![]() This could very well have slipped into “Here’s a movie that explains the Holocaust to children” genre, cuddly and kid-friendly. ![]() There are cute animals, tended to by a kind and gorgeous woman, played with earthy empathy by Jessica Chastain. ![]() “The Zookeeper’s Wife” slams into that conundrum, a true story of Warsaw zookeepers who smuggled Jews out of the ghetto, into their hidden animal paddocks and out of the city during the darkest days of World War II.īut from the very title you can guess the problems. ![]() There is merit in a “Boy in the Striped Pajamas” or “The Book Thief.” But does that overcome the inherent cuteness of the telling? The risk, of course, is that the subject becomes trivialized, rendered trite and cute in the endless variations on a theme. There is no shortage of Holocaust stories that Hollywood wants to tell, and since they concern history’s ultimate “Never forget” horror, that is all well and good.
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