Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

12 January 2024

The Zone of Interest (2023)


Clean and cold and deeply fucked up. Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest is a movie about sound. It's bout what we hear, what we know is happening and what we decide to behave as if we can ignore. 

I guess I want to say, though, that The Zone of Interest didn’t really surprise me. It felt rather like a shorter, more colorful version of Haneke’s The White Ribbon to me.

I loved the ending, of course. I just rather felt as if the film hadn't quite earned that amazing trip to the museum. I think it's difficult, too, to watch a movie where you really loathe all of the characters. It's hard to make a movie like that, and it's hard to watch a movie like that. 

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