Forgive Us Our Trespasses is a short film that was released on Netflix. It is thought provoking, hard hitting and educational. I'm not usually one for short films, but this was well worth watching and will be with me for a long time.
Forgive Us Our Trespasses is based in Nazi Germany, and we follow a young boy was is disabled. The film starts with the boy being in class and they are learning about how much it takes to take care of a disabled person and what the solution is. A boy answers saying that they should get killed off. This scene really sets the mood for the rest of the film, because it already shows us the discrimination the disabled got in Nazi Germany at the time. What really stands out in this scene is that the children are already being indoctrinated at a young age to despise the disabled. After this scene we see that the teacher who was teaching the class was actually the disabled boys mum. We see them at home in the morning and the Nazis are looking for the boy, so his mother tells him to run and as he runs out of the house we hear a gun shot, which the audience is suppose to assume that the mother got shot. Now we have the Nazis hunting the boy down, so he runs for his life. The boy runs into a barn and we see a Jewish woman who is hiding. So the boy directs the Nazis away from the woman and carry's on running, while the Nazis chase him down. One of Nazis catches the boy and try's to strangle him to death, but the boy manages to grab the gun off of the Nazi and kills him. The end scene we see the boy is still running for his life.
There is text at the end of the film that really brings to light something I did not know. what it says is that at the time Hitler implemented Aktion T4, which led to 300,000 deaths of disabled people and a additional 400,000 disabled people being sterilized. And the worst thing was that many of the victims were children.
Overall the short film was tense at times and very sad to think about what people went through at the time because they had a disability. The film really makes you think what monsters human beings can be if they are led down the wrong path.
Verdict - 9/10
This short film taught me something I will never forget. If you like emotional and heart wrenching films, then this will hit all of them notes. It is short, easy to watch and educational.
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