Wednesday, February 11, 2004

The Believer

There is probably a tendency to dismiss the fascist and racist rantings of the film as complete madness. And of course they are, but I think what the film does so well is address the roots of that madness, the "nothingness without end" as the film puts it. As a true story of a jewish man compelled to become a nazi the movie does not try to explain the unexplainable, but instead it presents how the pain and confusion of a senseless world can drive people to extraordinary amounts of self-denial.

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