Glen Scrivener reflects on the Oscar winning 2023 film ‘The Zone of Interest’, directed by Jonathan Glazer. What does this Holocaust film show us about humanity and the nature of evil?
Featuring clips from ‘The Zone of Interest’ (2023) and the following interviews:
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When watching Succession the 'Billionaire' conversation always comes up. 'Monsters' 'Evil', 'Eat the Rich', 'I would never feel sorry for someone with all the wealth and power'… I disagree, even when difficult. Especially when it those who deny others humanity. It is how you protect your mind, morals, soul.
Today I watched a historian review Zone ( highly praised). He spoke about being cautious with the idiom 'Benigality of Evil' and deeming the Hoss family as Evil as renders humans into cartoons. It distances ourselves, we feel immune and superior.
It struck me deep when he said (as accurate as i can) "this wasnt Evil, it was CALCULATED and LOGIC"…. How much horrific, heartbreaking and terrifying is this understanding. How much more accountable and vigilant does it call on us to be.
Thank you for your wonderful review. I need to find anyone to discuss this piece of art.
(The DETAILS! – the lining in the coat needed mending as valuables would be sewn into the linings and it would have been torn open at 'Kanada').
I feel and fear that history is repeating itself once again😢
You missed something really important: God was there in the little girl leaving apples for the camp prisoners, doing her best to lessen the suffering.
Hello Pastor Glen! I hope is well with you and your family. Point well made on the two sentences you mentioned as you visited Auschwitz memorial because this beckons on how I can see myself with the crowd yelling to having Christ crucified. We are all fallen yet God's plan was our lifeline and only through grace alone. God bless you sir.
Christian doctrine doesn't have the tools to combat atheistic thought. This is because Christian doctrine is underdeveloped as a 2nd stage formation:
Old Testament Age(2000BC~0) centered on Jews.
New Testament Age (0~2000) centered on Christians
Completed Testament Age (2000~) centered on Rev and Mrs Moon's Blessed International Families
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So, two worldviews are clashing.
Atheist worldview Team IRAN/RUSSIA/CHINA/NORTH KOREA is opposing the Judeo-Christian worldview Team ISRAEL/US/ EUROPE/SOUTH KOREA
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Let's analyze the conflict in depth.
It's an algebra problem. Solve for X:
THE OLD TESTAMENT-centered on Jews
<– opposed by IRAN
THE NEW TESTAMENT-centered on US and European Christians <– opposed by RUSSIA
THE COMPLETED TESTAMENT-centered on
X
<– opposed by CHINA and NORTH KOREA
Solve for X.
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Why would there be great evil powers gathering in Asia? They would want to attack the third development of the Judeo-Christian sphere in that vicinity.
ANSWER: X=South Korea.
The Completed Testament Age is consummated by the Second Advent of the Messiah who appears in South Korea.
CORRELATED CONCLUSION: Hitler was the anti-Christ of the New Testament Age. If Jesus was supposed to bring life to the Jews who believed in him, then Hitler brought death to the Jews who disbelieved in Jesus.
Likewise, Xi Xingping is the anti-Christ of the Completed Testament Age. Xi will burn the three Israels in a nuclear fire for their disbelief and ignorance of God's Providence (Israel, US,Europe, South Korea represent the three Israels).
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What's my point? If you didn't like what Hitler did to the Jews, the current Judeo-Christian civilizations, languishing in infighting, imorality, decadence, greed, and not to mention persecution of Jesus and Moon, ought to change their ways because there are no unchastized mistakes. There are always ravens hovering over the carcass, waiting for opportunities to attack and seize what good things you think you possess now.
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In the Judeo-Christian civilizations, there are not supposed to be people who profess to believe in God and who claim to be waiting for the Messiah while being actual atheists who mostly persecute their Messiahs.
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Mainstream Christians may think that the evil axis will only attack South Korea – that den of Moonie heretics. No, all three Israels will burn, and that is why we are seeing the phenomenon now of the persecution of mainstream Christians.
