Conspiracy (2001)

As Good As It Gets

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The film documents a meeting held during WW2, when SS second-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich, assembles a group of Nazis to discuss the final solution of the Jewish question. The Wannsee conference is held in a German country house in snowy Berlin, the Nazis sit around a table for most of the film, occasionally getting for drinks, while enjoying buffet lunch. The debate is whether to execute the Jews or sterilise the Jews, discussing what method is the most efficient/effective option of eliminating the entire Jewish race.There were mant attendees including : Reinhard Heydrich, Otto Hofmann, Heinrich Müller, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Gerhard Klopfer, Adolf Eichmann, Dr. Rudolf Lange, Dr. Georg Leibbrandt, Dr. Alfred Meyer, Dr. Josef Bühler, Dr. Roland Freisler, Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, Erich Neumann, Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger and Martin Luther. The range of attendees symbolises the various natures of the Nazi culture.During in the deep discussions that are going on round the table, Heydrich proposes methods of how to exterminate the whole race, he proposes sterilisation or execution. Heyrdrich reveals that some of the execution methods are already in place; like the gas vans, this surprises some of the attendees that are round theb table who start to doubt the regime, however the people who are not totally sure on what should happen to the Jews are threatened lightly by Heydrich to make up their minds. Some parts of the film are very comical using language to provoke certain feeling and to interact with the reader.However there is very limited evidence to support what happened at the Wannsee conference therefore some of this information in the film could be unreliable, but it does create a very good sense of personalities and views towards the Jews at the time conveying that it was a one way journey for the Jewish race and that only one thing was going to happen to them.Overall this film, conspiracy, in my opinion is very good in portraying people's views in the Nazi party and that there were a diversity of opinions towards what was going to happen. However it is quite a short film therefore it will not give the viewer a full sense of what the conference was like.

Overall I think that Conspiracy is a well made and moderately accurate film. It really helped when watching it for my studies and gave me a clearer understanding to the opinion and plans of the SS and gave me another point to argue with with evaluating the Holocaust for history. I feel as though the actors were perfect for their roles and they were made to clearly show the story from a different point of view. Also I found the movie to be very detailed and interesting, which was helpful in my understanding of what the SS had to do with the whole idea. As well as the content being very enthusiastic and impressive, I think this is a clever film by showing a side other than that of Hitler's, and it is key to the plans and intentions of the whole Nazi party. In contrast, I do agree that it was not historically accurate or perfect as some scenes tended to be exaggerated and wrong in some ways. But I suppose to make a good film, there needs to be some parts added to the original story to make people want to watch it.By doing this, the producer is also getting people to think about those scenes and question what could have actually happened for themselves and ask questions about what happened in-between the meetings and conferences. However, this didn't stop me enjoying the movie and watching it very carefully and I still feel as though I took away a lot from it. I would also recommend other people watching it as I do believe it is a good watch.

Although this film was very boring as it was based mainly around a conference table I still feel that it was very informative and showed what happened when they was deciding whether or not to kill the Jews. I think that there was a great cast in the film and they all played a very good part in their given roles. when deciding whether or not to kill the Jews, there was many debates about why they were doing it. when they eventually decided that they were going ahead with it, they then had a debate on how they was going to do this and come to a conclusion that they would use gas chambers to do this. this film was very interesting because it was clear on its intentions to show people what happened around that table in Wannssee, Germany in 1942, it also showed us who attended the conference, some of these people were Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Müller, Adolf Eichmann and Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger. the actor Kenneth Branagh played the role of Reinhard Heydrich who was the organiser and main speaker in the conference, he was the one who made the final decision and had the final say. I thought this was good because it showed the level of authority each member of that conference had and clearly showed who was more powerful than others. from this film i found that the Wannsee conference didn't last as long as i thought and the decision was made fairly easily.

The film consists entirely of a meeting of high level Nazi officers planning exactly how they will exterminate all of Europe's Jews. On one level it is as boring as watching a meeting of the board of ConAgra plotting the more efficient slaughter of cattle. It is surprisingly easy to forget they are talking about the efficient murder of millions of people. They cloak everything in vague, undefined euphemisms.All the characters are real people. The dialogue comes from a transcript of the meeting. In the credits they tell you want happened to each of them. All had some sort of unpleasant end, even if it were just being held in jail for years on charges of war crimes.Why did these people collaborate with Hitler? They saw Hitler's absolute power, and did whatever they had to do to climb up in the hierarchy, which included pretending to despise Jews passionately. Moral people had no real choice but to get out of the country.I kept expecting the kitchen staff to poison these villains, or blow them to bits. But no such thing happened. The movie had to conform with history.