Jonathan Glazer & Team on The Zone of Interest and the Ethics of Representation | NYFF61

We were thrilled to welcome director Jonathan Glazer, stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, sound designer Johnnie Burn, and producer James Wilson to the stage of Alice Tully Hall to discuss their NYFF Main Slate selection, The Zone of Interest. In a conversation moderated by NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim, the team discusses finding an approach to the film, the ethics of representation, and fragmentary recreations.
In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality: the domestic routine of a Nazi Commandant, his wife, and their kids, while death and violence occur against those imprisoned in Auschwitz over the wall from their idyllic house. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. An A24 release.
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[@anovemberstar]

i just read a review that was scathing at the director for not including the voices or the viewpoints of the victims; that their story was comp-0letley overlooked - but that's the point of this approach to the film - it could only be done this way - the focus IS the family in their lovely house in their lovely garden, and whatever is behind the wall is irrelevant to those living in the house - that's' exactly what makes it so haunting!

[@jenniferrussell9649]

Completely agree. An aspect we never normally see.

[@AttilatheNun-xv6kc]

If they made missing the point an Olympic event then that reviewer would be a definite medal prospect.

[@onthetownwithtanya]

yes. Jonathan did an excellent job at protecting and caring for the victims enough to NOT visually traumatize but instead make us all think of our actions

[@FreakieFan]

Like people complaining about Oppenheimer that you never see the destruction the atomic bomb causes. Also, completely misses the point of the film

[@onthetownwithtanya]

exactly!

[@seamlab8870]

The most relevant film for our time. Humans do not learn, they just repeat 😢😢😢

[@RobertSlover]

the true horror is that within us all resides the heart of darkness.

[@mainmanmainlining7575]

This is a horror movie. It’s beyond disturbing. It is true art in the sense that you have to consider what your watching constantly. It’s goes past the experience and into debate with yourself as it’s going on. One of the most original of experience.

[@NateGH36O]

This. The first two minutes literally made me twinge in my seat, and it was just music and a black screen. The power of cinema.

[@dinrinch997]

goo goo brain

[@dinrinch997]

can you please learn English properly so you don't sound like a korean reading out a menu in your observations

[@phus2001]

it is not that "horrific" ... if we look around ourselves.. we just see how we have "normalized" and "accepted" the delinquent behavior of many politicians in nowadays time... Hitler too was sent to jail prior to get into power.. yet his jail time, his sentence, instead of standing in the years... it was commuted to months... that mistake was a tragic one for all of us as Humans.... So this movie is excellent in showing to all of us.. where you can still "create" the idea of a "paradise" on the immediate Hell' s... perimeters.

[@ChooseCompassion]

@@phus2001 Very well said. I couldn’t agree more. 🕊️

[@wolandisdead]

This movie eats you alive. Absolutely astonishing and utterly devastating.

[@ihavenocontent9310]

It's really good to see Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller get wider recognition in the English-speaking world. They've been on stage and on screen in Europe for a long time.

[@onthetownwithtanya]

yes, they are brilliant actors

[@hibabadir9177]

I am in awe of Sandra.. about to check her filmography and watch more of her work.

[@onthetownwithtanya]

@@hibabadir9177 she is brilliant!

[@CatManDoom84]

"There is no distance between now and then". Oof, so true

[@ronaldhuybrechts3331]

That's the message of the movie -- too many people today are just as indifferent to the suffering of others

[@CatManDoom84]

@@ronaldhuybrechts3331 exactly

[@celiamartin9562]

Especially the Palestinians@@ronaldhuybrechts3331

[@gaagsl]

Everybody needs to watch this movie. That's all I can honestly say.

[@Brainman365]

One thing that got me about the movie was the weather. Past media treatment of extermination camps has often been dreary through weather or filming in black & white. Here the filming and weather were sharp and bright. It looked like a modern spring or summer so much of the time. Amazing movie.

[@AlanJ57]

Every time someone walks past a homeless beggar on the street and fails to be sympathetic is behaving like a Rudi Hoss. I watched the movie today and was choking back tears when thinking of the human moral collective and how, when then and now, its tested and we always fail at learning the lesson.

