Very Brilliant Film But.......

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2009)

......as a Jew who is very familiar with the facts surrounding the German massacre of my people in WW2, I am disappointed at some of the inaccuracies of this movie. Auschwitz had electrified barbed wire all around the camp and at no point could anyone have escaped in or out. Second, the children brought to the camp were murdered immediately unless they were murdered later. It would have been unlikely for any kids to be sitting around like Shmuel was. However, the premise of the film is fabulous and the end is very touching. It is so important for the world to continue to recognize the horrors perpetrated by Europe in WW2. And, I must say, while Europe and the rest of the world may see the USA as faulty and imperfect, greedy and racist, we NEVER perpetrated genocide on Jews like Europe did from the Spanish Inquisition to the Holocaust.