During the peak of the Nazi regime in World War II, concentration camps were crafted to efficiently and systematically exterminate the Jewish race. The American director and actor Tim Blake Nelson directed a film depicting a gruesome story out of one of the concentration camps called “The Grey Zone.” The movie, which was released to American theaters on October 18th, 2002, takes place in the concentration camp “Auschwitz-Birkenau” in autumn of 1994. One of the prisoners, Hoffman, became part of the kammando inside the camp. The kammando’s are prisoner that are given the task of preparing the Jewish prisoners for the gas chamber. In return the kammando’s receive superior food, an improved living quarters, and their execution is held off for …show more content…
Just by his facial expressions, we can see that he did not plan out or think about killing the man. The look of shock and sadness on his face after the beating shows that he regrets his actions. After a group of dead bodies from the gas chamber are on their way to the crematorium, Hoffman spots a young girl that survived and was breathing. Hoffman wants to save this young girl, and plans on helping her escape. Hoffman’s urgent reaction to save this young girl appears to be an act to balance his one moral conscious. After earlier killing the man, he feels remorseful, so upon seeing the alive girl he wants to save her life. Even though many others around him try to persuade him to just leave the body, but he insists on helping save her. If he was inherently evil, he would never have acted in this way. The prisoners in the camp including Hoffman plan and execute a revolt against the Nazi’s. They accumulate a few guns and bombs. After the survivors of the revolt are captured Hoffman lays on the ground next to a fellow kammando Rosenthal. While waiting to get executed, Rosenthal and Hoffman both talk about how they “did