Watched a Hungarian movie called The Shepherd the other night. The cinematography is beautiful ... but after ten minutes or so establishing the protagonist's peaceful if melancholy pastoral life, we're treated to an hour and a half or so of a slow-moving, unrelenting descent into Nazi brutality and sadism. By the end, all the 'good guys' have died horrible deaths and the Nazis carry on. I suppose it would be a worthwhile watch for anyone who needs to be reminded that the Nazis were the baddies, otherwise it is just very disturbing to no particular end ...
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