The person that placed the flowers on Shindler's grave was Liam Neeson himself. The stones are still on the grave and it is actually illegal to remove them or disturb them.
The stones are being removed every now and again, otherwise you would not be able to see the grave. People come from all over the world to place a stone on his grave, if they were never removed there would be a mountain of stones there. You are of course not allowed to go and mess with the stones or anything, only specific people who work at that site are allowed to alter anything, besides placing the stones on the graves.
Agreed. Though it wasn't a speech that actually happened according to the survivors that were there. The speech was written in for the film. His speech to the guards about "going home as men not murderers" did happen.
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That quotation, in Hebrew and English, is on a plaque placed on the wall next to the Schindler factory entrance. Anyone visiting Krakow should also visit the Schindler factory. It houses a very important and interesting museum, featuring Krakow and the ghetto during Nazi occupation.
When Ralph Fiennes (The man who plays Goeth) was on set the real survivors who knew the real goeth were literally shaking in fear when they saw him. That's how well he embodied the character.
@@yvesandrethevenot3489 He has been excellent in a number of roles. This one being among them. As well as Mr D in Red Dragon. Also a lot of people do not recognize him, in his most iconic role as "He who shall not be named" Lord Voldemort.
@@mot0rhe4d40 has dark has this will sound my favorite family guy joke is when peter reenacts the balcony shouting scene with Lois and Morte goldmen never laughed that hard just so perfect
remember people dont hate on the actor.. hes amazing for being able to bring the evil to life and shouldnt be hated like the actor who played Joffrey in game of thrones who literally quit acting.
Because of the reputation of this story and movie, a lot of people seem to expect Schindler to have gone to Poland specifically to save people - and therefore enter the movie very biased, and as such - the beginning is very confusing to them: He's supposed to be there to secretly save people, but he's behaving very cold and unfeeling This is because Schindler was a cold and unfeeling oportunist - initially! He came there to exploit slave-labour, and he *turned himself around* during the war, as he begun to befriend his workers, and see them as the human beings they really were. Deep down, he was a sensitive guy, and couldn't bear to see people he had befriended end up hurt or killed. The war changed him, the situation converted him - and he ended up deliberately going out of his way to save as many as he could - but he did not start out with that intention!
The transformation in his character is my favorite story arc in any media ever. You can see him start to turn in the scene where he has the Pearlmanns' transferred to his camp. At first he's kinda ranting how his factory developing an underground reputation as a haven is (rightly) dangerous to him. But than he decides to through with it anyway. The subtlety in Neeson's performance is amazing
Imagine what that must have been like for Schindler, having to deal with a devil like Goth. He knows the man is pure evil, yet he has to smile in his presence and do everything to make him feel pampered and comfortable because in the end, better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Goth probably murdered dozens, if not hundreds, of people a day for sport. But he was the kind of scumbag who would take a bribe. Imagine shaking hands with him; knowing that hand earlier that day probably put a bullet through a child's heart, pushed a woman into an oven alive while she was cremating bodies, or threw an old man to the dogs. That had to have been so difficult for Schindler to do, knowing that if he didn't or if Goth had a fatal "accident" the next kommodant wouldn't be so obliging.
Amon Goeth was actually toned down for this movie. In reality he was far worse than is portrayed in this film. He was arrested and charged over his treatment of prisoners.... BY THE SS. It numbs the mind to think of someone so evil, the SS thought he was out of line
Yeah. Movie would have been a hard NC-17 if they showed how much worse he was. You also know your beyond evil when the SS arrest you even though you are a nazi.
@@ThatShyGuyMatt There were some other cases, like Oskar Dirlewanger, but don't google him if you value your sanity. A local SS commandant sent a letter to high command threathening to personally shoot him if he were not removed from his sight -over his treatment of jewish prisoners.
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
definitely brings perspective to life. not only the things we shouldn't take for granted, the rights and freedoms we have and the people that sacrificed to protect those values, but also the horrible atrocities that can occur when people start let intolerance, hate, and anger take over their life.
You seem to miss the point at the end: Each Schindler Jew appears with the actor who portrayed them (with the exception of Ben Kingsley; Itzhak Stern had sadly died when the film was released).
@@sylmyl I’m pretty sure she said that “These are the real real people with the actors” and the other one “ah”. She meant Danka’s actress looked so much like the real Danka though. Maybe because she’s sobbing so it’s not clear :))
The scene where the daughter watches her parents always gets to me. She is overjoyed that her parents are safe but she dare not express it or try to contact them in any way. All she can do is walk away with a barely noticable smile of relief and gratitude.
