#zoneofinterest

📌 The Zone of Interest film screening 📍 Clarence Hall, London Camden 🕡 6pm 🎥 Come join us for a powerful community film screening – it’s free.

I’m reminded of what Naomi Klein wrote, that “Glazer described his characters not as monsters but as ‘non-thinking, bourgeois, aspirational-careerist horrors,’ people who turn profound evil into white noise.” I can’t think of a better description of those who have signed their name to a blacklist that is nothing more than an embarrassing and shameful apologia for genocide. Many of them are executives in the film industry (and random, sleezy makers of middling horror movies) who build ivory towers on the backs of those who tirelessly create for them, who have no sense of self awareness and a complete inability to be self-critical and realize they are on the wrong side of history. Glazer’s speech, to me, was profoundly humanistic, an almost too diplomatic way of speaking out about the horrific bloodshed to an audience not used to being called out on their moral blindness. That the work, and his words, will long outlive any of these people’s moral failings isn’t up for debate. But for now, it’s a disgusting and disappointing misrepresentation of a great work of art.