|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
68.37.112.201
In Reply to: RE: What we really need is... posted by Victor Khomenko on December 12, 2018 at 13:22:13
to remember that there were tens of millions of OTHER nations citizens who were murdered by Germans in the concentrations camps.
Steven Spielberg is a skilled director but also a propagandist hack.
He is a Mcdonald's of a movie world. Not that I don't admire his skill and don't watch his movies.
Follow Ups:
There was fundamental difference. While many other people indeed died in the camps, none of those other groups was subject of Final Solution. Simply put - there was no extermination goal set for them. There is some evidence regarding somewhat similar objective towards the Gypsies, about 200,000 of them also perished - out of roughly 1 million who lived in Europe.
Yes, millions (not tens of millions) died of hunger, disease, hard labor and abuse, we should not take those sufferings lightly. But Jews were very special target.
Spielberg naturally picked the subject - I have no issue with that. While I do not consider him skillful director, that part is a personal viewpoint. The importance of that film should not be seen in the same way we consider, for instance, La Strada. It has certain and voluable documentary quality to it.
I stand corrected. It's somewhat difficult to get the total numbers of deaths in all Nazi concentration camps by nation.
Yes , the movie is touching and it has its place.
I prefer somewhat less idealized style, something like "The Pianist" Polanskiego.
This is a rather small story in a much larger picture - one of many Holocaust stories - if you want the complete history of the holocaust and a story of every single person from every single country and a full accounting of each - it ain't coming from a single film or a from a single documentary.
It's like Anne Frank's Diary - this is a TINY story and a drop in the bucket perspective.
A vastly deeper in depth diary of events would come from Viktor Klemperor "I Will Bear witness" But he was an old man and professor - not a pretty young girl - less sympathy I guess.
Damn that Anne Frank - using her own death as propaganda to pull at heart strings.
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: