As chilling in its portrait as it is horrifying in its implications, The Zone of Interest is a profoundly upsetting depiction of human complicity & indifference in the face of unfathomable devastation and provides a haunting insight into the sheer evil & desensitisation it takes to allow a genocide to unfold in your vicinity. Capturing the horrors of the Holocaust through the mundane lives of a family living next door to Auschwitz concentration camp and anchored by its impeccable sound design, Jonathan Glazer's latest is powerful & disturbing without being explicit and is also unsettling for the parallels it indirectly draws with a similar atrocity that's being committed in modern-day Gaza right now.
Review of The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
(2023)
As Chilling In Its Portrait As It Is Horrifying In Its Implications
21 February 2024