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Billy Wonka

The high life of the totally inured to suffering is on display for all to witness. Rudolph Hoss' family lives on the "other side" of the big wall where constant inhumanity thrives. This film is a frightening portrait of those who benefitted from believing in and supporting their regime by removing all awareness and guilt from their lives while enjoying the privileges of rank. The film slowly builds its sense of inhumanity without once crossing over the fences. All we see are billowing smokestacks and the roof of the rail entrance gate of Auschwitz.

This film lives on context.

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"lives on context" and on sound design - tunenut 14:04:19 03/27/24 (1)
The constant background of industrialized human torture and slaughter. I found this both remarkable and also depressing, the husband shopping for an improved crematorium while his wife tends the garden. An equally depressing companion piece was Occupied City, a documentary tour of locations in present day Amsterdam, with voice-over simultaneously describing the horrifying events at each location during the Nazi occupation.
- RE: "lives on context" and on sound design - Billy Wonka 22:35:49 03/27/24 (0)
  Nice how it started with no sounds from over the fence then the occasional gunshots began and, for me, crescendoed with "Take him to the river and drown him."

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