Deceptive Title & Damaging to Jews' Psyche

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2005)

I went to see this movie expecting to see a film about music - that's what the name implies and what the posters promised. But it was not about music... it was about the Holocaust. I stayed and watched but only because one of my long-time friend's grandmother was clubbed to death on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto (site of the movie) so there was a personal and painful connection.
I asked another friend, a young American Jew who lives in California, if the movie made him feel confident, outgoing and positive, or wary, uncertain, fearful, and negative. No surprise - it was the latter and how could it be otherwise? I would be hard pressed to think up a more effective means to screw up Jews' psyche than to produce a movie just like this one. I wonder if Roman Polanski was secretly and unknowingly financed by SDOPOAJ (Syrian Department of Psychological Operations Against Jews)
The problem with making people fearful, and that is what this movie does quite successfully, it that they become diminished. As Lord D'Abernon (1857-1941) said: "The worst atrocities are probably committed by those who are most afraid". I think that the Jews' oppression of the Palestinians may be rooted in the fear that Jews feel in their very souls... and this is being fanned, constantly it seems, by films like this one.
The world would be a better and kinder place if the Jews would stop wallowing in their victimization and move on to positive things where they are so well equipped to make big and positive contributions.