the schindler's sequence with the girl in the red coat highlights the irresponsibility of the film... spielberg uses color to make her seem more real/alive/human, to strike her in the heart of schindler and the audience. of course, he does this in contrast to all the black and white (read unreal) people dying to her side, both in that scene and the entire film. why the black and white steve? to place it in the past, to distance us from the guilt of unnoticed genocide. and the other color in the film? color at the end as "schindler's jews" pay their respects, putting stones on the closed lid of the man's coffin. a beautiful world spielberg paints there, all in glowing color, where the doves of peace fly through europe once again, free from the shackles of black and white misery, war, and hatred. preferable ending would have been showing one of the the still surviving nazis, sitting in his living room in middle america, drinking beer and watching television. two cents denis hennelly [log in to unmask]