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I enjoyed watching Schindler's List because despite the subject, it was after all, an entertaining, feel-good movie. I suppose you could argue that serious movies about serious events would mean far fewer people being exposed to them at all, but does it serve anything except the box office to give us such a distorted view of reality?
We are kidding ourselves if we take comfort from such movies. The number of Oskar Schindlers and the numbers saved by them were tiny. Hollywood also likes make bad things the products of evil men, when in truth the Holocaust was only possible because of the flaws in ordinary people. Just how flawed is clear if you consider that even something on the scale of the Holocaust had insufficient impact on us to prevent the more recent tragedies in the Balkans, Africa and of course, Israel.
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