As you two are Bulgarian, the fact that your country was one of the few who fell under Axis control to resist the deportation thus extermination of their Jewish population needs to be acknowledged. Regular people, religious leader, politicians, resistance members....all of the above protested, threatened to lay across the tracks as the trains moved through, made efforts to stop the deportations politically, shielded Jews from deportation personally.....Bulgaria resisted in ways other Axis aligned countries didn't. Bulgarians are built different, I'll tell you what. Your fellow countrymen helped stop people from heading to the fate depicted in this movie.
When that movie came out in 1994 in Germany, we went with our school to see it. I bawled my eyes out and for the first time was able to really grasp the dimensions and cruelty of what had happened during that time. The film is as important today as it was back then. Reminds us that this never ever must happen again. And that we Europeans need to stand together. Поздрави за България!
Although there is nothing indicating that this actually happened if you dig deeper into this. I think its a certain group in Hollywood that has had a bit to vivid imagination as usual.
@@stell4you No but its very well propagandized. Wikipedia will just give you the official narrative. There is nothing of that, that can be verified. Other than by other claims that refer to other claims by other people in the same circle. You will see that much of the whole "H" narrative is like that as soon as you dig beyond the official narrative.
@@martinsv9183 I disbelieve every comment that includes ‘if you research’. It’s on you to provide the evidence to go with with your claims. Your woke is just a joke.
I'm proud of the dog for going up to Ellie at the end. She needed some genuine comforting, the kind only a dog can give. Stay strong, ladies. Remember that your fans love you
Or cats. As selfish as they are, when their owner cries many cats do jump at their lap and (in my case) rub their head against you. Heck a former cat literary licked the tears of my sister's face.
😨 A very difficult film for every human heart, girls! I am a Slav and I live in a small country in the middle of Europe, Slovakia! My little nation would be wiped off the map of the world if the Nazis won the war! We have a lot of war graves! We must never forget this suffering of our ancestors! 😨
Same, and why would you be ashamed? Crying in general is nothing to be ashamed of, and this movie is so heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time AND it is real, I honestly could never NOT cry about the millions of murdered people and the humanity of a hero like Oskar Schindler.
this last sequence of the real characters accompanied by the actors playing their roles is simply a strike of cinematographic genius. It draws a beautiful line between reality and fiction that few films can ever hope to reach and installs an amazing dialogue between those two aspects of filming art. I am especially touched by the very last shot of the movie where the silouhette of Liam Neesom is mourning over Schindler's tomb. Vertiginous. Beautiful. A great Spielberg movie.
Respect to Elle for putting herself through this one again. Just to show Michelle this tragic chapter of human history. I am so happy to see her in a part of her life where she has light in her eyes. She’s happy. That’s wholesomely heart warming to see.
I saw Ellie react to this movie on her own, it's what got me to subscribe to this channel. I am impressed that she's putting herself through the destressing experience again.
One of the most important films ever made. I don't think Michelle has ever cried during any other reaction. Just goes to show how powerful and moving the film is.
I especially like it because it finally opened my ears up to Chopin. Before that movie he was just a salon musician to me. After that movie I understood why Schumann said about his music that it was like "cannons hidden under flowers".
The Pianist is good but hell way overrated. The best complement to Schindler's List is the highly laureated Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful from 1997.
@ Both "The Pianist" and "Schindler's List" are excellent films about the Holocaust and are very moving. Life is beautiful made me cry especially in the end
What the man was removing from the door post is a Mezuzah. They are attached to the doorpost of Jewish homes to fulfill the Biblical commandment to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9).
One of the greatest movies ever made and one of the biggest crimes of Hollywood that Liam Neeson didn't win an oscar for his portrayal of Schindler .. Great reaction ladies xx
Indeed ... he got robbed! And it was - in part - also a slap to both Oskar Schindler and all of Schindler's Jews! The Motion Picture Academy should be *ashamed* of itself!
As a parent myself , the scene where the kids are driven away gets me every time , I used to fall to pieces waving goodbye to mine when they went on school trips , the helplessness those poor parents must have felt is unimaginable but what a movie this is , great reaction 👍
The first time I watched this I didn’t think I’d be so brutal and realistic. A total Masterpiece by the Master himself: Steven Spielberg. The performances are phenomenal. Liam Neeson's final scene is superb 20:28 astonishing acting
I have watched 100s of hours of WW2 documentaries and interviews, and one of the things that really get me is that when these people were saved by the soviets, they were so starved that 1000s more died from EATING after getting real food for the first time. You have to re-feed your system slowly, but back in those days a lot of people didnt know. That is really really really sad.
