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A Nazi doctor—along with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews—find themselves in a moral grey zone.
The Grey Zone
2001 Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
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Ok, Director Tim Blake Nelson, I see you. Now when you are taking your small redneck looking face and odd vibe behind the camera again?
But seriously, guys, it is equally fascinating and disturbing to discover new horrors and fucked up things done on concentration camps. No matter if it's a kind of hope-filled tale at the end like "Schlinder List" or the many awful tales about the experiments and the way the Jewish people were treated. This is something that is constantly exploited, and new foundings ensure that it will keep happening for years to come as we unravel the evil encased in something as small as the human's mind. Hate seems to have an almost limitless extension and…
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Cinematic Time Capsule
2001 Marathon - Film #129”We are all just trying to make it to the next day.”
How far would you go to stay alive?
Written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson. this film takes a powerful look at the Auschwitz prisoners who found themselves in a moral quandary when they were put to work in the crematoria assisting with the shepherding of fellow prisoners to the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies.
The beginning of this bleak film starts out a bit jarring as situations are shown with no explanations, and as things move on it becomes quite apparent that predicaments will be shown as they happen, with no sugar-coating or pandering to the…
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The Grey Zone is the most hopeless and despairing of Holocaust concentration camp docudramas set at Auschwitz, just unremittingly bleak. And yet the story is astonishing and important. At the camp, the Nazis employ groups of Jewish prisoners known as Sonderkommando to lead their fellow people into the gas chambers, in exchange for food and drink privileges, with the promise of a few more months of life. Two things happen: A young teen girl miraculously survives the gas chambers (smothered by other bodies, she didn’t breathe in the toxins). Secondly, there is a suicide mission as part of a resistance group to blow up the crematoriums, which if pulled off they believe will then slow down the speed rate of…
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The Grey Zone started out on multiple storylines that were confusing at first, but after the 30-minute mark it all started to add up and delivered a number of shocking scenes. The dark, seedy color palette cushioned the way for a jarring emotional experience. The two greats, Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi, once again handed in solid performances. The movie got better and better as it went on and the ending scene left me completely numb. A severely underrated Holocaust-themed piece of cinema.
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Who would think that Delmar from the soggy bottom boys could be such a fearless director?
Illustrious character actor Tim Blake Nelson directs, writes, produces, and edits "The Grey Zone", an adaptation based on both a play of the same name by Nelson himself and "Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account", a book by a Hungarian doctor (Miklós Nyiszli) kept prisoner in "Auschwitz concentration camp" to whom got his life spared to perform "scientific research".
The film depicts a recondite facet of the holocaust with unsettling yet powerful and crucial imagery and a stacked and well-performing cast, but there's a constant painfully offputting use of interruption mid-dialogue from one character to another that kills any sense of realism instead of enriching it, and a seemingly "amazing final moment" voice-over monologue that is beyond clumsy and a bit sappy.
As the title well says, "The Grey Zone" is a film that is very much grey and lies right in the modest middle.
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A person of conscience cannot watch a film like “The Grey Zone” and not ponder the current state of insurrection in America. I was told years ago, by a very wise woman, that “every country has had its rise and fall and America will be no different”. That is a sobering thought. Images flashed across television this morning paints a strange landscape of our nations Capitol. Armed military, barricades and high metal fencing surround the bastions of freedom as we once knew them. Tension everywhere televised with apprehension about what might unfold for all the world to see and why? Because of one man.
In October 1944 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the setting though far more deadly and depraved, evokes… -
Come And See,The Pianist,Schindler's List, Platoon,Apocalypse Now
> These are some of the most harrowing war movies and a new one joins the list.
> Who would have thought David Arquette could deliver a credible performance?
> Rest of the cast is pretty solid too with Harvey Keite,Steve Buscemi and Allan Corduner in particular are equally outstanding.
>Devastating,terrifying,gripping,
powerful and scarring this film is going to haunt me for years to come.> What these people went through is downright unimaginable.
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I was about 20-minutes into THE GREY ZONE when I had this uncanny feeling that I had seen it before. It wasn’t until the end credits when I realized that I hadn’t “seen” it … I’d read it about two years ago when I’d discovered Dr. Miklos Nyiszli’s book, “Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account.” That book had truly unnerved me, and now I was seeing what I’d read about. I hadn’t even known that a movie was made from that source material!
I spent portions of both with tears in my eyes.
What most impacted me emotionally in THE GREY ZONE was the frequent close-up study of faces. It was the end of life for the… -
The fact that this is a movie I had never heard of and you probably haven't either is a travesty. It is easily one of the best Holocaust films I have ever seen. I am definitely going to be recommending this alongside Defiance and Jojo Rabbit.
The accents might throw you initially, Germans speak English with a German accent while Jewish characters speak unaccented English. But once you fall into this movie's rhythm it was not let up until the story is done.
It is unsentimental and casually horrific to witness and the final minutes of the movie will punch your teeth in. Whether you're Jewish and you seek out these movies as pieces of art about your own history, or a gentile who is trying to better understand Jewish trauma, you should watch this movie yesterday.
Right now it is free on Tubi and it will be heinously interrupted by ads periodically but watch it anyway -
فيلم ( The Grey Zone )
من أجل ان يعيش مئة الف شخص يجب ان يموت نفس العدد ، هكذا تسير الحياة في الاماكن الميتة .
صور الفيلم جدًا عميقة ، جدًا .. على رأسها مشهد دخول السجناء الجدد الى المخيم او قاع المخيم ، طابور و من الاعلى فوّة المدخنة الضخمة و النيران تتصاعد منها ، صورة اقل ما يقال عنها عظيمة .. تيم نيلسون احترام كبير . مشهد القاء الجثث في النيران كل شخصين يمسكوا ب جثة و يرموها في النار احدهم يمسك باليدين و الاخر بالرجلين ، ثم ارتفاع الكاميرا قليلًا ل اظهار شخص يمسك فقط برجلين و يرمي الطفل في النار مشهد مهيب و مخيف جدًا .. مشهد الساعة يالله و الزوجة !! قشعريرة ! ..…
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I wasn't surprised to find out this was adapted from Nelson's own stage page, because the dialogue and performances are very theatrical. This was pretty early on in his film career so I can somewhat forgive the rough edges, and he certainly displays an early talent for directing actors, but overall it's too artificial to make a lasting impact.
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The word “masterpiece” is so often overused to the point where it has lost much of its meaning when describing great works of cinema. There are less than 50 films I’ve ever seen that I would give a full five stars and consider a full-blown masterpiece, so the word itself and that rating does not lose its significance. Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone is most certainly a masterpiece and by far the greatest narrative film I’ve ever seen depicting the Holocaust.
Most Holocaust films like Schindler’s List, The Pianist and Life is Beautiful offer, through all the mass murder, carnage and man-made hell, a ray of hope and light at the end of the tunnel, that helps us survive the viewing experience.…
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