The Decent One
Overview: Archive footage accompanies the correspondence and memoirs of Heinrich Himmler, chief architect of the Holocaust. Kino Lorber; 2014 (Germany); unrated; 94 minutes. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Cinema accepts that the psychology of killing is fascinating subject matter. Countless documentary filmmakers (most recently Joshua Oppenheimer in The Act Of Killing and The Look Of Silence) have attempted to get inside the minds of genocide perpetrators. Others, such as Claude Lanzmann (Shoah, The Last Of The Unjust) strive for straight, first-person testimonies. Vanessa Lapa’s The Decent One finds itself somewhere between the two. The extracts from Himmler’s...
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