In Darkness
Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Written by David F. Shamoon.
If there is a type of
film I love, they’re films about wars, to me in particular, the Second World
War. We’ve all seen many films about that time, from Der Untergang and The
Pianist to Valkyre and Inglourious Basterds! There are so many stories and they
keep coming from all over the places. In Darkness tells the story of a polish
sewer named Leopold Soha who hides twelve Jewish people in his workplace, the
sewers. Like I said, we’ve listened and read many stories of survivors, but to
me this is a first. This group of Jews survived in sewers for fourteen months.
It’s really hard to imagine. I never been in a sewer but I certainty can
picture the awful idea.
The filmmaker is
quite brave in some aspects, the way she works around this peculiar set, quite
the claustrophobic and dark one. The water in the sewers, I understand how hard
that was. It’s literally a dark film, we are often in darkness, and when they finally
come to the surface it’s a relief and really hard to believe they managed to
survive.
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