I know this may sound a little bit creepy but until recently there was a poster of Schindler's List in our bedroom.
Why? Because it represented one of the films which has had the greatest impact on Mrs W and me.
I still vividly remember how, at its final credits, the audience just sat motionless, not knowing whether to applaud or cry.
We are not Jewish but I cannot believe that anyone is not as touched as we have been over the racist persecution of the 3rd Reich.
How could any human being carry out the ritual humiliation, torture and murder of another?
Last year we visited Dachau and I have been to Yad Vashem, the holocaust museum in Jersalem. Both affected me deeply.
Thus, I have been left agog by some of the negative critical reaction to In Darkness.
For example, much-lauded Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun-Times, proclaims that it is 'yet another movie in which Jews escape death in the Holocaust through the actions of a gentile with conscience.'
Yet another? I could buy it if he has been talking about a Jennifer Aniston rom com but, honestly, how many of these films have there been?
Meanwhile, the chief review on internet movie database gives Agnieszka Holland's film 4/10 and seems to be suggesting that it is too dark in the lighting sense and subject matter. Oh really? It's a film about people living in sewers to escape being shot.
Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Mine is that In Darkness is a startling achievement and when the end-of-film summary told us what happened next in this true story, I nearly cried.
Holland conveys the sheer awfulness of this true story about Jews who found the only way of escaping the brutality of the Germans in Lvov (now part of the Ukraine).
They decided that taking their chances with the rats in the sewers was better than those above ground.
However, the maze of tunnels created a problem in themselves - one of getting lost.
The solution was to enlist the help of the Polish guys whose job it was to work down there, clearing blockages.
Robert Wieckiewicz plays Leopold Socha, the Schindler of the Lvov drains. At first he sees the Jews' offer as a way of making money but then it becomes so much more.
Holland's film shows just how feral man can become... firstly, in the persecution of others and then the desperate battle to survive.
It is frightening how quickly humans turn to animal instincts in both cases.
Both Mrs W and I were deeply moved by In Darkness (only cold hearts couldn't be). But it is not only a considerable achievement in its story-telling...the physical challenges of the sewer scenes must have been huge.
A criticism made of the cast is that they are low-key. That is precisely what they would have been, given the circumstances.
Wieckiewicz, whose character faced a huge moral dilemma in Wymyk, is confronted with a myriad of them here.
But, ultimately, the greatest questions come not from his wife, friends, Germans or Jews but from his own conscience.
This was a nomination for a foreign language Oscar. It is, in my view, a must-see.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: one scene
Nudity: Surprisingly, quite a lot of sex scenes...these emphasised how life continued even in the most wretched of circumstances.
Overall rating: 9/10