“The Zone of Interest” Review

Evil can live and fester if it is not seen. Films about the atrocities of humanity often come loaded with the grotesque shock to make that evil sink in. We look at films with gritty violence and tearful victims with sadness, evoking empathy and horror at what we’re capable of. The Zone of Interest is a challenge to the audiences, whether they can still see all that when stripped of their presence. It’s that absence of witnessing genocide that forces us to question how much of it we can feel and...