I honestly really like how you point out that it's not the evil that made you cry, but the good of the list - it reminds us that, when we're adrift on a sea of cruelty and darkness, the only thing that makes life worth living is the occasional island of human kindness shining through
this is my seond comment. I usually don't to this, but i just cannot hold back. Its about something you've said, Shree: "I am so ... glad that - after the war is over - all of these people are gonna be hanged!", at 38:15 ...thats wrong. Unfortunatly. Let me tell you what my grandfather - who was a german soldier in WW2, but not a member of the NSDAP, neither a nazi - told to my father, years after the war: My grandfather was a soldier of germany, and therfore became a p.o.w. to the American military. when the war ended, the allies were searching for full blown nazis, to bring them to justice. My grandfather was prooven to be none of those by testemonies of many of his fellow friends from church and priests, who had sworn he had neither been a nazi, or ever commided any war crimes or atrocities. He was a very religous man, and well known in his community. So, when he came back to Frankfurt, Germany, he went to work for the local govenment, of the city. And he met many people from the third reich - formar hard core nazis - who were selected, by the allies to work at hight positions, after the war. They were city officals, judges and other high ranking officers. The allies had to build up society,after the war, becasue Germany was almost compleatly destroyed. So they took many of those, who were in powerful positions during the nazi time, and gave them back their positions, afterwords. My grandfather, who I have never met - because he died, before i was born, was pissed off by knwoing that many full blown nazi operatives, had not just escaped justice, but got back in power, when the war was over. He was pissed off by that, his whole life, and he told that to his children. And that's why i know of it. And thats why I am just telling this to you now: to let you know, that NOT all of this people had been dealt with, when the war was over. Eighty years have passed. Most of them died allready. But over here, in Germany, we still have court hearings about crimes, commited by nazis, to this day. The last one, that I am awere of, was about a 97 year old woman, who were prooven to be guilty of aid in murder of hundered of thousands, in 2022. So...no, not all of those fucking people were hanged. Far from it.
34:50 "There's _profit_ in war, but there's also _war_ in war." Well, if you want to be _technical,_ there's profit in war as long as you can keep the fighting away from your _industrial_ infrastructure. WWII was actually _hugely costly_ for Europe. Switzerland and Ireland were both spared, but otherwise, every single country in Europe was left in poverty because the war ended up reducing its industrial war machine to rubble. It was hugely _profitable_ for the _US,_ though. We profited hand-over-fist, because all the damage that war _inflicted,_ aside from the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it inflicted _elsewhere._
15:18 "I am very, very grateful. I'm grateful that they're not Oskar as a _saint."_ Oh, he wasn't. He had an _unceasing_ eye for the ladies that ultimately cost him marriage after marriage. He was a regular _scoundrel._ But he wasn't a _monster._ He had _no_ appetite for bloodshed.
46:29 I liked this line, “cry and I’ll have you arrested” the reason he threatened her was that he knew he was not good, but also that deep down he was a softie, especially to a crying woman. If she cried there he knew he probably would’ve given in to her plead.
@@MLawrence2008 you might have a point, if the two interpretations were actually mutually exclusive. Besides, the other (obvious) explanation was stated by Schindler himself in the very next scene; part of the point of movie reactions is discussing stuff that’s implied instead of regurgitating the obvious.
The little girl in the red coat is actually a memory of Aurdrey Hepburns. She told Spielberg of the little girl she said through the screaming and all the darkness of people in black she saw her looking so beautiful in her coat but it was her expression that truly haunted Ms Hepburn as she said she was absolutely silent and not crying. She had this look that seemed to indicate she knew exactly what her fate was and that she had accepted it as she was put into one of the cattle cars on a train by a nazi officer. Stephen speilberg wanted to honour her memory.
