Are they too distressing? Do they make us prejudiced against Germans or open our eyes?
2007-03-07 09:15:08 · 13 answers · asked by thegirlwitharidiculouslylongname 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
They could make us predjudiced because they show us how the Nazis treated the Jews, it makes us feel angry and creates a stereotype of a German in our heads.
2007-03-08 07:31:12 · update #1
I think it needs to be done, it opens our eyes to the truth, and it makes us more aware of what happend to the Jews.
It's a film about history, and the world should know about it, I am German and I like watching/learning about the Holocaust, it's very eduactional....and people are going to learn about it sooner or later.
2007-03-07 09:18:47 · answer #1 · answered by Rocker Chick 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Holocaust films should be made. films like Schindlers List and The Pianist showed the horrors of Nazi Germany. But people need to be educated with the facts too. How can a movie make you prejudiced against Germans? Most Germans were not Nazis. I'm not saying that films need to be taken word for word or scene for scene as solid facts. They are a way to show the atrocities of the Holocaust. Films about Rwanda have been made and shown the world what happened. These films are distressing but they remind people that humans arent perfect. Awful things have been done by men and women and there are people who completely deny it all. These films are a medium, a way to tell people that these things happened.
Just a statement to the person who said move on. My grandfather was orphaned and grew up in an orphanage because he was a jew. Yes the people who killed his family are all dead or old but the hate they had, im sure their children inherited it. To forget history will allow it to repeat itself.
2007-03-07 17:25:04 · answer #2 · answered by paula s 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they should be made. If people can't stand to watch them then they don't have to. And I don't know how for example "Schindler's List" that is probably the most famous film about the Holocaust could make people prejudiced against Germans as the main character in it is one of these few Germans who saved Jews from the Holocaust. I am German and I do think that it is important to remember the Holocaust and to learn about it. If people get prejudiced against Germans as a whole because of this that is sad, they should know that Germans don't have it in their blood to be Nazis, but people should anyway know in general that being prejudiced is wrong and that people are not all the same etc. So it is absurd to think people should learn less about the Holocaust because it might make them prejudiced against Germans. It has happened and we can't just ignore it now.
2007-03-08 14:45:34 · answer #3 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Here is the thing. Schindler's list almost didn't get made. There are a large number of people that feel the Holocaust is the most horrible event in human history. Personally I think that designation is with Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
There is a graphic novel called Maus. It has 2 installments and should be purchased together at your local bookstore. Both volumes won Pulitzer prizes, which never happens with comic books.
I think it is the perfect holocaust story. It needs to be made into a movie.
There also needs to be a movie about Cambodia and how they did things.
2007-03-07 17:22:41 · answer #4 · answered by khanofali 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a partial German, I think movies should cover any historical achievements and tragedies.
If you worry about people becoming biased against a particular race or group of people, you should take other movies into consideration.
Is "Roots" too distressing, or does it make people prejudice against the White Americans?
See what I mean?
2007-03-07 17:29:47 · answer #5 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. They are typically just smear campaigns against the Germans, but what's worse is that they are historically inaccurate and designed to play on people's emotions. In a way, it's no different than a propaganda film. That's not opening anyone's eyes- it's closing them.
2007-03-07 17:24:37 · answer #6 · answered by Venin_Noir 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There's alot of holocaust movies made...and personally I think they should make more. It really shows us how some people can be so cruel and evil. but it also shows how some people...despite the odds call pull together and protect one another
2007-03-07 17:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by sugar & spice 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes because it teaches ppl today that just by being racist towards one person makes you racist to the whole group. and it also teaches ppl that it doesnt take much to destroy a certain group of ppl and not to make the same mistake again.
2007-03-07 17:23:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think they should stop making them....
The germans that did it are mostly all dead by now, and the rest are very old
time to move on!
2007-03-07 17:23:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, but don't ask Mel Gibson to direct it.
2007-03-07 18:13:38 · answer #10 · answered by M S 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