Firefox crashed and ate the first version of this comment, so please imagine it was more eloquent the first time around.
When you see people who are essentially *you* (the talk, the clothes, the mannerisms) suddenly doing the thing that belongs (so you thought) to *them*--the reprisal killings, the cold-blooded killing--it must be really shaking. So, on that level, the movie sounds like it succeeds both as a propaganda film and as a kind of warning about us/them thinking, period. We have met the enemy and he is us and all that.
I found it incredibly effective. It's not an equivocating film—it's a definitely anti-Nazi film—but it's not a complacent one.
The title makes me think of the song "Did you sleep well?" by Crooked Still.
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When you see people who are essentially *you* (the talk, the clothes, the mannerisms) suddenly doing the thing that belongs (so you thought) to *them*--the reprisal killings, the cold-blooded killing--it must be really shaking. So, on that level, the movie sounds like it succeeds both as a propaganda film and as a kind of warning about us/them thinking, period. We have met the enemy and he is us and all that.
I found it incredibly effective. It's not an equivocating film—it's a definitely anti-Nazi film—but it's not a complacent one.
The title makes me think of the song "Did you sleep well?" by Crooked Still.
Now that you've said it, yes!