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{{quote| "We can't know what we're capable of, any of us. How can you know what you'd do to stay alive, until you're really asked? I know this now. For most of us, the answer... is anything."}}
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''The Grey Zone'' is a 2001 Holocaust movie set in 1944. It is based on personal memoirs of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor from Hungary and personal assistant to [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Joseph Mengele]] at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The movie focuses on the rebellion by the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who worked in the gas chambers and crematoria.
''[[The Grey Zone]]'' is a 2001 Holocaust movie set in 1944. It is based on personal memoirs of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor from Hungary and personal assistant to [[Mad Scientist|Dr. Joseph Mengele]] at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The movie focuses on the rebellion by the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who worked in the gas chambers and crematoria.


Stars David Arquette, Harvey Keitel, [[Steve Buscemi]] and Mira Sorvino.
Stars David Arquette, Harvey Keitel, [[Steve Buscemi]] and Mira Sorvino.
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This film contains examples of:
* [[Affably Evil]] Dr. Mengele, ''Oberscharführer'' Mussfeld.
* [[Affably Evil]] Dr. Mengele, ''Oberscharführer'' Mussfeld.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|2 of the crematoria are destroyed in the uprising, but all the Sonderkommando and the girl they tried to save were executed.}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|2 of the crematoria are destroyed in the uprising, but all the Sonderkommando and the girl they tried to save were executed.}}
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The scene during the insurrection when some Jews working in a crematorium gang up on the Nazi commander who's whipping them and shouting at them and throw him into one of the furnaces. Frankly, this troper found it very hard to not punch the air and say "Yeah, take that, bastard!" during this scene.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The scene during the insurrection when some Jews working in a crematorium gang up on the Nazi commander who's whipping them and shouting at them and throw him into one of the furnaces. Frankly, this troper found it very hard to not punch the air and say "Yeah, take that, bastard!" during this scene.
* [[Death Seeker]]: Most of the Sonderkommando can't live with what they've been forced to do.
* [[Death Seeker]]: Most of the Sonderkommando can't live with what they've been forced to do.
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* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted ''horribly''.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted ''horribly''.
* [[Kill Em All]]
* [[Kill'Em All]]
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[La Résistance]]
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Subverted by the Sonderkommando.
* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Subverted by the Sonderkommando.
* [[Murder By Cremation]]
* [[Murder by Cremation]]
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]
* [[No One Should Survive That]]: {{spoiler|The girl who survived the [[Gas Chamber]].}}
* [[No One Should Survive That]]: {{spoiler|The girl who survived the [[Gas Chamber]].}}
* [[Posthumous Narration]]: {{spoiler|The girl gives a ''particularly'' haunting one at the end.}}
* [[Posthumous Narration]]: {{spoiler|The girl gives a ''particularly'' haunting one at the end.}}
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Girl''': After the revolt half the ovens remain, and we are carried to them together. I catch fire quickly. The first part of me rises in dense smoke, that mingles with the smoke of others. Then there then are the bones, which settle in ash, and these are swept up to be carried to the river. And last, bits of our dust, that simply float there in air, around the working of the new group. These bits of dust are grey. We settle on their shoes, and on their faces, and in their lungs. And they become so used to us that soon they don't cough, and they don't brush us away. At this point they're just moving, breathing and moving, like anyone else still alive in that place. And this is how the work... continues.}}}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Girl''': After the revolt half the ovens remain, and we are carried to them together. I catch fire quickly. The first part of me rises in dense smoke, that mingles with the smoke of others. Then there then are the bones, which settle in ash, and these are swept up to be carried to the river. And last, bits of our dust, that simply float there in air, around the working of the new group. These bits of dust are grey. We settle on their shoes, and on their faces, and in their lungs. And they become so used to us that soon they don't cough, and they don't brush us away. At this point they're just moving, breathing and moving, like anyone else still alive in that place. And this is how the work... continues.}}}}
* [[Scream Discretion Shot]]: [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|The collective screaming from the gas chamber after the door is locked.]]
* [[Scream Discretion Shot]]: [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|The collective screaming from the gas chamber after the door is locked.]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Tear Jerker]]
* [[Tear Jerker]]
* [[Translation Convention]]
* [[Translation Convention]]
* [[Truth in Television]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Birkenau_revolt See here.]
* [[Truth in Television]]: [[wikipedia:Auschwitz concentration camp#Birkenau revolt|See here.]]


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Latest revision as of 01:15, 5 October 2020

"We can't know what we're capable of, any of us. How can you know what you'd do to stay alive, until you're really asked? I know this now. For most of us, the answer... is anything."

The Grey Zone is a 2001 Holocaust movie set in 1944. It is based on personal memoirs of Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor from Hungary and personal assistant to Dr. Joseph Mengele at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The movie focuses on the rebellion by the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who worked in the gas chambers and crematoria.

Stars David Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi and Mira Sorvino.

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Tropes used in The Grey Zone include:

Girl: After the revolt half the ovens remain, and we are carried to them together. I catch fire quickly. The first part of me rises in dense smoke, that mingles with the smoke of others. Then there then are the bones, which settle in ash, and these are swept up to be carried to the river. And last, bits of our dust, that simply float there in air, around the working of the new group. These bits of dust are grey. We settle on their shoes, and on their faces, and in their lungs. And they become so used to us that soon they don't cough, and they don't brush us away. At this point they're just moving, breathing and moving, like anyone else still alive in that place. And this is how the work... continues.

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