With far-right rhetoric and hateful misinformation becoming more and more popular, the importance of movies like this is ever more important. It’s getting worryingly hard to find RU-vid channels that aren’t either falling for far-right rhetoric or are just fully blown hate preachers. Thank you for being a voice for reason and the truth ❤️
Shree, thanks for reacting to this. During the war, jewelry was portable wealth; keep in mind that Jewish people really didn't know where they would be going, if there could be a chance to escape or bribe a guard for food or wind up homeless somewhere or whatever - - they probably just wanted to not be penniless. I didn't know that (what you said) about swallowing money, though. Great reaction so far; interesting commentary. All the best.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed :) Part 2 coming right up! And yes swallowing jewelery is very dangerous, I heard a story of a woman who swallowed her earrings every day in these camps to keep them hidden (I guess after going to the bathroom), and died because it damaged her insides.
savage times. i'd like to say that people have learned, but we keep seeing the same thing on a "smaller" scale happening over and over again: the Rwandan massacre in the nineties, the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia...The list is constantly being extended, unfortunately.
Such a good and difficult movie. It needs to be remember. It's also so devastating. Every time they get one second of hope something worse happens. They robbed them of everything. Home, business, clothes, and even their gold teeth before killing them. Schindler mention Russia to those two soldiers the Russian front was absolutely brutal. No one wanted to get sent there.
If you like this movie, you should watch the pianist. This one has probably better direction and story but the Pianist just goes through your soul. It has less lines and that allows emotions to grow stronger in my opinion.
You know, Shree, if getting censored by YT is really getting to be a problem for you, you might try taking a look at what the reactor Ashleigh Burton does. I've followed _her_ content for _ages_ and getting censored _never_ seems to pose a problem for her, even when she posts reactions to content that gets _other_ reactors censored. There's a movie called _My Girl._ It came out in '91. It's kind of a sad movie, though I happen to like it, so I was looking forward to commenting on it. It discouraged me when I saw a reaction to it uploaded to Explore with India's channel, and saw the comments were off. Turns out, YT keeps turning off the comments there no matter how she keeps turning them back on. Then Ashleigh Burton uploaded a reaction video to _her_ channel, and as far as I know, YT has done nothing to _impede_ it.
I really enjoyed that you saw this for the first time, but were familiar with the storyline and the historic matter. You caught on to so many things that usually go unnoticed!
that was one of the best reactions to this movie i saw so far, because you really seem to know about the events (and even specifics). i want to give some context to some of the scenes/comments from a german perspective, that many non-german-speakers probably won't get. 30:07 here the SS-guy asks the little boy about his name and his age. this guy is able to show affection towards a little boy, but one moment earlier/later he can randomly shoot another person. this is the perverted emotional mindset of these guys, because - unlike some people nowadays might think - the people commiting these horrendous atrocities weren't '24/7-monsters', but caring fathers/mothers, loving husbands/wifes, nice neighbours and so on as well. i think that's a genious depiction by spielberg of the emotional duality in these people: at one moment the could 'switch on' their normal human empathy and 'switch it off' the very next moment again. 31:22 here the 'soldier' is complaining about his comrade shooting the boy he just caught. not because he cares for the boy, but because the bullet hit too close to himself and could have killed/wounded him. 38:15 you said you're lucky these people got what they deserved after the war. that's true for amon göth, but not for the majority of the nazis who stayed under the radar after the war and either denied any involvement or were part of a 'post-war-nazi-network' supporting/hiding each other until their natural deaths (like one of my grandfathers). many nazis (and i'm not just talking about 'nominal party members' here, but about 'actual real die-hard nazis') lived 'happy lives' afterwards, gave rise to children and in some cases even gained power in post-war-germany (esp. in westgermany, where i'm from).
