Most IMDb commentators have justly praised this beautiful, inspiring movie. But two commentators have downgraded this movie because it supposedly focuses on the murder of the Jewish people only - as if this were not a worthy enough focus in any case. This "criticism" would be a joke if it were funny (the joke being the one about the mother-in-law who gives her son-in-law two ties, one brown and one red, and when he wears the brown tie to dinner she complains: "What's the matter, you don't like the red one?")
According to one "critic," the movie fails to address the anti-homosexuality that the critic claims is rampant in Southern Baptist towns like the one where the paper-clip project took place. According to another "critic," the movie fails to address the fact that the Nazis also exterminated millions of non-Jews, who were considered either enemies of the State or racial inferiors. The main problem with such criticism is that the movie does in fact specifically address these facts. The movie does in fact memorialize the millions of non-Jews also killed by the Nazis, such as homosexuals, Slavs, gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, mental defectives, socialists, communists, etc. The movie specifically refers to some of these groups, including homosexuals. I wonder what movie these "critics" were watching.
In addition, these "critics" failed to understand the message of this movie, which was the conscious teaching, learning, and practice of tolerance, not only towards Jews - as if this would not be a good enough lesson, in any case - but towards any community of people different from one's own, any community that one might otherwise be inclined, out of fear and ignorance, to stereotype, degrade, hate, and even try to destroy.
