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The Brain

Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:17:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIctGbAZEQ

I'm having trouble dealing with how horrifying this is. I'm just really glad all of these people will die horribly.

I'm not clicking that. Is it about Benghazi?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Norgy

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 19, 2014, 12:36:26 PM
Quote from: celedhring on June 19, 2014, 12:04:54 PM
I take it that people recommend it, then? Sounds like an interesting film.

It's excellent, better acting than the only other treatment on the topic, an Austrian made-for-TV job from 1984, "Decision at Wansee" or something;  which was based solely on the very sparse surviving notes of the meeting.  Talk about creepy, if you didn't know what the subject matter actually was, you'd thing it was over widgets.  That version would be tough to dig up, I had to find it in Loyola's A/V library.

There's also Robert Harris' novel "Fatherland" dealing with the subject matter. One of the best crime/mystery novels written, but a really poor movie adaption with Rutger Hauer.

The Wannsee conference strikes me as the lowpoint of humanity, with every sense of right and wrong gone.

Queequeg

Quote from: The Brain on June 19, 2014, 01:21:20 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:17:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIctGbAZEQ

I'm having trouble dealing with how horrifying this is. I'm just really glad all of these people will die horribly.

I'm not clicking that. Is it about Benghazi?
It's Conspiracy.
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Ed Anger

David Warner is best Heydrich.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Ideologue

Got The Lego Movie in the mail today and also picked up Grand Budapest Hotel. :)
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Sheilbh

Quote from: Norgy on June 19, 2014, 01:22:24 PM
There's also Robert Harris' novel "Fatherland" dealing with the subject matter. One of the best crime/mystery novels written, but a really poor movie adaption with Rutger Hauer.
The continually poor stream of Robert Harris' adaptations makes me sad :(

On Conspiracy, Branagh is great, but it's an outstanding ensemble performance.
Let's bomb Russia!

Viking

Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:48:12 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 19, 2014, 01:21:20 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:17:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIctGbAZEQ

I'm having trouble dealing with how horrifying this is. I'm just really glad all of these people will die horribly.

I'm not clicking that. Is it about Benghazi?
It's Conspiracy.

The thing about that movie is that it presents all the attendees as such genial normal people that I keep hoping that one of the realizes what he is saying and becomes physically sick. Seriously Heydrich seems like a nice guy and a good manager and conference leader. If he hadn't been a raving racist murderous sociopath he probably would have made a good boss.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Brain

Quote from: Viking on June 20, 2014, 12:28:57 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:48:12 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 19, 2014, 01:21:20 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:17:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIctGbAZEQ

I'm having trouble dealing with how horrifying this is. I'm just really glad all of these people will die horribly.

I'm not clicking that. Is it about Benghazi?
It's Conspiracy.

The thing about that movie is that it presents all the attendees as such genial normal people that I keep hoping that one of the realizes what he is saying and becomes physically sick. Seriously Heydrich seems like a nice guy and a good manager and conference leader. If he hadn't been a raving racist murderous sociopath he probably would have made a good boss.

I remember a TV documentary where someone who knew Heydrich said that he was very pleasant at dinner parties. The interviewer asked how s/he could defend Heydrich. I was like "hmmmm interviewer, if you think that being pleasant is a defense for mass murder maybe you have a slight problem".
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Viking

Quote from: The Brain on June 20, 2014, 02:49:59 AM
Quote from: Viking on June 20, 2014, 12:28:57 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:48:12 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 19, 2014, 01:21:20 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on June 19, 2014, 01:17:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIctGbAZEQ

I'm having trouble dealing with how horrifying this is. I'm just really glad all of these people will die horribly.

I'm not clicking that. Is it about Benghazi?
It's Conspiracy.

The thing about that movie is that it presents all the attendees as such genial normal people that I keep hoping that one of the realizes what he is saying and becomes physically sick. Seriously Heydrich seems like a nice guy and a good manager and conference leader. If he hadn't been a raving racist murderous sociopath he probably would have made a good boss.

I remember a TV documentary where someone who knew Heydrich said that he was very pleasant at dinner parties. The interviewer asked how s/he could defend Heydrich. I was like "hmmmm interviewer, if you think that being pleasant is a defense for mass murder maybe you have a slight problem".

Thats sign of the lack of nuance we find generally in modern public discourse. Basically everything becomes ad-hominem. We are ignoring the fact that monsters can be charming, intelligent and make a positive contribution in other fields. We do have charming monsters by they are all Vampires and Cannibal Doctors. I think it is important to remember how appealing and good fascim seemed at the time. It took ideological opponents and unique snowflakes like Churchill to see how evil it was. Fascims was all about freeing the country from external oppression finding dignity in community and self determination. It was all about directing and mobilizing the collective will that squabbling democracies could not and socialist dictatorships could only do with force.

Every time I see populists politicians in Norway (both on the right and left) say stuff like "How can X happen in the worlds richest country?" or "If I get 4 years in power I will resolve issue X." As if the only true obstacle to these real problems was the unwillingness to act (solution Führerprinzipp) or sabotage by some group (solution die Endlösung des Judenproblemes in Europa). This is a bit related to the Viking version of O'Sullivan's Law (where radial and utopian groups becoming more extremist as time passes and/or after they have achieved their initial objectives), where these groups NEVER solve the problems simply because their diagnosis is wrong. Changing the diagnosis means re-evaluating the central organizing principle in your life so finding latter day epicyclical excuses becomes the main activity.

TLDR; Monster are real, they live amongst us and they sound like reasonable and nice people with legitimate objectives.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

FunkMonk

Languish is full of monsters, unfortunately.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Ideologue

What's so monstrous about imposing the collective will by force?
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Razgovory

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 19, 2014, 09:38:58 AM
What made it creepy was the whole policy approach of the conference, how the mass extermination of people was elevated (lowered?) to arguments on legality and logistics. Wansee is fascinating that way.

That movie creeped me out.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

Quote from: Ideologue on June 20, 2014, 07:46:04 AM
What's so monstrous about imposing the collective will by force?

When it is done for radical utopian reasons it results in mass murder.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

crazy canuck

Quote from: Ideologue on June 20, 2014, 07:46:04 AM
What's so monstrous about imposing the collective will by force?

Because the small group who make it their job to determine the will of the collective always get it wrong.