*i haven't cried like this for a movie ever* FIRST TIME WATCHING: Schindler's List (1993) REACTION
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I'm German. My great grandfather was shot because he refused to drive a train with people to a concentration camp. Apparently his last words were "I won't sell my soul for my life". I don't know whether that's correct, but what I do know is that he was a great man, a proud German and he hated the Nazis. I am honored to bear his name and carry on his memory, that I may one day tell the next generation about what he did and what is our duty in the face of tyranny.
yes not all Germans were Nazis and thank God we see humanity in them. God bless your father and his legacy! Another unsung hero of the time, like the French resistance.
Your great grandfather was the greatest of men. A true and brave soul. Most Germans, or at least the majority, didn't agree with the Nazis but they were just too afraid to stand up and stop them.
May your family live in peace and prosperity! I would be so proud too if my father resisted an evil force like the Nazis!
God bless your great grandfather.
In a time where many stayed silent your grandfather was a good man who did something
Here in Germany this movie was shown in history class! I think that should be the case in every country!
I see your tradition of torturing children continues unabated
@@TheAndroidBishop I know you're trying to be funny, but it falls flat today.😐
It's a Hollywood movie! And the winners write the history books pal.
@@TheAndroidBishop stupid comment
I also saw this in history growing up in Canada. I would say this movie was one of my most emotional watches ever and perhaps my favorite movie. At the very least it's my favorite ww2 movie.
After everyone had left their stones on his grave, a man leaves 2 roses and stands there alone for a while. That's Liam Neeson. What a fantastic actor he is and what an amazing job he did in this movie! He really did Schindler justice!
During filming, Spielberg was having an exceptionally hard time emotionally with filming it. He didnt want to be the one to film it for this reason, but was persuaded that he was the one that should.
So, Robin Williams would call him once a week, and give him like 10 minutes of stand up in order to cheer him up.
I cant exactly explain it, but that makes me very happy.
Robin Williams once again proving, even after his death, that he was a rare treasure that we lost way too soon.
@@sage0fthiccpaths656 It just makes me sad that he gave us so much joy while he was suffering. I don't believe in an afterlife, but if there is one, I hope Robin is happy.
On top of that, he was incredibly stressed out with post-production on Jurassic Park, which came out the same year as Schindler's List. Imagine trying to do an emotionally distressing passion project on Monday in Poland, then having to fly back to California to look at digitized dinosaur animations on Tuesday night and Wednesday then fly back to Poland on Thursday and Friday to continue your emotionally distressing work. And you have 92 days to complete the Dinosaur one.
@@MsAliciaRL it is comman that people who are suffering like that to want to make other happy.
I've been a Spielberg fan all my life, so... embarrassingly, I must admit it took me far too long to learn he's Jewish. Knowing this explains both why he made this film and if what you say is true why he hated the experience :(
"I could've got one more...and I didn't..."
That scene moves me to tears every time, no matter how many times I watch this movie.
Especially how he looks around his shoulder, when he says it - as if he's looking for that one missing person. The list was limited by how many he could pay for, after all.
Same here, even now, with this youtu.be video it breaks my heart thinking he felt he didn't do enough. He did so much, way more than most people. He is a hero
indeed.
Schindler was a Nazi-Businessman! Didn't care about Jews or any other workers of "non-german background"... They had to work for him! -> But his "mindset" for the life of these people changed step by step, as he realized, what insane cruelty this "Nazi-Ideology" includes (the scene with the dead girl in the red coat -> the "crux")... So he'd become a Nazi, who saved jewish people from all this madness...
Please watch "Munich" as a follow-up. It is also a Steven Spielberg movie and it's based on a true story. It has Daniel Craig in it and Eric Bana. They had stellar performances.
Fact: The people who played the nazis cried after each scene they did..... the other actors calmed them down saying " this is a movie, you are playing a part, we know you are not like that in real life"
So touching 😢
Another fact, Spielberg would call Robin Williams to perform for the crew to help raise their spirits.
@@RepressedMemories16 not a day lass that I miss Robin Williams
@@delightfulblueberries7405 same. He was an inspiration to keep fighting against my mental health conditions. Still really hurt that it is gone
I remember reading/ seeing somewhere that the guy waving the gun around and freaking out during the firepit scene was actually freaking out. They had to help him detach after the shoot.
@@RepressedMemories16 Really?
The boy who quickly and brilliantly blamed the dead man for stealing the chicken, survived and wrote a book called The Boy on the Wooden Box (he was so small that he stood on a box to reach his workstation).
His name is Leon Leyson.
As a younger child, his odds of survival were almost zero. He had to be very clever to appear older/taller etc to survive selections and be seen as useful. Many other concentration camp victims also helped him.
Still just a boy, he consciously did everything he could do to survive. He was also spared a certain death many times by simple happenstance, as well as by Mr Schindler personally.
that part was keen survivalism. Blame the guy they already shot so no one else has to get shot.
What a great tale also related to this story! I love hearing the successes of the survivors. I have met a few in my day and they are so profound with wisdom.
laurasalo6160,
It is fascinating to learn more about the details of the camps and find out more on who sacrificed for their fellow man. Jesus guide us the way🙏🙏🙏
Great comment, thanks for the info, I definitely want to read his book 👍
Thank you for this comment. Didn't know that, always thought this was a fictional scene just to be funny.
I ordered his book immediately.
My grandmother said that The Pianist was a movie that came the closest to depicting what she experienced in Poland during the war. I watched it with her, I couldn't stop crying. I couldn't believe that my grandmother had actually gone through that. Her father was killed in a camp. She said every day was like hell on earth.
I'm Jewish, and this is one of the first movies I showed my wife when we started dating (she asked me what had happened during the Holocaust). She herself is the daughter of Rwanda Genocide survivors, and our daughter carries those legacies. More people need to watch this movie. I appreciate you doing this review, truly.
I am Jewish, and my wife is Hmong. Our (future) children will come from two people's who have been tried to been "done away with," but came back stronger. My mother in law literally escaped Vietnam under gunfire at age 11, and on my dad's side, I have second and third cousins/uncles that were killed during the Holocaust
May you and your wife be happy, and your daughter as well
"More people need to watch this movie" I respectfully disagree. Everyone needs to watch it. It may teach people to be kinder and more considerate to their fellow human beings.
Hotel Rwanda is also amazing! It made me fully visualize the history I had read about. It brought it on such a more personal level for true understanding.
I am a Russian Jew, and alongside this movie Come and See also hits very hard. The Holocaust affected both sides of my family, if not directly, then culturally. There is so much cultural pain. Shoah is another movie that just hits you in the guts...
Only one small branch of my family survived this. I understand your desire to remember.
at one point you were asking "What are they doing?" when the women were spreading a bit of blood on their faces. It was a way to give themselves a little bit of color in order to look healthier and thus avoid being killed.
i'ts a 'white thing'
@@daveyboy_ lmao - racism is a two way street. Hispanics in certain cultures do it like my own. Asians and plenty of middle eastern’s. “Whiteness” - you are uncultured and a racist.
