We kill them and we kill one another....
Sep. 18th, 2003 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sua_layJust watched the 9th part of BoB.
I couldn't stop crying. It was... Nothing new. I have seen lots of movies about WWII and as a history freak, I do know what happened in the camps. Still... It was heart-wrenching and sickening. Real somehow. Not overly sentimental like some movies that are banal in their aim to get the last feeling of horror and pity out of you.
So I couldn't stop crying.
Am still amazed of how they managed to execute their 'Final Solution'. They usually just talk about Auschwitz-Birkenau, but there were smaller camps all around the place. People say they did not know. Bull. They had to. They just didn't want to know, didn't want to see.
What a strange feeling I'm experiencing here. Not just sadness and horror, but rage as well. Not towards Germans, especially not against contemporary ones (waves at all the idiot slashers in there! :P). Towards humans in general. I am amazed that we have survived as a race.
All the excuses we use to kill others seem to be just that. Excuses. Wars and ethnic cleansings and every single hate crime. What the hell is driving us on anyway? We call ourselves the 'crown of creation' and yet we haven't evolved beyond the basic 'you look different, me kills you' phase. It doesn't limit to Germans or other Europeans. Or Arabs or Asians or Africans. We're all of the same species here, and unfortunately, killing others just because they are different is something every race of this miserable excuse of a 'master species' share.
Gods. I actually feel both better and worse after the rant.
Anyhow... Back to BoB. I do have one complaint about this episode. They mentioned the camps, and that there were Gypsies, Jews, Polish and other ethnic groups held there.
Are we missing something?
I do understand that they would not say it in the program. Talking about gays wasn't probably possible for people those days. But in the small text that flashed on the screen... I would have appreciated it. People close to the concentration camps pretended they didn't exist. Now it feels like those who are bringing these crimes against humanity into public awareness again want to pretend homosexuals weren't there. Or maybe that they didn't exist.
Mr. Spielberg. I do understand how it feels to know your people were murdered by racial supremacists. I know. But bringing only a part -- even though a huge part -- of these crimes into light is not enough.
Gah. End of rant.
Will go and watch the final episode now.
I couldn't stop crying. It was... Nothing new. I have seen lots of movies about WWII and as a history freak, I do know what happened in the camps. Still... It was heart-wrenching and sickening. Real somehow. Not overly sentimental like some movies that are banal in their aim to get the last feeling of horror and pity out of you.
So I couldn't stop crying.
Am still amazed of how they managed to execute their 'Final Solution'. They usually just talk about Auschwitz-Birkenau, but there were smaller camps all around the place. People say they did not know. Bull. They had to. They just didn't want to know, didn't want to see.
What a strange feeling I'm experiencing here. Not just sadness and horror, but rage as well. Not towards Germans, especially not against contemporary ones (waves at all the idiot slashers in there! :P). Towards humans in general. I am amazed that we have survived as a race.
All the excuses we use to kill others seem to be just that. Excuses. Wars and ethnic cleansings and every single hate crime. What the hell is driving us on anyway? We call ourselves the 'crown of creation' and yet we haven't evolved beyond the basic 'you look different, me kills you' phase. It doesn't limit to Germans or other Europeans. Or Arabs or Asians or Africans. We're all of the same species here, and unfortunately, killing others just because they are different is something every race of this miserable excuse of a 'master species' share.
Gods. I actually feel both better and worse after the rant.
Anyhow... Back to BoB. I do have one complaint about this episode. They mentioned the camps, and that there were Gypsies, Jews, Polish and other ethnic groups held there.
Are we missing something?
I do understand that they would not say it in the program. Talking about gays wasn't probably possible for people those days. But in the small text that flashed on the screen... I would have appreciated it. People close to the concentration camps pretended they didn't exist. Now it feels like those who are bringing these crimes against humanity into public awareness again want to pretend homosexuals weren't there. Or maybe that they didn't exist.
Mr. Spielberg. I do understand how it feels to know your people were murdered by racial supremacists. I know. But bringing only a part -- even though a huge part -- of these crimes into light is not enough.
Gah. End of rant.
Will go and watch the final episode now.
