The Star Throwers

As we come through the desert, thus it is.

Reflecting on Schindler’s List , writer-director Stanley Kubrick’s reaction was famously bitter: “Think that was about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. Schindler’s List was about six hundred people who don’t.”

I wonder if perhaps five or so years from now, when people begin maki…