Re: shooting the construction foreperson yet still taking her advice - He wasn't shooting her because she was doing her job or telling them accurately what to do, he was shooting her for yelling at Germans/Nazis; essentially for not "knowing her place" and being "disrespectful." He was always going to have them do what she said, he respected her education. He just didn't like her attitude and wasn't willing to put up with it, and he could have her killed, so he did. It isn't hypocritical, it's perfectly logical. Completely evil, don't get me wrong! But Goeth makes a lot of decisions the same way throughout the movie, and he is logically consistent each time. To the Nazis, Jews were not humans, they were vermin to be exterminated - later, after we get work out of them, or now, if they're unwilling TO work, or to work without acting like the Nazis were "better" and they were "less than." (Please do not misunderstand me, *I* do not agree with them, just explaining their mindset). Same with the executions of the people in the ghetto - anyone they found hiding was obviously willing to cause "trouble" and weren't worth the effort to house/feed them, even to get work out of them. Easier to just shoot them. Terminal cancer patients? Shoot them (the doctor and nurse gave them poison (yes, it was poison) as a mercy). Stop to tie your shoe? Should've done it earlier, now's too late. Sitting down a for a minute on the steps? No breaks, you're supposed to be working, now you'll be an example to others. If you couldn't or wouldn't work, you got shot, or shipped off to Auschwitz. Of course, plenty of Jews who could and did work got shot or shipped off, too. It's all horrible, and what's in the movie is just the bare surface of the atrocities committed by the Nazis. There were many lists. "Schindler's List" in particular is the one he made with Stern to get the people to go with him back to his home town. Earlier lists made when Schindler gave his cigarette case and his lighter, etc., were the people that were being added to Schindler's sub-camp in Plaszow/Krakov as they went along, when he still wasn't trying to save people so much as keep the business open. He didn't share the officers' belief that Jews weren't human, and he didn't completely lack empathy, as the officers did, and that got him into trouble here and there (like when he kissed the Jewish girl and spent some time in jail).
Talking about antisemitism. If you are willing to go with a foreign language film watch 1945 it is a post war film which is truly amazing. Also there are not many films about Jews fighting back. A good one is Defiance.
This of course, is a story that needs to be told. Such a hard situation to understand. It truly proves that there sometimes is actual evil in the world. It needs to be exposed and dealt with. Shree consider the film ' 12 Years a Slave ' another film that addresses another truly evil situation.
@@tomhoffman4330 No I haven't gone to Tara's channel. And sorry for the late reply. I went tothe store for a few things. And support for Shree, I'm always here for that.
@@tomhoffman4330 Hey Tom, I thought I'd send you a quick note from Shrees channel. I am being told from Tara that I'm giving out spoilers. It is about Blade Runner. First we were taking about a film that I didn't know if she has seen it or not. Second no announcement from her that she will be reacting to that film. Third, this is being reviewed on another channel other than hers. I've given nothing but support to Tara. I'm sorry but I don't think you'll see me there for awhile.
And with Göth, the ö with the umlaut is pronounced more like a U than an O. Well more like a mix between the two but phonetically sounds closer to a deep U. The way Neeson prounces it is pretty spot on.
Bless you for doing this! An incredible watch/review, lots of great thoughts that you shared. It has to be said that Hannah Arendt herself is a very problematic figure. Ignoring this, her "banality of evil" theory, that she made at the time of Eichman's trial, is imprecise at best: Eichman, the "office guy who carried orders without emotion", was anything but. He was invested in his Antisemitism as if it was his life's purpose. And he is not the only one: scores, millions, were eager to commit such acts of sadism, out of fun and with pure joy, due to this very ideology. It was the mainstream, and performing it was considered a "great honor".
A lot of the men and women that were on trial for these monstrous acts got very little jail time or were set free. Only a few were actually executed for this horror, mainly the most notable and well known paid with there lives.
Great Movie. I like your reaction Shree, however.... you have to listen to this song ""You Talk Too Much"" by Joe Jones 1960 have a listen to it, it apply to you...
Ive watched a few of your reactions and, if I may offer some subtle criticism....you seem to be inclined to talk every 4 seconds....literally!...Its OK to let the movie flow for half a minute before commenting. It really creates a "choppy" experience when you talk for ten seconds and watch for 4. Its like your not watching the film, but rather "glancing" at it while continuously commenting.That aside, you seem to genuinely perceive the material in an intelligent way,...and your comments are articulate and substantial. Just slow er down a tad!!...lol....Cheers!
