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...response has been to publish the Vatican's multi-volume history of its wartime activities.The latest in the series, Volume IX, The Holy See and the Victims of the War, continues the effort to shed light on the actions of Pius, under whom the anti-Fascist Paul VI, then Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, long served. Far more than its predecessors, however, Volume IX reveals the pressures on Pius and documents scores of Vatican attempts in 1943 to help Jews in Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland and Italy...
...true fact of history--that many Frenchmen sold their countrymen into the arms of the Nazis for the sake of their careers under what they believed would be a Nazi future in Europe--informs the conflict between collaborators and loyalists that runs throughout the film. When the fascist Minister of the Interior argues the importance of order in a "National Socialist state," the loyalist Minister of Justice angrily snaps back, "you mean Kraut...
...find judges and prosecutors reactionary enough to preside over this mockery of justice. Charges severe enough to warrant execution must be drummed up on at least six people. It's an obvious sham and everybody realizes it--but no one has the guts to contradict orders from above. Only fascist sympathizers or unscrupulous self-serving careerists are willing to be involved with this travesty, and even some of these feel the weight of their consciences...
...than plot and suspense. Once the machinery of the "Special Section" goes into motion--and this is fairly early on--the rest of the film is straightforward exposition. In an atmosphere heavy with injustice and guilt, six petty criminals predictably receive death sentences. Even some of the hard-boiled fascist sympathizers have moments of recrimination. But developments are few. Once the injustice of the justice system is clear, the movies hobbles along on sheer irony. There are some momentary setbacks in the judicial process when some of the judges recant, but they are quickly overruled by higher authorities...
...basic premises of Forman's film are also what by common consent we now call fascist (although it bears only tangential relation to "fascist" regimes of the thirties). That is, it preaches violence over due process, irrationality over rationality, and might over right. There is nothing in this film to indicate that madness may have any positive intellectual value--only the sense that any restriction of brute animal instinct is unjustified. Self-expression of the strong is the sole good. McMurphy differs from the other patients in that he remains physically unimpaired while mentally he's just as hopeless...