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'Zone of Interest' offers painful but vital reminder
German SS officer Rudolf Höss (played by Christian Friedel) surveys his home's backyard, and the Auschwitz concentration camp it overlooks, in Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest."
In adapting Martin Amis' 2014 novel, "The Zone of Interest" to the big screen, writer-director Jonathan Glazer takes seriously the phrase, "the banality of evil," originally popularized by Hannah Arendt in 1963. Arendt and Glazer express the legacy of the Nazis during World War II by focusing on how they hid their evil in plain sight, behind a screen of domestic mundanity.
Glazer's adaptation of "The Zone of Interest" lacks a plot, as it centers on German SS officer Rudolf Höss (played by Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and their household of children, servants and extended...
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