The Silence
January 17th, 2010 at 20:24The silence of the perpetrators has created a void.
The victims who remember fall into the void.
And the descendants of the perpetrators? — We’ve become tourists in everyone else’s past.
Could it be otherwise?
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bettina mathes
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- A Note on “The Night Porter”
June 7, 2009 | 10:01Memory is performative. To remember is to repeat.
Not every memory gets performed and repeated. Some memories are so horrific that we censor their re-presentation. Perpetrator memories of the Holocaust as sexual extravaganza belong to this category.Liliana Cavani’s controversial 1974 movie The Night Porter has been labeled “Nazi chic” (Roger Ebert). For some critics the film [...]
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- A Note on “The Night Porter”
