Movies such as The Zone of Interest reveal how the Holocaust is weaponized against Jews.
The Zone of Interest was not a movie about the Holocaust, it was a movie about why the bourgeoisie are bad.
Is it any wonder that Jonathan Glazer, its director, took the podium at the Oscars to explain why he believes that the middle-class Jews raped, killed, and burned to death by Hamas on Oct 7 are the real villains?
There’s been a long history of leftists universalizing and hijacking the Holocaust before turning it against the Jews. Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is only one of many entries and relatively unsuccessful compared to some others like the Anne Frank play (as opposed to the actual diary.)
A Holocaust movie getting this far in the Oscar sweepstakes in 2024, at a time when DEI dominates the industry, should have been a tip off.
Last year’s One Life, a far better movie about the Holocaust, with far better performances, was not nominated. Neither were genuinely interesting projects like The Survivor and Shttl, which dealt with not only Nazism but Communism, didn’t get very far either.
Instead, The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of Martin Amis’ really wacky fictional work, run through the lens by Jonathan Glazer, a filmmaker known for making oddball movies, was celebrated because its message about the Holocaust was about the complacency and complicity of the bourgeoisie. And that is a message leftists could enjoy. The movie stripped out the Jews and the role of antisemitism, much as Glazer did at the Oscars, so that it could turn the Holocaust against the Jews.
Movies like The Zone of Interest reveal how the Holocaust is weaponized against Jews. Glazer did us all a favor by putting the movie’s real agenda on display.
The Zone of Interest was a morally bad movie from a bad human being. People shouldn’t have been cheering it even before Jonathan Glazer came out against Jews and for Hamas the best response to it is to ignore the movie and make sure it doesn’t appear in any Holocaust canon filmography.
Glazer and The Zone of Interest both deserve to be forgotten.
somehistory says
I had no idea about this….never heard of the ghoul or his movie. So, it will be easy for me to forget.
bill says
. I belive Glazer is Jewish in origin, there is nothing more egregious than a man who turms his back on his ancestry (or a woman either). I never heard of him before and will avoid watching anything he is associated with. The Osacrs is complete drek. As far as I know the ‘profession’ is the only one that has so many grandiose ceremonies rewarding its practitioners. They are mainly egotists so not surprise there.
I think at the least politics should be banned therein.
tgusa says
The Hollywood elite who are some of the most reprehensible people in the USA are criticizing the bourgeoisie. Why dont they stick to their pedophilia and sexual assault and leave the rest of us alone. Look in the mirror creep but be careful as it is sure to crack when you do.
Rufolino says
Hailed all over the internet as a masterpiece, this was a largely boring movie about horrible people, and the central issue, the torment of the Jews, wasn’t present. Some good camerawork.
40 rounds says
I’ve given up on American film and TV. Korean movies and TV are superb.