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7/26/2025, 11:08:00 PM
Let me make one last comment about Schindler's List. One scene in the book interested me particularly, a scene in which Amon Göth burns his mouth on some soup and shoots the cook for making the soup too hot. It's been observed that, the more you humor someone and the more you shield them from offense, the more sensitive to offense they become. Take transgender people for example -- as society has carved out greater and greater accommodations for them, rather than growing more placid and satisfied no longer being "oppressed," they have grown more aggressive and their demands more extravagant. I think Göth and the soup is an illustration of this. Imagine you were in an environment where you could kill practically anyone who annoyed or inconvenienced you in any way, without consequence. Over time you would grow less and less accustomed to being annoyed or challenged and you would lose your capacity to tolerate it. It's natural to think first of the poor cook being shot for no reason, but you also have to contemplate Göth's frame of mind. Through his unwise actions he cultivated such impatient sensitivity that burning his tongue on soup threw him into a homicidal rage. It's a way of turning an adult back into an immature child.
>>213117230
You know, they tried to make Ralph Fiennes look fat and unhealthy during that part of the film, but it didn't really work in my opinion.
>>213117268
Göth was Austrian btw.
>>213117230
You know, they tried to make Ralph Fiennes look fat and unhealthy during that part of the film, but it didn't really work in my opinion.
>>213117268
Göth was Austrian btw.
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