“No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, such subjects overwhelm art.” - Roger Ebert
I’m not sure if I’m in a position to
say if any movie was able to provide catharsis for the Holocaust. But, if
that’s the general consensus amongst people, I’d have to disagree with the
reason that the quote provides. “Such subjects overwhelm art”, I find that
ridiculous. Things like the Holocaust don’t overwhelm art it overwhelms people.
I don’t think that most people could sit and watch a movie about the Holocaust
that truly depicts what happened to people in the Holocaust. I’m a firm
believer that peace and healing comes through people telling the complete and
honest truth. How can films about the Holocaust be cathartic when filmmakers
don’t even make works of art that portray the complete and honest truth? That’s
not to say that filmmakers do this because they want to, but rather, they
realize that their audience would never be able to stomach the truth. They
realize that people would not be able to accept the atrocities that people had
to endure at the hand of their fellow man. It overwhelms people to face the
truth of how inhumane humans are capable of being and the ease with which we
are able to be that way. Because of all this, I believe that the lack of
catharsis for the Holocaust couldn’t come from the limitations of art—in it’s
true form, art has no limitations. The lack of catharsis stems from peoples’
tendency to be overwhelmed in the face of an unhampered truth.
Isaro Carter
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