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...would be nice if "Schindler's List" could be all the things that people want it to be--a shocking portrayal of the Holocaust in all its atrocity, a movie that will reach every person in America, a film that in one blow will demolish all ignorance about the Holocaust...
...this is not the way the world works. Schindler's List is one more victory in the long battle to preserve the memory of the Holocaust...
...addition, the compromises were minimal. "Schindler's List" is hardly designed from the pre-fabricated formula for box-office success. The movie is, after all, three and a half hours long and shot entirely in black and white...
Leon Wieseltier lamented this development in The New Republic: "'Schindler's List' proves again that, for Spielberg, there is a power in the world that is greater than good and greater than evil, and that is the movies...
Educated Americans who are already aware of the Holocaust are not those in need of seeing "Schindler's List." It is the rest of America that needs to be educated, and it is this segment of the population that the film addresses most effectively...