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Summary: A moving portrait of a flawed but great man
Review: I have long been a fan of Steven Spielberg's films, but Schindler's List is the first movie of his that has literally moved me to tears. Based on the book by Thomas Keneally, it tells the story of Oskar Schindler (played by the wonderful Liam Neeson), a womanizer and member of the Nazi Party who nevertheless did his best to help keep Polish Jews from going to the death camps during World War 2. Outwardly, Schindler is a typical Nazi--hanging out with people such as Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) and trying his level best to run a business during the war.Schindler's List, however, portrays another side to the man--his domestic troubles with his wife, Emilie (Caroline Goodall) because of his womanizing, and the difficulties of trying to keep his business staffed and his Jewish workers from being killed. In this effort he is assisted by his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), who recruits families to work for Schindler while Schindler claims they are "essential workers" in order to keep them from being executed by German officers on the street. When the Schindler Jews are about to be moved to another camp, he saves the life of Goeth's maid, Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz) in a game of chance and puts her name on the list of Jews that are going with him as workers. One of the things I liked most about Schindler's List is the fact that it was filmed in black and white, instead of color. I felt that filming it in black and white (with the exception of one or two color segments) gave it a gritty sense of realism that added to the story's emotional impact and drama, rather than detracting from it. This was definitely an inspired choice in making the film. All in all, Schindler's List is a very profound, moving film. It is my hope that people out there will continue to learn from, and be touched by, this work of Steven Spielberg.
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Summary: 10 out of 10
Review: This is a triumph for Spielberg and a cinematic masterpiece that will inspire for generations to come. Watching this black and white movie was an extremely unforgettable experience. The story, the cast, the scenes, the tragedy, the emotions - they were absolutely compelling. The irony of Oskar Schindler, entrepreneur and womaniser, becoming a saviour to the Jews bespeaks the goodness inherent in the corrupted human nature. Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes do superlative work here ably supported by the splendid supporting cast. There are scenes that are forever etched in our hearts and minds:
1. Naked women awaiting their fate in a large room.
2. Ralph Fiennes with Jewish maid in the kitchen.
3. Girl in red being victimised.
4. Children hiding in sewage pits.
5. New factory worker escapes death.
6. Oskar witnessing the massacre.
7. The typing of Schindler's list.
8. Random killing of people.
9. Hosing the people in the train with water.
10. Oskar's emotional outburst at the end and his accountant's equally emotional reassuring word. Virtually everything is top-notched.
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Summary: an extremely powerful and disturbing film
Review: Schindler's List is probably one of the most powerful and disturbing movie in the history of movies. This movie is not intended for children. But, the older ones may find this movie interesting as well as disturbing and sad.
This movie tells the story of one mans fight for freedom for the Jews. It tells the true story of what happened during the Holocaust. I would recommend this film for anyone who likes history.
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Summary: Spielberg finally grows up, warts and all
Review: For a man who's made billions on sentimental and infantile Hollywood blockbusters, here Spielberg finally takes a shot at "serious" filmmaking and is finally rewarded at Oscar-time. Liam Neeson puts in a fine performance as the central character, a master schmoozer/mannipulator German entrepreneur with a taste for women---the womanizing aspect lends some much-needed comic relief at several junctures of this 3 hour and 17 minute film. The rest of the cast is also superb and well-directed, with a solid script, excellent camera work; the movie actually doesn't feel quite as long as it really is. The last ten minutes is the only time the "old" Spielberg rears his ugly head again as he has Neeson breaking down in tears and rebuking himself for not saving even more Jews than he did (1100 roughly). Let's hope that Neeson got a special bonus for having to act out such an embarassingly silly scene. Luckily, this vintage Spielberg maudlin-excess is counterbalanced by the dark irony of a Russian soldier riding up to the newly freed Jews and proclaiming, "Congratulations, you have just been liberated by the Soviet Army!" (That scene takes place in Czechoslovakia and when I first saw the film in a Prague cinema in 1994, the whole audience couldn't stop laughing.) There is of course a subtle political agenda, too: asked where they should go now, the same Russian soldier answers, "Don't go east, they hate you there. But don't go west. If I were you, I wouldn't go west, either." A nice justification for the U.N.-decreed founding of the state of Israel in 1948 at the expense of oh, just a few million indigenous Arabs... Otherwise, "Schindler's List" is a worthy film and nice history lesson.
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Summary: Jewish Suffering Sells... BIG!
Review: Spielberg, like most of his lot, is a pimp. Do yourself a favor and read "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" by Norm Finkelstein.
Rating:
Summary: Wonderful and Terrible
Review: This was, without a doubt, the most difficult movie to sit through. It captures so vividly and painfully one of the darkest times in history. As a rule, we do not watch R rated movies in our home, but I believe that EVERYONE should watch this at some point. It is truly inspiring and helps to open our eyes as to what we as humans are capable of, both good and bad. I promise that you cannot possibly watch this and be unmoved by the powerful message.
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Summary: Perhaps the most important film ever
Review: A gripping and gut-wrenching no-holds bar account of probably the darkest chapter in human history, it is no exaggeration that watching "Schindler's List" in one sitting is near impossible. Keeping in mind the subject matter is neither fiction nor entertainment, its reality - the unspeakable depth of human devastation inflicted by man himself as perpetrated by Hitler's Third Reich, i.e., the Holocaust - will force the viewer to get up for air. From its "entertainment" perspective, the film earned Steven Spielberg a richly deserved and belated Best Director Oscar, and Oscar-nominated Liam Neeson, as German industrial Oskar Schindler trying to spare his Jewish factory workers from Hitler's death camps, is at his best in his craft. Beyond that, this film is so gripping that its glutches refuse to let us turn from its brutal reality but compels us to keep watching to remember so as to never let this human carnage occur again. In the end, we do get some redemption, some hope, because human kindness was not completely obliterated. More specifically, though, this film is a horrifying monument to the evil that man can do. But it is also a magnificent tribute to the memories of the 12 million victims who didn't make Schindler's list. This film ought to be mandtory viewing.
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Summary: Schindler's Best
Review: This was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. This Movie was perfect right down to the last little morsal of dirt!
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Summary: Review for "Schindler's List"
Review: I have not yet seen, a World War 2 movie as good and touching as this one. It is a remarkable peice, and everyone, should some day see it. It is a picture of the grim and realistic things that happened, but still keeping the beautiful and fragile aspects in touch. It truly should have gotten more awards, and should be though of as a classic. When you watch this movie, the length or color will not bother you. It's the story that is truly, the most remarkable thing ever put on a screen. It will leave you speechless. It is a remider of the era of darkness.
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Summary: Triumph of the Human Spirit
Review: Schindler's List Though you see Oscar Schindler in most of this film's scenes, he
is primarily the narrator of this story, because the film is less
about him than it is about triumph of the human spirit and survi-
ving at a time when survival wasn't even one of the options.
He is portrayed by Neeson as cold and calculating, motivated
only by the expectation of windfall profits, but as the film unfolds,
the viewer witnesses his uneasy transition to that of a man
haunted by the horrors of mindless genocide. In the film's most
poignant moment, Oscar witnesses the obliteration of the Warsaw
ghetto through the eyes of one little girl, desparately seeking
a way out--but finding none. It is in this moment that WE see
all too clearly the single-minded ruthlessness with which the
Nazis' pursued the complete extermination of European jews.
And what we discovered in this cinematic journey is that Oscar
Schindler was a man who failed at every thing he ever tried to
accomplish, except for the ONE thing he was truly meant to do.
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