Monday, May 29, 2006

FATELESS and the Truth Behind It...

FATELESS is one of the best Holocausts film ever made showing how adolescence can suddenly be interrupted by war. In contrast with other World War II classics like The Schindler’s List and The Pianist, FATELESS did not focus on the gruesome images and unnecessary pains of war, but rather the film showed another dimension of the universal truth by which most people fails to see and realize.

Gyorgy is fourteen, a boy who gradually understand that life and survival is not that easy in the kind of world he is currently living. “And then I understand the simple secret of our universe, I can be killed, anywhere and anytime.” ironically said by the boy when he was in Auswitz and a series of bombing occurred in towns nearby. We can feel the depressing mode of the film because of the characters will to survive hunger, cold weather, humiliation and death but it never instill too much horror because it did not show how the defenseless Jews are massacred by the Nazis or how they suffered inside the gas chambers. As the days go by in the camps, despite of being scared of what might happened, it seemed that he is rather bewildered by the war, he has no time to mourn and all that he can think of is how to survive.

When the boy returned to his home in Hungary, he missed the brotherhood and the simple life inside the concentration camp, where you can easily appreciate what it is like to be happy.

FATELESS is not just a Holocaust masterpiece but it is a testament of truth, the truth that no matter how random, dark and hard life can be, happiness, just like the air we breath will find its way out from a suffocating enclosure to give us life. FATELESS is not for everyone, it is not a typical movie that you’ll always expect that something is going to happen but it is a film with a lot of symbolisms between its scenes. FATELESS shows how turmoil, pain and hopelessness can suddenly give happiness its sweetest flavor.

My Top Ten Movies of the First Half of 2006 (December 2005 - May 2006)
1. THE EDUKATORS by Hans Weingartner (Germany)
2. FATELESS by Lajos Koltai (Hungary)
3. HOTEL RWANDA by Terry George (USA)
4. SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE by Park Chan Wook (South Korea)
5. KING KONG by Peter Jackson (USA)
6. CHRONICLES OF NARNIA by Andrew Adamson (UK)
7. SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS by Brad Silberling (USA)
8. THE WHITE SOUND by Hans Weingartner (Germany)
9. CRASH by Paul Haggis (USA)
10.NO REGRETS by Benjamin Quabeck (Germany)
10.RECONSTRUCTION by Christoffer Boe (Denmark)

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