Finally watched Conspiracy
Jan. 19th, 2005 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperSubject : The Wansee conference, where the final solution for Jews was discussed and agreed upon in 1942. The whole meeting taking about 30 minutes.
I bought this as soon as it came out. The original airing was the final straw for parents over our tv reception (slowly over the years encroached upon by our oak tree, which although we love dearly, has a preservation order on it and so we have to get permission in triplicate from the council before we can touch it, even to cut down a branch that has been torn down by gales) as when it aired on tv, we got the first two minutes, then the channel got snowed out. My dad pretty much hi-jacked it upon it arriving through the door. I never got round to watching it, mostly due to mood.
And now... Fuck. That's my main emotion. It's based on a copy of the minutes which were supposed to have been destroyed after reading, and it's *scary*. It pays attention to small details, like the setting up of the house and food getting prepared, people fiddling with their cigars, the drivers getting told off for messing around during the conference, and the tone of the meeting is never much beyond mild. People get upset about being overruled or ignored bureaucratically, or the amount of work they'd put into ratifying previous laws (Nuremberg, for instance, which defined the sub-divisions of Jew and strength of blood link) that were now being trampled on. Being concerned that there'd be enough labour, or that their section (of particular concern to the Polish heads) would get dealt with fastest.
And arse. Missed Power of Nightmares *again* due to having to pick parentals up from station. Anyone got a copy of it?
I bought this as soon as it came out. The original airing was the final straw for parents over our tv reception (slowly over the years encroached upon by our oak tree, which although we love dearly, has a preservation order on it and so we have to get permission in triplicate from the council before we can touch it, even to cut down a branch that has been torn down by gales) as when it aired on tv, we got the first two minutes, then the channel got snowed out. My dad pretty much hi-jacked it upon it arriving through the door. I never got round to watching it, mostly due to mood.
And now... Fuck. That's my main emotion. It's based on a copy of the minutes which were supposed to have been destroyed after reading, and it's *scary*. It pays attention to small details, like the setting up of the house and food getting prepared, people fiddling with their cigars, the drivers getting told off for messing around during the conference, and the tone of the meeting is never much beyond mild. People get upset about being overruled or ignored bureaucratically, or the amount of work they'd put into ratifying previous laws (Nuremberg, for instance, which defined the sub-divisions of Jew and strength of blood link) that were now being trampled on. Being concerned that there'd be enough labour, or that their section (of particular concern to the Polish heads) would get dealt with fastest.
And arse. Missed Power of Nightmares *again* due to having to pick parentals up from station. Anyone got a copy of it?
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Date: 2005-01-19 01:53 am (UTC)And then after, you wonder if it was as painful to act as it was to watch-- to be saying those words, to have that script, those *minutes* in front of you... and to know that that kind of horror demands that the actors do their role *perfectly*, because anything less is almost-- insulting.