tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post1763045919508891325..comments2024-03-25T17:38:55.490-07:00Comments on Dar Kush: Twelve Years A Slave (2013)Steven Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-39263887954367379792013-11-07T16:47:50.587-08:002013-11-07T16:47:50.587-08:00Among your many other spot-on insights, it does se...Among your many other spot-on insights, it does seem constant that it takes outsiders to meaningfully examine national atrocities like slavery or genocide. All the Shoah films you sighted were made by Americans or Italians. The one German production that grazed the Holocaust was Europa, Europa. Tellingly, that film examined the tragedy through the experience of a Jewish boy who escaped the genocide by hiding as a Nazi, i.e. far enough from the eye of the storm so we needn't be troubled by unpleasant images of Germans acting directly as murderous psychotics. Rather reminiscent of the legions of American films like Roots, Mandingo, etc which gingerly plumbed the murk of slavery to various depths, yet refrained from journeying all the way to Ground Zero a la Twelve Years a Slave (or perhaps Django). It's simply too painful for Germans. Americans or others to look directly and "fairly" at periods of their histories wherein they abandoned nearly every semblance of decency and betrayed every principle their present values extol. Only a foreigner with emotional distance and no historical connection to the events can competently perform such autopsies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-70331472387398900352013-11-05T00:54:13.937-08:002013-11-05T00:54:13.937-08:00Incredible review. I do intend to see the film. Th...Incredible review. I do intend to see the film. The emotional rawness of the subject matter will be difficult though.Shady_Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996625985002373392noreply@blogger.com