Amazing, Moving, Sad, Thought Provoking

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2008)

I have just got back from seeing this film and I am so glad we chose it today. I couldn't fault the acting, but the only thing I would say is please do not take a young child to see this. Its so upsetting even for an adult. Personally I would say no child under 12 should see it. The only other film where everyone sat quiet and still until the credits had finished, was Schindler's List. I was speechless afterwards and I am someone that has known about the holocaust all my life as I was born just after the war finished, but every time I see something like this, I find myself just not being able to fathom out how human beings could treat others in this way. I could see what was going to happen (re: the ending) and most people I imagine would, but it didn't make it any less terrifying. OK, this was fiction but it was easy to see how this could easily have happened for real. This happened in a civilised country. I am afraid that I can never, ever forgive what these people did - to me, its almost in my lifetime and certainly in my sister's and my parents of course. Of course these films should be shown, but the only thing I would say is that they do rake up old memories and make it difficult to forgive or move on. I know most of the perpetrators will be dead now, but nonetheless, we tend to tar a nation with the same brush. I work with 2 German ladies and have to face them at work tomorrow - I will find it hard to do.