Bingowings said:
There is a generally recognised international crime of holocaust denial.
a crime which Spielberg never committed. He also never made the audience feel good about the holocaust itself.
Bingowings said:
By Hollywoodising the holocaust, overly stylising it, manipulating the facts to fit a Hollywood template and create a feel good movie about the thing, Spielberg has denied and distanced his audience from the horror of the holocaust.
except he never denied nor distanced the audience from its horrors. He depicted them in detail.
Bingowings said:
Imre Kertesz said : It is obvious that the American Spielberg, who incidentally wasn’t even born until after the war, has and can have no idea of the authentic reality of a Nazi concentration camp... I regard as kitsch any representation of the Holocaust that is incapable of understanding or unwilling to understand the organic connection between our own deformed mode of life (whether in the private sphere or on the level of "civilization" as such) and the very possibility of the Holocaust.
1. lots of people have made movies about events that happened before they were born.
2. not really understanding the rest of Kertesz's problems with the movie. The movie showed the holocaust to be pretty darned horrible, if you ask me. Just what of the holocaust should it have shown, that it didn't?
edit: I just did some research and found out that Kertesz is actually a holocaust survivor. That explains his perspective, a little. No movie could live up to the horrors he saw first hand.