4/4/2024 0 Comments Schindler's list imdb![]() ![]() These are the five scenes that have stayed with me. It is heartbreaking, brutal and beautiful. Schindler’s List is probably the greatest tool we have to ensure the transference of cultural memory of The Holocaust from the generations touched by World War II to the present and future. It is that built-in lethargy that we have to fight, because events like The Holocaust can and will happen again if we allow ourselves to forget what we’re capable of doing to each other. Most of us spend our days in a calculated effort to forget the most important things in our personal and collective history. TS Eliot said that humankind can only bear so much reality, and that’s true. Movies exist fundamentally as escapism as a tool to forget. Humanity has an almost uncanny ability to forget. Most people, will only see the film once, and it is a defining enough experience that once is all people need to remember. No one is ever in the mood to watch Schindler’s List you don’t pop it in at the end of a long day. That Spielberg manages to capture a fraction of the reality behind it, justifies the film’s place in history. The subject matter, the Holocaust, is a horror which no imagination can ever equal. ![]() To some degree, you have to do Spielberg a disservice and put aside the quality of the film itself, which is impeccable. Some movies get labeled as “Important” without deserving it, but if any film must be seen simply because it IS important, it’s Schindler’s List. S chindlers List recounts the true story of Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1,200 Jews from being sent to concentration camps. ![]()
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