For complaints, use another form. Study lib. Upload document Create flashcards. Flashcards Collections. Documents Last activity. Add to Add to collection s Add to saved. As with Platoon more than a half dozen years ago, we are enjoined to see a film and understand-but understand what? Spielberg has made sure that neither he nor the Holocaust will ever be thought of in the same way again. Does Schindler's List refer to anything beyond itseW! How are performers to reenact the brutal murder of thousands upon thousands?
Or do the movie's heightened presence and overwhelmillg immediacy suggest. Ai a momenr in lime. H'henel'er that little green monster is lurking somewhere, fJus marie is glJing 0 press it dm'v'n again. I don't wanl to burden rhe movie too milch.
Holocaust Memorial Museum being another, which are defining a kind of public consciousness of the Holocaust. How they do it is what we need now to address. BUl beyond that 1 worry about any single memory of the Holocaust becoming totally predominant. The U. Holocaust Memorial Museum has done a very good job at what it set out to do. In fact, I'm still afraid. In the case of Schindler's List, I hope that the great numbers that are going to see it will have their curiosity piqued about what was lost.
But I fear that they will come away sated now that they have seen the last word on the Holocaust. Those who have seen Schindler's List are more likely to see other films that deal with the Holocaust. So this is another movie. But in terms of its long-range hold on the public mind. I think it is much too soon to reckon that. I wonder if that isn't a sort of longing. Of course, considering that America spent billions on a defense system named after Star Wars, she may be tragically correct.
One of the few places it came up was in Philip Gourevltch's Commentary piece. What's going on here? YOUNC: Actually, what Rafferty has done is unpack something interesting, because it was Schindler's hunger for power which partly led to his goodness. And this in the movie is very interesting. That is, J would have expected Spielberg to lake a hero of the Warsaw ghetto uprising or one of the great heroes or one of the great villains, but instead he has taken somebody whose goodness is very ambiguous, what Saul Friedlander once called the ambiguity of good.
