Denial [DVD]

If for no other reason to contradict the nay-sayers, I'd like to give this movie 10 stars. But the movie actually deserves the 10 stars.I understand that there are always going to be differing opinions on certain things...the best path to get from "A" to "B", the idea of a glass being "half empty" or "half full"...etc. But when it comes to facts that are unrefutable, atempting to argue a different outcome is idiotic. Maybe it wasn't 6 million. Maybe it was 599,999,999. But unless you personally want to take up the task of counting each single one, I'd be willing to concede to the six figure. In reality, the generally accepted number is more like 11 million because Jews were not the only population targeted. But even so, just for the sake of argument, let's say that the denier's are correct in saying the actual number was something like 2 million. Does that make the crime any less severe? Does a reduced number make the Nazi's any less guilty? Either it happened or it didn't. But claiming that the Jews inflated the number for selfish reasons is only propaganda of it's own.This movie does a great job of walking the viewer through the moments of Ms. Lipstadt's ordeal. I can't imagine myself going through that same anguish and maintaining my dignity. I particularly liked the moments when she was approached outside the courtroom by a woman survivor who wanted to know why none of the survivors were called to testify. It was an emotional scene that spoke volumes for all of the real survivors today who want to speak for those who cannot. It also set a new tone for the dynamics between Ms. Lipstadt and her lawyers. Another scene that is endearing is when Ms. Lipstadt has a rift with one of her lawyers but later he shows up at her flat in London with a bottle of wine. It looks like he's come to appologize to her but in all reality he is only (and very elegantly) opening the door for her to appologize to him....a very subtle way of the script writer and director to show the skill he has as a lawyer to get his adversary to come around to his way of thinking.One of the key moments for understanding the strategy her lawyers want to take is when they manipulate David Irving into accepting a decision by a judge instead of a jury by giving him a back-handed compliment. You can see right away that the man is ruled by his ego when he thinks it is his own superior intelligence. This is only one similarity the script writers use to compare Irving to Hitler. There are several others, watch for them.Because the movie is based on real events, it has it's own built-in spoiler and we know the outcome. But it is interesting to watch how the movie allows us stay hooked in spite of having that knowledge.If you are a relative of a Holocaust survivor, put this movie on your radar and watch when you can. If you are a Jewish sympathizer, you too will be greatful for the opportunity to watch this movie. If you are an antisemetic, well, nevermind. I doubt you've read this far.

I have watched this movie 3 times, and every times, seems to be the first. The Actors are STELLAR, the story line is gut wrenching in our history. Weise pulls one into these scenes with the depths of emotions, with a backdrop well displayed, emotions perfect to draw us viewers into Historical accounts and behavior.

