SO MANY TEARS :( | Schindler's List (1993) | FIRST TIME REACTION
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That was such a movie experience! I have to say the acting was so impeccable and moving by every single actor and actress. I cried non stop towards the end! I pray for the souls that were lost during those years! Make sure to check out the movie if you haven't already!!!
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My Dad helped liberate Buchenwald. I am 63, this movie tears me up.
My own great-grand father was murdered in Buchenwald for being in the political resistance, while his own son, my grandfather, was forced to fight on the eastern front. He barely was saved from fighting in Stalingrad due to frostbites on his feet.
My grandpa died in Buchenwald :( he fell from the watchtower
Your dad is a hero and to everyone who lost their family ...I wish u all the strength and hope they are now at peace
CRINGE
@@becca1517 look where the heroes got us
The most moving part for me was at the end when Oskar broke down. My favorite line/quote was, "whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
The other part of that quote is "He who destroys one life, destroys the world entire." It's a reference to how we Jews value life and feel that to live a good life as a good person is righteous and sanctified.
The true mark of a hero is this - even though he saved over 1000 lives, Oskar actually felt guilty that he didn't do more.
Yes I never seen him act in that way before. Good job Liam Neeson
It is absolution. He could have gotten more? Maybe. He ran out of money. He wasted SO much money. Sure. It bought him friends he wouldn't have had otherwise. 1100 people.
If he had tried to get more he might have lacked money for bribes and gotten a visit of a special kommando two weeks before the end and... the end.
So it is absolution. The Torah says so.
No matter how many times I've seen this I always immediately tear up when the screen shows all the survivors walking side by side. Schindler had many flaws, but in the end he did something extremely righteous. The generations of descendants are thriving today because of him.
This aired on network TV in the US very shortly after it left theatres, without commercials. I watched it as a kid by myself. I just saw it was coming on and thought it was cool to see a new movie on regular TV. That is how important the movie was treated. I can't remember that ever happening since then.
First airing in Australia was without ads, too.
I remember that, it was sponsored by Ford, and if I'm not mistaken they did it once a year for a couple of years.
And it still should be shown Right after Its A Wonderful Life on Christmas
I remember when this came out. Spielberg gave tickets to the class of 93 and 94. The younger classes, if we brought our parents with us, to approve for us to see it, we all got free tickets. He wanted us to see it, remember it, and not let us forget. We are the last generation to have heard about the war from those who lived it. Please never ever be afraid to use the word Holocaust. By not using the word, we soften it. And it was not soft. It was painful.
I thought you did a fantastic job of putting the importance of this movie in its proper context. This movie should be mandatory in any history class. Ralph Fiennes' ability to portray such callous evil is a testement to his acting ability. Personally I think Lord Voldemort is just a watered down version of Amon Geoth
It's a fucking movie...chill your roll....
@@MisterDevos a movie.... depicting actual events that took place..... now if you were out to paint yourself as an uneducated sap, congratulations you are part of the pack of snowflakes this world should quickly shake off....permanently....so be a good boy and back under your rock :)
@@Crespwnian you're just projecting you're illiberal attitudes. it is totally valid to think that others are exaggerating (in fact it bothers me too, because they do it to appear righteous, it is more an ego trip than real respect)
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I don't get what @Crespwnian did wrong!
Amon Göth was played down in the movie since they did not think people would believe what he really did.
Goeth was such a bloodthirsty psychopath even the SS got fed up with his antics. Eventually, he was removed from command of the worker camp and sent to an asylum.
It's bizarre that there was actually someone too fucked up for the Nazis.
@@bobthabuilda1525 The guy was sick! Everything you see him do onscreen wasn't even the tip of the iceberg to what he did in real life! When the surviving Schindler Jews explained to Spielberg what actually happened in the camp he told them it was too horrific to put in film!
He was mentally ill. That's why he did those things. He should have been taken to a hospital. Not exectued.
@@amberlopez7477 You kidding, right? With that excuse any murderer and psycopath could get away from jail or execution.
@@amberlopez7477 You should be taken to a hospital for thinking he shouldn't have been executed.
The handshake at the end was my favorite part - the most powerful handshake in all of cinema... so much meaning behind it. Stern was a hero as much as Schindler, if not more.
