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Plot: The true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler, who harbored Polish Jews during WWII by using them as workers in his factory. Schindler saved 1,100 Jews from certain death.
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MCT:February 14, 2007Gut-wrenching! Inspiring!!
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MCT:January 25, 2007
It's tough to argue, but i think that this is Spielberg's best movie ever, even though it was (Box office wise) not even his best film of 1993. I'll never forget the girl in the red coat.
For a trivia buff, did you know that Spielberg turned this movie in as his master's thesis to earn his degree. -
MCT:November 30, 2008
Two Thumbs Up!!! ada gitu ya org yang rela ngorbain harta dan gak peduli ama cibiran org demi menyelamatkan 1100 org yahudi...ckckckck. saluuut
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MCT:November 29, 2008
I don't really want to see this ever again, and then again I do. To call it good seems... inappropriate, inaccurate, and almost disrespectful. Good isn't the word to describe this film. Amazing. Horrifying. Scary. Beautiful. Never good. It's a powerful movie about a horrible event. It's gut-wrenching to watch, but is probably Spielberg's best work. Brilliant.
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MCT:November 28, 2008
''They cast a spell on you, you know, the Jews. When you work closely with them, like I do, you see this. They have this power. It's like a virus. Some of my men are infected with this virus. They should be pitied, not punished. They should receive treatment because this is as real as typhus. I see it all the time. It's a matter of money? Hmm?''
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.Liam Neeson: Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley: Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes: Amon Goeth
Thomas Keneally's bestselling book was made into a movie adaptation of awesome historical resonance and emotional valour. Oskar Schindler was a Catholic war profiteer during World War II. He initially prospered because he went along with the Nazi regime and did not challenge it. But Schindler ultimately saved the lives of more than 1,000 Polish Jews by giving them jobs in his factory, which turned out crockery for the German army. Schindler lost his wealth, but gained salvation for many lives and the descendants that would spring from those lives.
List was made in Poland, and incorporates authentic locations. The look of the film, primarily in grainy black and white, reminds us that we truly are watching history right here and now. Despite the movie's considerable length, it is never slow or dull. It is hard to believe that Hollywood, which so often churns out mindless drivel aimed at making money, could produce something so important and powerful as this film.
Schindler's List is a cruel and honest depiction of the 2nd world war and genocide, cruelness and humanities inhumanity to man.
A true story about a man who had morals, had a heart and above all the will to stand against bullies, against heartless fascists, with no sense of decency.
Graphic and detailed, Jews treated like a cancer. The 2nd World War has always been one of my fave periods of history. Suffering and monstrous, among Downfall, The Pianist & Black Book this is greatness again...Beautiful symbolism, especially a little girl in a red dress amongst all the killing and a Nazi playing Mozart amongst killing and more killing.
Music and songs are fantastic and are a heavy contrast in places which i found fascinating. Genius.Liam Neeson as Schindler is a beautiful character. You see so much in his eyes alone, so much compassion that it moves you on every level.
His heart shines through, if one man making a difference is to ever be shown in an example, Oskar Schindler.
Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) was a Sudeten German industrialist, a wealthy womanizer who wasn't afraid to throw his money around. Always bearing his Nazi Party badge proudly, Schindler would often frequent nightclubs, extravagantly showering high-ranked Nazi officers and their girlfriends with champagne and caviar. With impeccable connections in the black-market, there was little that he couldn't get his hands on, and he was a good person to know. Buying friends was something that Schindler could do well, and he would often use these newfound alliances to aid his own business ventures. When thousands of the Polish Jew population was relegated to the Kraków Ghetto in 1941, Schindler saw an opportunity for further success, enlisting desperate Jewish investors and employing Jewish workers (who were substantially cheaper to employ) to open an enamelware factory. His connections in high places ensured lucrative army contracts, and Schindler need only have watched as his personal fortune grew, despite doing little to run the company beyond offering it "a certain panache."It is clear from the beginning that Oskar Schindler does not harbour any racial prejudices. When Schindler requests the services of Itzhak Stern (Sir Ben Kingsley), a clever, humanitarian Jewish accountant, Stern declares that, "By law I have to tell you, sir, I'm a Jew."
"Well, I'm a German, so there we are," replies Schindler indifferently, before getting straight to business. It is not race that he is concerned with, it is himself and, of course, his money. Stern does not enjoy running Schindler's business, and he initially acquires little satisfaction from it. When Schindler attempts to convey his genuine gratitude for his profitable services with a glass of whiskey, Stern absentmindedly refuses to drink it, and an embittered Schindler drinks it himself before ordering Stern to leave.
