I love that when Spielberg asked John Williams to score this, Williams saw the draft cut, broke down and told Spielberg he needed a better composer. Spielberg replied, yes, but they’re all dead. Implying that he thought Williams was the greatest living composer.
@@tiffaniterris2886 🤦♂This score is so iconic & widely revered that its quality isn't even debatable anymore. And nobody in their right mind would've picked Zimmer to score a holocaust film in the early 90s.
In 2012, the number of descendants of the Schindlerjuden was updated from the 6,000 stated in this 1993 film to over 8,500. That line "There will be generations because of what you did" is no exaggeration.
@@synagogueofsteak5006 no it does not dwarf his achievement. I can name you a dozen other man and women going against the regime saving hundreds of lifes. This is not at all a competition. But you are right the others must be named too like Paul Grüninger, Hans Georg Calmeyer, Gilberto Bosques, Hans von Dohnanyi, Angelo Donati, Kálmán Ferenczfalvi, Irene Gut Opdyke, Rudolf Kasztner, Dimitar Peschew (48000 saved!), Gerhard Schmidhuber, Aristides de Sousa Mendes and many many more. Oskar Schindler was one of the most at risk persons due to the fact he was so close to the regime and saved thousands of lives who couldn't be reached by no one else anymore but even those who saved only one of them and have not been named anywhere are giants and not at all by any meaning something like dwarfing each other.
I believe the ring drop was accidental and included for realism. The girl in the red coat was based on a real girl, Roma Ligocka, though she did survive the war.
I’m so glad they used that visual technique. “A death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”. The human brain cannot comprehend a mountain of bodies, the numbers are inimaginable, but by focusing on one character that we remember from before forces us to acknowledge the individuality and humanity of each victim.
@@merchillio My daughter had a dance class that did a beautiful routine in their end of year show set to Itzhak Perlman's violin piece from Schindler's List and featured all but one of the performers in white and one little girl in red dancing, weaving her way through the others. People in the audience (fans of the movie, I assume) cried their eyes out.
You have that backwards. The girl in the red coat was not based on any specific person, but Roma Ligocka had a very similar experience (a little Jewish girl in the ghetto of Kraków wearing a red coat) and identified with the character so much that she wrote a book called The Girl In The Red Coat.
Almost all of the stories about WW2 and the Holocaust are from the Western European point of view. But the war was primarily a war for Eastern Europe. Half of the people who died in the Holocaust never even saw a camp - they were shot over pits near to where they lived. The reason we hear about Auschwitz is that some people survived Auschwitz because it was a slave labor camp. But there were almost no survivors from Treblinka or Belzec - so we don't even have those stories. The Holocaust was even worse than we imagine.
@@rabbitandcrow I think the most stressful movie I have ever watched is "come and see" which shows the horrors in belarus commited by nazis. And it was made by soviets and really is just the best and most painful Anti-war movie I have ever seen. If you haven't seen that, I recommend that movie to you, as it shows the story from an eastern european point of view.
Stanley Kubrick abandoned his own holocaust film, "Aryan Papers," partly because of Spielberg's film, but also, as he said, to show the true horrors of what the Nazis did would be to make an essentially un-filmable and unwatchable movie.
Robin Williams would often call Spielberg during the production of this movie and would make him laugh to cheer him up. Yet another reason why I will forever love Robin.
A couple of comments from an old guy. :-) I remember before this film was in the theaters, hearing that the production was delayed often by people literally breaking down with emotion. But more importantly, in this day & age when so many people don't "believe" history...the existence of this film delivers the visceral, psychological impact that reading an account of the atrocities just can't deliver in the same way. A painful watch, for sure.
_"But more importantly"_ "Importance" is a myth. All our ancestors could have simply gone sterile a very long time ago. Humans are just egomaniacs. If you were really "an old guy" you would know this. 3.4 million years of Stone Age, 6,000 years of post-Stone Age and here we are, a species of egomaniacs who think the universe revolves around us.
