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Schindler's List 1993 and how Spielberg was perfect to tell this story

As a kid I did not understand the need for movies like Schindler's List. Growing up Jewish I knew about the Holocaust. I knew about the Nazis and heard stories about stuff they did. But movies in my childhood brain were firmly just a form of entertainment. What entertainment is there if you are watching people suffer? Yet as I explain in my other article at about 14 I got to a rather strange point in my life, when everything dark and real became important. That's when I saw Schindler's List for the first time. That's when a film that is not made for entertainment suddenly started making sense.
Schindler's List 1993 and how Spielberg was perfect to tell this story

As a kid I did not understand the need for movies like Schindler's List. Growing up Jewish I knew about the Holocaust. I knew about the Nazis and heard stories about stuff they did. But movies in my childhood brain were firmly just a form of entertainment. What entertainment is there if you are watching people suffer? Yet as I explain in my other article at about 14 I got to a rather strange point in my life, when everything dark and real became important. That's when I saw Schindler's List for the first time. That's when a film that is not made for entertainment suddenly started making sense.

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If the movie would be too horrible, it would not have been a hit. Less people would have seen it. If the movie would be too light, the people who saw it, would not have understood the horrors. They would maybe understand them on some pseudo-intellectual level. But not on a gut-wrenching level. Not emotionally.

In a way, Kihachi Okamoto goes a similar route in his war comedies. If the subject were grim most of them time, it would be hard for audience to understand what he is getting at.
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