The little girl in red was to me the most touching part. It made you truly remember that the millions of murdered were individuals...
The Polish actress Oliwia Dabrowska (who was three as the little girl in the film) now provides relief for Ukrainian refugees from the War. Her name should be known.
Here in Germany this movie is shown in History class ! I think that should be the case in every country !
Bei uns leider nicht, hatte es damals noch selbst vorgeschlagen. Der Film transportiert echt ne Menge, was sonst schwierig wäre, jemandem nahzubringen.
@@gregormohs4031 Ich bin 42 und in den neunzigern haben sie den Film noch im Unterricht gezeigt. Mein jüngerer Bruder hat ihn sogar mit der ganzen Klasse im Kino gesehen, als er rauskam !
War damals ebenfalls mit der ganzen Klasse im Kino.
28 Schüler + 2 Lehrer. Bis zum Ende haben 4 Schüler ausgehalten.
Selbst die Lehrkräfte konnten es nicht ertragen.
Dies war der Tag an dem mir klar wurde: Um wirklich Mitleid fühlen zu können, muss man leiden können.
In Hungary too, at least this was the case in the 90's, when I went to high school. We had to go to the cinema on history class and watch this movie. I am not sure if they still do that though.
@@csepetke Oh i think this dosen´t flow with the modern PC culture.
To many would say things like: I´m not letting MY kids get traumatised by this."
But they forget that every big discovery, that shows the world isn´t a big fluffy happy place for all, is a trauma. ( at least for overprotected children )
They should ask them selfes: What´s darker? Showing what´s needed to do to get rid of Monsters?
Or hiding that Monsters are under us in human form?
I am so glad that I grew up with this movie. Being from Germany I knew right away what happend like 60-65 years ago in my country (at the time when I saw this first). My grandparents were involved. Not heavily, just as much as most of the people at the time. So yea...this movie is and will forever stay in my personal top5 list. :) The music and so many scenes give me chills whenever I see or hear it. I really like your very thoughtful reaction to it. I need to visit the tree and his grave at some point in my life. :) My favorite scene was the ending, when you can see the actors with the real people coming along to visit his grave. So powerful.
A hard film to watch, but an important one to watch,
i know it is kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream new tv shows online ?
@Abdullah Ryan i would suggest Flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@Daniel Dominick Yea, been watching on FlixZone for since april myself =)
@Daniel Dominick thanks, I went there and it seems to work :D Appreciate it !
@Abdullah Ryan you are welcome xD
The main score to this film it is truly powerful! John Williams makes you feel the pain and sorrow in it but there’s no words that are spoken.
When John Williams was asked what his favorite score they didn’t all his movies he without hesitation said the one he did
Schindler‘s list because of the importance of the film and the time that he spent writing it to make it right!
At one point he even told Spielberg that he wouldn't be able to do it. Glad that he persevered.
Ralph Fiennes best performance. Amon Göth. A man so brutal even the SS were sickened by him. He was arrested for brutality and put in a sanatorium, where the Allies later found him.
he was arrested for his black market dealings not brutality.
In an Interview Spielberg said that they had to make Amon Göth a less evil person because his actual actions were even worse.
His daughter, when she watched the movie for the first time, didn't realize that he was her father(he had been executed when she was 2). She contacted Helen Hirsch(the woman he abused out of sick kicks)and made peace with her(theres a documentary on it you can find on RUclips called "Legacy", I believe, which was about Goth's daughter coming to terms with the monster her father was.)
@@phousefilms The film is called "Inheritance."
17:50 There are two reasons why Spielberg did the girl in the red coat in color. First, it’s what Oskar Schindler saw when he observed the Liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto on horseback. In fact they shot on the exact same spot. Secondly and perhaps most importantly, Spielberg wanted to illustrate that America, Russia And England all knew that the Holocaust was happening and nothing was done to stop it. It was like a girl wearing a coat with the loudest color screaming to put on to a truck but instead is being completely ignored.
This is why we Israeli Jews do not trust anyone to help us when needed.
The Shoa ( holocaust ) came after 2000± years of persecutions.
The Nazis were replaced by islamists and the gangs who call themselves "Palestinians".
