The Amateur Film Critic

A blog about films.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Schindler's List

I, for some inexplicable reason, greatly dislike Stephen Spielberg, but I concede he is a good director--Schindler's List proves this. The film is very stylistically shot and which dealing with a highly sensitive issue keeps from resorting to outright sentimentality. Ralph Fiennes is at his hateable best and in my opinion out acts Liam Neeson. Ben Kingsley is commendable and carries the film with his subtlety, which is a foil to Fiennes villany. The film was criticized with being sensationalist with it's gratutitous use of nudity and gore, but I feel that a topic such as this should be presented as it is, and quite simply this is, and should not be a children's film (or even an aide for teaching the Holocaust, which it often has).

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