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When the memories are dreadful—when they hold images of the pain we have suffered from or,perhaps even wor,inflicted—they are what we try to escape. The Nazi scheme to exterminate Jews and other undesirable is one such nightmare image;and Schindler’s List,Steven Spielberg’s drama about the man who saved 1,100Jews from the Plaszow death camp,is esntially a plea by an outstanding popular artist that to remember is to speed the healing.Last week that moving Holocaust memorial became a mobile one,as the film opened in Germany,Poland and Israel—the three countries where the atrocities were planned,executed and most poignantly commemorated.
Thanks as much to its persuasive craftsmanship as to its wrenching theme, Schindler’s List has already touched U.S.audiences.New Jery Governor Christine Todd Whitman has arranged screenings as an intended antidote to hate crimes.But no audiences could feel a higher emotional stake in the subject than tho last week at premieres in Frankfurt and other German cities,in Tel Aviv and Krakow.Viewers wept.Afterward many could not eat or sleep or talk.Some had been afraid to e it.Others said it should be en by everyone.Spielberg,less a promoter for his film than a prolytizer fo
r a spiritual unification of Germans and Jews,agreed.“I feel it is time in Germany for this generation to teach its children,”he said.“Education is the way to stop another Holocaust from happening.”
With President Richard von Weizsacker in attendance,the film was firstly put
on in Frankfurt,the city where Schindler died in poverty in1974.Then it moved to local theaters across the country.In Calogne’s Cinedom,half a dozen young women collapd sobbing in the arms of friends or parents.“I have never en an audience behave like this,”said Wolfgang Rohrig,a26-year-old student.“It was as if they were in church.It was as if something sacred had happened.”
What happened was the belated restoration of Oskar Schindler.In Israel,where he is buried,Schindler was a hero.In Poland where he planned to save lives,he was a footnote in a history book.In Germany,where he was once charged with punching a man who called him a“Jew kisr”,he was an embarrassment to all tho who knew something and did nothing.And becau amnesia is the most convenient placebo for collective guilt,Schindler was esntially a nonperson.In the70s Artur Brauner,a German Jew,tried to make a movie about Schindler but could not rai the money.Now,wit
h the relea of Spielberg’s film and veral documentaries on the subject,Schindler has become a strange kind of celebrity, gnawing from beyond the grave at Germany’s restless conscience.
If Germans were confronting their countrymen’s bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand,many Israelis were reluctant to relieve it.“People here live the Holocaust,”says Tel Aviv resident Noga Reshef,29.“They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies,and every year there is Yom Hashoah,Holocaust Day.We can’t escape the Holocaust;it sits on our shoulders.”Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience.“I’m afraid of movies,”said Pinchas Pistol,a Plaszow survivor who witnesd too much of the Nazis’random bestiality.
“Every time I e one,the memories come back,and I can’t sleep or work.”Yet he went,as did scores of other Holocaust survivors as well as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and President Ezer Weitzman.
The official and popular respon to Schindler’s List was a mixture of benumbed awe and gratitude.But,as in the U.S,some critics charged that the film, by focusing on the few survivors of Nazi genocide rather than on the millions of dead,turned a continent’s horror story into a fairy tale.In 亚洲百强大学
the Israeli daily Ha’aretz,historian Tom Seyev dismisd it as“Spielberg’s Holocaust Park,”called the Auschwitz quence“pornography”and concluded,“Spielberg’s Holocaust,but the Holocaust does not need Spielberg.”In the German newspaper Die Welt,critic Will Tremper headlined his review“Indiana Jones in the Krakow Ghetto.”He criticized Spielberg’s vision as“pure Hollywood…the fantasies of a young boy from California who had never taken an interest in the Holocaust or the Jews before.”Both critics were reflecting the view of Claude Lanzmann,director of the1985death-camp documentary Shoah.“It is en from a very prejudiced angle, almost like an adventure story,”Lanzmann wrote in London’s Evening Standard.“Even if Spielberg believes that he has respected the historical truth,and I am sure he does,the general impression is distorting.”
The antithetical,politically heretical opinions will only fuel interest in the film. In Vienna,10,000children quickly volunteered to e the3-hour15-minute movie. Yes on a school day;but playing truant will educate kids in the lesson of man’s inhumanity to man-and of one man’s humanity.To Michel Friedman,a child of
Schindler garden and a leader in Frankfurt’s Jewish community,Schindler’s importance was not that curd
he was a hero but that he was a human being:“a Mensch,”says Friedman,using a good German and Yiddish word.“He is proof that if you wanted to help,even in1944,even in Auschwitz,you could.”And the respon to Schindler’s List is proof that the most offensive word in any language is forgotten.
1.At the beginning of this passage,the author prents the reader with an air of ______.koopa
A.pain
B.fright
C.desire
D.sorrowreception动词
justin williams2.According to the article Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg______.
A.was shown in well-cho places
一月英文B.became a mobile film last week
C.has been regarded as one of the most outstanding dramas since it came into being
D.was a film in which1,100Jews killed
3.After audiences watched the premieres of Schindler’s List in German cities, ______.
A.they objected to the unification of Germans and Jezebel
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B.they could neither eat nor sleep or talk
C.they warned that school children should not watch it
D they stresd that education is the way to stop another Holocaust from happening
4.Which of following ntences may rve as the topic ntence of the paragraph beginning with“If Germans were confronting their country’s”?
A.Yes,he went,as did scores of other Holocaust survivors.
B.Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience.
C.If Germans were confronting their countrymen’s bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand;many Israelis were reluctant to relieve it.
D.“Every time I e one,the memories come back,and I can’t sleep or walk.”
5.Which of the following statements supports the ntence“The antithetical, politically heretical opinions will only fuel interest in the film.”?
A.The most offensive word in any language is forget.
B.In Vienna,10,000children quickly volunteered to e the3-hour15-minute movie.
C.Schindler’s importance was not that he was a hero but that he was a human being.
triangle blueD.“A Mensch”was the best German and Yiddish word to describe Schindler.【答案与解析】
1.B从文章开头可知，作者是以一种惊恐的语气来讲述的，选B项。
2.A从文中第一段最后一句知，斯皮尔伯格的电影《辛德勒的名单》在德国、波兰等地推
出，由此可知A项为正确答案。
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3.B从文中第二段第五句可知，德国观众看了《辛德勒的名单》受到了极大震撼，变得沉
superiority默寡言、寝食难安，因此B项为正确答案。
4.C文中第五段首先指出很多犹太人不愿去面对它，然后举了一些例子加以说明，可见C
项为主题句。
5.B从最后一段可知，“一万孩子自发地去看这个3小时15分的电影。”是对主题句最好
的说明，选B项。