Spain's Franco allowed the passage of Jews through Spain getting out of Nazi Europe. But he told the Americans that they couldn't stay(Spain had just come out of a civil war)and there couldn't be more than 10,000 at a time in Spain. The US was in no hurry to relocate them... Stopping the Holocaust? You jest. And for real tragedy check Exodus. A movie without the happy ending of Spielberg's.
Oskar's act of kindness and bravery in amongst total prejudice and evil was amazing. Spielberg is always searching for that spark of goodness in humanity no matter where in his movies. He showed this in ET as well although in a more intimate and innocent way and even in Jaws between Brody, Hooper and Quint there's moments of self sacrifice
You needn't apologize for crying in their memory. It is right that we remember and mourn the sin that has stained human history for all time.
wear your tears with pride
Everyone has a scene that does them in. For me, it's the epilogue, the "1200s" and the actors that personified them, walking by Shindler's tomb.
There is much to be learned from a man like Oskar Schindler he was by no means a virtuous man but when the chips are down he figured out a way to do the right thing...
Research John Rabe and the "Rape of Nanking".
That was a really heartfelt reaction to what was at times very harrowing scenes that captured some of the evil that went on. The bravery of Schindler to do everything he could to save as many people as he could is nothing short of inspirational really. It really should be shown at school as others have mentioned already.
One surprising thing about this film is how much wit and humor it has.
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
One could see just how much all the actors felt it was their duty to tell this important story.
one more amazing quote. "who saves one life, saves the world entire"
It should also be pointed out that Spielberg wouldn’t even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. He would give them direction but wouldn’t give small talk as he was unable to get past the uniforms. Remember, these were actors of the German theater. But a beautiful thing happened earlier in production. They had Passover at the hotel they we’re staying at in Krakow, Poland. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table and then all the German actors walked in wearing the yamakas and they sat next to the Jews and participated in the Passover ritual and Spielberg was moved to tears.
This movie, nor the events that transpired shall not ever be forgotten, it will not only have its place cemented in movie history, but shall live in the hearts and minds of people forever!
He started out as a war profiteer and found his humanity along the way
The significance of the little girl in red is what truly broke liams (don’t remember how to spell it) character.
This movie makes me sick to my stomach to watch. It's a movie I can only watch only after a very long time. But I feel that it's a movie that every single person has to see. It should be compulsory in school. Never forget.
The prisoners can't lie about what their name is because they have an identification number tattooed on their arm
The part that makes me cry is when Schindler saves the young woman's parents. It's such a gentle, touching act of kindness, pure love.
Theres a few great historical events that weren't included, but should be said about how great Schindler was.
-Schindler of the movie starts helping the Jews after seeing the girl in the red dress dead. In reality, Schindler planned to save them from the very start.
-A train carrying 250 Jews were being transported during the dead of winter in 1945 to another location for imprisonment. 12 had died from the cold and the ones who were left would most likely never work again, given frostbite and health complications brought on by the freezing winter. Schindler bought them all as essential workers and his wife Emilie made a hospital where they were cared for until the end of the war. Because of this, almost every one of them survived.
-Schindler had 3000 women transferred from camps to textile plants to increase their chances of surviving the war, and convinced other business partners in other places in Germany to help the Jewish people by making them "essential".
-On one occasion, a family possessing forged identity papers were sought out by the Gestapo, who demanded Schindler hand them and the papers over. "Three hours after they walked in," Schindler said, "two drunk Gestapo men reeled out of my office without their prisoners and without the incriminating documents they had demanded." Too badass to be put into the film, I expect.
-Schindler(and his wife)were stopped by French Nationals near the border after fleeing the factory. The groups interpreter read the letter the Jews had given in thanks and defence of Schindler and burst into tears. When he translated it to his fellow soldiers, they immediately released the Schindlers.
@@phousefilms Lol, the drunk Gestapo thing is hilarious. And something only Schindler could have pulled off.
And give mercy if you ever hope to get mercy.
A Schindler jew survivor was on set during filming and saw Ralph Fiennes in full uniform as Goeth and she turned white with fear - a terrible but amazing performance.
The whole cast is amazing tbh.
Remains my favourite movie of all time and I cry every time.
Mash. The scene that gets me every time is when Oxalic has to jump into the latrine to hide and survive. Also when Ralph Fines is shooting random people from his balcony.
