The movie Private was the second film we saw in class, and
this film primarily took place inside the family’s house. When it was taken
over by Jewish soldiers the family is forced to stay on the first floor of
their house. This movie does a great job of building up tension. There are
multiple parts where the family is put to the limits, and they are forced t act
out. For example; the eldest daughter decided to go upstairs (which they weren’t
allowed to do under any circumstance) and upon reaching the quarters of the
soldiers she is forced to hide in a closet to not be found. She does this
several times throughout the movie, and each time she does it the tension
builds more. The film doesn’t do the viewer justice; I feel like there is no
climax to this aspect of the film. The last time she was up there a guard saw
her, and didn’t say anything. Also the eldest son acted out. The father and he
were building a greenhouse, and the soldiers would constantly destroy it.
Naturally they kept rebuilding it, but the son found a grenade that the
soldiers left. He would set up a booby trap in the greenhouse for when the
soldiers would hopefully come by. This was also a very tense moment in the
film, because he somehow managed to put the pin back in the grenade multiple
times when he had to take down the booby trap, the father almost went down to
the greenhouse, and at the very end of the film the soldiers are finally
leaving the family and they are walking by the greenhouse. It is set up like
the grenade is going to go off, and the film just cuts to black. This was
another moment in this film that I felt like the tension wasn’t released
properly. I thought this movie was well done, I just really wish that there was
a more climactic release of tension. I genuinely enjoyed this movie.
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