[@dinrinch997]

you need to lift a weight or take some testosterone or something, what a repugnant neckbeard estrogen-laden comment from an absolute fat body, please shut your gay mouth

[@darrenwendroff3441]

Yes, this is so true. But what about you? I have a practice to see homeless people who unseen people like the grocery store clerk, or even the police officer. This piece of art is about dehumanization, but objectifying others is a form of dehumanization also. To not react unconscously automatically is very difficult, is quite a practice. Thanks for your post, I've noticed this as well, in myself and others.

[@waddledee1231]

The war drama subgenre will NEVER be the same after this movie.

[@pb.j.1753]

Sandra Hüller World Domination and I am here for it

[@devilskinn]

She was fantastic in it!! I am sure you have seen her in Anatomy of a Fall as well.

[@meiji_apollo]

So deserving ❤

[@Estefaniac19]

❤

[@mirfir]

No film has stuck with me more than this one! I saw it last Tuesday 😮

[@wiredcer]

Do you usually forget a film you saw the previous week?

[@dinrinch997]

ratu ah hatne bajattu , this film make me ratu on hoti

[@zacharybaker7120]

This movie felt like the location was the main character. Anywhere else this is just about a guy getting a promotion. This should win the award for best juxtaposition.

[@mirfir]

Definitely! Dichotomy

[@elliesings9508]

The brilliance of this movie, although painfully slow at times, is just the normality of an ambitious man, many Nazis were, that focused on performing a job and progressing professionally in the elimination of jews and undesirables. Hoss was promoted to take on the job of eliminating 700,000 Jews. Or letting companies to use as workers. Hoss's wife enjoyed the house and the benefits of his job. Callous in spirit. I do like that her mother was deeply affected and left without speaking to her. The movie showed just how easy it was for many to work in the industry of murder. The Holocaust could happen in the US. Ambitious Americans used that same mentality, to a less extreme in the industry of slavery.

[@upendasana7857]

@@elliesings9508 I think the point of the film or one of them is that this is not just about a time or location in history but how we continue in many ways or due to convenience or conditioning to go along with or assist in oppressive systems and find ways to avoid,deny,rationalise our complicity or going along with something which we might know on some level harms or is exploiting another people,that somehow our own lifestyle or wish for comfort,status,personal ambition might mean many of us compromise or ignore certain realities.Never mind just things like slavery or holocaust but also now the iniquities within our societies we choose to ignore if it is to cost our own comfort in some way. Or how many of us in western countries in many way consume products and services which rely on the exploitation of those in other poor countries...things like oil and minerals and the wars and regimes we or our governments support for economic advantage. Then of course but they could not have known it when they made the film that it would coincide with a real life ongoing genocide going on in Gaza and how again people in power very often find ways to minmise or rationalise or deny its reality.

[@dbadagna]

@@elliesings9508 Didn't he work at two or three other concentration camps before being appointed to head Auschwitz (the most notorious one of all)?

[@merylfan12]

I believe Spielberg said this film is the best Holocaust movie after Schindler’s List….I would agree….this is not just a class act of a movie, in how it is written, directed and acted with the artistry of the sound a major element throughout but it portrays the abject horror of the Holocaust and evil incarnate in such a brilliant way….and a 12 rating too….that’s genius…..

[@onthetownwithtanya]

my thoughts exactly!

[@tay_gray]

5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved your film Jonathan 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@mirfir]

Jonathan Glazer is fantastic

[@Missjunebugfreak]

Easily one of the most talented filmmakers of his generation imo.

[@Coconutkid788]

Sure...as a scumbag who has commercialised the Holocaust...to fill his pocket and satiate his narcissism...

[@Coconutkid788]

L

[@karakoppanyi3845]

I just saw this film today. It’s such a powerful film and I am deeply affected. Wish this interview could have been longer. There is so much more I would like to know about the process, the thoughts and considerations involved, etc.

[@jakeylongg]

"my english is limited" *speaks perfect english*

[@gingersnaps7186]

Yeah, she’s as annoying in real life as she is in the film

[@dinkster1729]

She didn't understand one word, "apprehension", that's why she said that.

[@jakeylongg]

@@dinkster1729 my comment was meant as a joke 🙂

[@BrienneoffrigginTarth8888]

I don't find her annoying at all. ​@@gingersnaps7186

[@jakobervorhood]

Sandras voice is giving me goosebumps

[@onthetownwithtanya]

i love her humbleness and i can imagine how hard and scary to play something you are NOT...she was spot on, love her and we speak where we are born and raised..