I've watched this film several times, and every time I've cried at different moments. I cried watching you watch it.
I saw this immediately after, by a few hours, a brutal spell in prison in Istanbul (i did nothing wrong), a flood of tears ! it was nice to watch you, your reaction, your kindness and beauty is special
25:25 At this point, Germany knew that they were losing the war. They feared that if the Allies discovered that they committed mass genocide, they would be charged with crimes against humanity, a crime that carried the death penalty or imprisonments. So this was a way to cover their tracks and destroy the evidence.
"Jews, what Jews? Krakow's? No Jews there, why do you ask? Casimir the Great's? That was a rumor. It never happened."
23:26 This is my favorite scene with Ralph Fiennes because it illustrates the dichotomy of Amon Goeth. Here we have someone who isn’t a comic book Nazi the way Spielberg depicted them in the Indiana Jones movies. But instead we have a human being who happens to have committed horrible deeds. He’s a man torn between his duty and his own wants and desires. He wants Hellen for himself and is willing to taste the forbidden fruit knowing that a sexual liaison between a Jew and an Aryan was a crime punishable by death.
Ben Kingsley played Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi 1982.
It's a masterpiece. The talent and passion to tell a story of this weight had to be second-to-none, had to be pure, and it was. The kind of film you would consider one of the very best, but at the same time, very difficult to experience. I suppose it serves as an example that not everything you experience in life needs to be, or should be, enjoyable or easy. Are there several moments in this film where my heart sinks to the pit of my stomach, where I question humanity's place in this world, where I attempt to process the truth that people are capable of such evil and hatred? Absolutely. And yet, it is those very same emotions that serve as an affirmation - I am human, I do have compassion and empathy and feel connected to all.
It would seem that, historically, we have these monolithic moments where you find out the truth about people, whether there is good or only evil in them. I feel like we are living through one of those moments right now. Who you choose to be in those moments means everything. Oskar was a man who once only saw money, then the moment came for him, and he saw humanity. Sorry for the long-winded comment. it was just a very solid, sincere reaction from you and I felt taking some time to share my thoughts was about all I could think to do to show my thanks.
This was beautifully written! Thank you
Spielberg was good friends with Robin Williams and would call him regularly during filming to get cheered up, making this was very difficult for him.
Favorite quote: “I could have gotten more.”
Your commentary is informative and intelligent. You stand out in the reaction community. Do not give up the time and quality you out into these videos. Great stuff 👍🏾
Thank you so much for that comment Manuel :)
Am on Goeth's granddaughter is biracial. She has written a book about him, and noted that he would have had her shot.
no one cares
One of Spielberg’s many magnum opuses and one of the most important motion pictures ever made, Spielberg began production on this almost immediately after completing the main filming of Jurassic Park, he actually had to oversee the cgi for the dinosaurs and the audio mixing while on the way to film either the concentration camp or ransacking scenes, he would privately cry with his wife during the production and said that he wouldn’t have been able to get through it if it wasn’t for her, it is undoubtedly one of the most difficult films to watch but it is fundamentally important to remember what happened and ensure that it NEVER EVER happens again, rest in peace to EVERY innocent person ✌️
I always thought that this film should be required viewing in any civics class. Our generations need to stay aware of the depth of evil that humans are capable of and how the effort of a single man can defeat it.
It was required viewing here in Canada.
@@jonasgrant Good for you. It's not so much about Nazis as it is about humans being rationalizing animals and easily led. We need to remain aware of how far down the depths of our unintentioned actions can lead us.
@@jonasgrant You got lucky, it could be Exodus...
I can't watch the end of the movie without crying.
Cried like a baby first time I saw this. The scene at the end when he says he could have saved two move broke my heart.
I cried just at these little pieces of the movie.
The last person , who put the rose on Schindler's grave, was Liam Neeson.
"The List Is Life." - Powerful.
I remember when I first watched this film Helen Hirsh's speech in the basement really stuck with me. It was shot so beautifully and the actress did an incredible job delivering the absolute insanity of that time. The absolute blind hatred, blatant cruelty, and lack of reason that seems so difficult to grasp now must have been 10 times more terrifying and baffling then. How could this be happening? Surely there is SOME way to make sense out of this chaos, to find some way to stay safe. But she had realized she couldn't and that was even more terrifying.
