let's correct the image of the evil german nazi?!

Rating: 1/10 (11 September 2000)

Cinematographically perfect, deeply moving, tragic, horrifying -- and yet I give the movie an F.
The movie depicts a German nazi who slowly becomes aware of the criminal nature of national socialism and from that moment on tries to save the lives of Jews by hiring them for his alleged matériel factory.
Now, the point is, the film premiered at a time when the majority political as well as public opinion in Germany agreed (it still does, and more than ever!) that there should be a close to the debate about "this darkest epoch in German history". I have the disagreeable feeling that in Germany - maybe elsewhere, too - the message of movie is: "Yes, there *were* Germans opposing nazism, but now lets no longer talk about this topic. Period."
However, as long as the causes for fascist thought persist, history has got to be told!
Spielberg does tell an impressing story, but unfortunately the wrong one; which is not to say that Schindler didn't take the right decision, rather that it would have been wiser to make a movie about a non-nazi antifascist.