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This pretty film trivializes great suffering

posted 17 years ago by thirsch-2
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Show David being killed at Auschwitz. Show the other fellow being killed in war. Show the horror of it all. The ugliness.

Delete the purring by pretty girls and boys.

The ending was totally preposterous.

This film must have been made by some fashion-house twits.

How dare knaves and fools make such disrespectful junk!

Presumably, this film is based on a junk chick-lit novel. It shows that Continental European culture is at an all-time low.

The Dutch and Germans making a supposedly anti-Nazi film -- after being complicit with German sadists and murderers during WW II. They should humbly desist from exploiting others' great misfortune.

[–] american_star50 17 years ago

But that's just it. The movie managed to portray the horror of it all without having to show David's death at Auschwitz or Anna's husband's death during war. We've already seen that horror depicted in movies. This shows how the war tore apart families and lives in a different way.

[–] michelle-halloway 12 years ago

Graphic and brutal details of physical suffering did not need to be seen as the emotional and psychological journeys of the sisters is very painful to watch as it is. To add scenes of the horror of war may have taken away from the focus of the film. Love of sisters, that can be torn apart.

[–] megatosspot 17 years ago

Missing your blood fix?

Pat a wet nun?

[–] d-schricker 17 years ago

poor moron!

[–] paaskynen 17 years ago

Perhaps you have not understood the premise of the film: It is about the twins and almost every scene has one of them in it. They were not present at Auschwitz nor at the front. The film details the war as they experienced it. The rest of your message is clearly a troll.

[–] e-o-walter-1 17 years ago

There are enough WW 2 movies that graphically display the horrors of the camps and the war in general. This movie shows the emotional impact on two girls who where once so close, but are still torn apart. That is the horror of this movie, the pain felt by people who were not on the fronts themselves. If you want gore go and watch saving private ryan.

[–] e-o-walter-1 17 years ago

By the way, I'm Dutch and I have actually read the novel. You clearly didn't. Chick lit??? Really...

[–] oma8 13 years ago

You completely missed the whole point of the movie. And yes, just watch Saving Private Ryan.

[–] c-a-e-depaus 13 years ago

@OP: Where are you from? You don't sound European.

In any case: if you want gruel, watch Schindler's List. Or Anne Frank's Diary. Or The Pianist. This movie is about a twin and their lives during the war. It is not a war documentary.

[–] couzijn 9 years ago

Yeah, I will tell the director that he should have made the movie that *you* have in mind, instead of the movie *he* wanted to make.

A precondition to writing proper movie reviews is that the reviewer accepts the movie's premiss and ambition. This was not a movie about 'Auschwitz' or 'horror and ugliness of war'. The movie was not created to 'pay respect' to the war's victims.

It tells the story of two sisters, who happen to stray on either side of the war. It offers you two perspectives, and makes you wonder how to integrate them morally. In doing so, it is more than your unidimensional 'anti-nazi film' you apparently want it to be.

And if you really believe that 'the Dutch' were 'complicit with German sadists and murderers during WWII', you are invited to your local library and do some study. In the mean time, please 'humbly desist' from any more stupid comments.

[–] jlprizm86 9 years ago

I'm not sure there is a point to explaining to you why your post makes no sense. You obviously were not present while watching this film. It's about the sisters' journey and all the horror surrounding them..they didn't have to show it. It's not the film's purpose.