This is not a film for young children, but older children and adults familiar with the evil addressed in this movie should go and see it. In February 1957, a young muskrat hunter set out to check his traps, set near a park just north of Philadelphia. One of the contributers spoke of how he was in screen 9 (if I remember correctly) in Cineworld Dublin - I was in Screen 11 and I can had the same experience, the film ended and no one moved, all were in a state of shock, no, sorrow. The case of the boy in the box was one of Philadelphia’s most baffling murder cases, stumping police for over 60 years, and still, today, leaving hundreds of unanswered questions. The great success of the film is its simplicity, it does not seek to over analyse but simply allows the development of the characters to tell the story. Watching this movie I kept being drawn back to Primo Levi's book "If This is Man" the story of his time as a prisoner suffering from this evil. There will be the predictable comparisons with Schindler's List but you might also want to compare this movie to "The Counterfeiters" which also deals with the conflicts necessary to survive.
We see the lead characters as both humans and monsters we see internal conflict and how they each come to terms with their conflicts, above all we see how futile their conclusions were.
There are more dramatic and more philosophical pieces of cinema dealing with this very emotive subject, but few deal with the horror, futility and falsehood of the "final solution" with such clear simplicity.
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