Word: holocaustic
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Roberto Benigni, the director-writer-producer-actor, has crafted a film that walks the tightrope between comedy and tragedy. A few critics have condemned it because it "lightens" the impact of the Holocaust, but such complaints are infuriatingly ignorant. In fact, Benigni's story of a father trying to protect his son from the horrors of a concentration camp is the type of movie that grips you, gives you chills and ultimately leaves you speechless. An overwhelmingly beautiful work...
...Scoundrel Time and elsewhere--were to Podhoretz symptoms of corruption and dishonor. Podhoretz admired Arendt but eventually broke with her over her famous New Yorker articles on the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961 and, as Podhoretz saw it, her seeming lack of sympathy for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust...
...elderly man tells his grandchildren a primal tale of abduction and escape. It could be a Steven Spielberg film, and is: Spielberg served as executive producer of this expertly assembled memoir of the Holocaust years. Five Hungarian Jews, including California Congressman Tom Lantos (the grandfather), recount their near death adventures with passion and great storytelling skill. A woman recalls thinking that the Nazis had robbed her of family, money, dignity--"but they're not gonna take my soul." That collective soul lives on here...
Roberto Benigni, the director-writer-producer-actor, has crafted a film that walks the tightrope between comedy and tragedy. A few critics have condemned it because it "lightens" the impact of the Holocaust, but such complaints are infuriatingly ignorant. In fact, Benigni's story of a father trying to protect his son from the horrors of a concentration camp is the type of movie that grips you, gives you chills and ultimately leaves you speechless. An overwhelmingly beautiful work...
...dreams, unrecoverable history (see "About Troy") and the personalities of dumb material objects (see "Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp"), Herbert selects the very topics that demand linguistic self-consciousness, save that topic of genocide and terror which Adorno famously said would make "all lyricafter the holocaust...barbaric...