We live in a world increasingly dominated by likes or un-likes and surrounded by people to follow or unfollow. Although this was entertainingly dramatized in the Black Mirror episode ‘Nosedive’ , in reality it is no laughing matter. The grey areas in between these binary choices are marginalised to the point that there’s precious little space left for nuanced opinion.
When a film like Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ comes along this limitation is a major problem. The film is an accomplished, complex and uncompromising piece of work that left me awestruck, disorientated and a little numb. These are not reactions that can be summarised by clicking a ‘like’ button.
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Italian politician, journalist and all round trouble maker Giuseppe Mazzini once told Friedrich Nietzsche to “ban compromise”. This is the kind of reckless advice any libertarian, free-thinker is likely to lap up and act upon but it didn’t do Nietzche much good.
It is something of a paradox that in our fact check dominated world, liars and cheats continue to flourish.