@@jmacd8817 How am I self-centered, how am I oblivious and how am I inept? EDIT: Pointing out "importance" is a myth proves I am not self-centered and backing it up with actual facts proves I am neither oblivious or inept.
"The growth is amazing." That's precisely why Schindler was portrayed as the "selfish businessman" in the beginning only to grow into a selfless hero by the end. It's the perfect character arc which is what makes the story much more interesting.
Love the beginning of the film and shows how business was number one goal despite the ugliness of the Nazi. We experience and witness the horror. The personal Responsibility has a culture or people to stop this. He did what he could do and felt guilty. I will remember until I die. Debates of Anne Frank regarding the idea of giving up someone to save your family. Half of the class said they would. Half didn’t. Most likely most would have given up anyone to save themselves. I blew up and has a scent of a women episode condemning the lot. I’d like to think now I would have been brave. I would storm the gates of hell with an army but as a human I hope to god I could. As absence with survivors in not believing in a god. That might do it. As I’ve said before have a good life to spite these monsters. As far as faith goes. It’s easy for me to say anything you or your family did and I didn’t. Let’s hope the Stephen and others or ourselves make a platform for these films to be shown for free to all. Counter arguments don’t suffice in my world view regarding this subject. For humanity and future generations. This movie should be free. To those I have been less considerate talking about these subjects as some have suggested. There is no time and space for anything other then truth. I would like to find funding for more movies and American rhetoric. Was thinking of Schindler’s list. Counter argument might be then we should have pro Nazi films. No. No, need for that. I think having a platform for free in sense even with ads would be useful and educational. Counter arguments could be made for other platforms. These are not mine. Thanks. One of the greatest cinematic gifts was that film and we saw it for free in my freshman year of high school. The entrance fee was a parents permission slip because it was an r. Rated film. Of other people have similar ideas or even ideas against these I’m open. Maybe someone has a better idea. Copyright fees can be paid from aservisnents. Studio and Spielberg and actors can still get whatever money they have gotten since the early 200’s. My favorite scene is Schindler played by Liam Neeson, least favorite scenes are the rest of the film. Not that it doesn’t have merit but the brutality of inhumanity is beyond sometimes what a person can even consume watching a film. To those and family members who died. Some near to me. We love you and you mattered. I certainly can understand the darkness of thinking maybe there is no God of any kind after that. I wish I could help. The only way I can do so now is ask for contributions to: Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education and other such organizations. It easy to say coming close to another dreadful day of the 11th. I promise you until the end of time none of you are forgotten. Fully compassionate God on high: To our six million brothers and sisters murdered because they were Jews, grant clear and certain rest with You in the lofty heights of the sacred and pure whose brightness shines like the very glow of heaven. Source of mercy: Forever enfold them in the embrace of Your wings; secure their souls in eternity. Adonai: they are Yours. They will rest in peace. Amen. You are my older brothers and sisters. We have a bond. Go in light. Again if I angered anyone who lived through this or a loved one. I can’t say how sorry I am. I would enter the abyss to save you or your loved one as much as anyone can say so. I wouldn’t and couldn’t live with even the representation of the darkness that was a reality. Life wouldn’t be meaningful in any measure. Thanks and I hope I expressed myself worthy enough for your feelings and thoughts on this matter. This is such a sensitive subject I’m sure I’m not in full consideration of options or facts. I can offer my goodwill and love. Thanks.
And it asks us, would we have had the same growth? I see him trying to convince other industrialists to save their own Jewish workers, people they also started caring about since they're giving them extra food... and yet he couldn't get them on board. Who would we have been, if we had been in Schilder's shoes?
Yes, the Gril in the Red Coat is just an absolute brilliant piece of film making. Forcing the viewers attention exactly where it needs to be. Manipulating the viewer's emotion to match that of the character's. It is just master class. Almost like the entire movie was in B&W just to be able to show her better and have that impact.
