I know I'm basically a year behind, but I'm a mom and I use that
excuse widely.
If you're looking for an emotionally, eye opening, heart
wrenching, thought provoking movie look absolutely no further. The zookeepers
wife proves to be all of the above and more.
It has always been hard for me to imagine the Nazi era, but I
have been working hard to educate myself over the last years to better
understand the histories of people around me. I still struggle to wrap my mind
around the ingrained hatred that worked to motivate Word War II, and honestly I
don't want to understand it. But, I do want to understand what led to it so
that I can be best educated in how to prevent this level of hatred again.
I recently read Small Little Things by Jodi Picoult, and it too
opened my eyes to experiences of racism for PoC. While I may be
"woke" to the reality of these things existing, I am privileged in
the sense that it isn't my daily life.
I can't help but take a step back and reflect. How am I actively
working against hatred? How am I pursuing a society of equity? How will I
continue to respond as the hatred seems to be more vocal, more blatant, and
more celebrated than ever before in my short life? These are questions that are
quite literally keeping me up tonight. This movie. Oh my heart. This REALITY of
so many- these babies being loaded in a train to be killed because of their
looks and their beliefs. And a family who risked their marriage, safety, lives,
and children to help others. 300+ people were saved because of their sacrifice.
What will I sacrifice? What do I sacrifice? How could it be more?
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