Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)

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Summary: A Masterpeice...!
Review: Steven Spielberg has captured in this film the story of a man who at first decided to capitalize on the misery around him during WWII and the German occupation of Poland. Liam Neeson, as Oskar Schindler is perfect as the womanizer, and neer-do-well. He is unscrupulous in starting his new business and yet discovers his own humanity, to the surprise of himself as well as his friends and family. He risks everything to save hundreds of Jews that work in his factory from the death camps, when everyone else was either complicit or turning a blind eye. The story also captures the essential elements of the Warsaw ghetto and how the final solution was put into effect. The part of the Camp Kommandant, is played with brilliance by Ralph Fiennes...a drunk, a zealot, a coward, and ultimately a monster...shooting people in the camp with a high powered rifle, simply for the sport. This film has been criticized, but it is the only film which faces the Holocaust without turning away, or making some kind of lame excuse. The scene in the ghetto where the Jews are being rounded-up for extermination, or shot on the spot, while one of the SS troops plays Mozart, will stay with me for the rest of my life.

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Summary: Searing
Review: Rivals 'The Triumph and the Glory' (the novel)and 'Saving Private Ryan' for honors as the most effective film or book dealing with the horror of the Second World War. Unmatched for intensity, one of Spielberg's true triumphs in a great career studded with triumphs.

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Summary: Most important film of all time !
Review: I am not an enormous fan of Speilberg's work as a whole, but there is no denying that this is the classic cinematic work of the century. I've probably seen this masterpiece five or six times over the years and the emotions never fade.

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Summary: overrated
Review: no where as compelling as ann franks for me.i thought the film gloryfied a hustler.a car or lives? i just didn't identify with the film at all.

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Summary: See Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Escape from Sobibor a
Review: As good as Malcolm X, JFK, Nixon, the last Emperor and Titanic, with the same degree of subtle low key propaganda and deep insight into the human spirit. The lack of historical falsification in service of a political agenda at odds with American culture is, of course, typical of modern Hollywood product but gratifying never the less. One looks forward to Spielberg's next film with Nazis. He does them so well. One point. The black and white photography was a bit poor. B&W is not just without color but an art in and of itself.

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Summary: Moving, realistic, depressing.....facinating!
Review: This movie is truely my favorate movie of all time. I may be just 13 years old, but one of my favorate hobbies is to learn about the Holocaust. Schindler's List is the most realistic account of this period, and I have to say that the crew, actors, and everybody involved in the production of this film are pure genieses. Though I had loved to learn about the Holocaust long before I first saw this movie, I had never pictured the death of 6,000,000 Jews quite like this. Such cruel people, the Nazis. Since this is a movie based on the novel based on eyewitness accounts, it is the most realistic movie you could ever see in a lifetime. WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Liam Neeson deserved the Oscar.
Review: This was an incredible movie. Steven Spielberg did a brilliant job on the film, and Thomas Kenneally is a gifted writer. Liam Neeson was amazing, and should have won the Oscar for that role. I'm glad that Oscar Schindler is finally getting the credit he deserves. Future generations can learn so much from his actions.

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Summary: The Most Realistic Interpretation of Heroism in Film History
Review: No other film has represented a "hero" as well as Schindler's List. This hero might not be the perfect hero, in fact, he isn't a true hero, he is just a selfish, flawed person who realises the true nature of his self-centered personality and uses his power to help others in order to redeem himself, but the genius of Steven Spielberg has made his audiences believe that Oskar Schindler may just be the closest thing to Jesus Christ himself, in the history of cinema. If that dosen't make Steve the greatest director of all time, I don't want to imagine what can.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This film is one of my most cherished. Not that I love to watch it all the time, but the fact that I have to prepare myself to watch it speaks for itself. I think it is incredibly artistic, and well made. What a great piece of work.

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Summary: Spielberg's best work
Review: I do not cry easily. I will say, this movie was so intense and so horrifying, I cried so much I didn't even understand the story until I watched it a second time. The black-and-white film at first put me off, but watching it made me realize it was the only way this story could be done. This movie is an absolute must-see for anyone. It's a painful, chilling portayal of the Holocaust, but it is something that must be remembered.