When I was in 7th grade we were shown actual footage of camps being liberated and then investigated. Allied soldiers puking upon entering the camps, film showing the emaciated prisoners, crates of hair, containers of teeth, even a container with body parts (including heads), and film showing the Allied soldiers bulldozing bodies into pits for mass burial. I was old/empathetic/mature enough for that to impact me greatly. Great care needs to be taken when weighing out when a young person should watch this movie. I feel they need to reach a certain place in development that allows the movie to do the work it was meant to do, not just show history, but be horrified, but not traumatized.
At the end they put stones on his grave for a reason and its very heartwarming. In Jewish tradition we consider it a mitzvah (a commandment or a good deed) to participate in the burial of loved ones ourselves, when we visit the grave of a relative after they havr been buried already we place a stone on it to symbolically do this again. By putting the stones on his grave they where honouring him as if he was a member of their family.
It never fails. After watching two hours of people treating other human beings like cattle, seeing the humanity in Schindler as he weeps that he didn't save one more person always makes me tear up.
Yes, the way his arms and shoulders are tense until the fatal shot, and then lowers them in a moment of silent dispair while caring on with his day to day.
I think the boy's reaction at the first and second shots was brilliant too! He jumps at the first shot and looks back. He just continues to just slowly walk forward after the second shot which makes it seem like he is absolutely helpless and he has lost all hope. Very heart breaking to watch.
In 1994, Television New Zealand negotiated to get a copy of the film for television broadcast. This was normal for films at the time; they'd be released in the cinema, then a few months later they'd be made available for television. Spielberg was reluctant to let the film be broadcast in that way, because TV companies had a habit of cutting gore & sex & stuff out of movies, and sometimes robbing the films of essential scenes. He ultimately agreed to let TVNZ broadcast film provided: 1. The film was broadcast uncut. 2. The film was broadcast without any ad breaks. 3. No conversion to 'pan and scan' (4:3 TV ratio format). It would have to use letterbox broadcast, to ensure everything was seen. This kind of demand had never been done before. But, to their credit, TVNZ agreed. The film was broadcast at 7:30pm on a Sunday evening, uncut, in letterbox format, with no ad breaks. We sat down as a family to watch it. Had family friends over as well. Our TV at the time was a 29-inch CRT. We watched the whole film in silence. No one got up. We were held to that screen, and nothing could have torn us away. I've seen the film a couple of times since. It still has incredible impact, and to my mind is Spielberg's single best work.
Even if he was nominated for best supporting actor he still wouldn't have won being up against Gene Hackman in Unforgiven and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men.
@@philuresky2993 And all of them were Christians. The Problem with religions is that you always find some things in their scripture you can use to kill other humans. And people think that this scripture is a justification to do the things they do. And Christians are humans and it happens that the worst things, which happend, were done by Christians most of the time. But we tend to forget that.
The sad thing is: The stuff that going in this movie is nowhere near as gruesome as the reality was. I think I watched this movie 6 times when I was in school here in Germany. I've been to 3 Concentration Camps and it's just... As soon as I entered the place, I felt sad. What happened in those 12 years is beyond terrible. This movie gets me every time.
This was a rough one, especially for Simone. We both had to walk away for a few minutes after the film to recover. That being said, we read all your comments from Saving Private Ryan, and we have every intention to watch other WW2 films and shows such as Band of Brothers and Fury!
Love Simone's reaction. Especially when she broke down at the end when Schindler was overcome with emotion because he couldn't save more. That was a very powerful scene that earned that sort of response.
The woman you referred to, who shook at the sight of Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth was Helen Hirsch (she was the woman Amon had as his maid). That's a testament to Ralph Fiennes as an actor and to the unforgettable trauma that she lived through.
Simone and George, you both make me smile and my heart sing! I am so glad I found your channel and I LOVE your friendship. This has nothing to do with the reaction, but just wanted to say I am so glad I found your channel. I am watching these out of order and am finally "in the mood" to watch another reaction to "Schindler's List". This is such a powerful movie. I watched it for the first time in my Sunday school class with a survivor. Afterward she very graciously shared her own story and answered questions. I will never forget it.
The hardest part of this movie for me is not all the killing, murder, and despair. It’s the look of absolute confusion and fear in the little boy’s eyes at 16:02.
