The subject of the movie is the true story of a Dutch Jew who was shelted from the Nazis by her Christian boyfriend. And myy ten dollars say that will be the movie's focus: the good and compassionate Christians who honored themselves and their faith by risking their own lives to save Jews.
The problem is that there weren't too many Christians like that. Though some Christians gave the Jews every possible assistance, most did not. Most were too busy goose-stepping in delight.
Do you think that sad, but incontrovertible, fact will be reflected in Mel's movie? Or it it more likely that he'll try to whitewash the Church's role, and the role of Catholics in general?
Sad, but what else do you expect from a guy who shrugs his shoulders and says "stuff happens" when he's asked about the Holocaust:
I have friends and parents of friends who have numbers on their arms. The guy who taught me Spanish was a Holocaust survivor. He worked in a concentration camp in France. Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union.Or, in other words, "They were just Jews, what are you so upset about?"
