Recensione di anhedonia

"Paper Clips" is not only a film that school children throughout this nation should see, but also one that shows clearly how stupid it is to maintain stereotypes. Here are southern school children, kids from Whitwell, Tenn. Middle School, who decide to do something significant when they learn about the Nazi Holocaust.

What begins as a simple plan, to collect six million paper clips, turns into a project of several years. And it helps the teachers and students open their eyes to the outside world, learn about what happened and also helps outsiders learn more about these kids.

This is an absolutely fascinating film. It celebrates the tenacity of these children, but never tries for anything maudlin. Yet, it's completely moving. There are scenes here - especially when survivors of the Nazi concentration camps speak to the townsfolk - that will move you to tears.

There isn't a single dull or dishonest moment in this film. We see one of the teachers admitting to prejudices and then get to witness how this project helped him. We see children acknowledging they knew nothing about the Holocaust when they started the project and how much it has helped their worldview and how they see other races.

I saw "Born Into Brothels" and it's a very good film. But how could "Paper Clips" have been ignored by the Oscars? I wish the idiots who claim the Holocaust was a myth, that the Nazis did not exterminate six million Jews and five million invalids, homosexuals, gypsies and others during the Third Reich would see this film, along with Alain Resnais' "Night and Fog" (1955) and James Moll's "The Last Days" (1998).

If the students at Whitwell Middle School are any indication of America's future, they give me hope.