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Israel/Zionism See other Israel/Zionism Articles Title: Extra! Extra! Forward calls Schindler's List "a fairy tale with documentary trappings" What got lost when Oskar Schindler’s story became ‘Schindler’s List’ .........Which makes the fictionalized lines feel superfluous, especially since they read like an almost comical ode to aspirational American capitalism, a speech only Jeff Bezos could love. Schindler’s great glory: Making money. His great sin: A failure to adopt austerity. It’s also pretty Christian, what with the solemn holy man and his flock and that crazy, pieta-style weepy group hug. And that’s weird, right, for a movie that’s supposed to be about Jews? Which leads to the the whole goyishe vibe in general, the fact that somehow the world’s most famous, most paradigmatic movie about our own damn genocide features Good Nazi and Bad Nazi as its main characters – both of them played by two of the most Teutonically beautiful, Riefenstahlian fever dreams of ice blue eyes, strong chins and sharp cheekbones that have ever walked onto a Spielberg set. Which is both saying a lot, and, given the subject, sort of creepy. The Nazis get the A plot, the great dramatic scenes, and all the pretty girls – who are usually Jewish. And imprisoned. And either naked or wearing flimsy nightgowns, which is also sort of creepy. ..............These and other excised details paint a picture of a world in which Schindler, significantly, was never on anything resembling a hero’s journey. He was a node within an active underground in which many gentiles with a whole range of motivations collaborated with many Jews to save lives and undermine Nazi authority, usually against what must have felt like impossible odds. The Jews in particular sought Schindler out regularly, knowing of his reputation for being a man whose factory might supply shelter from deportation and death. They did so not as supplicants; they were nobody’s flock. ..............Spielberg’s Hollywood-sanctioned emphasis on the individual at the expense of the community, as well as his erasure of Jewish agency, is troubling. Especially today, when an overemphasis on “individual responsibility” continually subverts attempts to find collective solutions for our troubles. ..............And what does Spielberg’s film have to offer us, in terms of grappling with these troubles? For all his talk about education and urgency and messages for the world, the movie is basically a fairy tale with documentary trappings. Where in “Schindler’s List” can a normal human being connect? With the hero? With the villain? I, for one, am no canny salesman......... forwa rd.com/culture/47954...campaign=campaign_3386029 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is pretty tasty I must say. They start by hailing Spielboig's 75th birthday as a "momentous occasion" and then spend the rest of the piece ripping his supposed masterwork. I guess we'll never know why. Course they don't tell you the real deal even with all this verbiage: He was an absolute skunk who didn't do 1/10 of what's alleged. 25 years ago his wife wrote a cover story in a South American newspaper calling him an "idiot" and bastard, partly for dumping her there with zero support sometime after the war and going back to Europe. She cashed in on his craze by writing a book about him and them -- my hollowcaust survivor violinist friend lent me her copy. Frau Schindler gave more gory details of his character but managed to paint him up as an 'unlikely hero' type. www.amazon.com/Where-Ligh...indler%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1 Little known, now forgotten: the flick was criticized for its typical jew aspects like nudity, foul language etc. www.writing.upenn.edu/~af...aust/schindler-on-tv.html Where else would you go, who else can you rely on for such inside stories as your NN in 4um? Ppl pay big money for this level of stuff in newsletters etc. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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