Re: Film, "The Governess" -Reply

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>why couldn't the use of  modern Israeli music in the Schindler
>soundtrack be seen as a legitimate artistic choice by Mr. Spielberg (I
>have to admit, it's been a while since I saw the movie, so I don't think
>I'm able to evaluate this as an artistic choice)?

Sure, it's a legitimate artistic choice, but it is still jarring
and anachronistic, like the use of Ofra Haza in a soundtrack to
a "Sephardic" movie. Personally, I have a hard time associating
"Jerusalem of Gold" with the Holocaust in a positive way (the verse
about the empty markets is seen by some, myself included, as both a
lament for the fact that Jews were expelled from the Old City, and
the deaths of those who fought to prevent that, and as a a chilling 
repudiation of the humans who are not Jewish who shopped there every 
day prior to (and since, in many cases) the '67 war), but there
is enough about the movie that was done very right--I was only 
calling attention to the anomolies.