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Comparing this to a Nazi Love story?

posted 15 years ago by xerxerxex
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Here is one over the top review.

Despite numerous positive reviews of the film, some black activists urged a boycott, notably Miles Willis of the "Milestones" jazz program on Pacifica Radio's KPFT. His statement, championed by syndicated film columnist Esther Iverem, included the following: "Imagine the seething indignation that a Jewish man might feel while watching a story in which the widow of a Nazi concentration camp victim has an intimate relationship with the SS officer that shoved her husband into one of those ovens at Auschwitz!"

I don't know about you but I think a Nazi story like that would make for a good movie.

Don't worry, I saw Lord of the Rings. I'm not going to end this 17 times.

[–] Emiabambinacara 15 years ago

I agree. That would make for a good movie. Watch Neo Ned starring Jeremy Renner and Gabrielle Union. Not a Jew and an SS offcer, but a Neo Nazi and a black Woman who thinks she is Hitler. Its a very touching, funny, yet tragic movie, if not a little scattered and rushed at the end.

[–] coolbluegreen 15 years ago

If you think a Nazi story like that would make a good movie, you might enjoy reading The Nazi Officer's Wife. There is also an A&E special on The Nazi Officer's Wife AND I think it is being made into a movie (I am not sure about that, though).

As for Miles Willis, I guess he didn't imagine the seething indignation a Jewish woman might feel at his comparing a murderer to an innocent person. Diddy's character is a murderer who got the death penalty. I am opposed to the death penalty, but Diddy's character does admit to his son that he has done bad things.

How DARE Miles Willis compare the execution of a convicted murderer to the victim of murderers? Jews (and others killed by Nazis -- but Willis brought up the Jewish aspect) who were shoved into ovens (and gas chambers and etc.) were MURDERED. They had nothing in common with Diddy's character, who was a MURDERER. I have no idea who Miles Willis is, but what he said totally offended me past seething indignation. I am disgusted.

[–] osp80 15 years ago

yeah,his analogy made 0 sense.if it was set back in the day and it was a klansman that lynched her husband it might be valid