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Wick 66 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Image Real concentration camp kids. More » Created Feb 19, 2009 11:40PM PST Edited Mar 01, 2013 06:15PM PST	Very Good 3.5 Well intentioned gimmick story shows the absurdity – and horror – of the Holocaust through a child's eyes, and through … More »	Very Good 3.5 David Thewlis – with his pasty complexion, receding chin and lank hair – cuts the perfect figure as the SS Dad/concentr… More »	Very Good 3.5 The movie starts off beautifully, lyrically, with a lovely boy gamboling through tidy, tony Berlin streets, and into hi… More »	Risqué 1.8	Glib 1.2 Would an Auschwitz commandant's family live so close to the camp that they could smell the burning flesh? Perhaps. Wo… More »
BrianSez 17 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Sep 04, 2009 10:13PM PST Edited Sep 04, 2009 10:13PM PST	Great 4.0 In a word: fascinating. A tale of innocence, discovery, moral dilemma, and overwhelming drama. A well told story of a … More »	Really Great 4.5 Little Asa Butterfield is the star of course, he and the rest of the cast all put in admirable performances. More »	Great 4.0 The filming style is all about highlighting the drama and inspiring thought, and director Mark Herman succeeds at both … More »	Risqué 2.0	Surreal 3.0 Ok, so a German boy befriending a camp prisoner isn't exactly realistic. But that didn't detract from my ability to enjoy. More »
davidmfishman 1 Trust Points Read Full Review » Trust This Reviewer WikChip - Empty Created Jan 01, 2009 04:26PM PST Edited Jan 01, 2009 04:26PM PST	Perfect 5.0 A jarring, moving film showing how Germans handled the final solution from the inside, centered around the improbable t… More »	Perfect 5.0	Perfect 5.0	Risqué 2.3	Supernatural 3.7

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Wick
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Real concentration camp kids. More »
Created Feb 19, 2009 11:40PM PST

Edited Mar 01, 2013 06:15PM PST

Very Good 3.5

Well intentioned gimmick story shows the absurdity – and horror – of the Holocaust through a child's eyes, and through …

Very Good 3.5

David Thewlis – with his pasty complexion, receding chin and lank hair – cuts the perfect figure as the SS Dad/concentr…

Very Good 3.5

The movie starts off beautifully, lyrically, with a lovely boy gamboling through tidy, tony Berlin streets, and into hi…

Risqué 1.8

Glib 1.2

Would an Auschwitz commandant's family live so close to the camp that they could smell the burning flesh? Perhaps. Wo…

BrianSez
17 Trust Points
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Created Sep 04, 2009 10:13PM PST

Edited Sep 04, 2009 10:13PM PST

Great 4.0

In a word: fascinating. A tale of innocence, discovery, moral dilemma, and overwhelming drama. A well told story of a …

Really Great 4.5

Little Asa Butterfield is the star of course, he and the rest of the cast all put in admirable performances.

Great 4.0

The filming style is all about highlighting the drama and inspiring thought, and director Mark Herman succeeds at both …

Risqué 2.0

Surreal 3.0

Ok, so a German boy befriending a camp prisoner isn't exactly realistic. But that didn't detract from my ability to enjoy.

davidmfishman
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Created Jan 01, 2009 04:26PM PST

Edited Jan 01, 2009 04:26PM PST

Perfect 5.0

A jarring, moving film showing how Germans handled the final solution from the inside, centered around the improbable t…

Perfect 5.0

Risqué 2.3

Supernatural 3.7

Feb 22, 2009 7:21PM

davidmfishman

Regarding Wick’s Review
There’s a satirical purpose — and by satire I mean not humor, but use of inversion to upend social norms or to level a critique — in the absurd use of the children as a vehicle. While there is ample distortion in the construction of the drama, the core message of parallel humanity and its terrible toll, the humanity that plays a role in the innocent and the evil, overcomes any limitations of the plot devices.