And yet the insanity wasn't the worst part, the SANITY was. Hungary. From one month to the next Jews passed from safety to the ovens. Hundreds of thousands.
"i could have gotten 1 more... and i didn't"
Such a beautiful response to such heartbreak.
This might be a bit long, but I thought you might find this interesting.
One of my favorite (is that the right word?) scenes is during the liquidation of the ghetto when a young Wehrmacht (German army) officer elegantly plays the piano while his squadmates murder the family that owns it. Beauty was put next to some of the cruelest violence in history.
I think it is meant to symbolize the death of German youth, and the squandering of their potential as human beings. What would that young man be doing if the Nazis hadn't taken power? Maybe he'd be a famous pianist, playing at the Ritz? But no, instead he becomes a killer, a butcher, a murderer.
I don't sympathize with mass murderers, and it begs the question: could they have been anything else if not for this war? A whole generation of men became butchers because the Nazis told them to.
All of World War II is tragic, even for the enemy. What a horrible war.
the most insane and captivating thing is, that the worst and the best of human behavior was so close together, sometimes face to face. And this happend all the time, even right now, at some place on earth. What have we learned?
WE have learned that everybody should see this movie. Everybody else should learn that we are all Jews to someone. But LEARN, actually learn? We may have forgotten things we knew BEFORE WWII...
Extending you a cyber hug for the tears you shed. I would like to say this was a great movie, but also a horrible movie, I guess that is what is called history, both good and bad. Thanks for watching and reacting.
Thank you so much David :)
All the ending of the movie mentioned was his failed marriages and businesses after the war. For the rest of his life Jewish relief organizations and Schindler Jews themselves continued to send him money so he could live well. He lived out his life in Germany and died in 1974, but arrangements were made for him to be buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, a high honor. Even before this movie (and the book it was based on) he was known as a great man and appreciated...
I saw this movie when it came out it was sold out. When it ended there was TOTAL DROP DEAD SILENCE NOTHING WAS SPOKEN just a couple of throat clearings and sniffles As we walked out grown men with tears running down their faces women holding tissues over their nose and faces. IT was the hardest movie I have ever seen and I have never watched it again. The child hiding in the latrene was to much, it broke me down, I think it made me realize how evil the Nazis were to make someone do such a thing with their child but did it save his life.
I have watched countless movies in my lifetime, and for me, this one remains the greatest movie ever made. NOT number 8, but the greatest. I've read the silly criticisms, professional reviewers
even criticizing it turning to color at the end. I still can't believe anyone would knock that. And some don't like the girl in red. WHAT! Why? That scene is even based on a real girl in red, who was seen walking down the street while calamity happened all around her. You can see it in Spielberg's interview. So much thought and effort. And I still have it in front of Saving Private Ryan as a war movie, too. Thank you for your review.
25:34 You realize that he had played Gandhi just about 10 years before doing this movie as Stern.
YES! that's why I mentioned he looks like him with the glasses! :)
The movie of course is so important, but each time I watch I become even more amazed at Liam Neeson's insprired masterful performance. Perhaps the best Leading Male performance in the history of cinema.
From total crook to Moses. And still essentially him.
The part that horrified me was when they dug up the bodies and basically burned them in some sort of pile.
OMG Amazing film a true masterpiece very classic. Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and music by John Williams. This film won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best director for Steven Spielberg, Best adapted screenplay and Best original score for John WIlliams. Thank you so much great reaction Mash😊👍
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.
The Pianist is another one about The Holocaust that is a must.
Powerful, powerful film. Don't close your eyes to this history repeating itself; there are forces in the world today who would do this against their political enemies with the same vigor - and indifference - was it was in the 40's.
Check Exodus to get a glimpse of reality. Then and now. We must all be vigorously SELFISH, and remember we are all Jews to someone. To let this happen to others invites others to do it to US.
