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The Labyrinth of Silence
May. 10th, 2015 12:35 amI've just seen Le Labyrinthe du Silence (original title: Im Labyrinth des Schweigens, international title: Labyrinth of Lies).
You know how sometimes you see a movie and it's really really good but it's hit you in the gut so hard all you can think is "I'm going to need to process that"? That's how I feel over this movie.
It's a movie about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and more specifically the lead-up to said trials. And that's pretty much all I can say without having to process it further, because HOLY SHIT THIS MOVIE.
I'll note that not only is the story extremely well told, but the cinematography is also amazing and thematically fitting to the original title: there are a lot of things unsaid and unseen. For example, one of the Auschwitz survivors is a painter and while the characters get to see the first painting he painted after Auschwitz, "The Exterminating Angel", we the audience never do. We also never get to hear people's testimonies when Radmann interrogates the survivors. There are other things that come to mind, but suffice to say it's all very effective.
To an extent I feel like calling the movie Labyrinth of Lies in English was a mistake, as the core of the movie isn't about lies, except lies of omission, it's it's about breaking the silence and having the victims' and survivors' stories told.
It's a really really excellent movie. I would definitely reccomend it.
You know how sometimes you see a movie and it's really really good but it's hit you in the gut so hard all you can think is "I'm going to need to process that"? That's how I feel over this movie.
It's a movie about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials and more specifically the lead-up to said trials. And that's pretty much all I can say without having to process it further, because HOLY SHIT THIS MOVIE.
I'll note that not only is the story extremely well told, but the cinematography is also amazing and thematically fitting to the original title: there are a lot of things unsaid and unseen. For example, one of the Auschwitz survivors is a painter and while the characters get to see the first painting he painted after Auschwitz, "The Exterminating Angel", we the audience never do. We also never get to hear people's testimonies when Radmann interrogates the survivors. There are other things that come to mind, but suffice to say it's all very effective.
To an extent I feel like calling the movie Labyrinth of Lies in English was a mistake, as the core of the movie isn't about lies, except lies of omission, it's it's about breaking the silence and having the victims' and survivors' stories told.
It's a really really excellent movie. I would definitely reccomend it.