing us hope. Heydrich referred as "the adagio will tear your heart out", did he ever have a heart I wonder?

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  • Dayana 2022-03-14 14:12:26

    Vivid illustration of German characters, of a proper meeting, of the peculiar atmosphere... I watch this movie again and again, and every time I always found something new.

  • Terrence 2022-03-25 09:01:16

    I finally finished watching it with difficulty. It is really a difficult movie to "gnaw", with high-density lines and historical background. But this one-and-a-half-hour war movie without gunfights, explosions and blood plasma really makes people feel physically uncomfortable. These well-dressed, highly educated German high-ranking officials who eat exquisite food while smoking cigars and drinking red wine decided to decide. The fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews can even be said to determine the fate of all mankind. In the eyes of most of them, these Jews not only do not possess basic human rights, they cannot even be called human beings at all. obstacles on. How ridiculous and terrifying war is in the age of peace, and its horror is not only in the battle itself. . . .

Conspiracy quotes

  • Klopfer: And how is it you speak Hebrew? Or is it only Yiddish you speak?

    Adolf Eichmann: Well, I lived among them, I worked among them, and I picked up a few words; Jewish, Yiddish, not enough to speak. So I went in search of a rabbi - rabbi means "teacher", I came to find out - Look, may I tell you the Lord's honest truth? So many of our highest-ranking officers, whose responsibility it is to deal with the Israelites, they make no attempt to get inside the Jewish head - I went to visit this rabbi - old man, long beard - in his one-room flat. And when he saw me, his eyes grew as large as hen's eggs. I asked him to teach me his language, and he agreed, and he said that he would, but that he would charge me - of course. So, I applied to my commander for funds, and I was denied; now, I've run into this opposition all my life, so I paid my own money - very little, not much. And he taught me some vocabulary, letters of the alphabet. But looking back, I realize it was poor judgment on my part, because I could have so easily had the old man arrested - put into prison - and demanded lessons from him, in his cell, free of charge. One day, he was rounded up and shipped off because he had gone out unadvisedly. And I thought "That's so stupid... why are they so stupid?" Didn't he know that I would have protected him? At least until my lessons were complete.

  • Lange: I have the real feeling I "evacuated" 30,000 Jews already, by shooting them, at Riga. Is what I did "evacuation"? When they fell, were they "evacuated"? There are another 20,000, at least, waiting for similar "evacuation". - I just think it is helpful to know what words mean... with all respect.

    [Kritzinger bangs the table in applause]

    Adolf Eichmann: If I might, I think it's unnecessary to burden the record...

    Heydrich: Yes! In my personal opinion, they are evacuated.

    Kritzinger: Explain!

    Heydrich: I have just done so.

    Kritzinger: That is not - no, that is contrary to what the Chancellery has been told. I have directly been assured - I have - that - purge the Jews, yes, but to annihilate them - that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe - that possibility has personally been denied, to me, by the Führer!

    Heydrich: And it will continue to be.