The Subject Was Movies: Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key is a Holocaust movie that shows that the evil that men do lives on after them. It is not like Schindler's List that celebrates the survival of the oppressed group. Survival can be as heavy a burden for the victims to bear as the suffering and oppression that preceded it.
It makes me think of Ismael's plaintive eulogy for his ship mates on the sunk and drowned Pequod in Moby Dick. "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." Does the survivor have to tell the tale? Or just live in the Silence of the Unforgettable?
I had read some reviews on the movie that it was just using the Holocaust for the melodrama, but doesn't any fictional movie or book with that as its subject do that? And even the non-fictional work trades in on that. Even The Sorrow and the Pity.
It was an interesting movie about guilt which is an Ages Old dilemma for humanity---for example the expulsion from the Garden of Eden is a Tale about that Subject.
Sarah's Key, written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, French (2010), in English and French
It makes me think of Ismael's plaintive eulogy for his ship mates on the sunk and drowned Pequod in Moby Dick. "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." Does the survivor have to tell the tale? Or just live in the Silence of the Unforgettable?
I had read some reviews on the movie that it was just using the Holocaust for the melodrama, but doesn't any fictional movie or book with that as its subject do that? And even the non-fictional work trades in on that. Even The Sorrow and the Pity.
It was an interesting movie about guilt which is an Ages Old dilemma for humanity---for example the expulsion from the Garden of Eden is a Tale about that Subject.
Sarah's Key, written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, French (2010), in English and French