FIVE STARS- A POWERFUL FILM DEALING WITH HOLOCAUST ISSUES AND THE ETERNAL SEARCH FOR TRUTHThis is a very difficult film for which to write a Review. For Holocaust Survivors and their descendants the fact that this is essentially a Drama that takes place mostly in the Courtroom or Attorneys' Offices poses no issues. Those intimately immersed in the tragic realities and history of the Holocaust are more than familiar with all the atrocities perpetrated on the Jewish, Gypsy, Political and numerous other victims, which in the aggregate, defy description and beggar the imagination.Viewers such as myself who have read all the biographies of the countless Survivors, seen countless films and viewed actual blood curdling film footage taken in 1945 by the Liberators of the Death Camps and finally, lost Family Members in the Death Camps, (as I have), really have no need in this Movie to view further visual proof of that which we already know so well. For such viewers the thought of someone like David Irving denying the premeditated Murder of 6,000,000 Jews, which included one and a half million children, is sufficient to make this movie mandatory watching.This film kept my attention riveted to the screen from start to finish as I was already quite knowledgeable about the details of the book and the Trial.But for those people with comparatively little familiarity with all I have mentioned above, the film would have highly benefitted from the inclusion of just a little more background material to make such people understand why this Trial was so important and why the final Verdict and outcome held such Earth shaking ramifications for so many people around the world.Many readers would be quite amazed how little the average (non Jewish) person really knows about the details of the Holocaust.I never cease to be amazed at the often bizarre misconceptions many people have about what it was like to live and attempt to Survive during the Holocaust.Again, this movie was clearly intended for viewers such as myself who had no need to be "educated" about the horrors of the Holocaust.For other people lacking my background, there are such powerful Holocaust films as SCHINDLER'S LIST and THE PIANIST which are arguably true Masterpieces that will stand the Test of Time.But even a few additional visual details might have been added/included/inserted during the film to round out the "loose ends".The female Survivor at the Court rolls up her sleeve to reveal her inmate number Tattooed on her arm. But she might have carried and shown a few small photos of her husband and small children who died in the Gas Chambers. A picture as they say is worth a Thousand words.This would have required just an additional 15 seconds of film footage but been so telling and revealing for the viewers of the film's story.Likewise, as the protagonists were entering Auschwitz Death Camp the viewer caught just a partial, incomplete view of the infamous Iron Gate Sign that greeted the doomed victims as they entered: "ARBEIT MACHT FREI"-- ("Work Makes One Free") But the words are mostly cut off and only those in the know would have even known what the sign's message said and referred to. In short the German Nazis were informing the doomed Jewish victims: "Here you will be worked to death".A reminder of the words on the Entrance Gate of Dante's Hell:"LASCIATE OGNI SPERANZA, VOI CH'ENTRATE""Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here"The protagonists might have paused for three seconds at the Gate of Auschwitz whilst one of the group explained to the non German speakers the meaning of that infamous Sign which will live in Infamy.Finally, there still remain Gas Chambers on whose partially surviving concrete walls one can clearly observe the horrifying finger nail scratches, clawed into the stone as the doomed victims were helplessly fighting to try to climb a little closer to the skylight to get a last breath of air.Again, those few additional seconds of film footage and the group's Members observing and noting the fingernail scratches on the walls of the Gas Chambers would have added to the emotional pathos of their sole visit to Auschwitz and thus heightened the subsequent moments in Court.Thus, the film is a FIVE STAR film for people such as myself but most sadly, a FOUR or THREE and a HALF STAR FILM for audiences lacking my own personal informational and experiential background.But I simply cannot bear the thought of denying this powerful and meaningful movie a full FIVE STARS because it might have been made more applicable and understandable to a yet wider audience. Just a few extra feet of film footage would have made the film close to perfect.But it is what it is. For those who bring to the film an abundant knowledge and visual memories of what the Holocaust represents in the Collective Memory of Mankind, "DENIAL" is a FIVE STAR Film Masterpiece that will endure.______________________________________________

外国版で再生機器ＤＶＤでは再生できない。パソコンのＤＶＤソフトをもって再生して、日本語を待たずに、原版再生して真実真正をもってポーランド国内でのホロコーストのユダヤ人たちを600万の幾人か殺害できたのか？

I’ve been reading some of the other reviews on Amazon.com some saying Rachel Weisz was miss-cast,even though I do agree I will still give her the benefit of the doubt, you have to remember she’s playing someoneother than herself, so if she didn’t pull that off I will agree, but, I’ve never heard or seen the real Deborah Lipstadtso I don’t know what she’s like. I love the movie this is why I can’t give it a negative review for sake of the dead,so in light of all that, the Debate still continues for all the lost souls we didn’t know exist.now gone but I’m sure not forgotten, Tom Wilkinson as his usual self I see which is great, the man gives everything,and sometimes even more, ever seen Michael Clayton with him an George Clooney.Widescreen 2.40:1Runtime 111 Min.English 5.1 DTS-HD Master.

Timothy did such a fine acting job because I hated him from the start. And Rachel never leaves you disappointed!And such a timely discussion considering what is going on today with everyone around the world rushing for the apocalypse; no one (or very few) telling the truth or even willing to listen to it..

Timothy Spall plays David Irving as too much a caricature of evil. Almost throughout, but especially near the beginning of the movie, he's got such an exaggeratedly malicious expression on his face that he's impossible to take seriously. Nevertheless, the movie presents an interesting look at the defense and their strategy.

Millones de personas muertas en los campos de exterminio...Pero eso, no ocurrió. La historia de un juicio desde 1994, hasta el año 2000 , todo para probar si ocurrió o no el Holocausto. También ilustra el sistema judicial inglés que es distinto al americano. Muy entretenida y recomendable. Las actuaciones no decepcionante, pero la historia es muy interesante.