The Zone of Interest: when the credits roll and the shame washes over you

[@augopen]

I've watched, and listened, to this film 3 times. My big takeaway is the awful sickening cracking sound of rifle fire and the sight and smell of thick dark smoke in the air, as well as the chugging sound of a train heavy with human cargo. All while hanging your laundry out to dry in that same air.

[@jnada161]

I really enjoyed this discussion. This is my first time finding your podcasting content, and it's great! If you ever do tv series, I *highly* recommend the short series (6 episodes) called The Plot Against America.

[@alexandrosalexandropoulos4836]

One of the best in depth analysis of the film. 🙏Greetings from Athens, Greece.

[@EmlynBoyle]

An intense film for sure (despite what you don't see), but amazingly made. Jonathan Glazer is a genius.

[@chrisforchrist355]

Loved it, as always. I'm sure this was a heavy talk, I could feel it, not even being in the room. I do plan to watch this, but this kind of subject matter is hard for me, so I have to go in small doses. I read about the Armenian genocide last week, and my plan is to watch some of the films on that. Once I get through that subject, I'll work on diving into this. I do love when they portray villains as human beings, because that's the most realistic (and scary). It's easy to have a sugary film where the moustache-twirling nemesis gets soundly defeated by the shiny hero. I prefer to see how it really happens, in order to avoid it in life. I did see The New Look (and liked it a lot), but I can understand the style differences. The New Look being about the fashion world, it makes sense to me that they'd want to do it up. Bringing this down to earth was probably the best route, because it clearly had a huge impact. Lowri: I know how you feel, losing faith in humanity. It all feels like way too much most of the time, and I hate that powerless feeling while lives are being destroyed. Times like this, I'm even more glad to have a foundation of faith. That belief that there's a higher power who sees all this and will make it right helps a ton. I don't know if you believe and/or what, but I'm praying you'll be able to find some comfort somewhere. You got this, my friend! Also, your use of the word "gobsmacked" = 🤌🏽 Hearing you use it brought me the joy I needed to get through this episode.

[@emmaf5955]

This is an important film to explore. But I felt there was more to unpack. For example it might have been good to begin with why it is called "The Zone of Interest"? 'The Banality of Evil' and the questions Hannah Arendt was asking 60 odd years ago (do you need to be evil to do evil? to paraphrase horribly) are interesting - is Hedwig evil? How as an actor do you approach that role?

[@kdkseven]

The film perfectly, and ironically, parallels what Israel is carrying out on the Palestinian people right now.

[@iamwesleyfrazier]

Bro!!!! Facts but we can’t talk about that or get called the “A” word …..

[@kdkseven]

@@iamwesleyfrazier exactly.

[@Sharkman42]

It's 3 hours and 26 minutes long, but you should watch and review Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorcese, based on a true story

[@AaronJ_99]

A very good film i feel like it would have be better as a documentary rather then a film.

[@miamicool666]

The banality of evil.

[@cameronacaves]

I have mixed feelings on this one. It definitely deserved the Oscar, and the sound was such a huge and integral part of the storytelling. There was another editing decision made near the end that I thought was creatively genius. And I understand what the movie was doing with the banality of evil, the mundane and bureaucratic aspects of evil, the routine of it, something that many movies about the Holocaust have also included. It was done well. But I feel like, as a movie, there's little connective tissue, other than the one major part of him leaving and then coming back, any scene could pretty much be placed in any order with no effect on the film's story. There certainly are a lot of narrative threads, but they don't ever come together as a full, cohesive piece. Coupled that with the fact that only four shots in the entire movie move, and the fact that it's the same location and there's not really a main character, I don't know, I needed to have some sort of semblance of a traditional narrative somewhere if the movie was going to take so many artistic departures from what is typical. I need to do a rewatch.