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"Other criticisms should have been leveled at the book - I remember laughing at the dimwits who hate Spielberg - "the girl in the Red coat is Spielberg and Hollywood manipulation" - I am quite sure you were first in line with that correct.

Only in Schindler's Ark - the real life Oscar Schindler sat on his horse and gravitated to a small girl in a red coat!!!!

Oh wait - it wasn't a Spielberg ploy after all - it was a recounting of a REAL very likely plausible motivation for Oscar Schindler to decide to DO SOMETHING."

Nevertheless, I for one felt that, in the context of the film, "the little girl in red" was an extremely manipulative technique. This was confirmed when I overheard a couple of folks talking about that scene as they left the theater - "Ooh! Did you see what he did there?" Yes, those folks can congratulate themselves that they have the deep insight to notice such things!

Quite often, with Spielberg's films, I just wince at the all-too-obvious attempts to manipulate the audience's emotions. It's as if Spielberg has never heard of "the art which conceals the art". Although I do like a couple of his films, it's too difficult to get past the manipulation in most of them - in such scenes, I see merely the dollar signs flashing before his eyes! ;-)

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