I can certainly understand why people might find it problematic (I was very dubious when I hit play, myself), but--aside from the joy of watching the grandfather slowly warm up to this weird idea and find delight in the dancing--I thought it was excellent for several reasons, most of which I find I can't articulate properly. But one of them is that it does, truly, celebrate survival and the fact--as the grandfather says--that it's sixty-plus years later and he's brought his grandchildren to Auschwitz, and another is that, for me at least, it's a glorious, vigorous, fearless KICK IN THE FACE to the Nazis. Not about disrespecting the victims, but about triumphing over the forces of evil, through surviving in spirit as well as in body.
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I can certainly understand why people might find it problematic (I was very dubious when I hit play, myself), but--aside from the joy of watching the grandfather slowly warm up to this weird idea and find delight in the dancing--I thought it was excellent for several reasons, most of which I find I can't articulate properly. But one of them is that it does, truly, celebrate survival and the fact--as the grandfather says--that it's sixty-plus years later and he's brought his grandchildren to Auschwitz, and another is that, for me at least, it's a glorious, vigorous, fearless KICK IN THE FACE to the Nazis. Not about disrespecting the victims, but about triumphing over the forces of evil, through surviving in spirit as well as in body.