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Schindler's List, the girl in red

example · film: Schindler's List · retold in 3 talks

The famous color-in-black-and-white sequence of the girl in red is criticized as obscene: it aestheticizes Schindler's moral conversion, which should remain mysterious, not depicted.

As told 2

“For me it's something... almost in theological terms, this kind of conversion in good, in evil, they should remain a mystery at some level.”
“You know like at the end this scene is disgustingly patronizing... he embraces them all like good father around all the good children.”

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The famous color-in-black-and-white sequence of the girl in red is criticized as obscene: it aestheticizes Schindler's moral conversion, which should remain mysterious, not depicted., illustrating implicit teleological justification,obscenity of depicting moral conversion
Jews are treated like children presenting a ring to Schindler, who embraces them as a good father; Žižek finds this disgustingly patronizing., illustrating Hollywood left