Is it just me, or are a lot of movies doing the post-modern shift to the present day thing these days? I found Romvari's fantastical twist on it, traversing time and space to let her proxy character visit her memories, to be very surprising and affecting (if not totally revelatory). It did not play out the way I expected.

Maybe stronger is the way she paints the family portrait before the time jump. It's such a detailed setting, and I…

In Shoah, there's a bit where folks who lived near gas chambers describe how they eventually tuned out how the sounds they heard all the time until they were just ambience.

I think part of Glazer's formal conceit here is seeing how long we, as viewers, can sit with the mundane while we're hearing the same sounds, through the whole film. Do we eventually stop hearing it as we focus our attention on the Höss family's gross little lives? That's…