For those of you who haven't seen the film or haven't heard of it, it's a Steven Spielberg movie dealing with the Holocaust in World War II. The plot is centered around a man named Schindler, who employs Jews in his factory in order to maximize profits. The movie is rated R, and with good reason. There is language, nudity, violence, the whole lot of it. Fortunately, nothing is done excessively or with the intention of exploiting the viewer's emotions. The vast majority of the movie is in black and white. The music is beautiful. The acting, the cinematic elements are all superb. In short, it was art.
I told my family after we finished the movie (it took us 3 nights, by the way, watching 1 hour per night) that my dream is to write something beautiful like that, that deals with the human experience and actually matters on some level. I'm not sure that I'm capable of writing The Book Thief, but that will always be my dream. Write something as well as Jane Austen, with the same sense of poetry and character as The Book Thief, and with the artistic nature and sensibility of Schindler's List.
Until then, I'm stuck writing really poor excerpts of a story that I can clearly envision but not seem to put down on paper;oij;MLSBPOIWULKJSDGPiouknlSDVpoaiwulkjasf!!! That was me banging on the keyboard, by the way.
Anybody else seen Schindler's List?
