this might not sound like a recommendation and but when you consider the film subject matter and painful be actually a good word to describe the grey zone brilliance . director tim blake nelson have craft a fascinating portrayal of the sonderkomando and jewish concentration camp prisoner who help the nazi in order to ensure for themselves a few extra month of life and as well a creature comfort deny to the other prisoner . the script and cast be equally effective . david arquette prof himself to be not merely the idiot bastard son of the arquette family with a powerful performance while harvey kietel and steve buscemi be brilliant a always . the film real strength and make it the great holocaust film i have ever see and be it relevance while we may think ourselves to noble to sell out our brother to save our own life and but we would certainly reconsider if actually face with this choice . in the end and nelson brilliantly imply that perhaps the nightmare world of the sonderkomando be really not so different from our own workaday reality .