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Thursday, December 1, 2005

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED (2005) C+

Foreign . . . some subtitles

This movie deals with an issue that many will find too painful to
accept. The Nazi systematic killing of Jews in Russia during WWII.

Before the Nazi's came up with the concept of killing camps, such as Auschwitz, they focused on exterminating the Jews by gassing them in vans, with the carbon monoxide exhaust, and also by shooting them. Babi Yar was one of the places where mass shootings were carried out.

Babi Yar is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. In the course of two days, September 29—30, 1941, German Nazis aided by their collaborators murdered 33,771 Jews. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust.

In the months that followed, thousands more were seized and taken to
Babi Yar where they were shot. This movie . . . when it finally gets to where it is going, end up in a small town in the Ukraine, where about a thousand Jews were killed.

The movie was very slow and a little silly at times. Maybe the author
and director, Liev Schreiber, thought some levity was necessary to
balance the horror of the main element of the movie.

Too bad more movies about these "tough to take subjects" are not
produced. My credo is, "Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it." --George Santayana

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Warren is retired and lives in Florida where he runs a foreign movie program for adults. He subscribes to NETFLIX and uses Rotten Tomatoes as one of the sources for selecting movies to review.

Started watching movies at about eight years old and was strongly influenced by "Fantasia" for it's combination of music and fantasy. He was profoundly impacted in his early teen years by the social content in "I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG".

As a kid he used to enter the movie house in the middle of a double feature and leave when the movie reached the part where he came in. Loved serials and was able to see most double features for ten or twenty-five cents.

A graduate of Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY), he strongly believes that good movies . . . with mature content . . . are a significant supplement to education and insight into the world around us. No egghead, he also believes that "It's A Wonderful Life", "Young Frankenstein", "The Producers", West Side Story", and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" are great films.