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Re: Schlinder's List on DVD

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In Reply to: Schlinder's List on DVD posted by townsend on March 10, 2004 at 16:40:08:

I haven't seen this since it's original theatrical release.
This might be a bit controversial . . .
But just as a MOVIE it's only OK. Feines was truly remarkable in this role, but a lot of the movie is obvious and trite. The red coated girl comes to mind as extremely manipulative and just a cheap and obvious gag. This kind of tripe is Spielberg's trademark. If it's in a movie about any other subject and he's villified for the sappy shlockmeister he is, but in this movie it's forgiven.
The holocaust was the worst thing to happen to humanity in centuries. I am not belittling it, OK? But I think that making a moving film about this piece of history is . . . well . . . easy. The story is loaded with SO MUCH feeling and emotion that it only takes a very light touch of those psychic buttons to set us off. It's the ultimate cheap shot.
What I find incomprehensible, is this movie is supposed to be entertainment or a factual historical document? It was too depressing and violent for me to be entertained by it (so I certainly won't watch it again), and it was too "Hollywood" and (judging by the other posts in this thread) historically inaccurate to be a factual historical document.

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Re: Schlinder's List on DVD - RGA 10:26:33 03/12/04 (0)
Firstly it is historically accurate...small details are adjusted for the screen. That does not make them historically innacurate if the historically accurate big picture is met. The girl in the red coat was a main highlight of the book and not some Spielberg add in. But of course people latch onto one or two reviews by people who hate Spielberg and make assumptions beased on past films of manipulative ploys?? Still tryying to figure out why Spielberg manipulates and Kirosawa and Kubrick don't - they do it just as much in a different way.
Lots of films on this subject matter like the Pianist didn't move me because the director wasn't nearly as talented.
Judging the historical content by what people here say is rather funny. I'm minoring in history and mostly German history from 1900 through 1950. I can tell you that of all the historical docu-dramas made Schindler's remains as one of the most even handed dispartial films on any historical content ever.
A Hollywood historical film would be "The Patriot" -- Now this is a film that everyone can freely rant against because the historical innacuracy one sidedness and general LIES is utterly shocking. This is Hollywood. Spielberg is responsible for the hollywood blockbusters only because he makes far an away the best of them. If others could make a film remotely as good people probably wouldn't complain. But unfortunately we get Michael Bay.

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