I'm so glad you did this. Your analysis was great. Schindler save 1000 people or more. Ultimately that lead to 100,000 lives that would not exist today. "Save one live you save the world"
A sivavor watched this film in the cinema and after was asked how it made him feel, his response "it wasnt brutal feel"
Glad you watched, i revisit this film every year and it crushes my soul every time
Isaac perlman has one of the most HAUNTING musical scores in this movie
You said "His round glasses make him look like Gandhi." I'm wondering. . .were you referring to the 1982 film "Gandhi," in which Ben Kingsley played the titular role? Or was it just a coincidence?
I was absolutely referring to it!! :)
You look not like a mess but more beautiful than ever in your crying moment. This movie is beyond everything. And you too.
This movie I think is so important for remembering what happened
If you haven’t seen it, Saving Private Ryan please 😀
@86 The line chef 😀
Yesssss !!!!
That’s a completely different movie.
How Liam didn't win Best Actor for his role in this movie...
Tom Hanks got it for playing a man dying of AIDS.
@@sspdirect02 yeah - it was a great performance too... I can see why he got the Oscar. But, look at the two performances now? Liam should have won imo
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke
I held off watching Schindler's list. I would never go to see it in a theater. And before you get weirded out and get mad at me, I get pretty upset over things like the Holocaust and 9/11. If someone rubbed me the wrong way I might do something stupid. These are very real events to me and they just set my off one of my triggers.
The problem is not that they set off triggers, the problem is if they do NOT. The Holocaust, 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing. They are things that could happen to us all TOMORROW.
Another great movie that Liam Neeson is the leading actor in is Michael Collins it's a true story as well Irish vs english 🔥🔥🔥
Irish vs Irish mostly. Lol
Such a beautiful movie isn't it. Random information I heard: Some of the Jewish people were so malnourished when the Allies found them, that when they were fed some of them died because their body went into some kind of shock due to not being used to processing food....like what the hell...
Speilberg incorporated the Red Coat from something that happened at Adolf Eichmanns trial in 1961. Justice Bach was questioning a witness who had gone through the selection process at Auschwitz. What the witness said affected Justice Bach for the rest of his life.... This is what happened in the trial....
“The man told me,” said Bach, “’When we arrived at the camp, Nazi soldiers ordered us into a single-file line. They then sorted us into two lines. I later learned that the people they sent to the right, soldiers marched directly into the gas chambers. Those on the left, they packed into the barracks destined for the work units’.”
“’I can clearly to this day remember the sounds and images. For my dear wife, they shouted, “To the right,” and my little two-and-a-half year old daughter, “To the right.” My young son asked the guard, “Where should I go?,” and the guard answered, “Okay, young man. You can go to the right with your sister and mother.” The guard asked me what was my profession, and I said I was an engineer. He demanded that I go to the left’.”
“’I watched my wife and my son fade into the distance and then swallowed up by the crowd, and the last image I can remember was seeing this tiny but bright red coat, the coat I bought my daughter, grow smaller and smaller into a mere dot and eventually evaporate into the distance. This is how my family disappeared from my life’.”
Upon hearing this at the trial, Bach could no longer speak, a lump gathering in his throat. Following an uncomfortable silence, the judge demanded Bach to continue questioning the witness.
To regain his composure, Bach began fiddling with his papers, but he could not find his voice for some time. Passing through his mind he fixed on his own two-and-a-half year old daughter, the daughter he had only recently given the gift of a bright red coat.
“From that time forward, I can be attending a sports event. I can be dining at a restaurant. I can be sitting outside, and suddenly I hear my heart beating loudly. And then I turn around, and I see a little girl or a little boy wearing a red coat.”
Steven Spielberg heard about this incident from the trial, and contacted Justice Bach for the details. He later incorporated this event into his film Schindler’s List, a movie filmed virtually in black and white - except for a scene where Schindler peers into a concentration camp and among the grittiness, the pain, and the sickness, sees a young girl wearing a bright red coat.
The cousin of my wife's grandfather was the jewler who made the ring for Schindler.
Ralph phienes acting is superb. He always get that psychopathic aura. Like in the red dragon. 👍
I highly recommend the German movie "Downfall" from 2004 !
Yes. What a great movie that is.
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Ive just subscribed to your channel. You have a fresh view on things
I've been a movie collector for 35 years now, and I've seen thousands of movies. My top 6:
1. Titanic
2. Braveheart
3. Schindler's list
4. Shawshank redemption
5. The green mile
6. Gladiator
Great list! These are movies that if I see they're one while I'm flipping channels I'll always leave it on until it's finished.
