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Summary: Amazing, horrifying, tragic, and compelling all at the same
Review: This movie is surely the greatest movie of all time and Spieldberg at his best. This is the closest anyone will ever get to the truth of the Holocaust. The movie is so realistic it seemed as if they actually filmed it from the Holocaust. If you want a movie to be as real as it gets, skip Titantic, which the whole thing was basically junk, and get this movie.
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Summary: Was Speilberg tired when he filmed this?
Review: This was a very slow movie! It is as slow as...Meet Joe Black! It is not funny at all! If you want too see an excelent film watch Life is Beautiful, it is a great movie!
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Review: I have seen alot of movies and byfar the best movie I have seen. It is very factual and educational. I would encourage everyone to see it.
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Summary: Excuse me?
Review: This is just in response to the person from Tel Aviv's scathing review. Perhaps there are others out there who will agree with me when I suggest this movie was far from a "Hollywood Melodrama". I am just sorry I missed it on the large screen. What was so desensitizing about the director's depiction? The film was not a depopularization of a significant horror in the 20th century, it was a way of depicting it so the mainstream could view it. Should we have seen more dead bodies? I believe the women's shower scenes and overall feel of the movie depicts enough.
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Summary: An insult to Humanity.
Review: The fact that the American Nation, and with it the entire Western Civilization, is getting sillier by the minute, is not only Spielberg's fault. But one can not underestimate the immense contribution that Hollywood, to which this person is a dear son, has had in desensitizing people to everything that is human. "Schindler's List" a simplistic, mathematically melodramatic attempt to, popularize a subject that should not have been popularized at all. The Jewish Holocaust was not a Hollywood melodrarma, but a reality, and this reality is still with us, as humans, whether direct or indirect victims, as perpetrators, or as potential victims and perpetrators of similar realities.
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Summary: A Touching Drama
Review: Schindler's List is automatically one of the greatest films ever made. It is one of Spielberg's finest work of art ever. I sat through the whole film wondering what was going to happend next. This film kept me on the edge of my set, despite the length of the film which is a little over 3 hours. This film really let my emotions out, which by the way is hard to do when watching a movie. I would recomend this film to any one over the age of 10.
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Summary: UNEXPLAINABLY TOUCHING!!
Review: The person who reviewed this film on April 9, 1999 was expecting a COMEDY??? That review was a comedy, right? And even had you not heard that Schindler's List was a docu-drama about the Holocaust, you could figure it out after just a few minutes into the film. The story is outstanding and touches raw nerves in just about anyone who watches it and has a heart. The very fact that many of the Nazis had no regard for human life or suffering was a heart-breaking fact, or the Holocaust could never have happened. Neeson was magnificent and convincing as the compassionate Oskar Schindler, and Fiennes played his part so superbly that he convinced me that I wouldn't even like to know HIM in real life--anyone who could portray such an cold, inhuman character!! I normally stick with G and PG family films, but occasionally wish to see a worthwhile film based on a true story. Although the theme of man's-inhumanity-to-man was so realistic as to sicken one, the story of compassion this film portrayed was equally moving. I don't thing Spielberg will out-do himself again like this.
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Summary: Hello, Just A Movie
Review: The Holocaust and its survivors deserve a great and passionate film to commemorate their losses. A tribute to them and their humanity in the way that "War and Peace" celebrated the inner life of the victims of the Napoleonic Wars. "Schindler's List," unfortunately, is not that film.Never mind the mountains of kitsch and heavy-handedness with which Spielberg seems determined to lard even his most solemn movies. The main problem is that the center of the story, Oskar Schindler, is a complete cipher. We see him laughing, shmoozing, wheeling and dealing, even sobbing in the film's most manipulative scene. But we never learn anything about his motives, sympathies, or inner life. Was he an opportunist? A humanitarian? A sententious profiteer? The movie never answers these questions, or considers him with any of the complex scrutiny its theme demands. As a result, we feel curiously distanced from the 20th Century's most heinous crime. What should have been a fearless plunge into the heart of this enigma comes off instead as a four-hour digression. Ultimately, the film denigrates those it intends to memorialize. The Jews have always been a people of great strength, spirit, humor, and resiliance. These qualities helped them survive Hitler's genocide, and cope with almost unimaginable terror and suffering. Spielberg does not give them credit for this spirit, but rather portrays them as the solemn, lamb-like victims found in Jewish stereotypes. It is impossible to watch this Hollywood movie and believe in them as people, since they are played as having no personality, complexity, or life. The rosy, halo-like glow that surrounds these cardboard martyrs makes the viewer feel stifled; much as he wants to, he can't feel for them, because he is too conscious of being crudely manipulated. Why did Speilberg focus on a lofty, mysterious gentile for his Holocaust epic? Doing so gives no insight into the "meaning" of the mass tragedy, and obscures our identification with the victims. I think there are two reasons: 1) The film, we are reminded constantly by hoary, Multiplex-tested gimmickry, IS entertainment. Audiences respond more strongly to, and feel more comfortable with, a powerful protagonist. One who makes decisions, seems able to control his environment, and can act as a traditional movie hero. If Spielberg had told the story of one of the oppressed Jews in the camp, his film would've been much more vivid, caustic and moving, but would not have allowed this cozy distance. Now we can coast atop everything with Schindler as our stand-in, and feel a lot of self-congratulatory pity for the distant Jews whom we never really have to rub shoulders with. And sleep the sleep of the just after handing around Oscars. 2) Spielberg identifies more with Schindler than with the Jews. Spielberg is a director of epics, a genius at manipulating huge groups of people and keeping the gargantuan machinery of blockbuster movie-making rolling along. That's very similar to the role of Schindler in the movie, and this in fact explains the coldness of the whole affair--despite all the swells of music and tears and "poignant" moments, it's an impersonal film. Technically perfect, grittily realistic and brilliantly designed, it left me feeling I'd been watching the capers of a wonderful machine, not a drama involving people. Spielberg's tendency to deal with people en masse leaves him unable to portray his characters as individuals. All in all, a passionate (in its own way), entertaining, convincing, but vacuous movie. For a truly devastating story of the Holocaust, read "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. (I docked it one star because it is so profoundly overrated.)
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Summary: one of the top movies i have ever seen.
Review: this movie kept me on the edge of my seat for the entire movie. it was educational, informitive. a must see for children over 10 in spite of the R ratings. should be required in allour schools i think ths movie actavated all my emotions
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Summary: Realism is Speilberg's forte!!! 10 STARS!!
Review: I have now watched this movie 5 or 6 times. The use of black and white was brilliant, it dated the time period and also dismissed any contentions that it was meant to be simply bloodthirsty. Showing the gruesome scene where the ghetto was attacked was necessary to help explain what triggered Schindler to find sympathy for the people. Apparently the bit about the red coat was an actual survivor's memory of his daughter. This was truth, sorry if the script didn't tickle or seduce. It was a deadly serious masterpiece!! Not 100% of Germans were bad, nor 100% Jews were good, but we are watching human nature at work, and I'm thankful that Speilberg came up with such a brilliant ending!!! The first time (in the theatre) I didn't realise that some of the people coming over the hill were actual Schindler survivors, not just the cast until halfway through, but I cried and still cry whenever I replay that scene. He ends it by giving us hope. As to the comments about violence and also the violence in Private Ryan, this is life portrayed with incredible realism, folks. Speilberg doesn't deal in gratuitus violence, and the most violent scene I've ever seen him film was the dumping of slaves off the Amistad, that really haunted me with no drop of blood in sight!! If you can't stomach realism, watch Disney instead.
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