It's a Gas Gas Gas

[Henry M]

I really want to quiet down and not flame, but I've been quite 
irritable the past few weeks, und zo:

Remove the letters "J.E.W." from Mittelwerk's message and you'd 
wonder what it means. Leave them in and you have post-Rothian 
Semitic/Antisemetic criticism. I'll leave the details to you, except
for one or two: "There aren't really any Jews in that whole damn
move." And yes, Gas is BAD, Water is Good. In another context, would
you have a problem with that? Sounds like either:

1. Spielberg did a great job of visualizing a Nazi mentality

or

2. You would have preferred something more pleasant. Something more
traditional and longitudinally Jewish.

Sure the Jews in SL are a mass. They aren't people. SCHINDLER's list!
Hell-lo-o... Not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but were you
looking for a documentary? A musical? Or perhaps something as
insightful and personal re Jews and Jewesses as GR? 

On 24 Feb 97 at 23:40, Mittelwerk at aol.com wrote:

> Spielberg is a self-hating Spago Jew and philistine.
> 
> There aren't really any Jews in that whole damn movie:  mostly
> they're props to be murderered in order to highlight the moral
> variation between the two German leads, Schindler and Goeth. 
> Usually they're shown in panicky and delusive crowd contexts; when
> shown individually or in 'private' its only to stress some
> caricatured element of eternal Jewness or other.  Apart from the
> Germans in the movie, there is no reason for the Jews to have
> existed at all.
> 
> It isn't really suprising that Spielberg views himself as a
> benevolent German.  He exempflies the category of philistine--a man
> who made a career of denying himself in order to turn out whitebread
> gentile daydreams like a latter-day Zanuck.  All his movies bear the
> scars of assimilation:  the little Jewboy's comic-book dread of
> beach-resort White America, symbolized in the figure of a floating
> 35-foot dick with razor-sharp teeth; the comic-book idolatry of
> Indiana Jones, another ur-Gentile, pure wish-fulfillment,
> de-sexualized for your arrested viewing enjoyment.  Spielberg's
> subject matter has always been the Great American Lie, as something
> to be uncritically celebrated.  As least Woody overcame his neurosis
> by fucking his adopted-daughter; but Steven has always been a
> partisan of necrophilia. . . .
> 
> 
> Spielberg's neurosis, however, always produces embarrassing ruptures
> in his films--particularly in moments that have sexual content.  In
> Schindler's List this occurs twice:  once, in the cattle cars, when
> he cranks that goddawful John Williams ddeck as the rodent-like Jews
> thrust their tongues out to receive Schindler's heaven-sent droplets
> of water (this scene is truly repulsive, in that it spiritualizes
> the loss of humanity); and again, in the showers, as the Jewish
> women huddle naked in terror expecting the gas (and here comes that
> goddamned abysmal fucking John Williams tripe-score again),
> collapsing into joy as water spews forth from the nozzles instead.
> The whole bit is pure schlockola (Look!  You're in here with these
> Jews getting the business!).  This time Spielberg spiritualizes the
> absolute loss of dignity, flipping the emotions on his Jews like
> switches (Gas=Terror; Water=Glee).
> 
> In all seriousness, one has to be a complete buffoon to equate this
> movie with dedicated Art.  One has to completely miss the
> impossible-to-miss celebratory content of it:  Now we can sleep,
> little childrens, we can congratulate ourselves for feeling sorry
> for ourselves for being able to feel sorrow for those poor dead
> millions.  Ah, Schindler!  Ah, humanity!

AsB4

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