With the arrival of Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), a Hauptsturmführer of the SS, the hopeless plight of the Jews grows darker. In a harrowing extended sequence, largely based on the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, the Jews are mercilessly "liquidated" from the Krakow Ghetto, many simply shot on the spot. "Today is history," proclaims Goeth. "Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it?. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history."
Ralph Fiennes as Amon fascinated me. A man so cold and unfeeling, he treats Jews like germs, like animals. His disposition wonderfully portrayed ranging from him coldly murdering in the blink of an eye. Snipering them at leisure, taking them out to shoot. Perfect example when his gun fails to work as he is going to kill for not making enough hinges. It's strangely funny without meaning to be.
Amon Goeth in a way is the complete opposite of Schindler, an evil bastard who shows what a great actor he truly is.Reiter: I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Milan.
Amon Goeth: Ah, an educated Jew... like Karl Marx himself. Unterscharfuehrer!
Hujar: Jawohl?
Amon Goeth: Shoot her.
Reiter: Herr Kommandant! I'm only trying to do my job!
Amon Goeth: Ja, I'm doing mine.So evil, I love the apparent reveling in evil yet normality for the Nazis, and at the same time it's shocking. He enjoys killing, he's doing his job, he's eradicating this sub species. A perfect example of the two paralleled men, and there two different thinking stances is the power of undeniable, unrelenting Mercy.
Director Steven Spielberg, long known as a blockbuster filmmaker, with adventure classics as Jaws, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Raiders of the Lost Ark to his name, Schindler's List was and remains Steven Spielberg's most mature, most timeless, historically important directorial effort. Working with a screenplay that Steven Zaillian adapted from Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark, Spielberg treats the subject matter with the respect it deserves and indeed requires. Wisely choosing to depict the events as realistically as possible, Spielberg allows the images to speak for themselves. Flawless acting, stunning cinematography and a haunting John Williams score excel this film above all others of the 1990s. This is the powerful story of the difference that just one man can make, and it is a story that deserves to be seen by all. We can only feel grateful that it was Steven Spielberg who chose to be at the helm.
Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Amon Goeth: You think that's power?
Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk.
Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power.Steven Spielberg has crafted a masterpiece. Just to add it was hard watching the concentration camp part, heart felt watching Schindler receive the ring and his selfless way.
To have so much fear and hatred, coldness and malice and to see it overcome by hope and evil overthrown, Schindler's List should be watched by all...for to forget our past is to forgot our future and thus begin that vicious circle.
Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven including Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Spielberg. Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It deserved every honour it got and I only wish Neeson and Fiennes were winners also.It's a film about the Holocaust, but it's also a film about the results of dehumanization of a people and when the state executes the process, thus showing us the immoral extermination results. Steven Spielberg's best film to date, although he always makes a good film regardless, Schindler's List is his best work.
''It's Hebrew, it's from the Talmud. It says,-Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire-'' 
Comments
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wolfjake16posted 2 days ago -
i dont understand how anyone could watch this and not be moved. a graphic portrayal of probably mankind's worst moments in history, yet hopeful for our future through people like oskar schindler. the movie itself made me weep, not only at the atrocities committed, but also at the times when something good happened just when it seemed no good could happen. my heart was heavy watching this, but i believe we all should see this to remind ourselves what we as humans are capable of. I myself am capable of gunning down a fellow human being in cold blood, or of treating a human less than an animal, yes in me there is that possibility, but in me there is also the possibility to do good in the face of evil, to give of all that i have to help perfect strangers, just because they are human like me. and it is because i know that Jesus Christ has given me that possibility, that i can watch this movie and still say, it is good.
posted 154 days ago -
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Can somebody please remove the deeply offensive remarks made by 'silent zombie'on this site. I see this person no longer has an account here but the remarks are still there for anyone to read.I am not Jewish or a cancer sufferer but I object to the comments and cannot find an option to complain about this person.
posted 341 days ago -
Schindler's List is without a doubt one of the greatest movies of all time. Steven Spielberg put his heart & soul into this epic with excellent cinematography, set design, and costume design. The threesome of Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and especially Ralph Fiennes all give spectacular performances. This movie really tests the viewer with it's brutally realistic re-creation of the Holocaust. Spielberg never shows the point where Schindler decides to do what it's right and that adds to the complexity of this classic.
posted 442 days ago -
a pile of shite id rather have cancer thn watch this again, its a sad film alright its sad hitler never finished his final solution
posted 444 days ago -
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Spielberg's best movie ever. It is my all time favorite movie. The directing, the casting, and especially the music. All around it's gotta be the best Spielberg movie, besides Empire of the Sun, which I also love. Anyone who hasn't seen Schindler's List is missing out on true filmmaking
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