This was one of the ways in which American conscientious objectors, who could not commit violence due to their religious convictions, nonetheless assisted the struggle against bigotry and inhumanity. They volunteered to be starved within an inch of their lives, so that methods of safely rebuilding their health could be studied. Many suffered permanent disability as a result, which they understood was a risk when they signed-up.
I learned this when I visited Auschwitz a few years ago. Also, many people in the concentration camps were too weak and sick to just charge out on liberation Day. It actually can take a couple months to recover from near total starvation.
Thank you for the reaction, even though it was a tough one! Ellie, I think you will agree, this movie is more difficult to watch the second time. You know what is coming, but you feel it even deeper! Michelle, thank you for staying all the way through this movie! It is an important experience that will stay with you.
56:50 "I dont think you need to visit this place" Yes you do I visited places of some of greatest WW2 tragedies in my country. In city of Kragujevac (I am from Serbia (part of ex Jugoslavija)) Where german troops killed around 7000 peoples in one day (man, women, children (who literally were pulled out of the school) because they were doing 100 civilian for 1 german solider killed. And we had lots of Guerrilla and Partisan fighting there during world war 2. So yea you should go and visit places like this because things that are forgotten are things that WILL happen again. It is not if but when. So yea places of big tragedies should not be forgotten.
You can’t built a national identity on shame and culpability. Germany has a glorious history darkened with somber parts, as every country. Be proud of your nation which enabled one of the greatest civilisation on earth to emerge. From a French friend
@@pianoman1857 Thank you neighbour. But you know what? I am proud of being a german. Proud that we have build a functionating democratic system with good medical healthcare and some social systems for poorer people. Proud that we have an independent supreme court that controls our government. And - not to forget - that we build up the European Community together with our partners, especially France. And much more... But for keeping that its important that we never forget about our past. That we always must be in the first line to fight against Facism whereever it rises its ugly head. Facism is the enemy of civilization, and its not dead...
OK, Michelle seams to be the coolest person in the world, her face still untouched at the end... while Ellie is so emotional. I can see every single emotion in Ellie's face. I am with you Ellie! Felt almost like you. I've never cried like this while watching a movie.
You 2 have got to check out - 'The Pianist' The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor. Also, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 tragedy film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. Set in World War II, the Holocaust drama relates the horror of a Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys: Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp's Nazi commander, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish prisoner.
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After Schindler's List the top best Holocaust film is the highly laureated Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, a direct account from Roberto Benigni's years in a Nazi concentration camp back then.
I was born in Germany and I am definitely not proud of our past. - But this film also shows, as in today's politics, that there will always be people who believe in good and in justice.
Almost all countries in the world can be ashamed of some part of their history. At least Germany does quite a great job assuming it and trying to avoid to do the same mistake, even if it isn't perfect.
Please know most countries have bad in their pasts, I live in England, most of our history is unforgivable. But we are not those people and we live in a time where we can all do better ❤
I am Polish and I don't have negative feelings towards Germans. The people currently living are not guilty of anything. And as others have written, every country has reasons to be ashamed of some aspects of its past. The most important thing is to learn from our mistakes and never let such situations happen again. Greetings from Poland brother.
React to "Come And See" Spielberg showed it to the cast and crew of this movie before filming and it was an inspiration for it and Saving Private Ryan, it's considered one of the greatest movies ever made and the greatest war movie.
The final scene in the graveyard was the real people and the actors who played them in the film. Spielberg said he thought of it late one night towards the end of filming.
As someone who is Jewish and lives in Israel now this movie hits hard because it is the history of my people and no matter how many things I see about it or the stories I hear from real life survivors of the Holocaust it's still shocking to see and hear just how cruel people can be and how far things can go when unchecked and unnoticed. This movie is one of the best ones out there about a wonderful man who risked his own life to save others. Another good movie to watch about someone who risked everything to save others back in world war 2 is the movie the Zoo Keeper's wife but just a warning it's not an easy movie to watch and yet it's about 2 amazing people who saved others just because they knew it was the right thing to do. The real history of it all was far worse than this,it's only a small part of what people went through...I don't want to give details cause I will cry if I think about it but basically they were treated as worse than even the animals and like they were nothing but dirt on the Nazi's shoes meant to be scrapped off and destroyed.