[@lozanojavier]

The level of dedication and commitment demonstrated towards this project is truly remarkable and deserving of gratitude. Viewing the movie proved to be an immersive journey filled with a myriad of emotions. Delving into this experience warrants ample time and introspection for full appreciation. Thank you for sharing this interview.

[@geminifilmsproduction]

Filmmakers need the podcast treatment if that’s not glaringly obvious from this interview. You have these amazing artists here on stage and you only get 20 minutes…it’s ridiculous. This film deserves at least the exact duration of the film running time with a lengthy discussion about it afterward.

[@yesrelationthesequel]

Agreed.

[@sumbohdee2luv]

i mean sure that would be great but filmmakers don’t necessarily want to discuss their work at length, they’ve chosen the medium of film to express themselves, not speech, and they want their work to speak for itself. but of course more time to talk about the making of would be nice

[@gremlan6419]

If anyone finds any longer form interviews with the team that made this movie, let us all know!

[@lilmilontiktok]

20 minutes is a lot

[@nickkirsten8031]

I feel a few years down the road a longer panel discussion will be organized. Most of the world has yet to see this powerful film. Don’t wanna give away too much

[@mirfir]

Definitely Oscar worthy!

[@verydark..1988]

They did it🎉

[@lauralilia3462]

Powerful movie and great acting. It is still haunting me.

[@chefjeff1366]

remarkable film - chilling and profound

[@8kburd]

One question I have after seeing this is about the CHILDREN and what Jonathan Glazer would say about THEIR reactions in the film. Was one of the daughters sleep walking, or was she wanting to see what was going on next door while looking out the window? The baby cried constantly as well, which I found interesting. I might be reading too much into it, but I'd be curious to hear what his intention might have been on how they were portrayed.

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

The sleepwalking daughter talks about ‘giving sugar’ and this is juxtaposed with shots of the other girl leaving apples. You can view it as a dream of the little Hoss girl, especially the way it is filmed, but it might just signify the innocence and humanity all children share before the world corrupts them. Where are the adults leaving apples in the soil? I thought the baby was crying because it doesn’t have the conditioning of the older children and the adults - it hasn’t yet learned to filter out the sound of gunshots, shouting and screaming. What baby wouldn’t cry listening to this? I also picked up a little scene with the two brothers, where the elder boy locks his little brother in the greenhouse, a direct reflection of what’s going on beyond the wall. ‘You traitor’ yells the little boy - now where’s he heard that phrase?

[@sallyjeanspence982]

The Hoss daughter Brigette did sleep walk. She talks about it in interviews. The baby crying upset me....not sure why she wouldn't soothe her.

[@8kburd]

Thanks for the reply. I'll have to learn more about the thoughts of the Hoss children. Yes, it was strange that there was no real warmth there. A lot of people have mentioned the dog as well. Completely ignored. I was extremely impacted by this film...and seeing it in a theater makes it even more powerful. You're so aware of the SOUND in this one. Hope it wins some Academy Awards to draw more attention to it...very important and timely film,, in my opinion. @@sallyjeanspence982

[@dinkster1729]

It was what you did at the time. You let the baby cry it out. @@sallyjeanspence982

[@florencepi6232]

​​@@sallyjeanspence982I think we can imagine why she wouldn't soothe her. First of all, there's a strong probability they're psychopaths (she said in another interview that they don't feel). Or it may just be that at that time, they thought babies had to be left crying. I don't know. It upsets me so much too.

[@ChrisRowe]

Amazing film which comes out at the perfect moment as we turn a blind eye to what is happening in Gaza. It also made me take a long hard look at my own country’s (Britain) past atrocities and how we get taught nothing about them.

[@robertstone4243]

This film is genius. Do not miss it.

[@johnmurphy0927]

Thank you so much for posting this. I'd been hoping this was filmed and would be released after attending this particular screening/Q&A last week.

[@mirfir]

Never felt so many emotions!

[@madameversiera]

You need courage to do a film on the Holocaust and never show the Holocaust. I admire the effort and the film was unique.

