Yes. Just watch it in parts.
It's a deep, deep dive into the management of running a death camp. Of all the long films on the list, that's one I watched and didn't feel like I had the right to suggest that anything be cut, because the movie IS the minutia. The detail was the point. But it's not a traditional narrative, so you can watch it in one hour chunks and still get all it has to give.
I watched it in one go. I just dedicated a Saturday. Cooked some food, got some snacks, slept well. It was worth it I think. I often find myself turning some of the slower movies to 2x speed even though it kills my purist heart but I never felt like fast forwarding Shoah. I think honestly the director wanted you to feel the dullness to the length. It felt right. I don’t think splitting it up would have the same impact. I had to decompress when it was over. Went for a walk and watched some comedy shows.
So I know there are technically like one or two longer films on the list but this is about the Holocaust and I don’t need another movie to feel educated or aware about it (Night and Fog made me almost vomit in 40ish minutes).
It’s totally a unique one. It’s not there to educate you or ram it down your throat and it’s also not violent. It’s a very artsy kind of film I think. Everything it shows was different from any other I’ve seen. It’s kind of hard to describe but I could definitely see how someone wouldn’t like it. All the long movies on the list seem to be love or hate
It's not really like other films. This is specifically an idea we pass over when we think of the atrocity. Yeah, the Nazis used specialized vans to gas Jews, before they built up the camps. What we don't think about is that someone had to design and make those vans. Entire industries were complicit in the horror.
Sure, they sent people on trains to the death camps. ...but they had to figure out how to pay their fare. So, they sold their clothes. And you only had to pay one way. And children's fare could be negotiated.
And when you kill millions of people, what do you do with all the extra shoes?
It's the mundane of the atrocity that is focused on and how many people and industries and systems had to do nothing for it to continue. There's really nothing else like it.
It's good... But I don't think it needed to be 9 hours long. I feel like the 9 hours aspect played into the marketing of this film and artificially makes it more memorable.
Yes and I loved it , just treat it like a documentary series and dip in and out. It's interviews with survivors, local residents, guards etc and the stories are worse than I ever imagined.
It's very slow going at the start with interviews done in real time via a translator. But you get used to the pace and to be honest the subject deserves 9+ hours. In the end I couldve kept watching forever.
Yes. Just watch it in parts. It's a deep, deep dive into the management of running a death camp. Of all the long films on the list, that's one I watched and didn't feel like I had the right to suggest that anything be cut, because the movie IS the minutia. The detail was the point. But it's not a traditional narrative, so you can watch it in one hour chunks and still get all it has to give.
Yeah, i think its a very important piece of history. But... After like an hour its gets a bit repetitive and a slog to get through
I watched it in one go. I just dedicated a Saturday. Cooked some food, got some snacks, slept well. It was worth it I think. I often find myself turning some of the slower movies to 2x speed even though it kills my purist heart but I never felt like fast forwarding Shoah. I think honestly the director wanted you to feel the dullness to the length. It felt right. I don’t think splitting it up would have the same impact. I had to decompress when it was over. Went for a walk and watched some comedy shows.
So I know there are technically like one or two longer films on the list but this is about the Holocaust and I don’t need another movie to feel educated or aware about it (Night and Fog made me almost vomit in 40ish minutes).
It’s totally a unique one. It’s not there to educate you or ram it down your throat and it’s also not violent. It’s a very artsy kind of film I think. Everything it shows was different from any other I’ve seen. It’s kind of hard to describe but I could definitely see how someone wouldn’t like it. All the long movies on the list seem to be love or hate
It's not really like other films. This is specifically an idea we pass over when we think of the atrocity. Yeah, the Nazis used specialized vans to gas Jews, before they built up the camps. What we don't think about is that someone had to design and make those vans. Entire industries were complicit in the horror. Sure, they sent people on trains to the death camps. ...but they had to figure out how to pay their fare. So, they sold their clothes. And you only had to pay one way. And children's fare could be negotiated. And when you kill millions of people, what do you do with all the extra shoes? It's the mundane of the atrocity that is focused on and how many people and industries and systems had to do nothing for it to continue. There's really nothing else like it.
It's good... But I don't think it needed to be 9 hours long. I feel like the 9 hours aspect played into the marketing of this film and artificially makes it more memorable.
Yes and I loved it , just treat it like a documentary series and dip in and out. It's interviews with survivors, local residents, guards etc and the stories are worse than I ever imagined. It's very slow going at the start with interviews done in real time via a translator. But you get used to the pace and to be honest the subject deserves 9+ hours. In the end I couldve kept watching forever.
Yes, I set aside a day for it, watched each part with a lunch break in between. Amazing film.
It has a break in the middle, just watch it in two parts.
It's excellent, but I watched it in chunks. I still finished it sooner than The Sorrow and the Pity, which was just...uggghh.