Yesterday, we watched the Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer's new film about the commandant of Auschwitz and his family who live next door to the death camp.
The film does not show a single image of the torture and devastation that take place in Auschwitz during 1943 when the film takes place. However, the sounds of the camps are inescapable, despite the characters' best efforts to ignore the horrors happening next door.
The film was understated, almost banal, and that was the point. So many soldiers, citizens, and other bystanders were witnesses to this shameful episode in world history, and I fear that we are seeing a repeat of this kind of devastation - and a blind eye to it - in Gaza.
I pray that we will learn the error of our ways and stop looking askance from the horrors men perpetrate other men before it is too late.
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