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The title character of Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List" performed numerous heroic acts during World War II, but is not depicted as being the least bit conventionally "heroic." He's a flawed alcoholic who, at the outset of World War II, sees a business opportunity in hiring Jewish workers. In so doing, however, his employees were protected from being apprehended by the Nazis. All told, Oskar Schindler rescued some 1,200 people from the Reich.
Spielberg looks the horrors of the war right in the eye. The film features multiple harrowingly accurate scenes of death, torture, and vicious wartime brutality. Hate and fear undergird far too much of the world. In a potent symbol -- based on real life -- a walkway into a concentration camp is paved by pilfered tombstones. In the film's most famous sequence, a young girl in a red coat is seen wandering among chaotic wartime streets, death...
Spielberg looks the horrors of the war right in the eye. The film features multiple harrowingly accurate scenes of death, torture, and vicious wartime brutality. Hate and fear undergird far too much of the world. In a potent symbol -- based on real life -- a walkway into a concentration camp is paved by pilfered tombstones. In the film's most famous sequence, a young girl in a red coat is seen wandering among chaotic wartime streets, death...
- 9/20/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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