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When a white man leads the Christian church, they claim that God and Jesus are leading their church. When Rev Moon leads a church, they claim that a MAN is leading the church.
God is forward-looking and definitely not racist. God had worked through dispensational time periods in the past, so it makes sense that just as the Old Testament Age shifted to the New Testament Age, the New Testament Age should shift to the Completed Testament Age.
U take it too far with the IM sorry part.
Zone of Interest's Barbie house is located in so many border zones. Presumably Klaus lived in a Barbie house…
Fantastic film.
Human beings can and will change when the very thing they love the most is being used against you, to terrorise you into absolute submission and obedience. It starts with the war on truth, which in turn, turns into hatred. That's how ordinary Germans, and the greater european community in WW2 were able to committ henious attrocities, and stoop to such a depth of evils.
Absolutely incredible analysis. Greetings from Athens, Greece.
The movie is a waste of time compared to listening to the abundant volume of actual witnesses who were there. Spielberg through USC Shoah has recorded more than 20,000 witness interviews that you can find on YouTube, including former housekeepers of Hoess family, and the women who sorted the clothes worn by his wife. You can also watch Shoah, an astounding film consisting of interviews with Nazis as well as camp victims. There are even interviews on YouTube with Hitler's secrtary and housekeepers.
When dealing with reality, moves are always inferior.
A small majority — but a majority — of Americans under 25 side with Hamas — a group that overtly preaches what Hitler preached. So who needs movies when you can watch the evening news.
It is hubris to think that we are above the evil of this period. It's so easy to say "not me" I would never be involved with this. So naive. Every one is capable of evil beyond belief if the situation is right.
Study the German philosphers of the 18th through the early 19th centuries. It will show you how all this slowly came to be. And ITS HAPPENIJG AGAIN.
Consider that at time of release – a motion picture nominated for best picture – on awards night – a room full of people wearing anti-Semitic pins on their suits – them being the righteous ones?
Crimes against humanity isn’t a step down or away from crimes against god, they are an agreeable vocabulary that embraces ALL faiths, including ones that believe in multiple gods, one god and no god. Atheism is also a faith.
God isn’t dead when people take him out of human law, god is dead when commandments of faith are broken is his name.
Very powerful film, and definitely a film I will watch again, too complex to understand it all first time, especially after an analysis like you have given.
Lithium mines.
I heard some young people say “there’s nothing happening in this film, I don’t like it”. It’s literally a film on the biggest genocide in European history and they talk about plot development, as if it’s relevant in this case.😑I understand why many Germans didn’t do anything about the Holocaust, seeing how insensitive and cold blooded people are in general.
This gave me a crying jag. My father, who did not go to church, told his children, "Do not judge a man until you've walked in his shoes." Doesn't this say it all?
I hope people share this video.
We have an icon of Fr Maximillian Kolbe in our Anglican parish (ACNA). Powerful story and example for all.
who cares, the Jews didn't learn sht from it
What are we like? …Gaza.
Hoess said the only time he wept at Auschwitz was when he saw a group of Roma children being sent to the gas.
Yet 90% of Europeans these days wouldn’t spit on a “Gypsy” if a “Gypsy” was burning alive.
You tell me if things have changed.
Love this interpretation. I’m a Christian myself and when I watched it with my Mother in the theater and she just asked, “how could those people do that?” As for me, there are many aspects of this film that do align with it. In the Bible, the flowers are beautiful and light full, but also represent the fall of man. This interpretation shows what the best part of the film is and why it is so genius, how things are shown, what is shown and what is not shown.
"The Zone of Interest" fits seamlessly into a list that includes films like "Schindler's List" and "Shoa", although the perspective is different!
Extermination of civilians in Gaza by Israelis is also a Holocaust.
Endless WWII propaganda while "evil" is alive and well in the US and Israel.
Your interpretation is spellbinding!