Q&complAints #574 : Coincidence

What seeming coincidence is anything but?

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. . .here are my thoughts.

What seeming coincidence is anything but?

I coincidentally watched The Zone of Interest a few days before visiting the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.  I chose the movie from my “to-watch” list at random, not realizing there was such a museum in the U.S. capital.  My wife didn’t decide we should attend the museum until after we arrived in D.C.  Like I said, coincidence.  The film contains a plethora of symbolism and contrast.  I only realized the many I didn’t pick up on when reading about the movie afterward.  The film managed all this symbolism using only a view from outside the walls of the concentration camp, along with sounds of screams and gunfire echoing from within.  Near the end of The Zone of Interest, there’s a short scene inside the current-day Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.  Included is a display containing thousands of shoes from the victims of the atrocities.  The Holocaust Museum in D.C. has a similar exhibit—however all those shoes had been removed, replaced with a sign stating the display was temporarily closed.  What is the underlying symbolism I’m missing here? There’s no way those can all be just a string of seemingly random coincidences. 


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