The title of Tim Blake Nelson's harrowing drama of Jewish death camp prisoners who rise up against their captors to "destroy the machinery" refers as much to the compromise and cloudy morality of collaboration as to the gray world coated in the smoke and ash of the crematoriums. Inspired by real-life events at the Auschwitz death camp, The Grey Zone stars David Arquette as a soul-deadened laborer whose being fiercely jolts to life when he finds a young girl alive among the gassed corpses. He's the heart and soul of an outstanding cast that includes Steve Buscemi and Daniel Benzali as revolt leaders, Allan Corduner as the shunned camp doctor, and Harvey Keitel as the commandant. Nelson's rapid pacing, intimate shooting, and terse, jagged dialogue give the moral debate a discomforting immediacy as it races a deadline. When doom hangs in the air, sure death creates unique priorities. --Sean Axmaker
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The Grey Zone:
I had been seeking this movie for quite some time. I had been told by several outlets that the movie was no longer available. I looked it up on Amazon.com and was able to find the product. It was purchased and received in a very timely manner. The movie was what I had expected and I could not be more satisfied.
Harrowing tale of absolute horror:
This is a tale set within the confines of the Auchswitz-Birkenau death camps. It is a tale of the depths that people are capable of sinking to to save a few weeks of life. The men of Sonderkommando 12 work in the selection and clothes changing areas. They lead people to the gas chambers under the pretext of disinfection. When the victims are all dead, they disentangle the corpses and search them for hidden jewelry--they cut the hair and they pull out the teeth. Afterwards, they work in the living Hell of... more info
The Grey Zone:
This movie is very moving, it is slow at times, but the story is amazing and hard to believe that people would be treated like that. It is totally worth buying because you will want to watch it again. Each time I watch it I see something new, not only that,but is a good historical movie to show youth about WW2. My lil bro and his friends couldn't believe that this is what happened to Jews during WW2. It is definetly a good movie.
Painful to Watch True Story:
One of the hardest things to understand about the Shoah was how so many people "just walked" into the gas chambers. Harder still is to understand why people chose to help out the Germans. When you watch how the people coming off the trains were treated, you ask yourself why didn't they rebel. Well part of the reason was that they were told by their own that they were going in for showers. Why would you fight against that? What if there were no SonderKommandos? Would the Germans not have hired other... more info
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