Ethical Diversions

[Otto]

The distinction between fiction and documentary isn't relevant?

Well, maybe it is so but how many 16-year-old kids have watched "Shoah"?

I don't think "Schindler's List" was embarrassing. It made a whole 
generation of postwar-kids, at least here in Germany, aware of the 
Holocaust. This could not have been achieved with "Shoah". You don't get 
them to listen to survivors for nine hours, but you get them into the 
cinema for a 120 minutes Spielberg-movie.

Of course you are right saying that "Shoah" "was far more powerful and a 
hundred times weightier than Schindler's List." There can be no doubt 
about that but it doesn't make "Schindler's List" a bad or embarrassing 
movie or Spielberg's values "askew". The impact of the movie was far too 
important and positive for such a judgment.

I don't say that it's been an especially great movie or one of the most 
important movies of all time but, dealing with the topic of the 
Holocaust in a fiction, in my opinion it isn't so bad or questionable as 
you make it.


MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>> < But Shoah is a documentary, no fictional movie. >>
> 
> Yes, but I don't see that as relevant to my point.
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