Original sentence: Hal Ashby, the director of the film, was part of the San Francisco youth culture, and in this film he contrasts the doomed youth of the alienated against the vital age of actually believing and caring in something like t whathe Holocaust survivors had to do in order to survive, contrasting nihilism with purpose.Harold is part of a society in which he has no personal importance and existentially, therefore, he is without meaning.It is in this existential crisis, shown against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, that we see the difference of how one culture, personified by Harold, is handling one meaningless war, while another has experienced and lived beyond another war that produced a crisis of meaning, the Holocaust
Edited sentence: Hal Ashby, the director of the film, was part of the San Francisco youth culture, and in this film, he posits the doomed youth of the alienated against the vital age of actually believing and caring in something like the Holocaust survivors had to do in order to survive, contrasting nihilism with purpose.Harold is part of a society where he has no personal importance and existentially, therefore, he is without meaning.It is in this existential crisis, shown against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, that we see the difference of how one culture, Harold, is handling one meaningless war, while another has experienced and lived beyond another war that produced a crisis of meaning, the Holocaust