In my head this film is always linked with "Hotel Rwanda", to my mind Don Cheadle's best role. My impression of the boy in the latrine is his situation represents the degradation of his people and the light on his face is hope.
Now imagine how this movie feels to a modern, empathetic German decrying (not denying) these vile acts. Imagine the shame, the terror of knowing that someone in living memory committed these attrocities under your nations' name. That possibly some distant relative, related only by several generations removed, may have participated in these acts as they were too young to participate in them. The shame goes incredibly deep. Most modern Germans don't feel guilt for this, as even Germans born at the start of the Nazi era were not GUILTY of any of these acts. But we feel utterly ashamed, and motivated to never allow this be repeated, and to never forget it. That is how deeply this scarred all, the victims who somehow survived, their families and descendants, and finally the modern Germans having to live with this tarring our nation's memory in the vilest attrocities committed in modern times. Crying is completely fine when seeing this powerful movie. I consider myself a modern, empathetic German, and I cry every time I see even only a few scenes. The most gripping scene is Schindler breaking down, noticing that he might have gotten a few more people out if he had sold his car, or his badge, or his ring. But in reality Schindler had spent nearly every single Pfennig of his once huge assets on trying to save as many of the people in Auschwitz by getting them to work in his factory. The utter genius of Ben Kingsley's acting was this. As a prisoner in one these concentration camps showing any emotion of being distraught with these vile acts brought you in danger of being killed yourself. Thus Kingsley acted like prisoners of that time would. They kept their emotions hidden, even with all of the attrocities around them, just for a chance at survival. Kingsley's acting was perfectly on point for nearly all of the movie. Stern does feel the emotions, but he did not DARE to express them even with the slightest bit of a facial twitch. That's what Kingsley succeeded in portraiting in such utter perfection. Only at the end, when Schindler declared his workers to be free at midnight, he allowed himself some emotions. But imagine how hard it must have been to have evolved survival instincts on supressing your emotions, ANY emotions, for several years, even subconsciously twitching, or a curling of the lips, wrinkling of a nose, or even raised eyebrows. None of that would have been acceptable to certain guards, and definitely not Amon Goeth; resulting in almost instant death. And then trying to overcome those ingrained instincts to allow yourself to express emotions again. Another masterclass in acting by Kingsley and Neeson. Thank you for sitting through and watching this masterpiece. It is definitely not easy to watch. Again, crying is a sign of your empathy and humanity. Thank you for not editing out the reactions; it is far more honest to show how you feel than giving a 'brave public face' about it. From a German in Hamburg, Germany.
What you are describing in detail is actually a medical term called Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which was coined by Dr. Judith Herman in the 1980s, when she studied survivors of the Holocaust and discovered this condition which is when a person undergoes prolonged, repeated traumatic experiences from months to years. It is quite different from PTSD. Difficulty regulating emotions, as well as extreme suppression of emotions is just one very common symptom of this. This is what many of those survivors had to do just to survive.
Hey Rustydust, I saw your comment today and appreciate your insights. Hope you're doing well and may everyone be better and willing to act in the interest of the less fortunate, victimized, persecuted or even damned to live in acknowledgement of despicable historical events haunting their country, family or congregation
It's only fitting that Germans are taught about the consequences of their ancestors' actions. It's the most powerful and richest country in the EU with dreams of dominating the entire continent. Germany has been involved in WW1, WW2 and now the war in Ukraine. Your politicians have rubbed shoulders with Mr. Putin for a long time making him bold enough to start planning his attack. Angela Merkel refuses to claim responsibility for it to this day. Your current chancellor is also showing his true colors by trying to impede the aid to Ukraine as much as he can. I guess compassion isn't present in the decision-makers you have voted for. Who knew?
he who saves one life saves the world entire. כל המציל נפש אחת כאילו הציל עולם ומלואו. my grandpa (may he RIP) was a survivor from transnitria. he lost his entire family in the holocaust except his brother who found himself somewhere in south america he never got to meet him though. my grandpa met and married my grandma in the ghetto. i really appreciate that you took the time to watch this film. we must never forget.
