The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza
JVL Introduction
An thought-provoking commentary on The Zone of Interest from author and activist Naomi Klein.
How do you live with a genocide going on around you? For the film’s director, it is not that these people are unaware of the reality around them. They have simply learned to lead contented lives with ambient genocide.
She concludes with the words of Aaron Bushnell who burnt himself to death in protest outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC:
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow south? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
RK
This article was originally published by the Guardian on Thu 14 Mar 2024. Read the original here.
The Zone of Interest is about the danger of ignoring atrocities – including in Gaza
If Jonathan Glazer’s brave Oscar acceptance speech made you uncomfortable, that was the point
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I seem to remember reading that one of the party goers on October 7th remarked that the music from the party would have been heard on the other side of the fence in Gaza.
“non-thinking, bourgeois, aspirational-careerist horrors”
Sounds like the modern-day Labour party in a nutshell!
I’ve seen the film now and found it quite devastating. Needed a stiff drink or two afterwards. Naomi Klein’s reflections are absolutely spot on. You can’t watch it and not think of Gaza.