Vukica - If you haven't added it to your 6-foot stack, I'd like to
recommend AGAMBEN's new book about the Shoah; an English translation is
available from Zone Books. REgarding "that film" you wouldn't do wrong to
check out Peter Novak's new book about "Holocaust & American Life" with
Finkelstein's "Holocaust Industry" as an accompanying Op-Ed thereto.
As to my citing Spielberg's sources in a Polish film, I should have more
precisely stated that he didn't improve on them, to my mind, so much as
copied and sensationalized. Originality is a very rare bird; the question
more often is how does the artist create with the pre-existing materials.
As to the book portraying Schindler, the protagonist, as less of a nice
guy, it's not a question in my mind of historical re-visionism -- which is
a good topic, for sure -- as just a wrong-headed choice. Making him into
a hero glorifies a very cynical realpolitik.
Alas, while the misuse of b&W has been discussed here (and, yes, it's
true, they haven't changed the B&W film stock since the early 50's), no
one has mentioned the (in my book) inept use of color: the little girl's
red coat. Check out Jacques Tati's first film for an INCREDIBLE use of
primary colors within b&w.
Meanwhile, let's pray for peace.
work like you don't need the money,
dance like no one's watching,
love like your heart's never been broken.
Gary G. Gach 1.415.771.77.93
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