One criticism of the movie Downfall is that it "humanized" Hitler. Well, he was a human, after all, albeit one who possessed a brand of evil whose breadth can't be described in everyday language. The Salon reviewer said something like he found himself feeling sorry for Hitler. I didn't. The character went on at great length about how he excised from himself the feeling of compassion, that it was an emotion for the weak. How can anyone, therefore, feel any compassion for him? I take it back, he wasn't a human, even though he was a homo sapien. Compassion makes one human. I did, however, feel sorry for his field generals who were fighting for a leader who was clearly insane and a cause they knew was dead in the water. Then I snapped out of it and realized, well, you wouldn't want the Nazis to win the war, now would you? Can you envision what the world would be like if they had won? It's beyond the limits of my imagination.
posted by Newpeep, N.D. (neurotic depressive) @ 11:41 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home