It Really Struck Home

NobBoffin

I read all the reviews for this film and I have to agree with someone who once said that rectums and opinions are something that everyone shares. The film was not liked by some for not displaying what they thought it should. I liked it because it resonated with me on a certain level.

Earlier this week I was riding a streetcar in Toronto and saw a number of homeless people begging on the streets, and wondered why are they there and I am here. I am not that ambitious or a go getter but somehow I have survived the last twenty years of economic downturns, where they did not.

That point comes up in this film, the protagonist is haunted by the fact that he survived where so many did not. It also made me think for the first time in my life, the survivors of the death camps must have had some severe mental heath issues, a theme I do not think has been addressed much in the past with the exception of the Pawn Broker.

The film really did hit home and regardless if you think the theme of the holocaust has been done to death, (as one Danish reviewer did) this film had a different slant on it. It made me think deeply about things that frankly never occurred to me before.

For that reason I rate this film high not because I think the other earlier reviewers are wrong but simply because I saw it differently.

A good film, it might be disturbing, it might annoy but watch it at least once.

score 10/10

NobBoffin 24 April 2011

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2419035/