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.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Ariel Sharon1Ray Brassier1Alison Tyler1Marion Cotillard1Jo Esterhaz1Liam Neeson1Martin Sheen1Charlie Sheen1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
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
25:17 "THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is a Conservative Liberal Film" - Slavoj Žižek (2012) | TIFF REWIND2012 · 1:09:18
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