Slogging through that Shoah essay
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skull_bearerI love Claude Lanzmann, he reminds me so much of my dad it's hilarious. Overly opinionated obliviously stubborn Frenchmen for the win!
I don't think Lanzmann ever quite realised what he'd done when he made Shoah, it's weird when someone does something that's so amazing, only for them to miss 98% of the point it made and the rest to go clean over their heads.
His interviews are hysterical, particularly the bit where he gets so crazily self-righteous about "If I ever found footage from inside a gas chamber I'd destroy it!", only to promptly film a section of Shoah where the camera pans into a revoltingly detailed model of a gas chamber completely with little screaming people models. You just want to go: 'Dude, the distance by which you missed the point is equal to the net distance between Earth and Mars. You fail so hard."
But at the end of the day he could probably eat a kitten live on TV and no one would care. Because Shoah? Is incredible. A film of that calibre can forgive almost any fault.
I don't think Lanzmann ever quite realised what he'd done when he made Shoah, it's weird when someone does something that's so amazing, only for them to miss 98% of the point it made and the rest to go clean over their heads.
His interviews are hysterical, particularly the bit where he gets so crazily self-righteous about "If I ever found footage from inside a gas chamber I'd destroy it!", only to promptly film a section of Shoah where the camera pans into a revoltingly detailed model of a gas chamber completely with little screaming people models. You just want to go: 'Dude, the distance by which you missed the point is equal to the net distance between Earth and Mars. You fail so hard."
But at the end of the day he could probably eat a kitten live on TV and no one would care. Because Shoah? Is incredible. A film of that calibre can forgive almost any fault.
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Date: 2012-12-21 02:56 pm (UTC)Waaay too near the knuckle for me! :o(