@@msmanchez626 explain
@@-alg-6871 its a play on words , - Guy
@@msmanchez626 No, It’s literally a “ white thing” because when you’re white being extra pale is extra noticeable, and the blood rouge trick only works on paler skin. ( it would blend in with darker skin, but darker skinned people wouldn’t have the same problem in the first place.)
( and yeah, given the presence of Slavic people and Rom people in the camps, there were doubtless many people of various melanations to make comparisons. Basically being dark skinned made it more likely you’d wind up in a camp, but also made it more likely you’d survive the morning health “ Selektion” where people who looked frail were pulled out and sent to the showers.
I did a Google search a few months ago for an estimate of how many Schindler J's (again YT doesn't like that word) there are NOW since this was filmed 30 years ago. As of 2017 there are roughly 8,500 descendants alive around the world, all because of the efforts of one man. It really is incredible.
The girl in red was a real person. The story behind that is there was a man that got separated from his family and he had to watch them be lead to their deaths. He had just bought that red coat for his daughter and that's how he was able to visually keep track of her for as long as he could. He lost his wife and 2 children that day in the gas chambers. That story stuck with Spielberg for some reason.
Even the book about Oskar schindler that was released in Europe and after Spielberg read it he was probably compelled to make the film. Even in the book the girl with the red dress is talked about
I saw this in the theater with my best friend and his father who is a survivor. When we asked him what he thought of the film, he looked at us, shook his head, and said “not brutal enough.”
It had to be toned down or else it would be completely unwatchable...the atrocities that occurred in real life were unrepeatable..unspeakably horrific. Gas chambers is just the tip of the iceberg. Spielberg himself is even quoting as saying “I tried very hard to put..as much as I could tolerate on the screen, knowing it would never be enough...compared to what the survivors witnessed...”
Side note, another FANTASTIC holocaust film is “Come and See”, a Soviet movie that was released in 1985, showing the often overlooked, but equally horrific Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe. Accessible through the Criterion Collection!
I've never seen a worse reply on RUclips ever Jesus Christ (positive)
@@HughGenvoenni I agree except for the unrepeatable part, that kind of attitude will inevitably cause it to repeat
I've seen interviews where survivors said the same.
Yes, that's true but if they showed the full force of holocaust brutality it would put the film beyond the comprehension of a modern American audience, which is whom the film was aimed at.
In addition to Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes deserves recognition for his portrayal of the villain Amon Goth. In fact, when the real-life Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Fiennes on the set of the film, she began to shake uncontrollably, as Fiennes, costumed in full SS dress uniform, reminded her of the real Amon Göth.
He was great!
For sure. He is amazing in this monsterous role. Cold fear incarnate. Both him and Liam Neeson gave their best here.
@@janzizka9963 Yes, and the fact that Ralph is universally hated in this movie just proves how good of an actor he is. Any actor who can elicit such a strong emotion as hatred from a viewer over a movie role is a fine actor.
@@centuryrox True. And Ben Kingsley as Stern was amazing too. This movie is almost too good for such a horrifying memento.
Fiennes is a really great actor but years later I saw a documentary film about Goeth's daughter learning about her father from one of his former maids and I was struck by what a HUGE man he was. There is video footage of his real execution and not only is he a head taller then the Polish soldiers, they didn't just have trouble kicking the chair, he broke the rope at least once. Had these things been in the film they probably would have accused Spielberg of making him a cartoon.
When Steven Spielberg the director showed John Williams Schindler's List in order to compose the soundtrack score, the composer felt it would be too challenging. He said to Spielberg, 'You need a better composer than I am for this film. ' Spielberg responded, 'I know. But they're all dead.’
And to think this film came from the imagination of the director who brought us the Indiana Jones trilogy, ET, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jurassic Park, and Hook. Who would have thought this, Saving Private Ryan and Munich showed the darker, dramatic, and pure artistry of Spielberg.
@@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast I don't think this was his imagination. This was stories from all survivors. The only thing that Spielberg did was bring those stories to life! In a horrific way! This movie is the best.... it's up there with Godfather and Shawshank Redemption!
@@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast Not from his imagination at all, these were real people and real things that happened.
Based on the award winning book schindlers ark
@@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast As others said, not the imagination of the director.
AND only the not so cruel parts of this time. If it would have shown the real horrors of this regime, the film would be unplayable in any theatre and land on every frobidden list in the world to only be seen by god himself.
I am ashamed of beeing a greman due to this time and also proud of beeing a german, because not all germans were so. You never can judge an entiere land on what has happened. You have to evaluate every single person on its own. There were many germans who was killed because of opposing the regime.
The clearing of the Ghetto is more horrific than any Zombie movie because it actually happened. There is no where to hide or escape.
“I could have saved one more person and I didn’t”. What a masterful performance by Liam Neeson. No matter how many time I see it, it makes me cry every time.
I could have got more. I'm Romany, dark haired and a twin. No chance! But that one line breaks my heart every time.
That’s scene hits me the hardest. I almost cry in that scene but I hold it in somehow. It’s a sad movie but it is a brilliant movie.
Yes, one of if not the best, most moving lines in a movie ever.
That powerful scene probably never happened as is. More likely Schindler confided to the survivors much later after the war. Spielberg used poetic license to weave into the scene.
First time I saw this I cried my eyes out for 15 minutes afterwards. You’re not human if this film doesn’t touch you on some level.
I teared up the most like 30 mins after I finished it
@@CapedInformer I hear you, brother. 10 years ago I met a Holocaust survivor at work and it was one of the most powerful meetings I have ever had. Afterwards, I asked him what we can do for him, and he said, “make sure no one forgets us”. I gave him a hug afterwards. An amazing day. When I saw the survivors at the end of the movie, I lost it. I’m Catholic, but we’re all connected as humans. Whether it’s religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. We’re all people.
Yeah, that final scene where every survivor walked to Schindler's grave accompanied by the actor who played him was too much - cried like a baby.
Exactly what I think @Jay Emm
indeed. if this shit doesn`t touch you, there is so much wrong with you.
and even the german soldiers, they where loving fathers, policemen, law abiding citizens, so how on earth could some of these guys end up doing such horrible stuff??
but if you think closer, it is highly possible that you would do the same, in these times, with all the propaganda fron your state that says that jews arent clean and they are a pest.
a lot of them thought, they where doing the right thing, for the health of the german people.
you would think that something like that could never happen again, but the sad true is, it happens all the time. one group is forced by the media to dislike some other group of the population.
you see a little bit of that if it comes to illegal immigrants, the homeless people or in todays covid debates. the vaccinated are the good, the unvaccinated are a danger to the rest of the population and they need to be punished or forced against their will to get vaccinated. but hey, its all for the greater good...
thats exactly what the naziis said. its all for the health of our nation and the greater good...
