Astounded.

So this is just a quick thought for the night before I go to bed, because I can't get it out of my head. First off, some background history. I love the Holocaust. Anything to do with it. In a morbid fashion some would say. To me, I like to think of it as human psychology. To imagine that any one person could, in a few words, brain wash an entire nation the way that Hitler did, is truly intriguing, as well as horrifying.

I'm that person that loves when the History Channel does their Hitler week or whatever. I have collected many books of personal accounts or even just fictitious books on the Holocaust era. I love to learn and study different things about it and if you ask just the right question, be prepared for the answer! Anyway, as funny as this all may be, my mom was just as amazed tonight when we went to Redbox to get a movie and she wanted to get "Sarah's Key," which is a movie about the Holocaust that she had heard about at work; that I have never actually watched a theatrical movie on the Holocaust. "Schindler's List?" she asked. "Diary of Anne Frank?" she questioned. Nope, and nope. Don't ask me why, I've just never watched movies, documentaries sure!

Well, that may change based off tonight's movie. It was amazing. It wasn't glossed over with a happy ending like some books portray (ok, ok, not HAPPY in the sense that we think happy, the people move on with horrendous, nightmarish memories, but they're generally ok). It made you think, and question how anybody could live with what had happened.

Oh, and to top it, me, the professor of all things Holocaust, actually learned something tonight. See "Sarah's Key" is about the French deportation and handling of Jews. I knew that France had been occupied during WWII, knew that they had a French Resistance underground. Did NOT know that they, even before they were occupied, had rounded up and treated the Jewish people like Hitler did. Did not know. Makes you think twice about who really was on the allied side.

Anyway, my brain is bursting with the desire to talk this movie out with someone who is not my mom and sister (they just get to hear me all the time). So please, stop by Redbox, spend your $1.28; trust me it's well worth it. Then, get back to me. Let me know what you think; and try to tell me you weren't effected in the end.

"No one who goes searching comes out unscathed" - from Sarah's Key