perdike wrote:Quite another sort of horror . . . the choice the Meryl Streep character had to make in "Sophies Choice". Actually, I read the book first, and it is still one of the most horrifying predicaments I can imagine for a human being. The mother (in this case) on arriving at a concentration camp being forced by an "officer" to choose which of her two children to live, which one to die. If she didn't choose one, both children would die.
No wonder that character was unable to live with herself for the rest of her life (which wasn't long, anyway).
I remember that film too, absolutely heatbreaking.