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Release Date: 22 October, 2002 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.96! |
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Not what you might expect
The other reviews might be right about one thing. This is out of the ordinary.
That is possibly the only thing positive I have to say about it. It failed to capture me as a spectator. The "arty" music cuts were misplaced, ill-coordinated and disrupted the dialogue. The dialogue might have been interesting, but looses points on the bad sound quality on portions of it. I don't blame the director for it, but he really should reconsider his ideas on editing. The frequent and sudden cuts disrupts any form of timeline, adding confusion to whatever this documentary has in mind to convey.
In fact, it was hard to find out what this trial was all about if you didn't know who Eichmann was and what he did.
No, I didn't get the point of this, nor am I afraid to be so unpolitically correct as to say so. It did not make me any more enlightened of Eichmann or holocaust watching this. In short: this is an unecessary waste of time and money. I recommend reading Hannah Arendt instead.
It is more than it seems
I give this item four stars only because I was ultimately depressed watching it but I could not leave it either. I would like it to be in color of course but it was black and white, also more digressions on the attandees like the judges, the state attorney, the witnesses etc would be better, but then it would be a series of DVDs. This documentary is more than what it seems. Eichman is an SS, he has carried that hat with the scull insignia on it for years, even when he was gassing the women and the children, at a breakout of the conscious all he could say was murmuring to himself "Oh Jesus, forgive us for what we do...", and he went on gassing the people. In the court you could not even hear this from this guy, he never showed a sign of repentance, even once, a sign of understanding the pain of the victims, even once, he did not even pretend. To him, what he was doing was a business, and all in all, he was good in the business, so what was there to have the trial? Israelis tried to take a word of, a single sign of regret, even one of the judges spoke to him in German, with a good German that is, but he did not grant his simple sign at all.
But there is more than that in this documentary. You will find out about the work of Judenrat in Nederlands, and Merkez in Hungary. You will see the comprador leadership of some members of the Hungarian Rabbinate at the time, yet there was no regret of handing in 300,000 Jews to the Nazi`s, a point often underestimeted or not talked about at all. May be people do not want to remember such pain any more.
There is more than Eichman in Eichman trial. So, this is a DvD worth seing, but get ready to be depressed for a while anyway.
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