The Zone of Interest

As a society, over and over again we haves tried to contextualize the Holocaust. We have built museums. We have built monuments. Heck, we have even put items in display cases. But no matter what we do, we can never truly recreate the horror.

The remarkable thing about The Zone of Interest is that Glazer recognizes this and doesn’t even try. Instead, he gives us something even more haunting - he puts us within earshot of all of the horrors & reminds us that this sort of thing happens because people benefit from it  There is plenty to wrestle with on screen, but we are really forced to ponder everything we don’t see on screen.

So many movies today are made with the intent of solely entertaining, so it’s refreshing to see something that is more interested in what you think & feel about everything. If you care about seeing this film, do yourself a favor and see it while it is in theaters. Watching this at home would be psychotic. The sound design and immersion of the theater are so utterly necessary to fully give yourself over to this masterpiece of art.