Watched Schindlers List on Channel 5 the other night. It is one of the greatest movies ever made, if you have a soul you cannot fail to be moved. Whatever you may feel about Israel and the Palestinian question today the world in the late thirties and through the forties was something very different. A vast and sinister conflict its hard, even for the generation after to imagine.
I sometimes think the human species has more in common with Lemmings than any other animal. We seem, yet again to be becoming more insular and some of the world's current politicians are manipulating our worries and fears the way someone else once did.
The tragedy of Poland and Polish Jews of the massacres and ghettos and extermination camps is, even now unbelievable, not that I'm in any way a holocaust denier. The story if Schindler is so well told that the film is a true masterpiece, the stronger the story, and this is an incredible story, in many ways the greater the risk to the film maker.
The reason I felt moved to blog though was that Channel 5 treated the movie with respect, they're a commercial channel but advertising breaks were few, short and far between, protecting as far as a commercial station can the art and the experience.
Well done Channel 5 great example.
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