50th Gate

So in short the truth is subjective. What we've accepted as history, is really the a construct that gaurantees no truth, a collaboration of statements that are generally agreed on but not known for sure. If you've noticed the problematic issue here; Which is why history is infact flawed and easily scrutinized, it is that history is blatantly void of any emotional dimensions, rendering a crucial factor in past, omitted.

An instance, In The Fiftieth Gate; Baker eagerly seeks the 'Truth' behind his parents' stories. He questions the validity of their memory and continually cross-reference evidences, archives, 'fecks, fecks' and more 'fecks'. But ultimately these are just scripts written onto peices of parchments, that do not convey to the audience the trauma and devastation behind the Holocaust. Genia for one, is a prime example of this point.

Her experiences of the Holocaust were dissimilar from her husband's. Whilst many of his experiences were validated through collective memory, many of hers were indeed personal. Many which were difficult to prove, especially as the sole survivor of Bolszowce. [Hence the audience perceives her story through an oral narrative.]

Genia had been severely traumatized in her childhood and in the years of hiding, which is manifest in her fears of elevators, houses with no windows, and closed spaces.

And her habit of keeping all her clothes worn on special occasions in her life, her intensive beauty routines, and frenzied cleaning habits all suggest how she's compensating for the things she lacked as a child. This irrefutably delineates how history alone, it is not enough to reflect the damage it's inflicted, especially in the case of individuals like Genia.

"Nightfall to me is sadness and darkness and I just can't disconnect my past, you know, I can't forget these moments for as long as I live."

This is just one extent, one aspect of how history and memory, when interwoven, can recreate a more thorough past. Alternatively, a more...