I shouldn’t have to trot out my Jewish bonafides to make this kind of statement. But I guess I can, if you need that. We can tally Holocaust deaths.
One of these movies feels fucking great. Like I get to live vicariously through their righteous revenge. And the other feels like someone is using a massive tragedy as an convenient way to set a movie in a place where the heroes get to be as vicious as they want. It feels like someone is using the pain of others as an excuse.
The filmmakers probably didn’t see it that way, maybe they thought they were talking the topic seriously, but that’s how it feels to me when I watch.
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I don’t know what you think you’re seeing here.
I shouldn’t have to trot out my Jewish bonafides to make this kind of statement. But I guess I can, if you need that. We can tally Holocaust deaths.
One of these movies feels fucking great. Like I get to live vicariously through their righteous revenge. And the other feels like someone is using a massive tragedy as an convenient way to set a movie in a place where the heroes get to be as vicious as they want. It feels like someone is using the pain of others as an excuse.
The filmmakers probably didn’t see it that way, maybe they thought they were talking the topic seriously, but that’s how it feels to me when I watch.