Appreciate and really am impressed by large chunks of this, which is elevated by its use of sound and the occasional dip into abstract imagery, but much like Glazer’s Under The Skin, it ends up, to me, feeling less and less focused on what made it so engrossing and different at the start, and slightly more basic than it sets itself up to be. But again, just like Under The Skin, this slight feeling of unsatisfaction does not stand in the way of how legitimately great this film is and feels, but instead makes it fall just short of a masterpiece.

A primeira cena de 'A Zona de Interesse' é uma sequência escura, apenas o som sendo ouvido ao fundo. Essa escuridão vai marcar a obra de Jonathan Glazer. Em primeiro momento, Glazer apresenta uma família tradicional e seu cotidiano, composta por um pai, uma mãe, filhos e tudo mais. Essa sensação de que tudo está "bem" e "normal" faz um contraste sombrio com o contexto em que aquela família está inserida. 'A Zona de Interesse', ambientado na Alemanha nazista de 1943, em plena segunda guerra mundial, não leva sua câmera para dentro dos campos de concentração, assumindo que o público tem um conhecimento prévio dos horrores que acontecia ali. Não tem pra que mostrar.

Many say it's easy to forgive, but they rarely are faced with the choice to. Many want us to forget, how possibly can we? You stuff your ears with your fingers to block the screams. You build walls to keep your eyes safe from the unimaginable drifting by on the other side. You plant flowers to cover the smell of indifference that will forever linger in your heart. Hate is murder and ignorance is damnation.

畫面呈現和鏡頭語言挺藝術的（？） 劇情含量就比較少

I don’t know if it’s because I'm on meds for the first time in my life but this gave me a strange, guttural feeling, as if I was watching a gore-filled horror film. Multiple times I felt out of breath. My whole body reacted in the theater as if the sounds of crying babies, gunshots and that terrifying score were activating something deep within my body.

I won’t ever forget the shot where beautiful red flower is shown on screen and the screen is slowly turning to “blood” red colour with a tortured screams in the background. On paper this would sound too minimalistic for a topic that is the most disturbing ever. One might expect a sensationalised version of this. But the director Glazer shows that your film doesn’t need to come under horror genre to make his viewers feel terrified or uncomfortable. Just the sound and our imagination is enough to understand this movie. Almost like the director wanted viewers to be in the shoes of an evil and his family who are disturbingly disregarding the genocide that is happening beside them in the camp and living a beautiful life. In the end I just couldn’t escape all the worrying sounds in the background. I believe I can say director is successful in making me feel this way. The ending sequence is…

This is a lock for sound design, right?