It’s important to recognize Schindler’s evolution throughout this story. He started as a Nazi party member who was only acting out of personal interest and greed. But as events unfold his humanity and conscience weighs on him. I believe it was the little girl in red and her eventual demise that finally woke him up to the extent of the evil and his role in it, paving the way for the heroism he would eventually show.
If you look at Schindler's actual life, he was an incredibly morally gray person (even after the war, he abandoned his wife in Argentina and returned to Germany). He started off as a spy for the Germans (before the start of the movie), was making connections within the black market and with the Nazi's (the beginning of the movie), was a war profiteer, and around 1942, he "found" his humanity and started bribing party officials to keep his worker's safe. He actually was arrested before the invasion (for spying), and during the war (by the Nazi's). He actually made friends with Amon Goeth because it was the best way to protect the people in his factory. He charmed him, showered him with gifts and favors and black market goods. Because of it, he was able to move his factory twice. At the beginning, he only had seven out of the hundreds at the factory that were Jewish. By the end, he had hundreds. He literally beggared himself in the course of last years of the wars, to protect his workers. They repaid him by donating money to him for the rest of his life, so that he could live.
The biographics video on Oscar Schindler was an incredibly informative watch and really went into his life and how he changed. He started a man using the Jews for profit and ended as someone trying to do some good in the world. He was one of the men of means who actually DID something, and he's remembered for it by the people he saved and their families.
The saddest and most frightening part is the people who deny it happened and that it could happen again if certain politicians and people get their way. We must never forget and never let it happen again!
If people try to do it again, theyll be stopped by the fact theyre outnumbered by those of us who remember
Its already happened 3 times at least since 1945. Rwanda, Burma and Cambodia. And it is happening as we speak in Xijang, China.
for me they showed that one little girl in the red coat to emphasise individuality. She represented every single person who suffered and died throughout the holocaust. We felt a connection to her and seeing her on the cart at the exhumation made the reality even more unbearable! Thats how I read the message behind the red coat.
The girl in red is based on a real girl described in Keneally's book, wearing a red hat. Spielberg used the character to represent innocence and her death symbolizes the moment in the film, when Schindler decides to become a 'mensch' aka a morally good human being again.
There’s an actual story behind her
Actually the girl with the red coat is an allegory of the entire genocide, because it was like as evident as a red-coat girl in a middle of a black and white movie, and nobody tried to stop it. It was confirmed by Spielberg himself
I agree. It was heartbreaking
@@baronnuuke7821 I believe you are closest to correct. I have heard many variations but the one I think makes the most sense is Schindler himself (the real Schindler saw something like the girl in reality) seeing the girl in the red coat. The red coat represents how, if anyone cared to see, the atrocities were obvious, like red in a sea of black and white, but no one paid any attention until it was too late.
Fun (or terrible fact) about the brillienace of Ralph Fiennes in this movie. A a survivor named Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes on the set. She began shaking and crying uncontrollably as he reminded her too much of the real Amon Göth. Ralph broke character and they later became lifelong friends.
On the flipside, Fiennes also encountered a woman who was a Nazi sympathizer who had about the opposite reaction so it is a testament to the greatness in this portrayal.
oh my
Should have gotten an oscar
Also a "fun" (not really) fact: Spielberg had to tone down the actions of Amon Göth in this movie, otherwise people would never have believed this was real. That's how aweful and gruesome he was.
@@KittieCat901 Amon Göth was so deranged, a lot of his own men hated him and he was put on trial by the SS, mainly for stealing too much stuff for himself and how he treated his men, but also for his treatment of the prisoners.
Even in normal times he would probably have become a murderer anyway.
It feels worth noting that while there's some similarities in their faces, the real Amon Goeth didn't look like Ralph Fiennes. There's a picture of him shirtless and in suspenders with a rifle like the scene in the movie, but he looks like he's about 260 lbs.
I am German and saw that movie for the first time when I was eight years old, because my mom wanted me to know this part of our history as early as possible. It completely shocked me back then and I got nightmares from it. Years later, I saw that movie in school again. It's one of the most emotional movies I know.
I was traumatized by seeing this and other war movies too young. I never forgot it and haven't been able to watch it since. I think it's a necessary movie, and history, for everyone to know, but it should be seen at an appropriate age.
Eight is far too young.
I cannot see a little red coat without thinking of that girl and tearing up.
The fact that they didn't even need to exaggerate Goeth, that he actually shot people from his balcony for sport should remind us that we need to protect each other's freedoms or the psychopaths end up in charge.
I am Jewish. My immediate family was lucky. We left Europe before WW I and settled in the US. But families with the same last names remained. They did not survive. I visited where my family came from in Latvia. I have learned the fate of relatives who had not left. On July 9, 1941, the German Einsatsgruppe A, with help from local Latvians, lined up the remaining 5000 Jews and machine gunned them to death in one day. I visited the mass grave and let me tell you, it was a LONG walk along that grave.
Only a handful of Jews were saved by locals in that town. Most Latvians helped kill the Jews, but a handful helped save them.
In the town my grandmother was born there was one surviving synagogue, out of 13. It only survived because it was near the train station, so Jews on their way to the death camps were held in the synagogue until they were transported to their deaths. It also was the closest synagogue to where my family lived. So they must have been in that synagogue. When I visited it in 2003 it was a condemned building ready to decay away. I got a small grant to do a site survey and restoration blueprints. That was all I was able to do. The local Latvian government was inspired by my effort and did some work on the roof to prevent further decay of the building. Also when I was visiting I helped pay down the lease on the rooms that the local community used as a shul (prayer house) while the last remaining synagogue was not useable.
About 10 years after my limited efforts, someone from Norway contacted me. The Norwegian government was working with the Latvian government on some cultural programs as part of Latvia's entry into the EU. The person who contacted me had been told I might have some blueprints for the restoration of the synagogue and they were considering that as a project for the Norwegian-Latvian joint projects. I sent them the blueprints I had. And they carried them out. Now the synagogue is restored. Someday I hope to be able to revisit and see the restoration, but for me it not only was a tribute to my family, but also a personal FU to Hitler and the people who tried to wipe Judaism out.
May their memories be a blessing, David.
Wow this is so incredible!! I’m from the US too though not Jewish but so proud of u! After all that u did for this place I hope you’ll be able to revisit and see the finished work after what u did too! Thank god u did all that u did, going through such efforts to even get such info like the blueprints! Sounds like u were the main part of the machine in protecting, restoring & maintaining such a important place and part of history! Sad that they were just letting it go, such a place should’ve always been protected and maintained as a place for respect and memorial for those that suffered and lost their lives because of the nazis! Thankfully with your effort, work and help u not only inspired them to see it’s importance to save it from further decay but with the support of the Norwegians u were able to restore and protect such a important place and part of history left there! If it’s not too much trouble when u go again please give Hitler and those other scum a FU from me too!
Bless you and your family. You should be very proud of what you did to remember those that died.
