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In Reply to: RE: This is the Film Asylum is it not? I suppose some soap box political ranting is to be expected but really. posted by Tony D. on March 07, 2008 at 12:42:01
history so terrible.
Yes, family members will do all sorts of evil things to each other to survive.
But that knowledge is hardly unique to the Holocaust, is it?
You, I assume, have a smattering of information about the terror reigns of Mao and Stalin?
Sons turning in parents, parents informing on their children?
Enough of the Holocaust as a sidedrop, backdrop, or topdrop.
Jews WERE victims. Now, they're victimizers.
It's hard to feel ANY empathy towards folks doing their best to exterminate another people.
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I empathize with th Palestinians. I am Jewish. Their treatment is despicable.
This is the film forum.
And yes, I too have gone OT NUMEROUS TIMES here.
NT
either, because I don't like torture films. I also don't like terminal disease/serious injury films.
My problem with the latter type, to pick just one, is that it's impossible NOT to feel pity for a quadraplegic, brain-damaged, AIDs-ravaged, or otherwise deeply injured or ill person.
What more is there to say that can be original enough to overcome these conditions? Nothing.
The only course open is to show brave human forebearance attempting to overcome.
There's a word for that and it's melodrama.
I like some melodrama but not of that sort.
You may watch "Rainman" and all the other similar films. I find them boring, trite, and self-serving.
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that hardly is my concern.
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