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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-31-2005 08:11 AM

I normally avoid movies whose primary subject matter relates to the Holocaust because a) I have shown many of them and b) the majority are extremely depressing. This one is different. It follows a middle-school project in a rural community to collect one paper clip for each Jew killed by Hitler's regime. It sounds simple, but the project leads to many extremely powerful lessons, both for the students, and the teachers (and the community at large).

I don't have much else to say, except that it is a very well crafted documentary (shot on video, but obviously by someone who understood the concepts of "lighting" and "exposure") and one which I would highly recommend.

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