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Summary: Forget not, then cry, cry, cry
Review: Brilliant, provocative, gut-wrenchingly moving, this film could do to cinematography what Shakespeare did to the English language - shake it, define it, refine it. How Spielberg's classic could not have been one of Time magazine's films of the century is beyond me. Forget Spielberg the man, focus on the film. Yep, black and white has been done before but never has it been done on such a tapestry, not just as a medium but as a method for conveying meaning. Remember the little girl in the pink dress, Keneally's "meandering full stop" at the end of the column of Jews. Doubters be damned! How could anyone not be moved to their core when the little pink dress is revealed at its final tragic destination? Forget not that that first the book, then the film, then Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah project have added nobility to a fetid sore. Forget not, then cry, cry, cry.
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Summary: How anyone can give this movie one star is beyond belief.
Review: I don't understand how anyone in their right minds can give this movie anything less than five stars. It makes me wonder if we saw the same film. It was the most powerful movie I have ever seen. When the credits were rolling, I was so stunned I couldn't move. First of all, this movie couldn't be filmed in anything but black and white! It would've been too much to be seen in color. Besides most of what we really have seen about the Holocaust is in b&w. The opening scene introducing Schindler to the audience was brilliant. The direction and photography were stunning and to those that say different are definitely in the minority. Of course you're entitled to your opinion but when I read the ones with one star it told me one thing and one thing only. You know nothing about film and filmaking.
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Summary: Why in the world is the average 4.5 stars?
Review: Undoubtably one of the best and most moving and powerful movies of all time. (much better than Titanic, at least) Shows all aspects of World War II, I really loved this movie. Very very powerful images though. One of the three movies I've ever cried in.One thing. Why does Liam Neeson half of the time have a German accent, then the other half a Brittish (or Scottish) one?
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Summary: A Hallmark Card!
Review: This film was a Hallmark Card? A Hallmark card! What? This, like "Saving Private Ryan," was not meant to be entertaining, nor pretty. This film was about one of the worse human rights abuses in recent history, and is told very effectively. If anybody can sit through this film thinking that this is just a "Hallmark Card" used to boost Spielberg's ego and get him the elusive Oscar, they are sadistic and enjoy viewing human suffering. Maybe if people wouldn't review this film like god damn film students they would see it for what it really is, and you all know what it really is meant to be. Schindler was not a perfect man, but dammit he helped preserve a part of a generation that was largely lost, and someone told his story and did it damn well. The film was also simply an excellent telling of the hell of the Holocaust. Yeah, we already know it was hell without being told by Spielberg, but sometimes it is good to hear this somewhere else than a textbook or PBS, because it usually is censored and toned down in those mediums. Another thing to address: Spielberg used the pink girl not as a cute "Awwwww" effect, he used it to show what the girl's ultimate fate was: gassing and burning. But why the vivid pink and not a duller color? Because a dull color would have been lost among the rest of the dull colors, if you can call them colors. Plus pink is a good color to illustrate the child's happiness and innocence, sucked away by senseless hatred. It wasn't used to make you happy and feel good, in some sick, twisted "Hallmark moment" way, ya sadists. This is an excellent film, so good I hate to trivialize it with a star rating. Spielberg is an excellent director, and is as essential to American film as this film is to the Holocaust, and "Saving Private Ryan" is to World War II.
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Summary: Easily among the best films of the decade
Review: Of all the Oscar-winning pictures of the nineties, "Schindler's List" is clearly the finest. Be it the screenplay, the acting, the direction, the cinematography or the music score. This film is simply masterful in all respects. It is a highly complex drama that touches many issues (heroism, moral choice, human nature among others), still it is never pretentious or didactic. It also manages to be a technically superior film without being jingoistic or self-indulgent. Despite its three-hour-plus length, "Schindler's List" never loses momentum and sometimes even succeeds in being entertaining as well. "Schindler's List" is really an exceptional movie. A film of rare emotional and intelectual power and impact. The only Spielberg-films that were even more commercially successful in Germany were "E.T." and "Jurassic Park". If Spielberg had never made another great film (which he made plenty of), we would have to call him a genius because of "Schindler's List".
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Summary: There are no words!
