Aerzia's Film Recommendation Thread

[frankiej]

Training day
Akira
Jackie Brown
One flew over the Cuckoos nest.

[Violet]

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country -- I liked it because it was a drag away from the usual mindless space battles and more emphasis on statecraft in a thinly veiled political commentary on the fall of the Soviet Union.

Long ago watched it, hon.

You people reccomend movies with the weirdest names

[bozo]

Sometimes, not often in my case, a film has a dramatic effect on me.
I recently watched one called " The boy in striped pyjamas " on television and it was such a film. It is about how the Nazi " Final Solution " to the Jewish question plays out through the eyes of two 9-y-o boys, one a German, the other a Jew. Compelling and beautifully made, witha mesmerising performance from the boy playing the central character, the German lad.
I commend it to all, not just Aerzia.

[Rev. Rye]

Sometimes, not often in my case, a film has a dramatic effect on me.
I recently watched one called " The boy in striped pyjamas " on television and it was such a film. It is about how the Nazi " Final Solution " to the Jewish question plays out through the eyes of two 9-y-o boys, one a German, the other a Jew. Compelling and beautifully made, witha mesmerising performance from the boy playing the central character, the German lad.
I commend it to all, not just Aerzia.

I've seen it. And quite honestly, I didn't like it. I felt it typified everything I find fault with in modern Holocaust films: namely, that they try too hard to be sad that they seem to miss the horror of the event. What's worse is that, unlike Schindler's List and the Pianist, this one doesn't even try to be accurate: For one thing, there were no 9-year-old boys at Auschwitz and that Bruno and Schmuel would have been electrocuted if they even tried to climb under any gaps that would have been there. And the fact that the nine-year-old son of a Nazi is so utterly ignorant of what a Jew even is completely manages to completely shatter any willing suspension of disbelief. It's like they just didn't care.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech put it best when he said: "[It] is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation."

Sorry, bozo.

[bozo]

Sometimes, not often in my case, a film has a dramatic effect on me.
I recently watched one called " The boy in striped pyjamas " on television and it was such a film. It is about how the Nazi " Final Solution " to the Jewish question plays out through the eyes of two 9-y-o boys, one a German, the other a Jew. Compelling and beautifully made, witha mesmerising performance from the boy playing the central character, the German lad.
I commend it to all, not just Aerzia.

I've seen it. And quite honestly, I didn't like it. I felt it typified everything I find fault with in modern Holocaust films: namely, that they try too hard to be sad that they seem to miss the horror of the event. What's worse is that, unlike Schindler's List and the Pianist, this one doesn't even try to be accurate: For one thing, there were no 9-year-old boys at Auschwitz and that Bruno and Schmuel would have been electrocuted if they even tried to climb under any gaps that would have been there. And the fact that the nine-year-old son of a Nazi is so utterly ignorant of what a Jew even is completely manages to completely shatter any willing suspension of disbelief. It's like they just didn't care.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech put it best when he said: "[It] is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation."

Sorry, bozo.

No need to be sorry.....at the end of the day it is always subjectve.
I liked Schindler but disliked The Pianist.
What I liked about this film was seeing the insanity of war through the eyes of a 9-y-o.

[Rev. Rye]

Sometimes, not often in my case, a film has a dramatic effect on me.
I recently watched one called " The boy in striped pyjamas " on television and it was such a film. It is about how the Nazi " Final Solution " to the Jewish question plays out through the eyes of two 9-y-o boys, one a German, the other a Jew. Compelling and beautifully made, witha mesmerising performance from the boy playing the central character, the German lad.
I commend it to all, not just Aerzia.

I've seen it. And quite honestly, I didn't like it. I felt it typified everything I find fault with in modern Holocaust films: namely, that they try too hard to be sad that they seem to miss the horror of the event. What's worse is that, unlike Schindler's List and the Pianist, this one doesn't even try to be accurate: For one thing, there were no 9-year-old boys at Auschwitz and that Bruno and Schmuel would have been electrocuted if they even tried to climb under any gaps that would have been there. And the fact that the nine-year-old son of a Nazi is so utterly ignorant of what a Jew even is completely manages to completely shatter any willing suspension of disbelief. It's like they just didn't care.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech put it best when he said: "[It] is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation."

Sorry, bozo.

No need to be sorry.....at the end of the day it is always subjectve.
I liked Schindler but disliked The Pianist.
What I liked about this film was seeing the insanity of war through the eyes of a 9-y-o.

Of course, there's always Come and See. The kid (Florya) may be slightly older than nine, but damned if the war doesn't drive him insane, and damned if the movie doesn't reflect it.

[Erinome]

I don't know if someone has already suggested this one, but I just watched it and it was really amazing. It's a movie called The Ledge, and for atheists and christians alike it is very thought provoking. It's message could be interpreted differently when seen through different eyes, but for me, it was trying to convey that atheists believe in things too, just not gods. It was just a mind blowing, well made film. Check it out. I watched it streaming online for free