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Following is his rendition of the Crimson Key Society's commentary upon one "typically uplifting movie," "Schindler's List," in which Oskar Schindler attempts to save German Jews from the gas chambers and crematoriums that awaited them in concentration camps during the Second World...
That the solemnity of the Holocaust and the painful connotations that it still has for so many could be trivialized and disparaged in such a callous manner is almost too much to bear. Worse was my own realization, and no doubt that of many Jews who watched "Schindler's List," that the characters represented in the consoling father, the hysterical little boy, the murdered mother and the harassed young girl very likely met the same fate as did members of my own European family...
This incident affirms the fears of so many Holocaust survivors. If the tragedy of the Holocaust and its seriousness are being questioned so soon after the event, what lies in store for us when first-hand memories are gone? On the most basic level, the author of the "Schindler's List" piece offers a critique of the gravity and validity of the Holocaust, as do all who find amusement in "Holocaust humor." It is a sad testimonial to the legacy of our First Amendment that such material is considered to be imbued with enough expressive value to be published...
Although clearly proud of his work in Michael Collins, Neeson appears to be weighed down by the career expectations--his own as well as others'--that have enveloped him since Schindler's List. "Eighty-five percent of the movies I see depress me," he confesses. "I get to page 25 of a script, and I think, I don't know why the hell they want me for this. I call it the blessing and the curse of Schindler's List--the blessing of having done it and the curse of having to compare everything I see to that standard...
...sits in his homey Manhattan office, its walls enlivened by posters of his movies, the clouds quickly pass. The major films of his career seem to herald happily dramatic life changes for him. Following Schindler's List, Neeson, a fabled ladies' man, married actress Natasha Richardson. They have since had two children: Michael, 2, and Daniel, born last August, only a week before Neeson won the Best Actor award for Michael Collins at the Venice Film Festival...