I understand that some of these interviews and the location footage is important for understanding this period in history, but can someone please give me some idea as to why this would be considered one of the top thirty films of all time?
shareI don't understand the confusion here. It's a comprehensive, definitive first-hand look into one of the most important, gruesome, fascinating, emotional, heartbreaking, diabolical, disturbing, unimaginable historical events of the last century. How is it NOT one of the greatest films of all time?
shareIn my mind one of the greatest - certainly in the top 30 - it has quiet understated intensity cumulative power without using any unspeakable It scenes from the death camps. it overwhelms you emotionally
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But cinema can't be judged simply by that, it being about an important humankind fact.
Otherwise rap songs are much better than Mozart's operas since the former has lyrics about real problems from the real world and not only some wickywak from the european nobility.
Other than that. I would consider putting it at top 30.
Aside some Roger Moore moments from the director, trying to force answers he wanted to hear, all rest was very well put. The editing was magnificent, the choice of not using archive footage made it seems as a much alive, more novelty than only showing those morbid scenes like much documentarists does.
The sound mixing was a little bit down in some interviews, but that's minor.
A rap song and an entire Mozart opera are such different animals that it's meaningless to compare them. Each has its place in culture. However, I must say Mozart's operas are about the real world, about human emotions and human values that transcend a specific historical period. The real world sung of in rap songs is not everyone's "real world."
As for "Shoah," it's in a class by its own - and something demanded by history.
Honestly, you would be better up reading critical reviews from those who actually voted for it in the S&S Polls.
http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/film/4ce2b76b0507b
Just the opening words and then the immediate cut to the boat on the river did it for me. That was only the first 5 minutes of 9 hours. I think that says enough.
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