For a polar opposite performance by Ralph Fiennes you could try " The Grand Budapest hotel." It's the movie where he solidifies that he also has tremendous comedic timing. Difficult to even consider after watching this movie, but he truly is a chameleon. For me it was also important that only a few years after "Schindler's list" I saw him as the central tragic figure in "The english patient." I don't think I would have been able to like him as much as I do without it, because his portrayal of Amon Goeth was one of absolute evil.
@@brandonthesteele That's true. I also enjoyed his performance as a lovelorn and slightly pathetic cop in the sci-fi movie Strange Days, although that's a dramatic, rather than comedic role.
If you're going to delve any further into this subject, some amazing suggestions would be Life is Beautiful, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the anime Grave of the Fireflies.
Idk about y’all but I always thought you could see Schindler starting to get real compassion for the jews and Stern in particular when he says that line ‘then where would I be?’. It’s a brilliant acting moment from Neeson. He says this selfish thing but you can almost see him questioning it at the same time. He covers up his fear for Stern with anger. It’s amazing.
Just south of modern-day Krakow is the site of Schindler's camp (the factory still stands near the ghetto in Krakow), which is now a shrine. Less than a mile away is a quarry, with the full set of Amon Goeth's camp, still standing from the film. It's incredible.
Isthak Stern played by Ben Kingsley had a major role in Schindler's transformation. Kingsley earlier played the iconic Mahatma Gandhi in the Gandhi movie... Whenever I see him in Schindler's list, i was reminded of his Gandhi portrayal...
I've only seen it once. That's enough. I saw it with my 3 boys and about 500 other people. When the film ended no one got up until all the credits ran. And then we all arose without speaking and walked out of the theater. I never in my life seen a reaction like that to a film.
@@filipnalewaja5609 Exactly what propaganda are you referring to?? Are you saying this never happened? Are you saying that the atrocities portrayed in this film never happened???
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian i am saying that spielberg deliberetly lies about many events. That film is based on fictional novel. I am a Poles and we do not watch jews propaganda movies unlike morons in the west. No wonder you people are so brainwashed. I am going to list all lies propagated by spielberg. Polish resistance was one of top 3 best in europe. Poles were the first and biggest victims of so called holocaust and main victims of oswiecim camp( in german auschwitz) there were no jews there. Spielberg wchitewashes jews by not mentioning massive jewish collaboration with germans and austrians.
15:09 "He's like a psychotic baby." As I understand it, the most ruthless soldiers in the German army, at this time in history, were not sent to the front. They were sent to supervise the camps because they had shown such disregard for the humanity of another.
Oh, my God, you guys are absolute sweethearts. So raw and honest. I´m glad I´ve found you both. I try and bring the same authenticity to my (Spanish-language) podcast, and hope to get into reacting soon. And incidentally, I help run a film festival here in Madrid devoted exclusively to terrible movies, so, if you need recommendations, I´ve got plenty!
The song being sung in the final scenes, starting with that wide-march across the screen and the return to color, is Jerusalem of Gold by Naomi Shemer.
The girl in red is so important to the story arc of Schindler as you said, the first half of the movie he is a selfish man only thinking of money. When he’s horse riding he sees the real horror of what’s happening and all the murder as the red dress girl walks by… When he sees her later in the film on the trolley dead.. you see the realisation in his face. …. Everything changes at that point, he becomes the man that makes the list…
@@SaraHouck461 I was lucky to go to a school that didn't believe in muting and censoring history and education for the sake of safety or comfort. In world history we watched Schindler's list. In American Conflicts we watched Glory (it's surprising how many people don't even know of that movie) and Saving Private Ryan. In American History we watched History X and To Kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbird is more on the literature side but it has a very good educational point and lesson to the story.
@@michaausleipzig yep I had to do an essay in English class and I chose to do the 54th Infantry Regiment. I went to a really small school but they were very adamant on allowing anything to be learned from history and not censoring a tough or uncomfortable subject.