If this is true, than you, good sir, are a beautifull part of history! Congrats to you
You touch on a good point. When the Einsatzgruppen came into towns throughout Europe, it wasn't just them. Locals help them find and round up Jews. Some even taking part in the executions. Lithuanian's really got a pass for their role in the extermination of Jews.
15:56 Its a really interesting scene. What It shows is that these nazis weren't just people who didnt know better or lunatics. They were in many cases educated,skilled and in every way fit to know what Is right and wrong.
Thats important cause painting Nazis and other scums like mad men is not right cause it sets up a thinking that common people like you and Me aren't capable of doing the things Nazis did and that its just "evil" born people who can do it,thus missing the entire point of the effects of radicalization and propaganda on people.
The scary thing isn't that Nazis were monsters. It's that they weren't.
People are very much capable of doing similar things, and we have learned ZERO from history. Take a look at Poland right now (I'm polish btw). Nothing happens overnight. Ordinary people are being exposed to dehumanizing propaganda, it's very common. "LGBT-free zones" for example. You take a look at 'no jews' poster from WWII. Then you check our news. It's the same. It's awful. And we wonder "were people blind?". No, they weren't. They just carried on. Just another day. Nowadays we do exactly the same.
@@OlaCh93 Yes! Propaganda and media can feed thoughts into people. Australia and the camps for the 'unvaccinated' is another current case. In America, people begin demonized both ways. It starts small and can easily snowball.
That's why Qanut Holocaust deniers are a threat to global peace.
We should all be highly skeptical and critical of our propaganda media today, trying hard for some reason to pit us all against each other. We MUST all do better to be compassionate and care for one another ❤️
I saw that in the theater when it came out, and just about everyone in the audience was ugly crying by the end. It’s a stunning movie.
I watched a million horror movies in my day, but that shower scene was the only one that actually for real gave me a nightmare
The thing that’s cold & different is that this movie is historically accurate. It’s hard to watch people going into this with no idea what really went on. This movie should be required to watch in every high school as part of history lesson.
Nah it is toned down...if it was historically accurate you would not be able to watch it
@@djokealtena2538 agreed but I think I was trying to get the point across that the holocaust happened & we don’t teach our kids about it. When I was in school we watched footage of the camps as soldiers arrived & saw the conditions, bodies etc.
i'm from germany and its actually mandatory to watch this movie in school here
@@MultiFlo99 I wish it was mandatory in the U.S. I am appalled at how many young people know NOTHING about how the Jewish people were suffered under horrible atrocities and murdered by the millions, OR don't know anything about the Holocaust at all.
its not accurate. there are survivors who were upset at this movie because it was too "tame". Specifically them being greeted nicely after the rescue did not happen, they were unwelcome still
Eli Weisel and Viktor Frankl's written accounts on this is a must for everyone
Facts
Yeah Eli talked about a son murdering his father over a scrap of bread... brutal.
Also try Primo Levi. Awakening is one of best books I've ever read.
My 8th grade history teacher showed us Schindler’s list and Hotel Rwanda, damn he is a legend for that, not being scared to show such things to such young minds.
A phrase I heard once was "Never forget doesn't just mean remember to honor the victims but also a warning to never forget the signs that led to such evils, so we all may know how to prevent them before they start again." Evil like this exists in every nation and we must guard against those who promise us paradise so long as we sacrifice the lives of those deemed "lesser" by society. Otherwise we'll create a hell instead.
Anytime someone, especially someone in power, tries to blame problems on a group of people, "others" a group of people, or insinuates some people are less worthy of empathy and consideration as fellow humans, all our spidey senses should be going off.
I read somewhere that Schindler said amongst all that craziness a little girl in a red coat stood out to him but no one else seemed to see her. When you see the coat again it's devastating. Masterful film making.
It's also fleeting, you could miss the little girl in red on the handcart if you blinked whereas in another movie they would have zoomed in and ramped up the music. This way is more powerful. There are other scenes where another director could have overdone it and strayed into 'mawkish' territory but restraint makes it more realistic and hard hitting. One example is at the end when the real Schindler Jews are paying their respects, quietly and without drama.
I think they did like because at the time no country was paying attention on what was happening. I don’t think US had enter the war at that point. However don’t quote me on that because I could be mistaken
@@Whitneypyant Spielberg pretty much said the Girl In Red was pretty much that: that the Most Obvious Color goes unnoticed by all the chaos was pretty much a metaphor that every Country "knew" in some capacity that the Holocaust was going on and nothing was done. It's the "Stain" that all countries would be marked by.
At 23:10. Your reaction to Amon having "changed" is exactly the response Spielberg wanted from the audience. It is a cornerstone example of how the Jewish would perceive to know their captures on a day to day basis. In written testimonies, there are cases where a specific Nazi guards are seen as the nicest of the bunch one day, only to behave like the devil the next, which again adds to the fear and sporadic paranoia that the Jewish workers had to live with every waking moment of their lives, always having to live with their guard up, because the moment it was dropped was always when something terrible would often happen.
@Miles Doyle Yes.
@Miles Doyle Can you please shut up about Christianity when Christians have mistreated Jews for 1600 years?
@Miles Doyle How could God let the Holocaust happen? How can you believe in such a deeply flawed, outright evil "God"?
@@heno02 If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness--graffito in Mauthausen
@Miles Doyle many things I disagree on there, so based on the fact this is your opinion, and I have mine as well, it asks the question, who asked you for your opinion on that?
As a jew and someone who's family went through this hell- I appreciate you watching this and sharing your thoughts. It's mind-boggling that they were able to do this, and that it only happened around 80 yrs ago.
Definitely a film everyone should watch once. Only way to learn from mistakes is to look back upon past one's and reflect.
Goeth's Daughter had to walk out of the movie, having no idea what kind of a person her Father became and in such a short period of time. She assumed his execution was like a blanket reaction for officers. I don't know if her mother lied to spare her the truth.
They just told her "he died in the war" because that's what all the Nazi widows said, to avoid shame or criticism.
and Goeths granddaughter, a black woman who was adopted found out who her grandfather was by accident when she was 38. She wrote a book called my grandfather would have shot me.
@@Preservestlandry but that was, when she still was a child/teenager in the 50ies/60ies. by the time the movie came out she already knew better.
Growing up in the 80's I remember Holocaust survivors coming to my school and speaking. Soul wrenching.......
Thats what is terrifying the fact that it didn't happen that long ago. I went to college and met Zazette Larsen, Ann frank's cousin. She gave an incredible lecture. Soul wrenching is right
Yes! 😢 showing us the numbers tattooed on their arms was so shocking to see in person when you know what it meant
Same, they spoke at my elementary school every year. It hurt to hear those stories.
Not only is the little girl in red significant to the film she was also a real person, much like alot of the named characters in this film. She had a name and it was Genia.
Late to the party but fun fact Amon Goth’s biological granddaughter, Jennifer Teege, wrote a book called “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past” about her complicated family history. Highly recommended.
