Amit's Blog

Say Anything - Alive with the Glory of Love

So the song is said to be based off the main singer’s grandparents experiences during the Holocaust. The video is criticized by some as not properly conveying the Holocaust, but I like to imagine it another way. As a child, hearing the stories of the Holocaust were hard to picture in my head. I imagine the director of this video portrayed the story through the mind of the grandson hearing the story. The grandson relates the Holocaust camps to his summer camps because he could never imagine something as horrible as Auschwitz. That’s my take, but you watch the video and let me know: