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The Zone of Interest was not a movie about the Holocaust, it was a movie about why the bourgeoisie are bad.
Is it any wonder that Jonathan Glazer, its director, took the podium at the Oscars to explain why he believes that the middle-class Jews raped, killed, and burned to death by Hamas on Oct 7 are the real villains?
There’s been a long history of leftists universalizing and hijacking the Holocaust before turning it against the Jews. Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is only one of many entries and relatively unsuccessful compared to some others like the Anne Frank play (as opposed to the actual diary.)
A Holocaust movie getting this far in the Oscar sweepstakes in 2024, at a time when DEI dominates the industry, should have been a tip off.
Last year’s One Life, a far better movie about the Holocaust, with far better performances, was not nominated. Neither were genuinely interesting projects like The Survivor and Shttl, which dealt with not only Nazism but Communism, didn’t get very far either.
Instead, The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of Martin Amis’ really wacky fictional work, run through the lens by Jonathan Glazer, a filmmaker known for making oddball movies, was celebrated because its message about the Holocaust was about the complacency and complicity of the bourgeoisie. And that is a message leftists could enjoy. The movie stripped out the Jews and the role of antisemitism, much as Glazer did at the Oscars, so that it could turn the Holocaust against the Jews.
Movies like The Zone of Interest reveal how the Holocaust is weaponized against Jews. Glazer did us all a favor by putting the movie’s real agenda on display.
The Zone of Interest was a morally bad movie from a bad human being. People shouldn’t have been cheering it even before Jonathan Glazer came out against Jews and for Hamas the best response to it is to ignore the movie and make sure it doesn’t appear in any Holocaust canon filmography.
Glazer and The Zone of Interest both deserve to be forgotten.
Glazer fits Churchill’s description of those who ”appease the (Islamic) crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”. What a thoroughly disgusting piece of work.
Why the Bourgeoisie are bad. Been reading a fair amount about that when reading history. There is some kind of historical process as a civilization advances where at some point the Bourgeoisie emerges. A sign of progress in that society. I was always instinctively pro-Bourgeoisie, perhaps because of my background, which saw so many good people in the Bourgeoisie. And because the left attacked the Bourgeoisie so viciously. My friend came back from college in Oregon spouting phrases about Nietzsche and the Bourgeoisie, which was the first time I heard those words. I think my friend was also pro-Bourgeoise, he just liked to play mind games by using fancy words 🙂
Who doesn’t like to be middle class? Being poor SUCKS. I miss the days when a working class guy could own a house and two cars and raise a family in a nice neighborhood.
Exactly. Thanks Jeff!
Who is this Jonathan Glazer, and what is this ‘Zone of Interest’ of which you speak? I’m really not being facetious here. I’ve never heard of either one and, after your article and looking up what he’s done on IMDB, it appears I haven’t missed a thing.
We are at least two decades deep into the inability to casually watch just anything. With the advent of writers and directors entering the ‘indoctrotainment’ phase of modern day Hollywood (and heavy on the indoctro), where they feel compelled to “teach us how things are” rather than actually try to entertain, one must either research thoroughly with a smart phone, slide rule and protractor…or sit back and watch a Jimmy Stewart movie.
Me and mine have chosen the latter. It’s just so much easier and, by far, much more entertaining. There’s nothing better than seeing a ‘new’ movie to us that’s 70 years old and resplendent in traditional values.
That Mexican director who made “Little Boy,” “Sound of Freedom” and “Cabrini” makes very entertaining movies. He’s very good looking, too, good enough to be a movie star.
I’ve been watching season three of some Spanish T.V. series, “The Wrong Side of the Tracks” in the English translation, although the original Spanish is the name of the neighborhood or city it’s set in. It’s overly melodramatic but very good. The ornery main character is great. I think European T.V. series are much better than ours.
Korea makes some great T.V. shows, too. “The Silent Sea” is my favorite, although their fantasy and horror shows are excellent, too, and I don’t normally care for fantasy.
You should check them out. Lots of them are on Netflix, which has a bad rep but actually has some outstanding shows and movies.
We go for John Wayne movies here, but it’s pretty much the same instinct to desire an age when things were a lot better than they are today.
Just another movie to but on the Boycott list just Hamas Propaganda
Glazer’s position on Jewish self defense today is indicative of one who would have opposed Jewish self defense in the period in which his movie was set. This is usual for communists. Dead Jews are handy when they can be blamed on Nazis. When Jews can defend themselves, especially in their own nation state, they are opposed by communists. When Jews are attacked by those communists are allied with they are supposed to be held down so they don’t break Glazer’s ceiling.
I didn’t even know Glazer and “The Zone of Interest” existed before now.
I’l forget both in less than five minutes.