Genocide (Arnold Schwartzman, 1982)
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Date Watched: 05/14/2020
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: Withdrawn nomination for the 22nd MoFo Hall of Fame
Rewatch: No
I don't have a whole lot to say about this as I never really know how to review or rate documentaries. I think overall it did a fine job of stirring emotions but then what Holocaust film doesn't?
I was a little surprised to learn (or perhaps relearn? I can't recall it ever being covered in school) how many countries, including the U.S., turned a blind eye to the suffering of the Jews and refused to offer sanctuary to those who tried to flee Germany and the occupied nations. But aside from that and the requisite horrifying imagery of the dead and the nearly dead, and the haunting accounts from those who experienced it, there's not a whole lot that is noteworthy about the film. Which is not to say that it isn't well done. It is. What it does, it does quite well. It just doesn't stand out as being anything exceptional.
That said, I probably liked this a good deal more than I will like the film that took its place as a nomination in the Hall of Fame, Waco: Rules of Engagement
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