I was 14 when this movie came out and my parents INSISTED that I watch it with them. They wanted me to see what mankind can do to itself and what happened to these good people. To this day, it is still one of my favorite movies, one that I consider fundamental to my compassion and awareness to current events in the world. It can happen again, disgustingly.
Only a year or two later, I was shown actual holocaust footage when I was a junior in high school, as part of the history curriculum. As tough as Schindler's List is to watch, it tame compared to the real footage of what was found.
And yes, I still bawl ever time Oskar regrets not saving just one more person. Tears me up.
I made my kids watch it too. Mans inhumanity to His fellow man. Disgraceful!
@S Varghese As in how the rise a fascism in Germany can lead to this type of debasement and death?
I would say it was very much your parents that were fundamental to your compassion ❤
To cite you "It can happen again, disgustingly." and to make something clear.
CAN is the wrong word. This kind of things happens all the time before and after WWII, even rigth now. See the news and see the tip of the iceberg rigth now. On the news are the "popular" events. The "unpolular" events are not shown.
In high school I did a 6 month project on Anne Frank and the holocaust. I read everything I could on the subject. I still can't believe this happened. Six million people murdered....for just breathing. Heartwrenching.
Have you heard about europa the last battle?
Also learn about Rwanda and Cambodia. Scary! Even in China today, there are concentration camps for certain ethnic groups- especially the Uyghurs.
I can. Look at what we’ve done to black Americans. We just called them “slaves” to make it okay. We don’t even have a number for how many we have killed prior to Civil Rights era.
@@victoriap9848 Have you heard about europa the last battle?
another thing people dont know is that 2 holocausts happened during ww2
I saw this movie by myself when I was 11 years old. I borrowed it from my friend whose parents owned it. I had no idea what it was about at the time. This movie showed me what true evil looks like. And what a hero is. I haven't seen this movie in probably 25 years. I should see it again.
The scene with the showers was meant to convey the sense of PTSD these people experience. They don’t know whether they’re going to be killed or not. You don’t know what’s going on. Your brain is constantly experiencing whiplash. Just like you experienced stress watching the scene, they experienced it with everything that they did. Not knowing what was going to happen to them. Whether this was the end or not.
If you cried at this movie, it just means you have a heart. This movie should be seen by everyone and never forgotten ❤️
I did, from so much laughter. Its one of the best comedies of all time.
@@haissem8 HAHAHAHA! You’re hilarious! Have you considered becoming a comedian??
@@haissem8 Being 12 is great, huh?
@@haissem8 You're about as edgy as a circle.
I didnt cry but I was just as saddened by the film, what does that make me
It's a sad movie. The amount of violence in this movie still doesn't even compare to the actual events of what had happened during that time to the Jewish people. But this movie is such an important and historical film. Liam Neeson did great in his role of portraying Oscar Schindler.
So true. It's a very important movie and an important story to tell about an extraordinary man. But as a granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor (also granddaughter and niece of Holocaust victims), I grew up knowing a lot about the Holocaust, maybe too much knowledge for a young girl, so much so that this movie was underwhelming to me when it came out.
This happens in real life back in WW2. Millions of jews were killed by German Nazis
I don’t know why. But that scene at 26:00 where that sweet little boy hides in sewage just gets me every time. Makes me tear up.
At the end, the real little boy but as an old man now, leaves a stone on Schindler's grave. He's there with the little boy who played his part.
Was in high school when this came out, someone paid for all of us students to go see it. Left even the tough guys in tears. The bus ride back to school was somber and silent.
You really only have to watch this film once in your life time. It’s definitely an experience like you said. I met a Holocaust survivor when I worked at a Salvation Army and she came in shopping. I noticed the number tattoo on her arm as she handed me the money to pay for her items at the register and I completely froze. I knew what it was but I had never expected to see it in real life! She noticed my reaction and told me her story. No one else was in the place except for a friend she was with and it was just surreal. It turns out she was in town giving a lecture at the local university. She was an amazing women and I’ll never forget that moment.
Thank you for sharing that.
I've had the... I hesitate to call it fortune given the circumstances, but I found it a fortunate chance to speak with six people who survived the holocaust. I was a teenager, but I recognized the tattoos and some I asked about it, and others voluntarily told me. It was a very sobering experience to hear them talk about the camps and what it was like. I just remember feeling like I couldn't speak the rest of the day when I met them. It was very surreal to be standing in a wal-mart deli on a Tuesday afternoon and just be speaking with someone who'd survived the holocaust, but it was a moment where no matter what it stands out vividly in my head.
Now that you’ve seen Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List, the next step in the Spielberg historical drama journey is Band of Brothers. It’s a 10 part HBO mini series about Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division. It’s a historical dramatization based on true stories and events. Along with these two movies, Band of Brothers is amongst the best pieces of cinema ever produced.
CURAHEE!
Everybody always forgets Empire Of The Sun ;-)
@@gregall2178 watched it again a couple of years ago. Quality war movie
Very true, that’s another classic that everyone should see.
And 'Amistad'
Thank you for this reaction. As a middle-aged Jewish guy I think it’s important for younger generations to learn about the Holocaust (and other atrocities…far too many to count). I was actually a theater manager for most of the 90’s, and this was the only time I genuinely felt proud of what I did for a living (it’s usually a pretty mundane job), as I took extra care to make sure every screening was perfect and made sure the ushers didn’t enter the theater to sweep up until the last person had left the auditorium.
I watched this last night after putting it off FOR YEARS. I was so hurt I started shaking like I had to pause the movie at least 15 times. It hurt me so much. This was difficult it's a terrible thing that happened. I love everyone. I love people I don't want anyone hurt. I just can't fathom this kind of evil. Ralph Fiennes I can't even begin to praise his performance. I have a hard time seeing his face now. He was the epitome of evil. I'm not sure I could hold it together if I ever meet him. I would certainly thank him for his portrayal because it's important to tell the story. I thank him for his service to the role but it just destroyed my soul. I am depressed today. I couldn't sleep last night. I keep searching why hitler did this and I'm like a child asking why would a human being hate this way? When I get to the great beyond I'm going to ask God why did these men he created do this. That's how shaken I am.
Apparently Ralph Fiennes was visited on set by an actual survivor, and he terrified her with how accurate his bearing and portrayal were.
I feel your heart and your loving kindness. This is the hope, I think, with this movie - that the systematic racism, cruelty and scapegoating visited on minority communities of differing faiths, genders, cultures and skin colors by the those in power, need to be defeated by us, the everyday, common people. We outnumber them, but people have to show up and speak out and we have to band together. Thank you for taking this to movie to heart and paying attention.
The Monster from Branau Austria had an Abusive Father. He wanted Adolf to become a Govt. Worker. His only interest was Art. When his Dad died. He Dropped out without helping his mother. He later would join what would be called the Thule Society. That even formed the National German Socialist Workers Party or Nazi. Wis Hate Speeches against the Jews Spread like Wildfire. He was a Demon Hell Bent on World Conquest with lines like? Today Germany, Tomorrow the World.
