Very Good, but.......

Rating: 9/10 (16 March 2000)

One thing about this movie my friend commented upon was the way that emotionally effects are used within this picture. An emotional prop would be the little girl in the red dress, was it there to create emotions through grimmicks? There are other things like that throughout. Otherwise I thought the acting was superb with some character developments. However was this film accurate historically. My friend thinks it was not and was actually a very good form of subtle emotional propaganda! What do you think? I know the director's last work on 'Saving Private Ryan'(SPR) was a piece of American trash only showing how GI's saved Europe - that's manipulating the public and historical narratives, with all this American flag waving rubbish (The Straight Story (1999) tells you more about world War Two than the whole three hours of SPR could ever do!!!). Can the same be true of Schindler's List?