sentimental slop

Rating: 1/10 (9 January 2007)

This "sentimental slop", hardly registering any intelligence, is considered a "masterpiece" and received numerous vapid awards, notably from powerful Jewish groups and pompous film festivals. It is both ineffective as a film and as a critique against clichéd injustice.
I can't believe how empty it was, it starts out in a comedic manner, but it is absent of any laughs. The direction throughout was haphazard and even tedious. The "evil" Germans were cardboard caricatures who were so clichéd that they didn't even seem to exhibit any movement in the film.
Its obvious this film was some attempt to portray the magical realism of early Italian films with a pressing new concern for so-called "ethics" but is biased, immature and intangible. It is another "holocaust" as collective conscience film that wants to hammer its obtuse point across.
Be weary of such films as they want to present everything in simplistic 'black and white" formulations.