In Reply to: Agreed... posted by Victor Khomenko on April 18, 2000 at 14:29:49:
...Spielberg somehow missing the mark on the concentration camps in Schindlers list. That film also felt staged and lacking in the otherworldly sense of daily regimented brutality that places like the camps must have really been. Regarding reality vs film for a moment, I'm not sure what was scarier - what happened in the camps or that an entire regimented routine of procedure and order was created and sustained to do it. I'm not sure I would want to see the movie that would really convey that...joe
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- Yes, sort of like... - Joe S 14:52:39 04/18/00 (4)
- Brutality - an endless search for perfection... - Victor Khomenko 15:19:09 04/18/00 (3)
- A sense of reality and desperation that I suspect... - Joe S 15:35:58 04/18/00 (2)
- "a veneer on human existence which is tissue paper thin" - Stephen Hayes 17:22:42 04/18/00 (1)
- Not just a US phenomenon... - Joe S 18:36:50 04/18/00 (0)