[@dinrinch997]

you dont need any courage to do a film on the holocaust, its the most widely accepted idea, self congratulatory, vicarious, sad-fest... its like saying it takes courage to do a movie about a civil rights leader changing the world.

[@bygmesterfinnegan6938]

​@@dinrinch997you are beyond stupid

[@onthetownwithtanya]

yes it was brilliant!!!!

[@Mamajaguar408]

This movie had me STILL just haunting. Bravo to the actors I felt like I was sucked in to this scary world. The colors from this film definitely contributed to the emotions I felt while watching each scene. Bravo.

[@mirfir]

It’s a masterpiece!

[@dinrinch997]

bachatnee, chatu fati ah hatu, ratu!

[@mondodave]

Incredible film

[@prah89]

The most horrifying PG13 movie yet made. Show this in schools!

[@onthetownwithtanya]

yes a must!

[@onthetownwithtanya]

great film! Great Actors!

[@davidthomas-ot4cl]

I've seen it twice now and you get so much more on the second viewing. It definitely helps to have some detailed knowledge of what happened at Auschwitz before you watch it, for instance there is a reference to Canada which might go above most people's heads. It's a great film that gives a unique take on what happened and is educational too as I didn't know the Nazi families lived next to the camp.

[@cynthiacrumlish4683]

Kanada

[@dinrinch997]

do you like reading about science on reddit?

[@dinrinch997]

octopi are SUCH interesting animals!! - thats you

[@annalisavajda252]

Well imagine a modern day prison guard too "correction worker" if you prefer all day they are in a dreary atmosphere with criminals but realistically could go home to a lovely garden and house and family and don't discuss the ugliness of their day to day routine with their children either. Soldiers go home with ptsd and regular people can't relate to the horrors they have experienced either.

[@SuperBookdragon]

The book it is based on by Martin Amis is excellent

[@devvvvvvvvvvvv]

I would have missed this part. I broke down outside the cinema after this.

[@dinrinch997]

did you take your estrogen afterwards to balance out your mental illness?

[@devvvvvvvvvvvv]

@@dinrinch997 you live a facade of masculinity

[@dinrinch997]

what does that mean?@@devvvvvvvvvvvv

[@corra7]

Sad the world hasn't learned the lessons of war! Can't wait for a time where we never never have to see a movie to remind us of man's inhumanity to man!

[@dinrinch997]

thank you for this deeply retarded opinion

[@petrograd6109]

this film is AMAZING. the best ever.

[@dinrinch997]

you've never seen any bresson, and your knowledge of film history extends MAYBE to the early 2000s, there is no way you have seen kieslowski or bresson's filmography, this is like listening to a nirvana album and saying 'best album ever made'

[@NobuhikuObayashi]

🇵🇸

[@joshjosh320]

I couldn't make it through the whole film. Not because I found it an "exercise in formalism" - which perhaps it is - but because I genuinely found it too upsetting. At the halfway mark, I just wanted it to end. And I stopped it. It doesn't let up, from what I hear....and I fully realize that's the point. It's pure and concrete. I don't know if it added anything beneficial to me or not. It's certainly powerful. A bit too powerful for me right now. Maybe another time.

[@elisekrentzel27]

It was a brilliant reenactment of horror via your soundtrack and environment. It was the silence of the family that was truly chilling. This interview was not long enough! Disappointing.

[@mirfir]

Daytime vs nighttime… whoa!

[@mirfir]

Images are etched in my mind.

[@tommoore3292]

What image?Theres very little images in this movie regarding violience , its about the sound from the other side of the wall which is way worse

[@thegirlinquestion]

@@tommoore3292very true. there are certain images tho - the mother seeing the fires blazing at night thru the window, the commandment in his SS uniform with skull patch, black smoke pluming around him, no emotion on his face. and many more which i can’t seem to articulate well. my point tho, there are such certainly images i can’t forget.

