Schindler’s List: A Second Look

You know what always surprises me about Schindler’s List? How funny it is. There are a lot of little bits of humor through much of the first half in particular, when the subject is the least heavy, like when Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) berates two low-level Nazis because they won’t let him have his accountant and plant manager Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) who has been mistakenly loaded into a train to be transported to a concentration camp. He calmly tells them that he has contacts who will...