An okay film about the same old story...

Rating: Null/10 (30 December 2002)

I enjoy Polanski's work in general, and I do appreciate this film; but I'm tired of film director's becoming social/political commentators. Moreover it seems as if this tired concept of "not forgetting" about this gruesome episode in European history has an application only to the Jews--all the films made about the Holocaust since WWII haven't prevented genocide of other peoples in Eastern Europe, Africa, South America, etc., so what are these films accomplishing? Seems like all they do is make a lot of people very rich and line mantles with awards by trivializing the misery of some very brave people, via a medium that is popular at best, because they sure as hell don't stop humankind's atrocities. Good people don't need melodramatic claptrap to tell them that genocide is bad then, now, or ever; and those who are evil will never get the point anyway no matter how many movie screens it dominates or videos it sells.