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re: Your thoughts on Schindler's List?
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:39 pm to WicKed WayZ
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:39 pm to WicKed WayZ
It is one of the movies that I hate to watch but watch everytime I see it is on TV. It is so powerful and it brings me to tears everytime I watch it. I cannot believe that people actually did those things to other people.
"Sophie's Choice" is another that I watch everytime. It is heartbreaking.
"Sophie's Choice" is another that I watch everytime. It is heartbreaking.
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Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:41 pm to WicKed WayZ
I think it achieved something haunting and memorable. Much in the same way that 12 Years a Slave did, the film placed outright devaluation of other human beings in the normal, everyday light in which the populace lived through it. It wasn't sensationalized because it didn't have to be. A very tough watch, but indeed a masterpiece.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:57 pm to WicKed WayZ
One very powerful movie.
I saw it and was trying to understand the hype.. but then the movie just stayed with me.. I thought about it the next 4 days or so and I realized why it was such a classic.
I saw it and was trying to understand the hype.. but then the movie just stayed with me.. I thought about it the next 4 days or so and I realized why it was such a classic.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 8:59 pm to WicKed WayZ
It sucks that the good guys lost
Posted on 2/25/14 at 9:47 pm to WicKed WayZ
Yeah that was some list
Posted on 2/25/14 at 10:11 pm to Krokodil
I read recently (on TD i believe) that Harrison Ford turned down the role of Schindler because he didn't want the audience to be distracted by his presence. He felt the film was too important. So the role went to a lesser known.
Worked out fine.
Worked out fine.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:00 pm to MasCervezas
Only tried watching it once. Couldn't make it through.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:05 pm to Turkey_Creek_Tiger
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It bothers me that the movie is in black and white
You serious, Clark? The atmosphere the black and white creates is pretty incredible actually. It tells the audience black and white nature of the right and wrong, and shows from Schondler's eyes his transformation. The symbolism of the Girl in the Red Coat would have been completely lost. Schindler's List is one of the few films that pops out at me as being perfect, and that includes filming it in black and white. It would be a flawed film if it were in color.
Posted on 2/25/14 at 11:09 pm to IonaTiger
Can anyone make their way all the way through it, but then cry like a girl the moment Schindler finally breaks down. I'd put that as one of the finest performances I've ever seen really.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 4:42 am to WicKed WayZ
The only time in my life, that I can remember, that I was too horrified to enjoy female nudity. It was and still is hard for me too understand how a person can justify lining innocent people that weren't a threat up and shooting them by the thousand in the back of the head or herding them into gas chambers.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 5:39 am to WicKed WayZ
Posted on 2/26/14 at 6:22 am to Pilot Tiger
I knew the Holocaust was terrible from learning about it In school but never really thought about it or put it into perspective until I watched this movie. Where the kids get piled into the trucks and their waving to their parents and the parents freak out, that got me, I almost walked out because that moment was unbearable
It's a movie that will stay with me for a long long time
It's a movie that will stay with me for a long long time
Posted on 2/26/14 at 6:57 am to WicKed WayZ
One of the best movies ever made and I don't find it hard to watch the brutality in part because it is so well made and despite the length it does move along well. It's not something like the 5th Element that I'll watch over and over, but I have seen it several times and will watch it again at some point.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 7:04 am to WicKed WayZ
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I knew the Holocaust was terrible from learning about it In school but never really thought about it or put it into perspective until I watched this movie.
I think where it hits a nerve is it shows the day to day, on the ground stuff. We've seen pictures from the camps of emaciated bodies and survivors, but it almost seems surreal. The numbers are mind numbing and hard to full grasp at times. But this puts it more in perspective. Every day people taken from their homes. The amount that were brutally murdered before the camps.
The one that got me is the woman engineer that is helping them build a camp. She tells them the slab is uneven and the building will collapse unless they rebuild the slab. Goth tells someone to shoot her and then orders them to rebuild it like she said.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 7:43 am to OMLandshark
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Can anyone make their way all the way through it, but then cry like a girl the moment Schindler finally breaks down. I'd put that as one of the finest performances I've ever seen really.
The end where the Schindler Jews and their descendants are placing the rocks on Schindler's grave gets me everytime.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 8:00 am to OMLandshark
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Can anyone make their way all the way through it, but then cry like a girl the moment Schindler finally breaks down. I'd put that as one of the finest performances I've ever seen really.
thts the most powerful part of the movie. he realizes how many people he could have saved instead of buying worthless stuff and also how little life meant to those in power.
probably my favorite movie.
This post was edited on 2/26/14 at 8:01 am
Posted on 2/26/14 at 8:00 am to GetCocky11
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Schindlers List is one of those movies that everyone should watch at least once just to understand the horror of that time.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 8:19 am to diat150
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Can anyone make their way all the way through it, but then cry like a girl the moment Schindler finally breaks down. I'd put that as one of the finest performances I've ever seen really.
thts the most powerful part of the movie. he realizes how many people he could have saved instead of buying worthless stuff and also how little life meant to those in power.
The only other movie I've had that kind of an emotional response to was the Normandy Invasion in Saving Private Ryan. Saw it in the theater. I was okay until I looked over at the old man sitting a few seats down from me. His mouth was slightly ajar, and he was balling his eyes out. He looked to be the age to have participated in the invasion.
When Spielberg is on, he is ON
Posted on 2/26/14 at 9:01 am to elprez00
Ive only cried during two movies but neither of those movies moved me as emotionally as Schindler's List and I didn't cry during it, just horrified and amazed.
Posted on 2/26/14 at 9:11 am to OMLandshark
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I'd put that as one of the finest performances I've ever seen really.
If it is not the most emotionally charged scene in film - particularly one based on a real-life event - I don't know what is.
The only things remotely comparable, that I can think of off the top of my head, are Cpl Jamie Smith's death scene in Blackhawk Down and McConaughey's closing in A Time to Kill (which is fictional).
This post was edited on 2/26/14 at 9:11 am
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