Journal Entry for 4/15/15 and Follow up 4/24/15

We started watching the Sorrow and the Pity today. I am pretty sure I don’t like it. The movie is made in 1969, less than twenty years after Hitler and not one of these men ever says you know what why did this happen? Why did one man have the ability to turn a country against people? Maybe I just am naive, maybe I just don’t get it, but never the less it is still disgusting. The man with the cigar at his daughters wedding just annoyed me. He seemed to be so pompous, so irritating. I took his attitude to be like, Yeah I killed people so what I was told to. I know that during war it happens, but to to almost eradicate a group of people is barbaric.  The memories of all the people interviewed (with the exception of the school teachers) were so vivid, many of the men interview in the small village and the gentleman with his family, seemed to really want to talk about what happened. What the women in the barber shop said was so powerful, the emotion was raw. When she said that she spent 15 years in jail for something she didn’t do, I was appalled. There were so many people doing things that should have put them in jail, but they didn’t see any time. This movie was sad, and informative, I feel that it gave me more to think about in terms of war, and standing up for what is right. Most of the people interviewed seemed to be remorseful, with the exception of the gentleman with the cigar, he didn’t seemed to care he answered questions evasively