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A dissent on "Schindler's List". |
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| מתוך |
Commentary 97,2 (1994) 49-52 |
| תקציר/הערה |
Criticizes Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List" as a Hollywood spectacle. Says, however, that it is the most affirmative movie ever made about the Shoah (e.g. good people helping the persecuted), and it is an impressive cinematic achievement. But Spielberg's affection for action and spare dialogue causes a lack of compelling characterization. The film gives no indication why Schindler acted as he did to save "his" Jews. He therefore becomes an enigmatic creation, "the good Nazi". Also, the Nazi slaughter of Polish Jewry is depicted almost entirely through German eyes - the Jews are presented as caricatures, strange and foreign, often unattractive and dishonest. Most pernicious is the view that this film is a documentary, leading to confusion between fact and fiction, reality and illusion. The critical acclamation awarded the film suggests that a powerful spectacle is more beguiling than historical authenticity, and the psychology of Nazis is a bigger draw than the civilization of the people they murdered. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
990001093290705171 |
| קישורים |
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