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Plot: The true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler, who harbored Polish Jews during WWII by using them as workers in his factory. Schindler saved 1,100 Jews from certain death.
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MCT:October 1, 2008For some reason nazi attrocity movies are always well received.
It's like car wrecks, everyone rubber necks to see the carnage.
This is a great movie. Speilberg knows how to make drying paint entertaining.
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MCT:September 30, 2008
The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen. Individual scenes are masterpieces of art direction, cinematography, special effects, crowd control. An absolute masterpiece! Unforgetable!
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MCT:September 29, 2008
An absolute masterpiece, directed by Steven Speilberg. This is a story about redemption. A story about how one man, not an army, can make a difference. Both heartwarming and heartbreaking. This film reminds us of a time that most of us would like to forget, but shouldn't.
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MCT:September 28, 2008
Engaging darkness. Not the best of mankind but the best of man's ability to overcome. A real lesson with an atmosphere of fear. Not really a "war film" though. It is set during WWII but it does not have any battles.
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MCT:September 28, 2008
The movie is 184 minutes long, and like all great movies, it seems too short. It begins with Schindler (Liam Neeson), a tall, strong man with an intimidating physical presence. He dresses expensively and frequents nightclubs, buying caviar and champagne for Nazi officers and their girls, and he likes to get his picture taken with the top brass. He wears a Nazi party emblem proudly in his buttonhole. He has impeccable black market contacts, and he's able to find nylons, cigarettes, brandy: He is the right man to know. The authorities are happy to help him open a factory to build enameled cooking utensils that army kitchens can use. He is happy to hire Jews because their wages are lower, and Schindler will get richer that way.
Schindler's genius is in bribing, scheming, conning. He knows nothing about running a factory and finds Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), a Jewish accountant, to handle that side of things. Stern moves through the streets of Krakow, hiring Jews for Schindler.
Because the factory is a protected war industry, a job there may guarantee longer life.
The relationship between Schindler and Stern is developed by Spielberg with enormous subtlety. At the beginning of the war, Schindler wants only to make money, and at the end he wants only to save "his" Jews. We know that Stern understands this. But there is no moment when Schindler and Stern bluntly state what is happening, perhaps because to say certain things aloud could result in death.
This subtlety is Spielberg's strength all through the film. His screenplay, by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, isn't based on contrived melodrama. Instead, Spielberg relies on a series of incidents, seen clearly and without artificial manipulation, and by witnessing those incidents we understand what little can be known about Schindler and his scheme.
We also see the Holocaust in a vivid and terrible way. Spielberg gives us a Nazi prison camp commandant named Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) who is a study in the stupidity of evil. From the veran da of his "villa," overlooking the prison yard, he shoots Jews for target practice. (Schindler is able to talk him out of this custom with an appeal to his vanity so obvious it is almost an insult.) Goeth is one of those weak hypocrites who upholds an ideal but makes himself an exception to it; he preaches the death of the Jews, and then chooses a pretty one named Helen Hirsch (Embeth Davidtz) to be his maid and falls in love with her. He does not find it monstrous that her people are being exterminated, and she is spared on his affectionate whim. He sees his personal needs as more important than right or wrong, life or death. Studying him, we realize that Nazism depended on people able to think like Jeffrey Dahmer.
Shooting in black and white on many of the actual locations of the events in the story (including Schindler's original factory and even the gates of Auschwitz), Spielberg shows Schindler dealing with the madness of the Nazi system. He bribes, he wheedles, he bluffs, he escapes discovery by the skin of his teeth. In the movie's most audacious sequence, when a trainload of his employees is mistakenly routed to Auschwitz, he walks into the death camp himself and brazenly talks the authorities out of their victims, snatching them from death and putting them back on the train to his factory.
What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen. Individual scenes are masterpieces of art direction, cinematography, special effects, crowd control. Yet Spielberg, the stylist whose films often have gloried in shots we are intended to notice and remember, disappears into his work. Neeson, Kingsley and the other actors are devoid of acting flourishes. There is a single-mindedness to the enterprise that is awesome.
At the end of the film, there is a sequence of overwhelming emotional impact, involving the actual people who were saved by Schindler. We learn that "Schindler's Jews" and their de scendants today number about 6,000 and that the Jewish population of Poland is 4,000. The obvious lesson would seem to be that Schindler did more than a whole nation to spare its Jews. That would be too simple. The film's message is that one man did something, while in the face of the Holocaust others were paralyzed. Perhaps it took a Schindler, enigmatic and reckless, without a plan, heedless of risk, a con man, to do what he did. No rational man with a sensible plan would have gotten as far.
The French author Flaubert once wrote that he disliked Uncle Tom's Cabin because the author was constantly preaching against slavery. "Does one have to make observations about slavery?" he asked. "Depict it; that's enough." And then he added, "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." That would describe Spielberg, the author of this film. He depicts the evil of the Holocaust, and he tells an incredible story of how it was robbed of some of its intended victims. He does so without the tricks of his trade, the directorial and dramatic contrivances that would inspire the usual melodramatic payoffs. Spielberg is not visible in this film. But his restraint and passion are present in every shot. -
MCT:September 26, 2008
when u change yourself u change the world and u make the history. i cant say how great this film is.but i cried so much at the end.
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MCT:September 25, 2008
OMG!! this is the #1 amazing movie ever! you have to see it, to see how awesome it is. its very sad, but it was all true.
