Our readings for Wednesday dealt with the trauma of having to leave from one's home, with it being the French family in Suite Francaise, the Jews leaving Egypt, and Freud's own departure from his home. Before this, I had not realized how traumatic it can be for a person to be forced to leave their home. This makes me wonder about the effects that are happening all over the country from people being forced to leave their homes, because they are unable to pay their bills. I feel that alot of people in America are probably expierencing the same kind of trauma that you can see in the French family.
I found myself having mixed feelings about the film that was shown yesterday. I found it to be a good kind of "feel good" movie after seeing that the boy and the mother managed to survive the holocaust thanks to the father. But I wasn't sure about the comedic parts of the movie of when they were in the concentration camps. I felt that this might somehow take away from the true horror of the camps. It could have been done this way to give the audience a sense of hope about humanity, seeing how despite everything that was happening to and around the father, he was still able to put on a smile and tell his son everything was just a game. Which I guess would be better instead of having people watch the movie and feel a complete loss in the hope for mankind.