Fateless
Powerful and oddly upbeat
Posted by: LyttleOne, September 17, 2005 10:05 AM
This was a wonderful vision of the inner world of a concentration camp survivor. It was shot in colour, but most of the camp was shot in such drab tones that you almost thought they were using black and white or sepia to define the lack of colour in their lives and imaginations, and when the boys life starts to look up is the first time you see colour in almost an hour and it leaps out at you like a flame in the dark. This is the first film dealing with concentration camp survivors that actually deals with both before and after his incarceration. Although the subtitles near the end of the film are difficult to read (white type against too light a background) his message of hope and that there was happiness in the camps as well as misery was powerfully wrought.