Paper Clips
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, David Smith, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts, Tom Bosley Director: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab Brand: Hart Sharp Video Producer: Joe Fab Writer: Joe Fab Producer: Ari Daniel Pinchot Producer: Bob Weinstein Producer: Donny Epstein Producer: Elie Landau Producer: Harvey Weinstein Producer: Jeffrey Tahler Producer: Matthew Hiltzik Producer: Robert M. Johnson Producer: Stuart Avi Savitsky Producer: Yeeshai Gross DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 82 minutes Published: 2006-03-01 DVD Release Date: 2006-03-07 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Model: 2956703222 Studio: Arts Alliance Amer Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Paper Clips
Movie Review: Awesome story, mediocre documentary
Summary: 3 Stars
Paper Clips / B000CMNJF4
Let's be clear about one thing: this is a truly awesome real-life story. What this town did, in trying to educate their children, is wonderfully admirable. I wish every school in America would focus on these important lessons - on not just the rote memorization of dates, names, and locations, but in teaching children that there are other people out there, different people, and what their lives are like. I was especially moved that not only did the teachers emphasize the trials the Jewish race faced in WWII, but also emphasized how many good German people exist today who are deeply sorrowful that such a terrible thing happened in their country - it is truly refreshing to see a school handle such a complicated issue so delicately and not succumb to the temptation to exchange one form of racism for another.
Having said that, this documentary is not as good as I'd hoped it would be. I definitely recommend watching it, but as a rental, and not as a purchase, in my opinion. The documentation is somewhat poor, and it is particularly annoying to cut away from speeches of actual survivors to interviews with the children who are summarizing the speech for us. It's good to see that the children really care and are listening, but there's no reason we couldn't have heard both the survivor's speech AND the child summary - ideally the former could be a voice-over during one of the many counting scenes. I recognize that a documentary only has so much time, and probably the crew wanted to focus on the paper clip 'story' and not the meanings behind it, but to do so is something of a betrayal of the *point* of the paper clip project - which was to remember the people who died, and why, so that it could never happen again, and not to just collect a lot of metal.
Which isn't to say this isn't a documentary worth watching - it is. Rent it, watch it, and then decide if you need to buy a copy to add to your home library.
~ Ana Mardoll