Yeah I was a bit suprised by that. The whole thing with the Nazis is the pure race, whites. German whites at that who weere "pure". Hitler killed anyone else. To be fair I do not know what they are taught in their country. In my wifes country they aren't really taught about world history much unless it involves their own country. I mean she knows of the Pacific war only because her counrety was involved. But she doesn't know the actual history beyond that of the Pacific War or WW2 with the nazis. She just knows the Nazis were evil and killed jews. Some countries have better edication about world history then others. Some just only teach of their own history. And lets not forget even if hsitory is taught, it doens't mean people always pay attention or care.
You should educate yourself. Hitler did not have a problem with black people as long as they was in Africa and not Germany. Many black people fought on the nazis side in africa against the british
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@crimsondeath7468 The fact that you think saying “black people should only live in Africa and stay TF out of my country” does NOT constitute “having a problem with black people” is, at best, extremely misguided.
@@SolidSnake8295 They should stay TF out of other peoples countries and other peoples "like the british empire" should stay TF out of the blacks countries. Flock of a feather flock together
I just feel I must correct some stuff Ellie said, Hitler's mom wasn't Jewish (that would make him a Jew by the Jewish law, thus an insult to Jews made up by conspiracy and anti-Semite people) and the whole thing wasn't about a "mommy issue" but about early 20th century racism and nationalism. It wasn't only Hitler, a lot of people in the world were actually convinced human races exist (some people still believe this nonsense in the US) and that some races are superior and others are inferiors. Also if you were in Germany you were not near Auschwitz, since this camp is pretty far East in Poland, like most of the death camps. Other than that, great reaction as always, the "How nobody see her" that Michelle said about the red coat girl is exactly what Spielberg wanted you to think, because the girl was supposed to be an allegory of the genocide, how nobody did anything while 6 millions people were killed in the middle of Europe. Making her red in a Black and White movie made it even more obvious.
And anti-semitism wasn’t just an early 20th century thing. It goes back to the Middle Ages and before. And it still exists, in somewhat different forms but still part of the same bunch of myths and prejudices.
I know you guys just reacted to "American History X" - see, THIS movie is why the skinkhead version of the "Derek Vinyard" character, and people like them, never have a "point", at least not one that's logical. This movie is what that movie finally leads up to. Thinking one group of people are less than human finally leads to treating them as less than human. Here is the horrible result. Thankfully, some, like Oskar Schindler, didn't buy into the rhetoric hook line and sinker.
For your review, a timeline: The first world war ended on November 11th, 1918. Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919. He attained power in March 1933. The invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, marked the beginning of World War II as a global conflict. This is an important film I'm glad you're both watching it.
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
I love Liam Neeson but had to say that Ralph Fiennes did a great performance too playing Amon Göth. Even he also played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, you need to see a movie called Sunshine. Ralph Fiennes played many caracters of the same jewish family through the ages, including during the World War II and the holocaust. Maybe playing this role was cathartic after portraying a monster like Amon Göth in Schindler's list.
Doesn't it matter who lays the flower there, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Liam Liam Neeson? It is a tribute to the fantastic and extremely courageous behaviour of Oskar Schindler in Germany's darkest history. Personally, I think it is also representative of all the people (some of them not so many) who saved Jews from death and stood up against the Nazi regime, e.g. the Scholl brothers and allies ("White Rose"), Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and allies (film: "Operation Valkyrie - The Stauffenberg Assassination" with Tom Cruise), and some smaller, unnamed helpers. In the 1970s, for example, there was a very popular, Jewish and well-known quizmaster Hans "Hansi" Rosentahl, who reported at the time that he had been saved from Auschwitz by a German family.
My Dad fought from Africa, Italy, Holland, France,Germany Austria (special operations) until they Linked up with Russians (accidentally shot at each other 1st) liberated a couple of concentration camps, and hung Nazis at Nuremberg ... then some more in Korea and elsewhere. Grew up being told about all of it.
Its a very good movie, but incredibly sad.☝🏻🥯❤️💙🇮🇱🇺🇸 Also, its a little known fact that: Spielberg, who was behind this movie, didn’t actually graduate film school- He finally submitted _this_ as his final assignment.🤯
The grandaughter of Amon Goth, the nazi in the movie shooting with a hunting rifle, is a black woman in Germany, when she discovered this she fell into depression but later wrote a book about her story
A poll taken in Europe in 2018 showed that 1/3 of Europeans knew 'little or nothing' about the Holocaust. I would guess that figure is even greater in the U.S. As some of the wonderful comments stated, there is a lot to learn and understand about what happened, in order to not let it happen ever again, to any group of people. I believe it is up to us, the ones who were curious enough to come here, to make sure the lessons from this movie are never forgotten.