@@anakinskywalker8610 huh ... didn't know the clone army had a 54th regiment too. Cool. But hey ... before you try anything now, please consider: I have the high ground... 😉
This was the video that convinced me that I wanted to support you two on Patreon. It wasn't the commentary, like George said there wasn't much, it was the actual emotion that you had during it. You truly felt the horrors that you were witnessing and it wasn't some faked reaction. It was also interesting to compare the intro attitudes to your attitudes after watching it.
20:38 This scene always gets me every time. To me, it’s almost Christ like. In Christian theology, Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was so that he could be the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. It illiterates how far is someone willing to go to save one person from hell. Schindler sacrificed his reputation, his character, his fortune to the point where he was practically penniless by the end. His business after the war all failed and his own country condemned him as a traitor. The only byproduct of his deeds were that 1,100 men, women and children were able to live the rest of the lives, have offsprings and decedents. A true hero doesn’t boast about the lives he saved, he laments about the lives he failed to save.
almost did a spit take once watching it!it has Tom Hardys first work in cinema/tv story!one of his first roles ever, back in 2001 in that series!!I think it was Spielberg himself wanting him to work on the series after seeing him in Get a Grip!
This was my first time watching you channel. Thank you so much for your real reactions. My heart goes out to both of you, this was both amazing and heartbreaking. I have subscribed because of this one video.
I disagree. I don't want to see the Pianist or Life is Beautiful even once. Or Sophie's Choice. The thing is that there is hope in this one, someone fighting the evil and WINNING.
I've only seen it once. The year it was released. Once is enough for me. We caught the second show and the people coming out of the first show looked stunned, sad and angry all wrapped up into once face. We watched, the movie ended, credits rolled and light came on and everybody was still seated there for a few long seconds. Not a sound other than a few sobs.
An interesting side story is that of Amon’s granddaughter, Jennifer Teege. She is a black woman who wrote a book “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me” details finding out about her family’s heritage. Here’s a short news article on her, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-otKsrg7HtBI.html
not exactly... blacks were not killed by nazis, neither for example black French nor black US soldiers it was far more dangerous being very pale Russian than black whatever
Every time I watch this movie I'm amazed that people throw the title "Nazi" around so casually. Calling other people "Nazi's" like it's nothing. It's an insult to the victims of the atrocities during that time. It humanizes the real Nazi's. I wish the truth was that nobody could become a Nazi, but the actual truth is that with enough manipulation and societal conditioning almost anyone can be molded into a creature so evil as a Nazi. History repeats itself. Instead of continuing the hatred that is present nowadays, due to race, political opinion, or sexual preference, we need to keep history in mind and remember that we are all human.
This is one of those movies that for a brief time was run in high school and college history classes to show how graphic and brutal WWII was and this was drastically toned down from what really happened. It was pulled from classrooms for being to graphic and traumatizing to high school students. The sad part is students need to see films like this otherwise history is just words on a page they won’t care about. Films like this give the event’s a face. Something we can lock onto and remember. One of the most important lessons of films like this is to remember, and understand war can be used as an excuse to commit and get away with the worst aspects of human nature. So I would ask you to remember and understand. To end this I’ll go with a quote from someone who’s name escapes right now “ for evil to flourish requires good people to do nothing “ he chose to do the right thing and saved thousands of lives literally even when everyone else where acting like monsters.
The way Oskar realizes his possessions means nothing in the face of human lives... Its just devastating after witnessing the spectacle of destroying human lives in a industrial scale.
While it's a hard movie to watch it's important for everyone to watch and never forget what happened. You had the exact same reaction that I did the first time. You are correct, it's a masterpiece. Well done guys.
My father was in Patton's 3rd army (687th FAB).....In the spring of 1945 after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp....He had pictures HE took when he helped "clean up" the aftermath...History is brutal!!
