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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What I find incomprehensible, is this movie is supposed to be entertainment or a factual historical document?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and it was too "Hollywood" and (judging by the other posts in this thread) historically inaccurate to be a factual historical document.
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