Hats off the Ellie for going through this movie so soon after watching it so Michelle wouldn't have to watch this alone. Michelle most SS officers died of either acute traumatic lead poisoning or a long drop on the end of a rope. Some escaped justice but not many. It was hard for the SS to hide with their blood type tattooed underneath their arm.
Where do you get the idea that most SS officers were executed? Far too many escaped justice in Germany after the war and others used to the Odessa ratline to get to Spain or Latin America
I went to Dacau Concentration Camp outside of Munich. It was very unpleasant.. but necessary. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that every German high school class was required to visit and tour Dacau before they could graduate. This is interesting because before I was born when my father was stationed in Germany during the late 1950s, he told me that the German schools didn’t teach them anything about Nazi Germany. They just acted like it never happened.
11:00 in fact hitlers mother wasn't jewish she was (like almost everyone in austria) catholic as was his dad and even adolf hitler himself up to his death. he never left the catholic church for political reasons and he admired the hierarchy with the pope on top
Not many people around the world know about the British empire's atrocities or admit it but a movie called sardar udam has been released recently which would be comparable to this film
The tome like book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich tells the tale of a failed Austrian artist became a world burning megalomaniac. Adolf Hitler was claimed by his birth Father (Alois) just before his (if I recall) 13th birthday as his own son. Alois did not live with Adolf's mother and he was born out of wedlock. Had Alois not claimed him, his legal would have been Adolf Shicklegruber. Not saying a name is everything but I don't think that would have lent itself as much towards the NASPD. The book Night by Ellie Wiesel, a first account of a Holocaust survivor. There is a 2011 documentary titled Hitler's Children. It is about the descendants (most of them the children) of high ranking Nazi officials and their experience of dealing with, understanding and coping with what their family did. And a book titled The Perfect Nazi about a British man who discovers his grandfather's past.
I also love movies that’s based on a true story. You should see ”Changeling” with Angelina Joulie. Amazing story and Angelina is playing a very strong woman. And you won’t believe that it has happend for real. The movie is like the same tempo as Schindler’s list. LOVE your reactions 💋
I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau and Schindler's factory (now a museum) last month, and during my trip I stayed in the old 'Jewish Ghetto' in Kraków (Kazimierz). Walking around that massive concentration camp was a very surreal experience - the air was so heavy, and the silence was deafening.
For those who don't know, the prayer said by the rabbi during the 3 minutes of silence is called the mourners prayer. It is said to mourn the dead. They were saying to to mourn the 6 million dead.
Also if I could make a powerful yet devastating movie suggestion: Sophie's Choice. I have seen many powerful movies relating to the Holocaust and the horrors of human warfare but I actually had to stop Sophie's Choice partway through for one hell of an ugly cry. It's amazing. Meryl Streep is amazing. And it left me a total wreck by the end.
10:40 Elie, think this way: they know they will be stripped of everything, including their homes. Maybe they are trying to save something to be able to survive later. It’s desperation.
Your reactions are a testament to your good hearts. Yes, this was hard to watch, but it should not be watched just once; it is important that the horrors never be forgotten, so you should watch it every so often (yes, even though it hurts; athletes have a saying, "No pain, no gain" ... a little pain - but not too much! - strengthens you so you can handle worse things). For me, I make sure to watch it *at least* once each year. Oskar Schindler was a saint; he had his faults, he had failings, he wasn't perfect (nobody is - not you or me or anybody); but in the end he knew the Righteous Path, and chose it. He was willing to give up anything - his wealth, his comforts, even his life I believe. We all need to follow his example, and walk in the same Path. Ellie & Michelle - in every country of the West there is at least one Holocaust Memorial Museum (I think they have a special name, but I can't remember it), I think there are 2 or 3 in the U.S. You should visit any of them if you get the chance; there is more to learn in them. And there you will find a book you can sign your name in, basically promising to *Never Forget!* Part of Never Forgetting is to *Never Look Away!* There are places in the world - even today! - where these kind of horrors happen! Example: in China the Chinese Communist Party has what they call 'Re-education Camps', but they are Concentration Camps, for Uyghurs. In them the Uyghurs are tortured, and sterilized, and raped, and forced to work, and often killed; several of the Camps have over 10,000 people in them! *Never Forget! Never Look Away!*
A lot of people living now have lived during world war 2, that could be the reason it hit you so hard. A part of you remembers the pain. But I believe this is one of the best movies ever made about this subject, because its in your face. It shows what really happened...almost impossible to believe, but it did! They used the stories of survivors to make this movie. My opinion is that everyone who can, must have watched this movie at least once in their lives. Just to remember what really happened.
