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Auschwitz for Dummies: Review of Uwe Boll's Auschwitz

Image Who was waiting for the nextbollshitfrom Uwe Boll got it. With a weighty list of claims to the semi-documentary film "Auschwitz" (this time not about a computer game), you can prop up the furniture in the apartment and flood the bathhouse.

Apparently, suspecting something in advance, the director himself prefaced his tape with an introductory word, in which, passing from German to English and vice versa, he explained why and why he took up such a serious topic. And then he also reinforced the prologue with a series of mini-interviews with representatives of modern German youth.

Uwe Boll set himself the task of“showing Auschwitz as it really was.”There are two key points. First, who to show? Second, what is meant by the words“as he really was”?

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Let's start at the end. The first, like hungry dogs on a sugar bone, historians pounced on Ball with indignant cries:“He wasn’t like that!”People were rammed into cells like herring into a barrel, the gas chambers themselves looked altogether different. doors, walls, pipes, fences - everything was different. Even too well-fed actors spoiled the impression of the picture for serious people (and where could the director take the skinny ones, in our staroms, or what?). Like, go, Herr Ball, to the official website of the Auschwitz Museum and educate yourself before filming something like that.

ImageBut this movie is not for historians. And not even for an educated viewer, more or less familiar with the history of WW2. Not for our and not our grandparents. In general, they should ban Auschwitz for viewing, invent a separate rating, and deploy everyone over 50 near cinemas.

This is a movie for thegeneration of hipsters,which will sooner or later grow up and begin to occupy the so-called leadership positions. Sooner or later, it will depend on them whether we live in peace or in war, be tolerant orkindlefrom morning to evening. In their hands, without exaggeration, will be our lives, including the life of old Herr Uwe.

He shot his "Auschwitz" for these golden beloved children who look into the camera with cow-like eyes, chewing on their piercings, and profoundly broadcast under the creak of their own convolutions:"Well ... Hitler, he is ... He killed a thousand people. Or more. It seems in the nineteenth century. Or in the sixteenth ... "

ImageYou know, dear historians, these kids don't care how many bodies the Nazis sentAusventusto the crematorium - one at a time or in groups. They don't care if the Nazis killed babies in gas chambers or shot them in the back of the head. And even more so, they are not interested in how many papillae there were in theshowers, and where the gas came from.

After all, these children need to be literally shown on their fingers, in general terms, without particularly delaying in time (the film itself itself lasts about forty minutes at most), without delving into the essence - what is bad. What is good they, well-fed, dressed, and so they know. You need to have a conversation with them, as in the series of popular books `` ... for Dummies. '' Not even because they do not understand, but to wake up, stir, want to know. So that viewing the restoration of these terrible events caused not only a protest, but also a desire to figure out why corpses cannot be burned in the courtyard, but it is possible in the oven. Why one refused to shoot the babies, while the other“there will be no problems.”

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Yes, Uwe is wrong about the fact that“there weren't any special stories.”There were. For example, those described in the book by the Polish writer Kristina Zhivulskaya "I survived Auschwitz." If Ball's target audience starts reading Zhivulskaya or at least visits the site of the museum Auschwitz , means Ball iswell done, he did everything right.

ImageBut in order not to simplify the director at all into a member of some artistic circle amateur performances, we note the scene of theafternoon teaof two Nazis, who over a glass of schnapps discuss the murders as if they were talking about the weather.



- Burners broke down near the second and third furnaces.
- Shaise! Now what? We can't burn them in the yard.
- By the way, I wanted to ask about vacation here ...


And outside the window - the sounds of gunshots, crying, inconsolable female screams.

Please note that some of the teenagers interviewed by the director said that grandparents do not tell anything about this time, because they“do not want to remember.”And it is very indicative in the context of this film, in the context of our responsibility for their awareness is the words of one girl:“I think they did it because they didn't want to go against the majority. They were afraid. ”

“What would you do in such a situation?”, -asks the interviewer.

" Genauso , -she replies without thinking for a second.- Same."

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Author: Jake Pinkman


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