How could *anyone* enjoy a movie like this?

My drama teacher once explained to me the importance of tragedy in storytelling. He said that when you go see a play or film, like Romeo & Juliet, you experience different waves of emotions, and by the end you can be devastated by your investment in the character's fates and their resolutions. But it's almost like a cleansing of your senses, because once you step back outside from the theater, you take a deep breath and feel exuberant by having partaken in the drama. It's also about analyzing the human condition, but in the process you come me out the other side feeling bittersweet and having engaged your emotions in a healthy way.


~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

What do people get out of it? A greater grasp of the extreme variety and perversity of human nature and the human experience. Thankfully most of us will never have to face anything remotely so horrifying as the events portrayed in this film and countless others about the Holocaust and similar events (Hotel Rwanda, The Killing Fields, etc.). But seeing such films may help us have empathy and compassion for what less fortunate people have experienced. Also, it just gives us a deeper understanding of what the world is really like (seeing the horrible things that man sometimes does to man).

I understand your point - it is not an enjoyable experience. But I suppose you could say the same about all tragedy. The Greeks early on focused on the point that to experience such a thing is cathartic.

If you evaluate stories based upon how comforting they are to your worldview, you must watch, or read, or learn, very little of anything. How do you survive life in the 21st century? Idiot.

I got an appreciation of the fragility of life and the power of filmmaking to help me appreciate mine, but that's just me.

I guess the OP avoids Hamlet & Oedipus Rex too. Moron

There was a time when it was allowed to think while seeing a movie and when movies had a sane message (and weren neither a CGI festival nor a SJW tribunal).

So there is your reason.