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Summary: Beyond The Awards...Beyond The Words..Beyond The Imagination
Review: This review refers to the Universal Widescreen VHS Edition of "Schindler's List"....When imagining how I would write this review of "Schindler's List" I was thinking of all the awards it had won and been nominated for. Not just all the Oscars(Best Picture/Best Director, etc 1993) but all the international awards as well.
It's a film though , that goes beyond the awards. It's much more than just a movie. I have watched it many times, but put it on for another view before sitting down to write this. It wasn't the awards I've been thinking of since then, but of the people, the place and the time,of the events the film depicts. Steven Spielberg has brought us many fine gifts of filmaking that we may enjoy for years to come, but this is one that goes beyond words.He brings to the screen a gift a remembrance. A sad and horrific time in the history of the world that should never be forgotten. A tribute to the milllions of human beings that were tortured and murdered in the Nazi Concentration camps during WWII. And he enlightens us as well, with the story of one man. One man who made a difference. Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi party. He was an opportunist, who seemed to have no interest in anything but himself and money. As Jews were being taken away to work camps by the Nazi's, he began hiring them to work in his factory. They become "Schindler's Jews", and although he only sees them at first as a way to make money, they see him as a savior. As long as they work for him they are safe from the horrors the Nazi's may have in store for them. As circumstances escalate, Schindler becomes aware of these horrors. Being a member of the Nazi party he is often witness to the torture, the raids of the homes and all the murder. What he sees is beyond the human imagination. He then uses his own money and puts his own life in danger to save the lives of over 1100 people, by securing a place for them in an ammuninations factory,of which he makes sure that none of the ammo is usable. He looses everything he owns, but gains everything that is important in life. As I mentioned above the film itself was honored with numerous awards. as well it should have. But it really does go beyond the awards.It gives us a look at this time in history as no other film has done before. It's history and it's cinematic history as well. Filmed in Black and White,it gives you the feeling of the seriousness and starkness of the events. You have the feeling of being right there and witnessing the atrocities committed, and it will stay with you for quite some time afterwards. A stellar cast makes you forget they are actors. Liam Neeson turns in the performance of a lifetime as Schindler. Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Embeth Davidtz, and Caroline Goodall, all turning in exquiste performances as well. The cinematography, the music, the screenplay, all just beyond words. This is a must see, must have film. This VHS tape(set of 2) is in the original theatrical widescreen image. We may view it exactly as the director intended. I did notice a full screen version also available to those who prefer. The Black and White Images are really nice. It is digitally mastered in THX Stereo Surround.All in all the quality of the tape is very good but I'm looking fowrard to a Special Edition DVD of this film...Universal? Thank you....Laurie
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Summary: A Thrilling Masterpiece!
Review: This is my all time favorite movie! I've read the book about Oskar Schindler and about every part that was in the book was in the movie. Though I must warn you, this is such a disturbing yet wonderful masterpiece. Children are shot dead in the streets, families seperated and everything else you could imagine. This movie is definitely recommende, if your of age though.
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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.
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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: Powerful!!! The Best movie of the last 50 years!!!
Review: Schinlder's List is the only movie I have ever seen in a theater where everyone there didn't move during the movie and stayed through the credits. The movie is so moving and powerful words can't do it justice. Spielberg for all of his great movies: Jaws, Close Encounters, Raider's, ET ect. None compare with the masterpiece that is Schilder's List. Not even Saving Privite Ryan, while being as powerful, the movie doesn't hold together as well as Schinder's List. Spielberg threw his heart and soul in this movie and you can tell. The Holocaust is one of the most tragic events in human history, and no movie can ever relate the horror of what happened. But in Schindler's List Spielberg comes as close as one can. The film is shot in Poland on some of the actual sights the real events happened. The true story of how a German businessman/war profiteer saved over 1100 Jews in WWII. With great performances by Liam Leeson, Ben Kingsley and a truely horrifying performance by Ralph Fiennes. This movie tells a story of the power of the human spirit.
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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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