Lanzmann Believes Schindler's List Was Not a Credible Movie

Lanzmann believes that Schindler's List should never have been made for many reasons. Primarily, Lanzmann disagrees with Schindler's List because there were many technicalities and imprecise scenes which he dislikes. In his review, Lanzmann comments on how the Holocaust is trivialised and transgressed in Schindler's List, and often compares Schindler's List to his own motion picture, Shoah. Shoah and Schindler's List have many critical differences, and take different approaches. In Shoah we see survivors telling impersonal stories, like a 'spokesman' for the dead. On the contrary, Schindler's List is an individual story about survival. Lanzmann also believes that the Holocaust was transcendent, and that one could not re-experience, or accurately portray the events, with the same atmosphere, feeling and emotion that the Holocaust had, and that Schindler's List is an 'Impossible story'.

One of the reasons that Lanzmann believes that Schindler's List should never have been made is due to the common inaccuracies. Lanzmann said that the film is 'swarming with ambiguous and dangerous scenes', one of which shows Schindler bargaining with traditionally dressed orthodox Jews who take out handfuls of money and give them to Schindler. This illustrates the stereotype of Jews with money. In his review, Lanzmann criticises this scene, and the inaccuracies within it, because he believes 'one should instead, have worked with a pair of tweezers'. In addition, although the scene was not intended to be comical, the stereotypes introduced a humorous aspect to the film. Another light-hearted and amusing scene is where women are trying for the job of Schindler's secretary. During this scene jolly violin music is played and there is constant chatter ...

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...rael. This blatantly shows Spielberg's belief in Zionism, and it is disliked because it seems to justify the holocaust and the death of 6 million Jews, and 5 million others, because the Jewish people received the State of Israel.

Overall, my response to this question is very similar, and I mostly agree with Lanzmann's conclusion that Schindler's List should never have been made. There are overwhelming amounts of inaccuracies among the film, and sometimes there are even comical aspects. In my opinion, scenes like these should not be shown, and as Lanzmann said, it is 'an Impossible Story'. The main aspects which are disagreed with in Schindler's List, are criticisms of the filming, script, or images, therefore, although I do not agree with the method that Spielberg has used to show the events in Oskar Schindler's life, his story is extraordinary, and should be told.