[@tommoore3292]

@@thegirlinquestion yes that one on his horse is 🤢just anotherday at the office for him

[@yaxl]

25:04 the whole point of why it was made

[@lombeiranaits4390]

when i listen to jonathan's voice sounds a lot like Damon Albarn speaking,

[@mothratwins]

I love Jonathan Glazer's four feature films (Under the Skin remains my favorite), and I'm glad that his latest is giving people a fresh, complex vista on a historical nightmare. But Glazer's fleeting answer to the question of his relationship to the novel on which this work is based is deeply unsatisfying. The novel is SO different from the film that Mr. Glazer owes it to fans of the text (not to mention the late Martin Amis) to explain his radical, and in my opinion, mistaken, transformation of the characters, narrative, and meaning. Two facets of this transformation: in the novel, the wife is not the icy predator of the film, but a hot-blooded, ethical character resentful of Nazism and her husband; and a major character elided from the film is a Jewish prisoner, whose interior monologue gets equal time to the Nazis. These are not small formal changes. Anyone moved by the film -- and who wouldn't be? -- should consider reading Amis' book and deciding for themselves whether Glazer made sound choices.

[@dbadagna]

They made this brilliant film for just US$15 million!

[@antoinepetrov]

The lighting in this theatre has to change - unless the point is to make people look like they have cirrhosis

[@Rufus..Calhoun]

the premise that the camp was just beyond the garden wall was very obvious..... the movie he made bout an alien with scarlett was fabulous and energetic. he is excellent. interesting isnt it, all the thought and production that goes into such a slow moving laconic film... fascinating movie however....

[@eurouc]

Where was the lightning designer when this was recorded? 😖

[@smidlem1117]

if u mean for zone of interest, there was none iirc; no artificial lighting was used in the whole film to add to the dull, overly real feel of the visuals!

[@mtgdocs846]

@@smidlem1117 I think he's talking about the lighting on the stage at this event. The shadows on the faces of the participants are not ideal for a forum like this. It looks like top/side lighting.

[@bygmesterfinnegan6938]

​@@smidlem1117one scene in the film had a lot of noise because of this

[@mirfir]

The house was a stereotypical German house w garden.

[@bygmesterfinnegan6938]

Thats the fucking point?????

[@virginiajackson9991]

I heard them say, 'I enjoyed it.....'; how?

[@skyeblu1722]

Oh come on! It was enjoyable as a unique Holocaust perspective and angle representing an artistic creation of the rarest. A deep subliminal consciousness representing your average German citizens denial and self centeredness and greed …..The Nazi indoctrination and attitude of this family is very much the same idiocy, self centered sub conscious racist and greedy attitudes of the USA the past 15 years….especially since Trump and the right wing republican extremists…

[@jdlcdn]

Film was interesting. Not a platform about Israel today.

[@LUISARAMOSCRICK]

Ethics? What about crediting Martin Amis for the title and the subject-matter of his book? The script can be closer to the book or not, but the basic premises are in MARTIN AMIS's THE ZONE OF INTEREST!

[@onthetownwithtanya]

credit was given to him in the past...they do only have 20 minutes but he has given credit

[@mothratwins]

Agreed. But more than credit is due. The novel is SO different from the film that Mr. Glazer owes it to fans of the text to explain his radical (and in my opinion, mistaken) transformation of the characters, narrative, and meaning. Two facets of this transformation: in the novel, the wife is not the icy predator of the film, but a hot-blooded, ethical character resentful of Nazism and her husband; and a major character elided from the film is a Jewish prisoner, whose interior monologue gets equal time to the Nazis. These are not small formal changes. Anyone moved by the film -- and who wouldn't be? -- should consider reading Amis' book and deciding for themselves whether Glazer made good choices.

[@onthetownwithtanya]

he was credited from what I saw, you are forgetting this is HIS version and YOU have yours and the orginal writer had his (RIP) you sound angry but its not your book, your story nor your version of a film, relax its art thankfully with a powerful message and IF it does not apeal to YOU....scroll dont be hateful and ruin our chance to experience a new thought that will hopefully make us all think.

[@Fabiodovesei]

What happens if we humanize the Hoss family? This film was so astonishingly well done that I am almost scared of the effects it may produce, in closing us up to these perpetrators so well to the point in which we take horror as a given once we settle on the idea that we are just like them, humans, that may even one day repeat the nazi crimes if conditions are met. I am curious of how a still living holocaust survivor or a relative of his/hers, or even a particularly holocaust-aware jewish person of today might interpret this movie. Am I the only one thinking that they might feel discomforted, or "betrayed"? This movie accomplishes the great feat of warning us all that these people were just like us, but doesn't it subtract value for the jewish people? Doesn't it diminish value of the uniqueness of the holocaust itself, in "normalazing" it to this extent through the eyes of the ones who commited it?

