And worse yet, I think, is Spielberg's insistence on making an upbeat movie in the face of current world politics. Oh, God forbid that someone should actually make a movie that at least tries to show people overcoming such horrors! God forbid that people might be given hope that they can do so! The very idea! Do you think anything less is now occurring in Bosnia? At least, when Alain Resnais made *Nuit et Brouillard *--the most powerful of films about the Holocaust, especially because it is a documentary and doesn't allow us to construct some fictional alternative, like *The Diary of Anne Frank* and *The Sound of Music* and *Schindler's List*--he had the courage to draw parallels with the then-current situation in Algeria. With all the money that Stephen Spielberg has made making movies, you would think that he might have had the courage to at least point out that the same situation is now happening in the Balkans--the systematic killing of certain minorities. Perhaps he would have, if you'd called him up ahead of time and told him that you were going to be seeing the movie and could he please draw some parallels so you'd like it more. While what goes on in Bosnia is indeed horrible and tragic, "Schindler's List" (which-full disclosure-I haven't been able to see yet) was written when Yugoslavia was still one country and had about as much to do with the Bosnian situation as my trip to the supermarket this afternoon did. Has it escaped your attention that "Schindler's List", unlike "Nuit et Brouillard" was not a documentary, and thus has different artistic imperatives that may not be easily adapatable to different situations. Daniel Case State University of New York at Buffalo Prodigy: WDNS15D | GEnie: DCASE.10 Ceci n'est pas une pipe [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]