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...more than ever, there is a desperate need for education about the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg's most recent film, "Schindler's List," fills a critical gap in educating America about this monumental tragedy...
Jewish groups, like B'nai Brith, have applauded the movie as an powerful tool for education. And the national media as a whole has given extensive, and valuable, exposure to the movie. In addition, the U.S. Holocaust museum held a ceremony posthumously awarding a Medal of Remembrance to Oskar Schindler. A spokesperson for the museum added that Spielberg's movie "makes a big contribution to American awareness of the Holocaust...
...Spielberg's masterstrokes is the manner in which he depicts Schindler's conversion from apolitical bon vivant to moral hero. The transformation does not occur with a sudden flash of light from the heavens; instead, it develops slowly and credibly as Schindler becomes increasingly aware of the Nazis's deeds...
...lion's share of the credit, however, goes to Steven Spielberg. For Spielberg, "Schindler's List," shot without stars, in black and white, and on a relatively small budget of $22 million, is a gamble. The gamble, however, paid off. In "Jurassic Park," Spielberg manifested his talent only in his trademark technical wizardry; it seemed as if he had abdicated in favor of computers and blue screens. In "Schindler's List," Spielberg is present by his absence; that is to say, he has practiced incredible restraint. In his reluctance to pull out all the stops, to make himself visible with...
...possibility of redemption, of light in the midst of so much darkness. It affirms that although humans have the capacity for evil such as is depicted in the movie, they also have the capacity for good which will allow them to combat the evil. Painful, beautiful, uplifting and indelible, "Schindler's List" reveals itself as the most supremely humanist of films...