Thank you so much for opening up and sharing your reaction. I have never been able to bring myself to watch this movie.
Yes... this is what we should feel when we see this movie. The depravity of that history. The horrific tragedy... this why we should ALL stop labeling people, name calling people, putting people into boxes in our heads and real life. God Bless you and Bless you all that have seen this movie or have otherwise studied the history. There is evil. But there is good and heroes still. Peace.
Man our history teacher took our class to the theater to see this back in 93 when I was a senior. When it was over everyone walked out teary-eyed.
I worked at a theater in Okemos, Michigan, and we had a bus load of kids come in to see this movie. Those kids were MOVED deeply.
@@parisbrat I went to see this film with my best friend and there was a group of teenagers in the row in front of is.They came in laughing & joking, about 10 minutes into the movie not a sound came out of them.
Seems quite a few posters were taken to see the movie or shown it at school but no one has mentioned the book it was based on. I think out of fairness we should give some credit to Thomas Keneally who wrote Schindler's Ark and brought this story to the attention of people in the first place.
The book was actually banned in Lebanon on its release for its 'positive depiction of Jews' and remains banned to this day, which is pretty sickening.
You're right, this is a very heavy film but it's something everyone absolutely should see at least once.
A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NOT EVER BE FORGOTTON IN OUR LIFETIME, OR ANY FUTURE LIFETIME!
My Godmother, for whom I am named, and Godfather survived the camps bc my Godfather had the skill set to work on automotives/tanks. You’d not even want to know some of the things they witnessed😔 After coming to the United States following the war, he went on to hold several patents for things many Americans use to this day on a regular basis. They were both such amazing & resilient people!
Thank you for reacting to this. It is not only a great film but also an important film.
Stay safe & love much💖
I think after this you should check out ‘The Pianist’……it’s just as painful and 100% true.
I agree, it's an incredible film.
I cringed during the Pianist. What a gut wrenching film. Beautiful acting.
I was thinking this too. It's really amazing to watch one man's struggle to survive. Roman Polanski, the director, was also a survivor of the Krakow Ghetto.
Took more than one watch for me to realise that the actors at the grave were walking with the people they’d portrayed. And that’s Liam standing at Oscar’s grave.
I remember when this movie first came out I cried for hours and hours during and after and it only showed 1/3 of the horrors that were committed by the Nazis. They also killed the mentally disabled in care centers and hospitals I remember an interview a woman gave many many years ago of her brother that was killed. They told the families they were moving them but the nurses gave them a shot and killed them and burned them. Another person told of the smell that came over the cities and no they were not all Jewish anyone that didn't fit their ideal was killed.
Yes, they killed Jehovah's Witnesses too - 1500 which doesn't seem like a lot but when you consider how few JWs there were at that time it really hits home, some of them died in the most brutal fashion
tried to wipe out gypsies too.
As sad as I have to say it, but 1/3 is wrong. Make it 1/10 or 1/100.
In this film mostly all murders was quick and "mercyfull" deaths. Many death in this regime were days, weeks, months long tourture to end in death (or worse, and yes, there is more worse than death, because Death ends it and the other ways not).
@@philliplynx7877And also a lot of people and children died from horrible medical experiments performed by the camp doctor Josef Mengele. He is totally left out from the movie, probably because his acts were too gruesome.
Saw this in the theatre when it came out and not only was there not one dry eye there but I could hear audible weeping. I have seen it 5-6 times since then and I still cry. We must never forget.
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture One of the most powerful motion pictures ever made. And one of the most important in our time.
You HAVE to watch "Life Is Beautiful" It´s an absolute classic to check off of your essential films list. It´s also during WWII.
Yes yes yes!
Yep. You’ll cry tho.
The voyage of the damned was brutal and another true story.
@Antioch I saw this movie when I was young. I remember most of channels used to show ww2 movies prior to May 9 (victory day). Heavy, very heavy movie and showed the reality of what happened… acting was amazing. Still amazed by main character how he managed to play his role. I wonder what happened to him after playing that role.
Spielberg made sure the actors that portrayed deaths fell in the most "realistic" way, not the typical Hollywood way that we were accustomed. That's why (aside from the legit tragedy of it all) these deaths hit so much deeper than all the other movie deaths we've seen. Such a minor direction but it really drives home the heinous acts.
Your reactions were perfect, especially at the beginning when people were killed randomly. The way you gasped and covered your mouth reminded me of my own reaction. I saw it in the theatre when it first came out, in a packed house! It weighed so heavily. I think people practically dragged themselves out of the theatre afterwards. Spielberg at the time was primarily known for much “lighter” work, so to see this was so shocking. As difficult as it was for him to do, I think it broadened his opportunities for storytelling.
Pianist is a masterpiece too.
I also love that the movie didn't shy away from showing some of the darkest truths about the war. The scary part is that I'm sure it was so much worse in reality
it was hugely worse in reality. This movie barely scratches the surface.
@@mikeymoo1291 Only the people that lived through it, or saw it 1st hand, can truly grasp that level of horror. I also want to add how important it is to make sure kids today are learning this stuff in school because pretty soon there won't be anyone left that was there...VERY soon
@@niki7997 Indeed. The stories my grandparents told me were awful. I try and suppress them. They were survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. My paternal grandmother was a shell of a person after what happened to her.
I'm sure each and every one of the jews would look way skinnier and starved, if you look at actual holocaust footage the people look like skeletons
This was the most powerful movie I had ever watched. It was both gut-wrenching and inspirational. It showed humanity at its best and its worst. I held it together while watching the film. (Being a guy I didn't want to get overly emotional.) But once I got back to my car I sobbed for 15 minutes. I also remember the dead silence as people walked out of the theater. No idle chatting. Nothing. No one said a word. That's how powerful that film is.
Indeed. My circustance was similar. But I watched this at home when I was a teenager. I cried uncontrollably for at least 15 minutes when it was over. Such senseless violence and hate. NEVER FORGET.
My great grandmother was a survivor and the stories she told me when I was younger... still haunt me to this day.
I had theorized that the soldier playing the piano during the slaughter of the deportation was dissociating. As seen with the young boy who helps Mrs. and Danka Dresner, most of the young people of Germany thought they would be serving their country as heroes, only to be pulled into this cycle of hate. Much of the Hitler Youth, let alone young soldiers, felt they had no choice even if they didn't want to join. When Schindler speaks to the guards at his final factory, they prefer to leave instead of commit further violence.
Of course all of those who were hateful bigots or psychopathic monsters were glad to join up and enjoy the killing, but even a country run by evil people is not absolutely evil. It's evident in the photographs of German soldiers who were made to view footage and photographs that so many of them either had no idea of the worst atrocities or tried to ignore the unspeakable. Even so, if more Germans had been like Schindler and defied such brutality, perhaps things would have gone much differently.
