[quote=“Yasmin”]
I’ve never heard anything more stupid in my life.
I think you just used that as an excuse because of your inhability to accept what a truly good filmmaker Steven is.
Cashing in on the Holocaust? Steven made no money from that movie and as a Jewish man, he had every right to tell that story. Some people have no tolerence for books or documentries so through movies, we have an opportunity to learn more about history.
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I was merely referencing to a scientific discussion on the case of the inabiltity to portray the holocaust in a good manner. If there ever is a way it’s more expressed in the way that shows respect to the victims and survivors. Expressed in a way that discusses the inability to show anything that concerns the holocaust. By watching a movie on the holocaust it gives the illusion that it is graspable what happened. That is, in many people’s eyes not the way to do it. Spielberg uses a hollywoodian form, with cheap thrills and effects in a cliché: oh look the bad guy can be good too, manner, which is intellectually insulting. I don’t think something like the holocaust, which blows up all the foundations of modern western thought can be used in this fashion.
If you learn your history through a movie than of course most of any sensebility will be lost on you. In that way it is indeed nice that people have some recognition of what happened. But what it has turned out to be is, and this is quite sad, the standard for how a lot of people look at the holocaust. Mostly its the only thing people even know about it. I don’t think that a hollywoodian story can/ or should serve for this purpose.
I ain’t against Spielberg, I love most of his movies, I just have a problem with Schindler’s List.