009 Schindler's List

I love history, and I love movies, and I love historical movies. I hate it when historical movies lie to us. It's true that Oskar Schindlier was a war profiteer who bribed his guards and ended up spending a fortune to save his Jews. He saved a lot of lives. Steven Spielberg did a good job showing us some of his imperfections. He cheated on his wife. He employed Jews instead of Poles because they were cheaper, and he could maximize his profits. Spielberg showed us a gradual change in his character, but by the end of the film, the change was shown to be complete. The final scene in which he laments that he kept his gold pin and his expensive pen or watch is completely false. Oskar Schindler escaped with a pocket full of diamonds. This film might give a more insightful look into the characters of Itzhak Stern and Amon Goeth. I do appreciate the depiction of the Holocaust: the boy who identified the the dead man as the thief, the woman who identifies the error in engineering the barracks, the creation of the ghetto, the cleansing of the ghetto, the trains to Auschwitz. I did not appreciate the girl in the red coat. I thought that was a cheap shot on the part of the director.