4. Schindler's List Is Too Sympathetic To Jewish People For Indonesia
Steven Spielberg's classic concentration camp drama was famously such an emotionally gruelling experience for the director, it's part of the reason it took him years to make another Indiana Jones film. He wasn't exactly in the mood to work on a movie where the Nazis are goofy pulp villains, instead of the very real monsters they were. For the Jewish Spielberg, it was a very personal film, telling the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who helped facilitate the escape of many Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. As such, Schindler's List joins most depictions of the Second World War in, y'know, treating the Nazis as the bad guys and Jewish people as victims. Apparently that's quite a no-no in Indonesia, where you still can't watch the film because it is sympathetic to the Jewish cause. Which is something of an understatement, but any anti-Semitism is too much. They said it was banned for sexual content, but it came out that they didn't want the spread of Judaism undermining the Muslim cause. Hmmmm.
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