Staging Memory And Trauma In Holocaust Film

This implies that Spielberg changed the story about Oskar for his and the audience’s benefit. Filmmakers also constantly use the same memory when creating the films. Ebbrecht argues, “This ongoing repetition creates a situation in which the iconic images become embedded as part of our personal memory” (90). This makes Holocaust films washed out because filmmakers don’t have another way to produce these types of films. Filmmakers also pushed Holocaust survivors to tell their stories even though it was extremely painful for them .In the article, “Staging Memory and Trauma in French and Italian Holocaust film”, she states that, “Many survivors, it seemed, were not ready to enter into the trying course of remembering, reliving and commemorating their pasts” (Renga 462). It was such a traumatizing experience and I don’t blame them for not wanting to share it, but filmmakers kept on attacking them to tell their story. They eventually got the memory from the survivors, but there’s no point of receiving the memory from the survivors, because most of the filmmakers just change it to better soothe the audience. Either that or they add scenes to that memory to make it more interesting or frightening to the viewers. Alison Landsberg as cited in …show more content…
That film is Inglorious Basterds (2009) directed and written by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christopher Lantz, and Eli Roth. The movie was about an American assembling a team of Jews to take out the Nazis in Germany. Scholars argued that this film portrayed bad ethics because the Jews acted so viciously against the Nazis. Denby in Suleiman’s article sarcastically pointed out that, “… abusing soldiers of your enemy is somehow okay, so as long as you are the good guys and they are bad” (73-74). This brings disapproval towards Inglorious Basterds because it broke important morals like human torture which is still wrong no matter how evil a person is. To