Review: There are no true words to describe this movie. It is the most inspiring and painful of movies I have ever seen in my life. Every human being on this planet should see this movie without interruption if they are strong enough of body and mind to be able to sit through and view each and every frame. They should know ahead of time that the tears they will shed will be tears of worth and any human being who possesses a conscience or any human feeling in their soul will shed those tears from watching this movie. No one should forget. No one should forget!
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Summary: Top 5 on my all time list!
Review: I thought it was one of the best movies EVER made. The emotion stired by this movie is like none other. It takes you into the lives of the Jews during WWII without even a glimps of Hitler. The movie wasn't focused on the war, it was focused on the people. This movie should be shown in history classes in high school.
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Summary: He Who Saves One Saves the World Eternal
Review: I had a sense that Spielberg just made movies with big budgets and wrote him off as a big-budget director. After seeing this film I realized how good of a director Spielberg is. The finest attribute I can give above all others is his ability to tell stories in the clearest possible manner without any confusion. In Schindlers List, Spielberg demonstrates this so well intergrating the lives of Jewish Holocaust victims, Nazi soldiers, the time periods, the details of the buildings and signs. The most minute detail paid attention to. Neeson gives the performance of his career (I believed he should have gotten it instead of Hanks). The story of one Oskar Schindler, a Nazi, who saves 1000 Jews. Shot in a moody grainy black and white with John Williams and famous violinist Itzak Perlman composing a masterful moving score. This film is highly reccomended to anyone, although it is very graphic and intense at many times. Yet this violence does not in the least take away from the picture as a whole; only making the message louder. Certainly Spielberg has outdone himself in everyway and deserves to be in the ranks of some of the finest directors in history. This special edition of the film includes the Widescreen edition, as well as a limited print CD of the score. It also includes Thomas Keneely's novel of the same title, and a picture book with a few nice words by Spielberg. For the price, its not entirely worth it, unless you collect boxed sets or a huge Spielberg fan, otherwise the regular edition of the film will do.
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Summary: The List...is Life.
Review: Between 1939 and 1945, over 6 million Jewish prisoners were murdered, experimented on and tortured all in the name of the "master race". i have to admit, this movie lost me at some points, like for instance, when Schindler is speaking to Goeth's maid. What does that have to do with the holocaust? then I saw the movie for a asecond time yesterday. I finally understood. Not only does this develope the character, but it defines Schindler in only one scene. the movie would have to be more than the 3 hours it is now to just explain Schindler, but Spielberg does it in one scene. Also in response to a reviewer who stated that this movie was not funny, i have only a few words to describe my feelings towards that: If you thought this movie was supposed to be funny, check yourself into a CLINIC. Also, this movie is worth every star i give it mostly to the fact that it tells the truth about a uncharateristic Nazi, who spared more than 1,00 Jewish people from certain death.
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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: Steven Spielberg uses his formidable gifts as a commercial director, and manipulator of our emotions, to excellent effect in his big, sentimental film about Oscar Schindler, and, in a much grander way, the entire experience of the Holocaust. Though there are touches of Spielbergian magic dust sprinkled throughout, the overall effect of this movie is so shockingly powerful you can easily forgive them, and him. I found this movie to be mesmerizing, and the first and only depiction of the specific atrocities of the darkest time in our collective, and recent, past, that made it real to me. The first waves of incredulousness begin with the creation of the ghetto in the first hour; the simple fact that one would be told to leave their home behind spun me around in my seat -- yes, I had heard all of this before, but had never seen the haunting faces and specific people Spielberg here focuses on so deftly. I think this movie puts human faces on a tragedy so big and broad that it often becomes numbingly gigantic -- too difficult to take in on its own terms. Here, instead, we get a small group of fascinating characters placed in extraordinary circumstances. Ralph Fiennes is so compellingly evil that he makes a case for the seductive nature of the devil himself. John Williams's score is another insidious example of expert movie music that plays in your head for days. It is the finale that bothers me the most, though it is not worth taking a star off -- it is so over-the-top sentimental that it feels incongruous and unfair to the rest of the movie -- which is, after all, a movie -- not a documentary. That said, I think that this movie should be essential viewing for teenagers everywhere. It tells a story that is rich with history; it exudes a sense of humanity and resilience and goodness; as commercial pop art, it does not get more effective or powerful than this.
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