Sue, the movie followed the book, Schindler's Ark pretty closely. The book is classified as fiction, but was based on the real events that were depicted in the movie.

It wasn't the story, Aimee, as much as how it was told. That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head. I so saw where that was going and couldn't believe that Speilberg would be so obvious. Anyway, that's why cranky young theatre geeks shouldn't go to Speilberg movies.

That red coated girl made me practically roll my eyeballs out of my head.

This, this and more this. And probably a good dose of Jess's "seen all the real stuff a million times already". It felt to me like it was trying really really hard to make me cry a whole big huge lot, with a kind of obvious manipulativeness that ended up pissing me off instead.

Private Ryan? Same damn thing. Dude should stick to Indiana Jones.

as much as how it was told.

nods Got it. It's like, Dude, the holocaust manipulates enough feelings without being that manipulative.

Exactly.

It's like, Dude, the holocaust manipulates enough feelings without being that manipulative.

Totally. Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.

Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.

Well, that was me. You can spot the manipulation a mile off, but it didn't minimize the effect of what I was seeing, for me. And imagining the real people, the camps, the brutality.

He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.

This was me. Watching Saving Private Ryan, otoh, I didn't buy into the manipulation and just felt like I was being jerked around. (Band of Brothers got me, though.)

Looking back on my elementary/middle/high school education on the Holocaust, I'd have to say we had practically none. While in 7th grade, though, I had seen a TV movie on the capture of Eichmann and started reading up on the subject on my own. Back in the late '70s, there were very few books for children on the Holocaust (other than Anne Frank), so I just read adult books, complete with graphic photographs and descriptions.

Yeah, Saving Private Ryan just annoyed me. Band of Brothers didn't, although I haven't seen the whole thing.

I'm with Kathy on the education -- as far as I can remember, the only discussion of the Holocaust in school for me revolved around The Diary of Anne Frank.

I liked Saving Private Ryan up until the very end. "Am I a good man?"

"Oh, shut up and get in the car."

Of course, the guy I was with was bawling his eyes out. He's said he was totally aware he was being manipulated, but it was still sucking him in.

Well, that was me.

Me, three.