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MCT:September 23, 2008
The best (I feel) depiction of the suffering and truly nightmarish Hell that was one of the darkest periods in the history of the world, and not just for Jews.
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MCT:September 23, 2008
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire".
At first may seems boring because its black and white film. Its a very good movie, may sense!! It made me realized how barbaric NAZIs are. A touching true story. -
MCT:September 23, 2008
Great war-movie about the Jews. The end of the movie made me cry. Beautiful done in black and white.
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MCT:September 21, 2008OMG!! We had to watch this in History and I was trying so hard not to cry! Too think it actually happened
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This is a very compelling movie. The actors were superb. Again Ben Kingsley does an awesome job in helping the under dog. In this movie Ben is hired as an accountant for a money hungry German played by Liam Neeson. Bens task is to hire as many Jews for cheap labor as he can. Ben begins to hire Jews of choice but those who have a skill. Because of the work ethic that Schindler has towards the Jewish people, he is known for his compassion and unknowingly their savior. In the end, Niam's compassion get the better of him as he wages more than his life to save the lives of many.
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MCT:September 13, 2008
very pitiful. the last part were they were offering stones to schindler's tomb was really touching. from now on, i hate germans. (hehehehe, just kidding!)
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MCT:September 11, 2008
ito maganda din one of the best!!kaya lang parang ayaw ko ng ulitin pang panoorin e!! kung bakit..panoorin mo na lang.
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MCT:September 10, 2008
No other film qualifies more than this for the phrase: You MUST see this before you die! Liam Neeson: Single greatest performance in movie history.
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MCT:September 9, 2008
it is a very toouching story that really gets you thinking about how the different nations could have saved millions of people just a few years before
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MCT:September 8, 2008
it only means that not all Germans at that time was let's say barbaric...there's still a person who has a good heart
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MCT:September 6, 2008
This movie mad me cry! It was done in black & white with splotches of color here and there! Touching true story!
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MCT:September 5, 2008
Had been more men like Oscar Schindler, I wonder how many more innocent people could have been saved from the nazi's.
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MCT:September 5, 2008
Not as good as the pianist, but sill a modern masterpiece. I thought it was touching to have the actors reunite with the actual people they are portraying.
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MCT:September 5, 2008A powerful, touching, and important book that Spielberg managed to ruin, drowning a profoundly human story in cliched Hollywood sentiment.
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MCT:September 3, 2008
This was a really good movie. It made me cry. I was the only one in my history class who cried during the movie. ='( But t is good. You should watch it.
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MCT:September 3, 2008
Hope, that is the key to getting through this powerhouse film from Steven Spielberg. He holds not bar on showing the violence surrounding the Holocaust and in that he could have gotten bogged down in despair, but he keeps the pacing a flurry like his most frantic works and creates well-defined character who despite being horrifying to degree, especially Ralph Fiennes? Amon Goeth, offer some glimmer of humanity. The film is shot in a stark grain of black and white thus tempering some of the violence, but it is still extremely potent as the cinematography gets into the faces of the people showing their etched emotions as well as the horrifying deaths of so many. Streets filled with bodies and ash ridden streets. This stands as one of the most emotionally draining films ever created and is technically outstanding from the powerfully moving cinematography to the softly straining score by John Williams and the towering performances.
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MCT:September 2, 2008
I finally gotten around to see Steven Spielberg's powerful film about holocaust (well actually I watched it 8 years ago but only watched half of it 'cause I had to take it back to the video shop, so I'm counting this as a first viewing) and it lives up to its praise as being one of the greatest films ever made. This is one of the most powerful and emotionally films I have ever seen. Everything about this is flawless: The acting from the entire cast is excellent (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes are all at the top of their game with their astonishing performances), the screenplay is superbly written, the production/costume is beautifully detailed and Spielberg's doco-style direction is outstanding, it's full of power and realism. Also the story is fantastic and the last 20 minutes would have to be the most emotional ending that I have ever seen, believe me because it had me in tears. If there is one film that you must see in your life, make it this one. Yes it is depressing but also absolutely brilliant and a true masterpiece in everyway. See it!
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MCT:August 31, 2008
Truly an all time classic with due to its subject matter, its actors and its director will stand the test of time.
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Movieslugposted 98 days ago -
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Can somebody please remove the deeply offensive remarks made by 'silent zombie'on this site. I see this person no longer has an account here but the remarks are still there for anyone to read.I am not Jewish or a cancer sufferer but I object to the comments and cannot find an option to complain about this person.
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Schindler's List is without a doubt one of the greatest movies of all time. Steven Spielberg put his heart & soul into this epic with excellent cinematography, set design, and costume design. The threesome of Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and especially Ralph Fiennes all give spectacular performances. This movie really tests the viewer with it's brutally realistic re-creation of the Holocaust. Spielberg never shows the point where Schindler decides to do what it's right and that adds to the complexity of this classic.
posted 386 days ago -
a pile of shite id rather have cancer thn watch this again, its a sad film alright its sad hitler never finished his final solution
posted 387 days ago -
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Spielberg's best movie ever. It is my all time favorite movie. The directing, the casting, and especially the music. All around it's gotta be the best Spielberg movie, besides Empire of the Sun, which I also love. Anyone who hasn't seen Schindler's List is missing out on true filmmaking
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