Having visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the International Day of Peace, during my last visit to DC, this visit I brought 2 films along which I have been meaning to watch for so long.
I settled down to watch The Passion on Monday - what an amazing film. For all that I knew the story, I was stunned by the feelings it invoked actually watching the events re-enacted. Powerful and thought-provoking in terms of man's inhumanity towards fellow man 2000 years ago - and how little has changed in many ways since then.
Then yesterday I followed this with The Pianist. Stunning in its straight-forward style, it tells the true story of a Jewish pianist who somehow survives Warsaw between 1939 and 1945 (living then until 2000 when he died age 88).
Both films are harrowing but they both also feature moments of hope - the basic truth that there are some really good people who bravely go against the current tide and stand up for what they believe to be right.
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