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Most disturbing film I've ever seen

posted 12 years ago by kaiser100
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I already knew a great deal about the Holocaust before I watched this film. I'd also watched a few disgusting Eli Roth flicks (not my cup of tea). But after I saw The Grey Zone I had a hard time getting to sleep and then I had nightmares. Brutally realistic and unsparing look inside the actual process of industrial mass killing. As great a film as Schindler's List is, it doesn't show the grimness of the Holocaust to this degree.

I just find it hard to process that this happened within living memory, among people who - before the war at least, and before the Nazis came to power - came from societies much like ours, with similar value systems and worldviews. Germany had been a democracy for a short period, however fragile. What the hell?

[–] jesusfood-1 12 years ago

also it showed how unlikely it was to actually survive. the main characters had done so much and sold their old lives for a shot at survival. I would rather die fighting but nobody knows how they would respond under that type of pressure. it was a good film but so dark as it should have been

[–] bunnywithanaxe 10 years ago

kaiser100, I had the same reaction as you-- the first time I saw this film, I just couldn't get it out of my head. David Arquette in particular destroyed me.

[–] straydog12 8 years ago

I agree this is one of those memorable movie, but not enough to left horror in my head. City of Life and Dead or Nanjing, is.... I must admit, my worse horror. I can't kept the victims scream out from my head. As if I one of the victims myself.

[–] farfolomew 8 years ago

That's good, your reaction is healthy. It's when you aren't affected by what was portrayed when the horror really seeps in.

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