[@janesimpson8590]

jonathan glazer is jewish

[@onthetownwithtanya]

the ones i know loved it and thought it was brilliant, they loved not being re traumatized visually and that the movie made us ask hard questions

[@ManGoatHamburger]

They are humans though; that’s the point - you were BORN just like them. You’re never going to understand any atrocity fully unless you walk in the shoes of the people who either perpetrated or tolerated it.

[@dbadagna]

I just read a couple of interviews of one of Höss's daughters, done when she was in her 80s, and in them she comes across as an immature person who was, decades later, still in denial about the enormity of the inhumanity her parents perpetrated and enabled. This lack of moral compass is disturbing and pitiable, but keep in mind that, in the film, just after the scenes of the Auschwitz Museum being cleaned, Höss looks directly into the camera (at us, the viewers)!

[@joed7185]

10/10.....Saw this last night. Great Film, my favorite of '23 but especially with everything going on with Israel/Palestine, I just couldn't help but think how ironic it is that Israel are currently acting like the Nazi's towards the people of Gaza.

[@PutDownTheBunny]

You have just destroyed tens of millions of brain cells with the latter part of your post. The war between Israel and Palestine is horrible but fortunately NEITHER side is doing what the Nazis and their beasts did. You need to study and learn the differences.

[@CatManDoom84]

Agreed!

[@PaulCaruso53]

Nonsense. Israel is attacked by terrorists and defends itself and retaliates. Big difference. Using the "Nazi" moniker about the Israelis is akin to blood libel. You are perpetuating the antisemitic trope...maybe you were on the side of Höss as well...

[@ianwelling8114]

Did the Jews kill 1400 German citizens in the worst mass massacre since the Holocaust? No..then it's a stupid comparison.

[@joe-zp7ge]

thats complete bs..... stop listening to bias news

[@tarnopol]

Most of Israeli society and its supporters around the world are living in the zone of interest. Most of us are living in the zone of interest with respect to carbon.

[@MultiSUPERLATIVO]

⏯ ▶ ◀ There is a sense of disturbance at the beginning of the film, in the very house of the Höss family, due to the baby's constant crying and screaming. It seems that the baby is the only human being there who realizes that there is something evil going on (along with the Jehovah's Witness employees). Oh well, we never learn...

[@8kburd]

I noticed that as well. The BABY was the one feeling the pain and horror, in my opinion. I was also curious about the other child who kept wandering around the house at night...Sleepwalking? That is sometimes a sign of disturbance...or was she trying to look out the window and see what was happening over the wall? I was curious about the children and how they were portrayed.

[@cezarymarek4556]

Just came back from seeing The Zone of Interest. Right through the film I could not stop thinking about Lebensraum fur Israel, and if the Israeli cabinet, IDF and all that deranged horde has meetings like the nazis had. Takes your appetite away when you realise that in 80 years another Zone of Special Interest movie will be in our cinemas... + Where are all the Poles ???

[@---yi6tq]

like a hüller hüller hoop, hüller hüller hoop

[@kristine6996]

5 mannen en 1 vrouw op het podium.

[@JM-lb7dg]

Wat wil je precies zeggen ?

[@Zeitgeist6]

So?

[@adrianadeanda6647]

Are you an accountant? What's the point of your comment?

[@PutDownTheBunny]

Why have you deleted my post from today? Give it to me straight. I can take it

[@ester9326]

I don’t get all the hate this guy gets. First he gets praised and after the Oscars he gets bashed. I am thankful he made such an important film. I do believe he could have phrased things a bit differently at the Oscars. As a Jew himself he should know better that nuance is key. But I guess there is nothing nuanced when it comes to war. But let the man be. Let everyone just be for a second. Love should rule, not hate. That’s the biggest issue here. Too much hate and not listening to each other.

[@Cactuspractice12]

netanyahu gave it 5 stars so we all should really go and see

[@untergehermuc]

What a disgusting comment.

[@violinstar5948]

Why not use the actual Höss House? Why reinvent the wheel. It’s already there. The real house is a primary source of itself. Why construct a copy of the Höss House?? What was the point of building a copy?

