They could say, “How do you speak about the unspeakable or the never-spoken-of-before?” The fittest response for early films, born in the decade after war, was just to show and gaze. Those who first stumbled on the horrors of the death camps could declare a powerlessness before the unprecedented. If the helplessness is the same, though, the reasons for it have changed and fluctuated. How are we to “remember” a reality we cannot grasp or fully understand, even now, try as we may? Yet still we on Planet Cinema, and Planet Earth, have no answer to the most enduring question prompted by the Holocaust. From The Pawnbroker to The Pianist from Shoah to Schindler’s List to Son of Saul. For 70 years the titles have tumbled forth.
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