re. QT

[rich]

In the penultimate scene the Germans (and collaborators) actually
cheer and clap as mostly old men, women, children (one boy tries to
escape w/ his mother from the barn--she's taken away by the hair, the
boy is thrown back--the Germans would allow anyone to leave but their
children had to stay) are burning alive (by use of molotov cocktails,
flamethrowers, etc.)
no doubt QT's audience is also clapping and cheering at the end of IB
(well, at least there were no Nazi children to burn)

rich

On 8/26/09, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Klimov's "Come and See" is one of the most impressive movies I've ever seen.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See
>
> 2009/8/20 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
>> danke.
>>
>> At the climax of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, Inglourious
>> Basterds, which is set during World War II and which is concerned, at
>> least superficially, with Jews, you get to witness a horribly familiar
>> Holocaust atrocity—with a deeply unfamiliar twist. A group of
>> unsuspecting people is tricked into entering a large building; the
>> doors of the building are locked and bolted from the outside; then the
>> building is set on fire. The twist here is not that Tarantino, a
>> director with a notorious penchant for explicit violence, shows you in
>> loving detail what happens inside the burning building—the desperate
>> banging on the doors, the bodies alight, the screams, confusion, the
>> flames. The twist is that this time the people inside the building are
>> Nazis and the people who are killing them are Jews.
>> _______
>> only an American of this generation could come up w/ this. I challenge
>> anyone to compare this scene w/ the atrocity committed in Klimov's
>> Come and See where a whole village is put down in similar way.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcwRzKRtVM (parts 11 and 12)  no
>> subtitles but u don't need to know the words.
>>
>> rich
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