![]() ![]() ![]() A blood-freezing treatise on the banality of evil, The Zone of Interest is credited as being based on a novel by Martin Amis, but Glazer strips away almost everything in the novel, plot included. Jonathan Glazer, the writer-director of Under the Skin, Birth, and Sexy Beast, has made a Holocaust film like no other – one that makes its point not by depicting the horrors being endured in the camps, but by excluding them. New Indiana Jones is 'like fan-fiction' Slowly and steadily, without any big, sudden reveal, we learn that Rudolf is Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, and that he, his wife, and their young children have a contented, healthy, if slightly boring life while thousands of people are killed daily just a few feet away. ![]() The women's quiet, middle-class chit-chat could hardly be more ordinary, but it's rendered dizzyingly surreal and deeply horrific by certain details that they don't seem to notice: the grey, barbed wire-topped wall on one side of the garden the barracks and the belching chimney just beyond it and the constant background noise of industrial rumbling, steam trains chuffing, some intermittent shouting, and the occasional echoing gunshot. "He's under pressure like you wouldn't believe," she says. But, of course, the family wouldn't have their enviable home if it weren't for the hard work of Hedwig's husband Rudolf (Christian Friedel). "It's a paradise garden," marvels her proud mother. Three years earlier, it was just a field, but now it has neat lawns, paved paths, a pool, a greenhouse, and thriving flower beds. Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) is showing her mother around her garden in the sunshine. ![]()
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