The best way to watch this movie is to see it without having heard anything about it (whilst having a passing understanding of the Holocaust; without this, I think it'd seem slight).
I've always been morbidly fascinated by the Holocaust precisely because it's so unthinkable, but it happened so recently (I was struck by the fact that the children depicted in this movie are only slightly older than my parents). I've never seen or read anything that comes close to explaining, in an emotionally tangible way, how the whole thing worked. Zone Of Interest probably comes the closest. In Glaser's movie, 'the Holocaust' is something happening just slightly out of sight. The characters live just outside the perimeter fencing of Auschwitz, in a lovely home constructed for them as the family of Auschwitz's commandant. The then-unnamed Holocaust was, to them, a few puffs of smoke and ash that blankets their yard, distant but unclear screams, smells, and gunshots. There isn't a single named Jewish character aside from the characters' house staff. The main characters carry on their lives with this backdrop (including, in one scene, a child's pool party that occurs while untold horrors occur audibly but invisibly). It is foreboding in a way that I'm not smart enough to explain.
Compared with something like Schindler's List, in which Speilberg depicts Goeth as an almost Satanic evil, Rudolf Hoss is shown here as a cypher who engages in mass murder the same way any public servant navigates government bureaucracy. A scene towards the end where he shares with his wife that, whilst at a party, he lamely daydreamed about the logistics of gassing everybody in the room, seems to suggest that even his most clearly murderous impulses are banal. Glaser seems to hold the truly nihilistic view that the functioning of the Nazi's operations were dependent on everyone involved having little intellectual interest in the things they did, rather than being zealots for the cause.
If we consider the 'Holocaust movie' as it's own subgenre that began with the 1970 network TV miniseries, reached a low with 'The Boy In Striped Pyjamas' and 'Jojo Rabbit', I think we will look back on Zone of Interest as the example that most closely reached some sort of verisimilitude.
Don't watch if you're an r-slur and have brain rot
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More like Zone of Disinterest
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oh no no no
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Zone of Enders is kino !anime !g*mers
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Never played it but the ost is balling
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Very peleo
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ok jewgle, show me the trailer of Zone of Interest
I've had enough after LAMB
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Alright, you've convinced me. I'll
piratesteal it when it's out on digital in 2 days.https://www.blu-ray.com/prime/The-Zone-of-Interest-Prime-Video/57505/
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I watched it in theatres, and the sound design (i.e the screams of Jews being murdered just off-screen ) is suffocating
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oooh thanks
I found some shit cam version but I'd rather wait then
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OP, have you watched Under the Skin? Same director and one of the most kino movies of the 2010s
I did like this movie except I felt the end part where Hoss was doubling over retching because of his own corruption was a little bit too on the nose
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Yes! It adapted the book perfectly (in that it kept all of the unnerving cosmic horror, and removed all of the goofy Star Trek shit). Scarlett Johannsen travelling the Scottish motorways and removing men's skin is great.
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It was a good competent movie but the idea was pretty well established and repetitive by the first third of the movie. The middle was very good and the last third was just throwing spaghetti at the wall (not in a good way). Would have been nice to see some conflict between the Holocaust prisoners and the guards.
Still very much recommend over typical Hollywood "the bad guys are threatening the world" shitslop.
Oh and also loved that this was sponsored by the Polish film institute and there's a Polish girl who's the only morally good character throughout the movie
a bit on the nose don't you think poles?
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Why? That would be a totally different movie...pleb shit
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Would have given the movie some direction at least. Better than where it went.
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completely uncreative mind sees a slow or boring movie and thinks "MAKE THE CHARACTERS FIGHT LIKE A VIDEO GAME" lmao
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Holocaust films are so plentiful and boring. Why bother with this one? "It's the same old slock, but this time the Germans are typical bureaucrats instead of evil mass-murdering meanies!!
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Dont worry
@horsefuneral i also like the movie
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thanks bb. Place is full of cyber bullies
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Holy frick you're a sensitive
lil princess 
ain't you
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lmao you came here from the other thread
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Simple
as princess 
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I loved Under the Skin, but I found Zone of Interest so boring, the plot is virtually nonexistent, the pace incredibly slow even for a art film, and lastly an incredibly boring and meandering theme that was utterly meaningless 1/10.
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What if you..... are the girlfriend
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More like zone of proximal r-sluration am I right?
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How is Sandra Hüller in the film? I recently watched “Anatomy of a Fall” and thought she was great.
To be fair the real Amon Göth was actually described by dozens of witnesses (including nazis) as being a sadistic psychopath who personally murdered people.
Rudol Höss is comparable to Adolf Eichmann and the whole “Banality of Evil” thing, a dull uncharismatic bureaucrat in charge of a death camp. He is more akin to a factory manager trying to increase production, oblivious to the suffering his job is causing, that's what makes the story so depressing and scary.
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She's pretty good - it's not a showy performance at all and doesn't really have any Oscar bait performance scenes, but it's a chilling character.
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