The property of Rudolf Höss is a destination for clothes and other items belonging to Jews who are facing ill-treatment, malnutrition, or death. His wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) has taken on the role of a victor at Saks Fifth Avenue with her spoils. She wears a fur coat and twirls in front of a bedroom mirror. Downstairs, Rudolph (Christian Friedel) is in progress with an official meeting where he discusses human incineration as if it were normal business-speak. While others’ reflections are examined on their gas chamber blueprints as though these were new car models. So here is the The Zone Of Interest movie review.
This is notwithstanding its lovely house! It could be described as Modernist by anyone’s definition no matter when it was built, despite Auschwitz abutting it directly — indeed, barbed wire runs along the top of the garden wall because that also happens to form one other camp wall (as was the case). There is also another large watchtower beyond that. The children’s paddling pool can be seen from there.
They have an ideal life: swimming in a nearby lake and sunbathing in tall grasses. At nightfall, they sit talking until they fall asleep except for this silence which is only broken by the constant buzzing noise from the concentration camp. Mechanical noises whirred, drowning out even slight bass notes that made you feel physically sick day after day, inside during daylight hours and out within this magnificent garden those loud ones just over there anyway atop retaining walls behind this house are not any better either.
Commands shouted all around them and agony was heard by them too! The film even includes some beautiful close-up shots of flowers such as lilacs and sunflowers screaming while people scream in pain.” But none of the inhabitants of this house care about any screams. They have switched off all feelings towards the outside world that their meaningless name gives them through such repeated gunfire sounds going unnoticed.
Jonathan Glazer’s one-of-a-kind film, more affecting than words can say, is an exploration of living without morality. By juxtaposing the soundscape with everyday life the Höss family find themselves going about their business while a continuous accompaniment of murder fills their ears and they respond almost as though they are not affected by it at all. Glazer manages to bring out the humane aspect of dehumanization.
Hedwig is simply a daughter who does not care about her mother. The mother visits later and Hedwig proudly shows her around the garden. There is little talk about what’s on the other side of the wall. But could that Jewish woman who used to work for Hedwig’s mom be there now? Well maybe. But this conversation doesn’t last long before we begin talking about cabbages and pumpkins while walking on them through vines with camp looming above according to Mum “Honestly,” says Mum, agog at the domestic paradise, “to have all this. You really have landed on your feet, my child.”
Apart from one grim, low-angle look at Rudolf surveying Auschwitz, we do not go down into the camp at all. After all, what gives this thing its point and power is the everyday ignoring of it. This writer is steadfastly opposed to anything that may exploit suffering through sensationalism. However, we feel it always. During the night Hedwig’s mother in an amazing shot peers out of her window at a camp chimney fire that weakly reflects on the glass. There by just a single frame could be extremely brief and simple; yet, it is shocking because of that subtlety.
Glazer does not dwell on that for long. Besides several moments when he pays attention to his aesthetics, thus mood and poignancy are set apart. He did not refer to himself as the director (much of it was shot with hidden or unobtrusive cameras and directed remotely). Yes, The Zone Of Interest involves atrocities but most significantly it interrogates our approach to them. Stylistically there is a separation here like among the perpetrators themselves. And that was something that crawled under my skin.
This film follows Sexy Beast, Birth, and Under The Skin for Glazer’s fourth effort in filmmaking. He observes absurdity increasing every time with his method becoming sharper and more distant each time too.. In each movie, Glazer has become more polished and more controlled. So it has never been more unsettling than in this case especially when accompanied by evil music composed by Mica Levi. The warbled tone choir used some unsettling drones sparingly when needed as well as distorted choral tones reminiscent of horror films Nymphomaniac Volume I & II As the movie ends with credits being shown we hear hell sounds like thrashing tortured sonic swamp leaving us with nothing else It might stay with me forever.”
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