These factors alone would grant it an access to the mainstream public consciousness that no other movie on this subject has enjoyed. The fact that it is a very good movie means it has a chance to lodge there instructively, and perhaps permanently. Since no filmmaker has a track record like his, none has his power to encourage both a studio and the young mass audience to take a risk on a movie the subject of which is inherently repellent, not to say terrifying. Not all film critics loved it.
Indeed, it won Best Directing and Best Picture. When Spielberg spoke of his own motivation for making the movie, he pointed to its educational value. Then, as now , levels of knowledge about the Holocaust could be shockingly low. That phenomenon extended to the real people who lived through the story Spielberg told. Finder says that the movie release was when she stopped feeling like she was alone in her willingness to talk about her experience, which she had been doing since as part of a group called Facing History and Ourselves.
Twenty-five years later, the film is seen as a realistic depiction of life during the Holocaust, in terms of the brutality of the Nazis and the lifestyles of those they persecuted, though it does stray from the real story in a few big ways. For example, the person who gave the real Schindler the idea of putting Jewish people to work as essentially slave laborers in his factory, thus saving them, was a Jewish Polish former factory co-owner named Abraham Bankier — a critical role that is not in the film.
After the Nazis invaded Poland in the fall of , they stripped Jewish citizens of their property and forced them into ghettos. As more and more German males were drafted into the military, these slave laborers were relied upon even more. Bankier sold Schindler on the idea that Jewish laborers would be cheaper than Polish workers who were not Jewish. This is a film that resonates deeply with its audience. As the years go by, the people that lived this atrocities are fading into memory, but these are the type of movies that serve not just to entretain, these are the type of movies who will make us remember, and hopefully, become not just a warning, but a message of hope.
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Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options X of Y Official trailer. Did it bring the story to countless people who no other filmmaker would have been able to reach? There is no question. So in terms of its impact, it certainly deserves its iconic status.
For the critic J. Jews function as background and pawns of this dramatic contest. Instead, the film is structured around a series of absences, forcing the viewer to imagine the horrors oneself. After the film, Spielberg established the USC Shoah Foundation, which has collected the testimonies of more than 55, Holocaust survivors.
As a movie made by a celebrated Jewish artist, it gave other filmmakers permission to treat the Holocaust as a subject of legitimate cinematic inquiry. There are moments when I wish Spielberg had been gutsier, more willing to alienate his audience and gesture toward what is unrepresentable — and unspeakable.
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