[@riffraffrichard]

It can be difficult to get permission but they may also have to adapt the space in order to have space to film and lighting.

[@msnoodles1]

To add to the first comment, it's probably to do with spacing for the lens and permission to furnish, alter a historical building.

[@jeremyhopkins577]

They nailed it.

[@Davrainbow]

Glazer said they wanted it to look brand new, not historical, so that it wouldn’t feel like the movie was in the past and would feel like it was closer to current reality which has more impact on the viewer. You can see in pictures taken of the house in 2007 it’s really worn down and old looking.

[@lindamcgrath3027]

Because apparently it is privately owned & people live in it

[@Flower55556]

When are we going to get a movie about the Jews living peacefully while children in Gaza are being slaughtered next door? Too soon?

[@lulugoulart5014]

Jews never will be able to live peacefully because of people like you that blame the Jews for their existence.

[@thundercheeks1989]

You got one this year, its called The Zone of Interest.

[@comfykeegs]

At some point for sure…this film was made years ago and is precisely styled in a way to apply to the complicity of human beings in general. This was just the most illustrative, impactful microcosm to elaborate on that point.

[@nancikuba42]

@Christopher-ey9es so we’re the Germans by France (their next door neighbors) & also the U.S., Britain & Russia. 300,00-500,00 killed by air raids. 4 million died all together in Germany. If we have to look back we would have to look back to 1964, 1967, 1973, 1979, 1982, 2005, 2008, 2014, 2021 & now 2023. Jews living peacefully? Israel just attacked just to cause genocide? Is that what Hamas wanted on Oct. 7? Give Israel & Gaza have a chance to make peace. Instead Hamas slaughtered innocent people & you condone that?

[@lb2696]

This film is anti-fascist and therefore inherently anti-Zionist as well. Racist nationalism committing genocide.

[@GlobalShutterNY]

Glazer should be canceled - accusing Israel of committing the sort of unthinkable inhuman genocidal actions actually practiced and celebrated daily by Hamas and other Jihadists! He is despicable for he - of all people- should know better. There are many Useful idiots supporting Hamas - and then there are those who are clearly purely antisemitic - I think he falls into that category...

[@ruthpicon2203]

The rest of the world agrees with the message of this wonderful film.

[@GlobalShutterNY]

It is not the film with which I have an issue - demonstrating the banality of evil is necessary... It is the sad fact that the director himself does not see how that very message applies to him - being a PR tool doing the bidding of Jihadist Genocidal Murderous forces in the world - all while imagining he is doing the right thing because so many others in his circle have joined the Useful Idiot 'movement'... Just following the crowd = Just following orders. @@ruthpicon2203

[@Coconutkid788]

he is obscene...Hitler would be proud of Johnaton Glazer ..Goebbels wrote his script on the Oscars....

[@Coconutkid788]

Glazer is now the perpetrator...

[@user-fl2nc8ho4j]

The host is so mean-spirited to ask Sandra, a non-English speaker, such a question which she doesn't understand. But her English is perfectly perfect. Who can speak German like her English? This guy only speaks English for sure. Study Chinese!

[@Zeitgeist6]

You know they teach you English in most Western European countries from a young age in school right?

[@jameskelley5918]

The fuck you talking about kid

[@davidthomas-ot4cl]

I don't think he did it intentionally, but I agree he should have thought about using simpler language beforehand.

[@Norsknurse]

Was looking forward to going to see this but disappointed when I see it’s mostly in subtitles. Very distracting to watch such a movie.

[@wiredcer]

found the American

[@pedroivobatiston2408]

Welcome to the rest of the world watching American movies.

[@davidthomas-ot4cl]

I agree. It's annoying to have to read subtitles when you want to be focusing on the actors and not looking at the bottom of the screen.

[@davidthomas-ot4cl]

@@wiredcer lol. I'm British and felt that too but I still really enjoyed the film nonetheless.

[@wiredcer]

@@davidthomas-ot4cl Subtitles allow you to understand films in languages you don't understand and to hear the actors' own voices - that seems like a tiny amount of effort for huge reward no?

[@realrael3550]

We, Germany, need something positive to carry on. Enough of this. Enough. Free yourself from all darkness.

[@fennyellis3366]

We need to remember the past or we are doomed to repeat it