The young woman who was shot while building the camp was executed because she was educated, not for making a fuss or shouting. When one nation invades and conquers another the first people to be targeted are intellectuals and any potential leaders. This has happened hroughout human history. That's why Goeth said 'he was doing his job'.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 🙄 did you read your own comment? History and literature are considered non essential in Texas. If was talking about any other of the stuff you just mentioned I would have responded to the original comment and not yours. You're ridiculous. 🤡
@@TheLegmann The original comment was about killing someone because they were educated. My comment was that the Nazis killed Jewish professors of history and literature because they were deemed "non-essential". You replied "like Texas", implying that Texas does likewise. Your comment makes no sense, especially considering that Texas is steeped in history of which its residents are quite proud and, as far as I know, history and literature are taught in schools, colleges, and universities in Texas.
Commentaries for this movie usually have in it the question, why dig up bodies just to burn them? Nazi's realized that digging mass Graves and burying bodies still left too much of a trace of what was done, so at a certain point protocol was changed from burial to cremation for dead Jews and other undesirables deaths, which meant that all mass graves had to be dug up and bodies that were buried had to be burned to ash. Much less evidence of number of deaths in a large pile of ashes then in mass Graves containing decaying bodies.
@@lightup6751 I could say the same about Adolf Hitler. Separate his genocide from his other stuff. 🤔 If he didn't commit genocide; he would've been regarded as the world's greatest leader.
This is the oldest video on this channel, but in the opening conversation you talk as if you have done movie reactions before this. Are these older reactions available elsewhere?
Ralfe finnes omg what a performance.. in order for Liam Neesons and Ben Kingsleys characters to shine Finnes’s needed to be equally if not more despicable. He’s performance was vitally important for this movie to succeed.
Whenever I feel dust on my eyeballs, I watch this film, cuz I always have tears to this film. Great reactions, esp on the ending scene : "I could've gotten one more person, and I didn't..."
More of a documentary is the film "Night and Fog." From a French director. It takes film of Auschwitz in the present (1950s, I think) and looks at the grim past.
I was in 10th grade when this movie came out. Our history teacher took our class to the theater to see it. Definitely made an impact on me. I bet anyone who disputes whether the holocaust ever happened, has never known this story. 💔
a great film that no one sees anymore or even knows about is “THE KILLING FIELDS,” from 1984 with Sam Waterston and Dr. Haing Ngor, who won an Oscar for his role. The movie tells the true story of the Cambodian civil war and the atrocities of the Pol Pot regime, who was responsible for 2 million deaths. Pol Pot was the driving force behind the Cambodian genocide, the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodians that the Khmer Rouge regarded as enemies. The genocide, coupled with malnutrition and poor medical care, killed between 1.5 and 2 million people, approximately a quarter of Cambodia's population. “The Killing Fields” is an excellent film that we all need to see, and learn about. Dr. Haing Ngor, was also in Oliver Stone’s amazing film “Heaven & Earth,” was murdered in February of 1996. “The Killing Fields,” was his first acting role.
Seeing your humanity as you watched this film and experienced such deep and true emotion, was truly moving for me. You've won me over and I have subscribed. Keep up the reactions.
My mother had us watch a lot of movies as children that were hard to watch. This was one them, needless to say. She insisted we watch them so we knew history. She wanted us to know and feel it and always asked us how it made us feel. We were taught to not hold hate in our hearts towards anyone because we would be no better than the people who committed the horrible acts. I own this movie because I want my son to know what happened and to feel it and to become a compassionate person. This movie stays on the must watch list. Thank you for your reaction.
And the Talmud quote on the ring, "Who saves one life, saves the world entire" has been the biggest motto for me since I heard it. That made me to keep donating for abandoned babies and North Korean defectors(I'm South Korean), which are because of that quote. This movie and Shawshank redemption can change your life I believe.
It is a blessing, an inspiration and a CONSOLATION. Schindler could have saved more, should have saved more. And if he had started thinking like that very early he might have ruined everything. He did plenty, more than many. Let that be enough.
