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Fateless – Sorstalansag
Fateless, however, was not as emotionally draining as other movies of its genre, and it left you with a lingering feeling that instead of putting it behind you, you wanted to keep thinking about it, to understand what it was trying to say.
Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz, who is both the author and screenwriter of Fateless was also a Holocaust survivor. And like his main character, 14 year old Gyorgy Kovess, Kertesz spent time in the concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Fateless was not meant to be an autobiography of his own life, however, having lived through the Holocaust himself, Kertesz was able to portray a genuine understanding of the experience.
When the young Gyorgy Kovess was finally released and back home in Budapest, people kept telling him that it is over now and to forget about it, to put it all behind him. But he tried to explain to them that this was part of his life, and he didn’t want to forget about it, that there were actually moments that he was happy.
It reminded me of something that I had read by another Holocaust survivor, I think it may have been from Victor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning”, how when people looked at pictures of the prisoners crowded in the bunks with no mattress, they were appalled, however, when he looked at the same pictures, he could only remember how wonderful it felt to be in the bunk sleeping and not working when it was so cold outside, and on the days when he was too sick and got to spend the entire day in this crowded bed with no mattress, it was heavenly.
I imagined how hard it was for the survivors to have to come back a society where everyone was too ashamed to talk about it, or to even admit that there could have been bright spots amidst the shadows.
This was such a thought provoking movie, and young Marcell Nagy who played Gyorgy, seemed to be able to actually tell the entire story with only his beautiful eyes. Title: Sorstalansag (Fateless) Director: Lajos Koltai Writers: Imre Kertesz (Novel and Screenplay) Starring: Marcell Nagy Genre: Drama Language: Mostly Hungarian
Released: 2005 in Hungry
Whenever I watch a movie about the Holocaust, I have to mentally prepare myself for the emotional turmoil that I face while once again coming to terms with the cruel reality of its existence.
Fateless, however, was not as emotionally draining as other movies of its genre, and it left you with a lingering feeling that instead of putting it behind you, you wanted to keep thinking about it, to understand what it was trying to say.
Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz, who is both the author and screenwriter of Fateless was also a Holocaust survivor. And like his main character, 14 year old Gyorgy Kovess, Kertesz spent time in the Auschwitz concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Fateless was not meant to be an autobiography of his own life, however, having lived through the Holocaust himself, Kertesz was able to portray a genuine understanding of the experience.
When young Gyorgy was finally released and back home in Budapest, people kept telling him that it is over now and to forget about it, to put it all behind him. But he tried to explain to them that this was part of his life, and he didn’t want to forget about it, that there were actually moments that he was happy.
It reminded me of something that I had read by another Holocaust survivor, I think it may have been from Victor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning”, how when people looked at pictures of the prisoners crowded in the bunks with no mattress, they were appalled, however, when he looked at the same pictures, he could only remember how wonderful it felt to be in the bunk sleeping and not working when it was so cold outside, and on the days when he was too sick and got to spend the entire day in this crowded bed with no mattress, it was heavenly.
I imagined how hard it was for the survivors to have to come back a society where everyone was too ashamed to talk about it, or to even admit that there could have been bright spots amidst the shadows.
This was such a thought provoking movie, and young Marcell Nagy with his beautiful eyes did an outstanding job playing young Gyorgy. |
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