Indeed, when Schindler Jews discuss Schindler’s List, they more often focus on differences between the film and their remembered experiences. When John Armer is asked his impression of the film, he characterizes it as “90-95 percent correct” and then enumerates its flaws.

The issue of the film's accuracy is sometimes raised by interviewers. One, for example, asks Leon Leyson to discuss disparities between the film and what he remembers.  The interviewer both is interested in the survivor’s critique ofSchindler’s List and is anxious about it. One is left to wonder with whom the interviewer thought she might get Leyson “into trouble”—and what kind of trouble—for discussing the film’s inaccuracies.