I adored Spielberg as a child (& I still do). I saw this film as a teenager &, as you can imagine, I was overwhelmed. My ex-girlfriend is from Poland & I went to Auschwitz with her. I saw all of the preserved hair, the worn clothes & the photographs of all those murdered. It broke my heart & it still breaks my heart that we live in a world where morons preach about a “globalist deep state” when, in reality, it’s anti-Semitic propaganda perpetuated by Russian dolls, otherwise known as U.S. Republicans.
I have watched this film so, so many times…. At this point I watch the faces of people who are watching it for the first time. Thank you for the strong emotions that you endured through watching this, I know it was hard. Steven Spielberg has said in interviews that this movie was not meant for entertainment. Blessings to you.
A fun fact is that when they hang Goeth they don't drop him far enough to break his neck so he will be strangled to death which will take 10 minutes. Justice of sorts.
Amon goth was cruel even by SS standard. He killed senseless, as well as being notoriously corrupt. The germans ended up sending him to a mental hospital.
If you thought that was a tough watch (even though it's light compared to reality), don't watch The Flowers of War. It's pretty much the Chinese version of Schindler's list, based on the invasion of Nanking...
Honestly, its not an easy watch, but it should be required viewing by everyone in High School history classes for example. "Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it".
Simone (and George) always remember that everyone should watch everything about the Holocaust as it’s the only thing that will stop it from happening again. I was made watch all the Holocaust documentaries as a child by my parents in the 70’s and it traumatised me. But I learnt true compassion and empathy early in life. It changed me for the better and probably led to my strong anti-racism stance I’ve had all my life and the knowledge that I would do anything I can to stop facism from ever rising again. Remember if we ignore the past we are doomed to repeat it.
Couple of interesting facts. Stern is actually based on about 3 people. Goethe's daughter found out about her father after watching the movie Goeth was actually much worse than how he was portrayed Finally the cousin of my wife's grandfather was the jewler who made the ring at the end of the movie.
Simone, my heart broke watching you watch this film. I wanted to be there and hug you and mourn with you. Of the several reaction videos of this movie, your reaction was the most genuine and heartfelt of all of the. God bless you. And George, I don't mean to leave you out. 😂 You're awesome, too, both of you are great.
A lot of the really horrible things that you reacted to really happened. I remember hearing about a man whose son saw (in another movie) lampshades made of human skin. The boy thought that was a ridiculous exaggeration. It broke the man’s heart to tell him that it was true. This is what happens when 1) a criminal gang takes over a nation-state and 2) desperate people believe everything a gifted speaker tells them.
I watched this in the cinema. You know how it is usually after a film, people get up and start talking and discussing the movie, laughing and talking about their favourite parts. After this movie, the ENTIRE cinema was quiet, no one talked. We all just quietly shuffled out. My mother, her partner and I did not say a word until we were in the car and already halfway home. It is one of the most important movies ever made.
16:44, they weren't re-exhuming bodies. They were either being forced to make more room in a previously used mass grave/burn pit or digging a new one, presumably for themselves.
When they were ordered to close down the camp, the order also came with re-exhuming the bodies to burn them in piles and open pits, which they made the prisoners do before sending them to Auschwitz, this is backed by historical evidence
About the tombstones that ‘paved’ the way of the Plesow camp's main road. The thing is, that Plesow Camp was built partly on a huge and - at that time - almost 100 years old jewish graveyard. There was also a big chapel that the Germans used for various livestock - horses, pigs, cows and poultry. The chapel was eventually pulled down bit by bit, mostly as a piece of entertainment for the guests who were at the many parties at Amon’s villa.
I honestly never knew this was a film people only watch once. I watched this when they aired it uninterrupted on TV no adds and without any editing for TV. I also watched it with my parents, with my sister, they showed it during services once instead of a sermon because they where talking about the Holocaust and how people justified it with religion. I have even seen it multiple times as a child because I liked the film because it was vary moving. When I was little I looked at it as a story of an man who only thought of himself and what he could gain and learned about the horrors going on around him and instead of turning a blind eye on it and not caring he did something but the people around him also taught him to care. The real hero of this film is the accountant.
In germany this film came out with german voice actors synchronizing the actors. This made the film so much better. 16:45 burned bodies can't be found...
