THB #504: Jonathan Glazer's Oscar Speech

I clicked on a bunch of links to outlets from The New York Times to BBC to The Guardian and on today, looking for a simple transcription of Jonathan Glazer’s brief acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest at last night’s Oscar show.

Couldn’t find one.

Every outlet seemed compelled to chop up the text with editorial that told or led readers to what to make of Glazer’s words. (Eventually, I found the plain text at Vox… which was using it to shame other outlets, offering, “Everyone is misquoting Jonathan Glazer’s speech at the Academy Awards.”)

Ironically, this behavior by what seems to be the majority of the media speaks very much to what Glazer’s movie is about. While some very smart people have argued that the film’s “gimmick” of not showing the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust was a major flaw in the film, I see the film as one that inspires reflection and thought in the viewer, considering the things we know and don’t know and don’t want to know (I’m reminding myself of The Unknown Kn…