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You are really predictable...

Posted by jamesgarvin on November 8, 2007 at 18:02:35:
Rather than discuss the film, you would prefer to discuss the film's content. Okay. Fine. First, let's begin with the premise that the film is based upon real events. So, are you suggesting that the apparent fact that the heroine fell in love with a Nazi SS officer was not true? Are you suggesting that she dreamed the entire thing up, because, well, she would never let herself fall in love with an SS officer? Are you suggesting that her falling in love never happened, that this was a screenwriter's fantasy, designed to make the film more "exciting?" Odd. Since you seemed to advocate the very same thing only a few posts below.

So, I am not sure what you mean by courage, if the film merely recounts the events that took place. Indeed, it would seem, to you, that the film was really courageous, in that it humanized an SS officer. Certainly, contrary to popular prejudice. Having written that, the film clearly takes a position on the kid glove treatment of certain Nazis after the fall of the Third Reich.

Now, try to follow this analysis. If it really happened, and she really fell in love with an SS officer, because, well, sometimes love is not planned, and just happens. Maybe you married for a practical reason like money, so that you could wile away your days in bliss watching films in between trips to the refrigerator. But maybe, despite her better judgment, she lost control. Who knows? Let's assume that this really happened. Explain how that is the fault of the film, if the film merely recounts the events?

"I didn't mean sending off those hundreds to the ovens! I didn't really enjoy torturing, either!"

Did you know that a very small percentage of German military were actually Nazis? Sort of like our own military. Some are Democrats, some Republicans. Do you know the political persuasion of the soldiers that exterminated villages in Vietnam?

Point is that, while it is easy to assume he was a member of the Nazis party, he was not necessarily a member of the Nazis party. How do you know he sent anyone to the gas chambers? Did every soldier or police officer in Germany at that time send people to the gas chamber? And let's not forget that the hero of the fatherland, Rommel, who was not a member of the Nazi party, but directed killing in Germany's name, eventually attempted to assassinate Hitler, a crime for which he was quietly executed, so as not to alert the German people that Rommel, their hero, was eventually opposed to Hitler. Is it therefore so crazy to think that this officer, at some point, saw the writing on the wall, that the sins of the fatherland should stop? Hardly.

If you going to criticize the content of a film, at least do so from an educated perspective.