Just for your knowledge that scene didn’t portray the Pogrom or Kristallnacht but the deportations from the ghetto in Warsaw, if I remember correctly, the so called Kristallnacht was the first big scale outburst of violence against the Jewish people in 1938.
For such a powerful movie, you handled this exquisitely well and respectfully. Thank you for making a quality reaction video on such a film as this!
"Sophie's Choice " was incredibly sad for me because I'm a mother ....I will never forget that scene of her when she gets to the camp
... I ran from the theater because my sobs were so out of control. Now days, I just let them rip.
It's been over 20 years since I first saw this movie, and I've seen it around two dozen times, and even as a grown man (or perhaps even moreso because I am a grown man) that scene at the end where he thought he could do more never fails to make me cry...
The breakdown of "Why did I keep this which I needed for appearances?" and "Is this all that a life, _a person,_ was worth?" Heartbreaking, soul wrenching, and a stab at the very foundations of what makes us human.
I think the impact this movie has had on me is the greatest any movie can hope to achieve. But because I primarily watch movies for entertainment, I can't call it my favorite movie. But I can call it the most important film I have ever seen. And it is one of the greatest films ever made.
Yes
This one hits me in the guts every time! Greets from a Germany.
If only the rest of the world would turn the corner and learn from past atrocities like the people of Germany had.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia a thing that hurts me is that so many ppl use the word Nazi for ppl they simply disagree with or just don’t like, not caring in the slightest what horror they are talking about. It loses meaning by doing so.
@@MM-cb3jx Have you seen the people at work who whimsically call their superiors or bosses "Hitler"--because they were told to take out the garbage or mop the floor? These are people with *First World Problems.* They've had no real hardship. They've never experienced true sacrifice.
They've never heard the stories of the holocausts survivors, or seen the pictures of genocide because they are ignorant and selfish. They think that the world is like school--where there are no losers, only winners. Everybody gets a gold star! Nobody is a loser. They have no ability to accept defeat, improve, or try harder. Then they go out in the real world and find out that they're not good at really anything. That's why they think that getting over a thousand 'Likes' on their TikTok video is an 'achievement'---but when getting kicked off a social media platform, or they got the wrong iPhone for Christmas, their entire world is coming to an end. They're soft. They can't take hard criticism. And now anytime anyone says *anything,* there is always someone who's offended. *"We have to cancel that person!"* Everybody's getting cancelled so as not to offend anybody. Cancel Culture is a movement stifling out freedom of speech, and the sharing of ideas. These 'First World Problem pussies' want to cancel everything and anything that they don't like. There was a group of people who were big on their own type of cancel culture. You and I know who they were. The Nazi's!
These soft-cock, cotton-candy, ill-informed, degenerate pieces of navel lint, don't realize that they are a championing and building the very hypocrisy they're trying to tear down.
(Sorry. I tend to rant after listening to George Carlin 😕 )
@@PhantomFilmAustralia after that rant I can’t take you seriously. This kind of polarized bs is what makes everything worse. Extremes on either side is what is unacceptable. And don’t tell me „you and me know…“ I will not allow to be dragged along someone else’s anger. You as well as the ppl you address: think before speaking. I will not respond further, this is a video comment section not a rant forum. Bye
@@MM-cb3jx if you don’t mind me asking… what was you grandfathers’ branch in the german military in ww2 ???
I lost my maternal side of my family to the ovens. The only ones who survived were my mother, her cousin, my grandparents and that was because they were in the US. My father could not watch this movie, it was too hard for him.
Another Spielberg masterpiece is The Color Purple- a MUST watch as well. Spielberg cast Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah in their first film roles. The entire cast is spectacular.
Great reaction and I subbed!
Btw- I lost family in Austria to the concentration camps.
I agree The Color Purple is def a must. Please watch.
37:35 - I saw that moment in your eyes bruh, can't hide it, nor should you. This is an important film, and without fail it makes all grown men weep, as it should. Never apologize for that. Lovely reaction, keep it up.
The scene near the end where he’s crying that he could’ve done more still makes me cry.
also the Aussie film "A town like Alice" is a true story of the Malaysian Death March in WWII.
"I thourth they where just gonna sent him home" My sweet summer child
Excellent reaction, sir. For over 75 years people have been asking “HOW could this have happened?” and there will never be a satisfactory answer. How can there be? How does one explain the incomprehensible? It is unfathomable that genocide of this magnitude took place in the middle of the 20th century. The systematic extermination of millions and millions of human beings is not something that occurred in the dark ages when there was no modern communication. This happened in the 1940s when there were newspapers, cameras, film, radio and telephones. The world knew what was happening and yet it continued for *years.* I think it's also important to point out that what we see in this film isn’t even the half of it. As shocking and graphic as this movie is, it is a sanitized version of the true horrors that went on in these evil places. Spielberg made this film as realistic as he possibly could, but there is no way he or any filmmaker could show the true extent in a mainstream movie. A graphic depiction of the atrocities committed would have been too much for any audience.
And it’s happening right now in North Korea. A few hundred thousand ppl in concentration camps as we write.
There is a easy and satisfactory answer to how this happened. Germany went through a really rough time after WW1, with a horribly ineffective government and bad treatment from France, then the Great Depression hit so hard that some people literally starved to death and many got close to starving or freezing to death in winters. There were also communists and nationalists fighting in the streets in bigger cities, almost close to a civil war type of situation, people were sick of it so they chose a side, the nationalists who promised to return Germany to its former glory and make everything better for them, which they did for a few years, at least for most of the Germans.
These same nationalists blamed almost all problems on the jews, using them as a scapegoat, most people did not really care, some even believed it, they only saw that they no longer had to starve, that they got the Rheinland back from the french, that the economy recovered. Jews and other minorities were slowly and methodically dehumanized so the military guys would have an easier time killing them in the later stages, the war that made them used to killing people already also did its part, and that is how it escalated more and more. Dehumanizing a group of people is actually not hard, just introduce a "us vs them" mentality, promise good things will happen once they are gone, compare them to critters or other lower creatures and you are on the path for it, the worse some people have it the easier it is to convince them to go along or at least not intervene.
Short answer, they were in a really rough spot, blamed most of it on the jews, dehumanized them and then the war made them even more callous, the rest it history as they say.
As a sidenote, not to blame anything on the jews, they did not deserve it, yet the smart ones who witnessed this already left Germany long before it escalated to this point, they were even encouraged by the German government to leave the country, and if a radical dictatorship that is basically built on hatred for your kind specifically tells you to leave or else, you better listen to it.
@@Triplebrc My opinion, as a German born 1959: Most of my grandfathers and -mothers may have this intentions till Hitler goes for Reichskanzler. And most of them do not believe that the Nazis would be that cruel. BUT, they should know. Hitler releases his Book "Mein Kampf " in the years between 1920-1930. And you could read there that he wants to war, he wants to destroy the soviet union, he wants to destroy the jewish race entire and turn all slavian races into slavery. And, when it starts, most of them close their eyes and covered their ears.
