Re: [Cz-L] By gun and by knife.

Dear Sylvia,

 From what you describe,this movie does not appeal to me, even though
I am sorry for the people in Germany who suffered from the allied
bombing,
from the food shortages during the war, from having relatives and
friends
murdered because they were homosexuals or mentally ill, for those
who lost sons and fathers and husbands in the war and had to live under
Soviet rule after the war.

But I feel the way I was taught: "You sleep the way you make your bed".
I do not want revenge and I am not happy when other people suffer,
particularly, not when they are children. But when those who are to
blame
for the atrocities of WW2 complain about the results, I loose all
patience.
The subject of guilt and repentance ought to be treated in a very
serious way.
This movie sounds like soap opera.

Mimi

On Mar 16, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Sylvia de Swaan wrote:

> Last night I saw the film "Lore," a German/UK co-production, adapted
> from a novel by Rachel Seiffert and directed by Cate Shortland. It's a
> story about 14 year old Lore who is left by her parents to take care
> of her five siblings, so that they can go into hiding to avoid arrest
> for the crimes they committed during the 4th Reich. In the beginning
> Lore greets people with "Heil Hitler" and tearfully laments the
> Fürer's death, "he loved us so," she says....but in the course the
> grueling journey through defeated Germany, seeing corpses, witnessing
> rape, experiencing hunger, seeing news reports of what happened, she
> little by little comes to the realization of what actually took place
> and the guilt of her parents. Eventually they reach their Omi's house
> in Hamburg where there is clean clothing and plenty of food & when for
> a moment it looks like a "happy ending" - but Lore's awareness has
> gone beyond the myths spouted by their grandmother - "don't ever be
> ashamed of what your parents did..." The strongest moment of the film
> is when Lore disobeys Omi's etiquette and destroys the shrine of
> porcelain Schwarzwald creatures that are part of the German mythology
>

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