on the reaction to jonathan glazer's oscars speech

and the complicity of silence

Earlier this year, I took myself to the movies to watch Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest. It took my breath away. The film's depiction of Germans' everyday silence and quiet compliance as complicity in the face of the Holocaust’s horrors and atrocities stayed with me for weeks. To this day, I’m thinking about the film's shiver-inducing use of soun…