Respect for Oskar Schindler. But its hard to release how much could be saved when more industrial leaders - especially the big ones from Krupp, Thyssen,
Hoechst and others - would have try to do the same. But they didn´t.
@@Triplebrc This isn't a movie about German Jews at all. What some people forgot is that Hitler killed Jews all across Europe, mostly Polish Jews but in other countries as well, even killed more than 90% of the Greeks Jews. Most Jews in Europe never heard of Mein Kampf, and just heard some rumors and basically knew he hated Jews, but it wasn't something new. And at this time if you were not rich it was very difficult to get a visa for the U.S or South America, there were even cases of boats arriving to U.S coasts, refused entry and turned back to Europe. Also at this time Palestine was 80% a desert and swamps land, and the British made a "White Paper" forbidding Jews to immigrate there. So the ones who left were not the smart ones, they were mostly the richest or the luckiest ones.
@@michailburgesmeir8623 It is hard to blame them given that attempting it would have meant risking death. Schindler faced that big risk and succeeded, but he could have lost his life at any point, not everyone has that kind of courage.
This is what a full-scale genocide looks like; indiscriminate, intentional extermination of every men, women and children. And being as strong as this movie is, its only a tiny glimpse to the real horrors what those countless of victims must have gone through.
@L M I understand, for being European myself, as well, these things are much more present in Europe than they might be in the USA. My country was never fully occuppied during the WW2, but we had our share of the fight. Firstly, against the USSR and at the end of the war the Nazi Germany.
As someone who suffers from mental illness it’s always been difficult for me to cry, but this movie always makes me break, it’s uncontrollable for me. This movie is something that everyone needs to experience at least once
There is also the episode "Why We Fight" from the series Band of Brothers. It's my favourite episode of that series, and there's no action or battle scenes. It just makes me cry every time I watch it.
The boy in the striped pajamas is another movie in this category that i strongly believe deserves consideration for viewing. There isn’t much i can say, so I’ll leave it at that.
That one isn't historically accurate. And Part of the reason this is so impactful is the attention to historically accurate detail that never stops.
The boy in striped pajamas did me in… i cried so hard
@@mzhappyfree7688 me too. OMG, yeah, that wasn't historically correct. But dang, it ripped my heart out.
On paper, boy in the striped pyjamas is an awful movie. I regret seeing it not only because it was completely disingenuous to the holocaust, but it was layered with terrible production. There's a reason why the director Mark Herman hasn't been a part of any movie since then.
Spielberg before filming showed the whole cast and crew "Come And See" a war movie from Belarus which heavily inspired him when making this and Saving Private Ryan, you should react to it, it's considered by many to be sadder than this and harder to watch.
Come and see is brutal for sure.
I agree that the tough scenes are the most important. We can't sugarcoat atrocities.
"Everytime they shoot someone it feels real." That's because it was my man. The ghetto liquidation scene is one of the hardest things to watch in any movie especially because of how it actually happened and there are people still alive today who experienced it.
While making this film, as you saw, they brought in the real survivors of the Schindler Jews. When the real Mila Pfefferberg* (edited as I cited the incorrect name) saw Ralph Feinnes, she actually started to shake with fear because he reminded her so much of the real Amon Goeth.
But yeah... I have seen this film dozens of times, more than I can count, and I still cry, every time, at the "I could have gotten one more" scene.
Some say it was Mila Pfefferberg, some say Helen Hirsch, which is true?
Does it matter?
@@OriginalPuro it is entirely possible that I'm remembering it wrong, it could well be Mila Pfefferberg... I always think of Hirsch because of how closely she was associated with Goeth, so it is entirely possible I may have the wrong name... I just remembered that one of them was so terrified of Feines because of the similarity.
I recommend "Midnight Express". The true story of a man's escape from a Turkish prison. Very suspenseful movie with great acting.
Yep. Now that's a good one! Great soundtrack by Moroder too.
That is a such a good movie
Agreed! Excellent movie!
Yes! No one has done that one! You’d be a the first! Great flick
Such a great movie!
This movie is probably the most important, amazing yet terrifying, eye-opening and upsetting movie ever made, it is no doubt probably the greatest film that has ever been made and the greatest that serves a point for educating the viewers, showing the true horrors that mankind is capable of and how we must prevent it at all cost, no doubt in my mind that this is the single most significant movie that has ever come out of the film making Industry, R.I.P to all those killed because of the horrors of the holocaust and my thoughts are with those still reeling with the effects even today, and may the world never know any event this tragic ever again. Each actor in this film is incredible, they played each character as best as they could, even though they could never come close to how horrific the events actually were, bravo to the whole cast. Truly a once in a lifetime masterpiece of cinema there will never be another movie like it.
I saw this back in high school thanks to a wonderful history teacher who truly wanted us to know about the holocaust and the reality of it. Everyone’s parents signed permission slips that allowed it to be shown during class, along with Saving Private Ryan, and we watched these as introductions to our section on World War II. Both have stuck with me ever since and both are movies that everyone should see atleast once in their lives, as we should never forget what happened not too long ago for fear of repeating it.
They killed the children. The kids had no idea where they were going. That scene broke my heart.
Your analysis of this film was awesome to watch. You understand the gravity of this film and shared it with us with respect. Respect brother.
Thank you for sharing your experience with this movie with us. It means alot.
This is one of the truly remarkable films which delivered its subject with raw power and emotion. Even watching it through your eyes (when you started welling up it made me cry more) is hard and more like watching a documentary at times. Spielberg holds nothing back which results in a visceral and heartbreaking experience.
What a beautiful saying ‘Whoever saves one life saves the world entire’ touches me at my core, a message that humanity has hope ❤
it's also really deep when you realize that oskar schindler really didn't start out with much; he pretty much took every nickel he had and 'invested' it in impressing those folks shown in the beginning of the movie so he could b.s. them into helping him get into business. then, early in the war, after his business ventures got started, he was making money hand over fist. later in the war, though, when he had a change of heart, in addition to his regular business bribes he was paying money under the table in all sorts of ways, as shown, to save probably as many people as he could, and by the end of the war he was about as poor as he'd been in the beginning.
when he start crying, gets me every time. JoJo Rabbit would be another good one to watch. It's a masterful tightrope between comedy and drama in WWII Germany. The child actors in it are fantastic, as is Scarlet Johansen.
Dude just finished watching it. Heavy is not enough to describe the feeling. Just broke down towards the end even he starts crying that he didn't get one more. And the actual people he saved putting rocks on the stone. Couldn't stop crying. How could people have done this in our modern Era. It wasn't the dark ages or the beginning of civilizations. The people who orchestrated this were educated, disciplined, and what turned out to be cruel virtues to have in that time.
And sadly this era is not the end. It happens in the world rigth now.
WHEN DO WE EVER LEARN OF THE PAST?
I've watched alot of reactions to this film on youtube, and yours is the most genuine, thank you for not putting on an act. +1 sub