Why all the questions about "mistakes"

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2009)

Generally not a bad movie, but I'm curious why people are so hypersensitive on the "mistakes" in the movie. There are complaints about Russian accents of the Jews, among other things, because the movie was set in Poland. Well, the part of Poland in which the movie was set (the area just west of Minsk...a city that was 40% Jewish at the start of WWII, by the way) only converted back to Polish control in the 1920s, it had been under Russian control for almost 150 years and had gone from majority Polish to majority Russian during that time. Rather than having got the accents wrong as some have suggested....just maybe the writers got it right? Geez, it seems as if everyone with computer and an internet connection has become an expert on Eastern European migration patterns and political geography.