For this week, we have a slightly different set of texts/film than what we have been used to.

 

Gross’ Neighbors and Pawlikowski’s Ida both deal with the traumatic events of WWII Poland, but one focuses on the events of the war (the mass killing of the Jewish population in Jedwabne) and the other on a small group of Poles roughly twenty years after the event.  Do you think that the book and the film work best as complimentary pieces—that Ida is a sequel to Neighbors—or do you think that Ida is doing something different than Neighbors, that it has a different, possibly even alternative, story to tell?