What I mean is that it seems like we’re telling the same story over and over, and each time it loses its impact. There were moments that I thought the script for this film must have just had brackets that said “general Nazi evilness takes place here for 5 minutes.” The tropes are well known and the drama is already culturally known, so you just pick your angle and head for the hills with your box office takings. The Holocaust film genre is one that, dare I say it, is a gift that keeps on giving to filmmakers these days. And where does The Zookeeper’s Wife rank? Decent, but no Schindler’s List-style Oscars heading this way I feel. I maintain here to judge it as a film foremost, with the real heroism of the figures involved being incidental to our discussion of the film at large. It’s tough to judge a film based off of a true-life account of a terrible event.
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