This is a nearly perfect movie, from Hüller's performance, to the editing, to cinematography, production design, and I don't even need to mention sound. I'll admit it almost lost me in the middle, but there are enough memorable scenes throughout to land it firmly on the "Best Films I'll Never Watch Again" list. By keeping the truth of the holocaust just offscreen, Glazer lets the horror of that knowledge grow in the viewer's mind far more effectively than if he had put some horrible image on screen (this is Spielberg's Jaws effect). And it's that constant knowledge, juxtaposed with images of pretty flowers that so effectively creates this "Horror through Complacency," putting the viewer squarely in the shoes of the Höss family. Glazer is pointing the finger at you, at the audience, at the world, demanding "how do you live with yourself!?" He calls into question not only the actions of those involved at Auschwitz, but of humanity's actions across history, into the present. As we say every year at Passover, "If not me, who? If not now, when?"