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Thread #7280   Message #2717751
Posted By: MGM·Lion
06-Sep-09 - 09:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm
Of course I've seen it — I'm not the sort of, ah, person to condemn something unseen [see my most recent exchange on the Wela Wallia thread]. It tells its 'deeply affecting and harrowing story' by insufferably sanitising and misrepresenting the reality of Auschwitz, turning it into a sort of benign holiday camp where the inmates just swan about from work-detail to living quarters where, unnoticed to all the guards, they have kept a sweet little boy hidden - yuk·puke. Have you any idea what it was really like in Auschwitz! I can't say I find Schindler's List that impressive either, apart from the clever shtick with the red coat. But I realise I probably am drifting this thread unacceptably now [tho it wasn't me who brought Schindler into it, Sweeney old dear]. So shall just say again that Head·Under·Arm does still strike me as an exemplar of a laugh·at·misery·if·far·enough·in·the·past [ReignOfTerror, RomanGladiators] genre that I [and Raffelesbear who started this train-of-consideration off] clearly agree in finding distasteful.