7 in Score??


Is this a joke? :] If anyone voted less then 10 could tell me why he did so, i would be greatful. Is it some kind of Jews hating syndrome? Otherwise, i have hard to understand, for me this movie is a clear masterpiece, and Agnieszka Holland is the leading mastermind of all living directors.

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I voted 8/10, thought the characterization was a bit weak at some points/characters and the editing a little weird at times too. Great movie otherwsie. You have any problem with that?

1/10

- don't worry that's just my signature.

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Some Jews are also hateful, and so they're hating this film, like this insane woman:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In_Darkness_%282011_film%29&; amp;diff=491618624&oldid=491618145 (it was first posted at her "debbieschlussel.com" website, but it seems to be unavailable now)

The "review" sounds like a joke, but this woman is just really crazy/evil (wants to kill all the Muslims, for example).

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That reviewer said it was overrated "holocaust-porn" in that quote. I'll take your word for it that she's "crazy/evil" in stuff she's written elsewhere, but that one-off quotation sounds relatively reasonable. Perhaps a little bit harsh, but the idea of "holocaust porn" doesn't seem unwarranted since there seems to be a consistent audience for holocaust movies that causes filmmakers to keep making more of them.

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OK, here's the full "review" (all serious, nothing there was a joke - from the crazy-racist idiot who wrote "Poles murdered millions of Jews, they maintained several death camps"):

* “In Darkness“: To call this movie, “Holocaust Porn,” would be accurate. I hated this vastly over-rated movie “based on the true story” of a gentile Polish sewer worker who saves some of Lvov, Poland’s Jews during the Holocaust by hiding them in the sewer. Initially, he’s motivated solely by the money, but eventually, he comes to like the Jews.

I’m not exactly sure why he likes them because I could find few people as insufferable and loathsome as the Jews portrayed in this movie. They are crazies, pigs, and ingrates.

One of them keeps having sex with his mistress right in front of his wife and young daughter. And the movies seems obsessed with weird sex scenes between ugly people. This belongs in a Holocaust movie? How about a scene in which a man masturbates on top of his mistress in front of the wife and daughter (and that’s in addition to the actual intercourse he had with her in front of them)? Disgusting. And all of this is by design. It’s beyond sickening that the mistress is the only one who lives out of the three who survives the Holocaust. She also gets pregnant with his kid and smothers it to death. I don’t believe for a second that this story ever happened or that a mistress survived because the husband picked her to live in the sewer over his own daughter and wife.

As I said, the movie is “based on the true story,” which means it’s probably not even close to the truth. I highly doubt all the Jews this man saved were so reprehensible. I also vigorously doubt that any of these people repeatedly had sex with a mistress in front of the rest of his family. But I think the filmmakers had in mind to make people think that all of the six million Jews who perished as no different from these vile creatures on this screen and not feel too bad they are dead. It’s anti-Semitism, plain and simple, but done in a very veiled way. Or maybe not so veiled.

The only decent character looks exactly like Dolph Lundgren and plays a sort of Bielski Brothers type of brave Jewish partisan, but his uncanny resemblance to the Rocky IV star is a distraction. And, of course, the movie has to show him constantly seeking–and finally getting–sex in the sewer. Somehow, I doubt this much sex happened during the Holocaust, especially between sewer dwellers. But even if it had, why is that so prominent in this movie?

Because, like the rest of this movie, it’s just inappropriate and BS. Oh, and by the way, the movie is nearly two-and-a-half hours. It’s long, slow, boring, and not a tight story.

The only moving scene is at the end when the sewer dwellers come out to freedom because the war is over. They are greeted with cake and drinks by the sewer worker’s previously disdainful wife. But that ending wasn’t worth the crap we had to wade through (yes, the movie is a cinematic sewer, too) for almost three hours. And, frankly, I wasn’t sure I wanted most of these people to have lived.

Methinks that was the point of the movie all along: why save the Jews? They aren’t worth it.

And, yet, dumbass Jews all over the U.S. are raving over this crappy movie. They’re too stupid to know better. After all, those Jews who go to see this are mostly the same ones who voted for Obama.

The movie is in Polish with English subtitles. Maybe they should dub it in Arabic, too.

FOUR MARXES PLUS A BIN LADEN PLUS AN ARAFAT


Btw, I've seen Polish nationalists whining about how the Jews in the film are beautiful, and the Polish protagonist and his wife in the film are so fat & ugly, so it's "Jewish propaganda" or something. Heh.

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believe it or not, you can have a less-than-stellar opinion of this movie without being racist. it's called criticizing the film, not the content.

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i agree with roger ebert--SCHINDLER'S LIST covered the same ground and in a much more artful and compelling way. i have started the book written by krysha (THE GIRL IN THE GREEN SWEATER. even a few pages in, it is much better than the movie.

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I would say the people who gave the movie a score below 6 did it out of spite for the content of the film, but anyone who didn't give it a 10 was judging the movie based on it's portrayal of the topic- which in terms of movie making it isn't a masterpiece. Someone doesn't have to be an anti-Semite to not deem this a "perfect", it's an objective opinion. I think it would be ludicrous if people scored it a 10 solely based on what it was depicting. I personally fall somewhere in between 8 or 9, but that's just me.

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9 for a few minor things.

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You cannot seriously make a statement like this.
When Schindlers list gets a 9+ or whatever did you imagine that everyone suddenly "loved jews".
A film's rating considers all facets of its cinematography,it is not a judgement of the subject.

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I gave it 8/10 too. It's a good film, but it's not really touching any new ground. The new idea here is Jews hiding in the sewer and that's an idea with a fair bit of scope. I just really don't think we got to experience what it would be like for Jews hiding in a sewer. In spite of the new scenario, it just felt like ANOTHER holocaust movie. It was well put together and there was nothing wrong with the acting, but the film seemed to worry more about getting us shocked generally by the holocaust than it did about building up the individual dramas of the characters.

I'd need to see some other films before I could properly judge the director, but if he's truly a "mastermind" then I doubt this represents his best work. It's not bad, but it didn't exactly blow me away, particularly considering the holocaust films that have already been made.

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for me this movie is a clear masterpiece

The operative words being, "for me".

That does NOT mean it has to be a masterpiece in everybody else's eyes.

When a director employs every weak excuse in the book to inject unnecessary sex scenes into the narrative, then the word, "masterpiece", doesn't exactly feature in my description of it.

There were positive aspects to the movie and I didn't feel I wasted my time and money on it. For me (again, the operative words being, "for me"), 7/10 is about right.

Please click on "reply" at the post you're responding to. Thanks.

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