You have done a perfect review of this movie!! show enough footage and your comments are spot on.... i really liked watching you and this movie!
Thank you so much
Swing Kids is worth checking out.
With Kenneth Branagh and young Christian Bale.
A good film that explores, in a way, how the Germans were fooled by the Nazis to legitimize antagonizing different cultures, besides the Jews.
That girl in the red coat destroyed me.
31:13 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’s illustrates how far is a person willing to go to save one person from hell. Schindler sacrificed his reputation, his character and his fortune to the point where he was practically penniless by the end. All his business after the war all failed and his country condemned him as a traitor. The only byproduct of his deeds was that 1,100 men, women and children were able to live the rest of their lives and have offsprings and descendants. A true hero doesn’t boast about the lives he saved, he laments about those he failed to save.
The one singular thing that Spielberg did that wasn't 100% true to the real Oskar Schindler was that "I could have got more scene." He never actually had a breakdown over that thought. I think its incredibly naive and unrealistic to say he NEVER struggled with that thought but i think only Schindler himself would know that and he hasn't been alive for a very long time. All in all he was very proud of the number of lives he did manage to save.
Now THAT is Schindler. He threw away his fortune but he did it proudly. Lol, easy comes easy goes. And when he decided to save Jews he went for it with gusto. He was a vain, selfish man but also pretty realistic. He may have decided that he did as much as humanly possible, and MORE, and settled for that victory.
Re: Itzak Stern drinking with Schindler. There is only one type of alcohol that Jews worry about being kosher, and that is wine. Because in ancient times wine was used for pagan ceremonies (and later for Catholic ceremonies) Jews wanted to make sure any wine they drank was not used for such purposes so they had kosher wine. All other alcohols are fine.
Stern just didn't trust and maybe didn't like Schindler at first and didn't want to be friends.
I have so much to say about this movie because It’s Steven Spielberg’s best film. Nothing has ever come close.
Lol, only Spielberg can get to make a film about the Holocaust with a happy ending. Despite the near absolute horror there was hope.
NOT lol, check Exodus for real horror. Despite it being almost antiseptic by comparison.
As you say, it's not a comedy. But there are some jokes and much black humour in the script. Humour is a fundamental part of the Jewish experience and worldview, and a way of coping, so it's good that it's not completely absent.
love the commentary.
interesting point though, and i don't think it's explicitly referenced in the movie either, though it is mentioned in the novel. that there was a very powerful German general at the time, whose name was Schindler.
He was no relation to Oskar, but that didn't stop Oskar using that familiarity as a silent advantage. especially in such a formal time when it was not considered appropriate to ask questions about the personal life of your superior. So.... when Oskar's at the rail station to find Stern, all he has to do is name-drop his surname and let silence do the rest. which is why those 2 officials immediately help him.
There's a surprisingly large amount of bluff in this movie. and it's never given as much credit as other important themes.
Ah, but it is easier to bluff when you have lots of money, powerful friends and KNOW who to bribe.
Great reaction. Thanks so much. Keep smiling 🤘🙂
I like the background notes you include at the beginning.
Personally the moment I absolutely broke was at the end when they were walking in the field, I think representing yet another exodus and showing the faces of the people that would become jewish immigrant communities across the world. Then boom the real people. I saw this as an adolescent so it didn't really register that this wasn't just an adapted story and that each character was a real person.
The most moving scene for me would when mr stern took the drink finally... u can see it his eyes he was not ready to die but had too (if he were to be tranfered with special treatment,,,)
and of course the breakdown in the end
IMO, this should be shown to all Secondary/ High school pupils; so they never forget.
I think it was when I was in 7th grade in school when the movie launched. Our History Teacher booked a small Movie Theater and we watched it in history class. By the way I’m German.
The sad thing it happens today I look forward to the day everyone realizes that we have to be just one race that is the only way.there is nothing more powerful than love.
I a from Galicia Spain. My father is from Leon Spain, my mother's father was from Valencia Spain. I am a Spaniard. And Schindler was German, Spielberg is Jewish and his wife is Irish(I think?) We are all human. Races are for dogs at a dog show.