Jojo Rabbit is a great film that uses both humour and drama to express the terror of this part of human history, as well as the challenge for the german young, and dissenters.
If you can, I highly reccomend reading the book or listening in Audible. I listened to the book before seeing the movie and as faithful as the movie is to the written material, there are interesting differences. The little girl in the red coat is actually named Red Genya in the book. She survived the liquidation and went on to write her own book as an adult. A reason Oskar takes notice of her over the others is her little red coat seems so much more opulent than the clothing of her compatriots. He watches her be ferried along by Nazi soldiers past the dead and the injured. He watches her be ferried along with the others to her likely end. The "it will take more than that" scene where the Jewish woman is shot by Goerth for citing a buildings instability is different in the book and more powerful in my opinion. The woman is calm and stoic and confident in her declaration. She is shot in the neck and doesn't die immediately. She lays on the ground and pierces Goerth with a stare that tells him "It will take more than that". Goerth is shaken by that staredown. You can see as the book goes on that his cruelty toward Jewish prisoners is partially driven by his fear of their resilience. Sidenote: I believe the real Helen Hirsch met Ralph Fiennes following production of the movie and she was sent into hysterics because of how much Fiennes resembled Goerth... This is also the 1st of 2 roles Fiennes played a man who persecutes Jews- the second was Ramses in the Prince of Egypt. It strikes me so strangely that he was typecast this way lol
Legend says that every so often in UA-cam a reaction appears. Such a GENUINE reaction that the person not only transmits what the films wants to generate (acting as an amplifier of these emotions), but also, at times, the happiness for being seeing a great work of art.
This movie should have been a solo reaction from Michelle. It is such a powerful film, and when its over you just want to sit in silent reflection of all the atrocities committed against the Jewish people during WW2. But unfortunately for many of them, as bad as the treatment they received from the Nazi's was, the Russians were little better, and forced many of them out of the Motherland...especially Polish Jews. Films like this are important to us from a historical perspective, and we should never forget that one person with courage can make a difference in the lives of many.
Elle, I'm glad that you not only watched it again, but you got one more person to watch it with you. We should always remember, to never experience it again. Good job, Elle!!! ❤ Michelle, I'm glad you got to watch it. I know it's tough to see re-enacted events of such cruelty, but it must always be watched, and most importantly, remembered. I'm glad you toughed it out. Good job! ❤
11:02 it’s a mistake to think Hitler is the starting point of all of this. Historians called this trend a « Hitlerio-centered vision » of the war. Antisemitism in particular has a complex and long history and was widespread in Europe (England, France, eastern Europe, Russia, Germany, Poland) and also in the USA, long before Hitler were born. One thing true though is that the nazis turned antisemitism from something associated to a certain elite, into a widespread pattern in the overall population, in germany at least
Getting your John Williams soundtracks crossed. Yo Yo Ma performed the cello solos on the Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack. Itzhak Perlman played all of the violin solos for Schindler's List.
@@JedHead77 My mistake. I've heard the Theme from Schindler's List played on a cello and it left me flat. For me, the plaintive, mournful part is taken out by the cello's lower register. I saw Perlman himself perform Schindler's List back in 2016. (with Rohan De Silva on piano) It was a brilliant performance.
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
13:42 all find this boy so nice. but actualy he is not. Before he noticed he know her. he blew the whistle to call for the army. When he noticed he know her and saw the girl, then he started to save them. If he didn't know them, he would get them killed. The girl in the red jacket did survive the war. no idea why she's dead in this movie.
The person that placed the flowers on Shindler's grave was Liam Neeson himself.
The stones are still on the grave and it is actually illegal to remove them or disturb them.
The stones are being removed every now and again, otherwise you would not be able to see the grave.
People come from all over the world to place a stone on his grave, if they were never removed there would be a mountain of stones there.
You are of course not allowed to go and mess with the stones or anything, only specific people who work at that site are allowed to alter anything, besides placing the stones on the graves.
actually its steven spielberg not liam neeson in the last scene
you can google it, its Liam Neeson who put the roses on Oskar's grave.
@@sujugothkitten It’s 100% Liam
@@kirks1234 It is a very tall man....I always understood it was Liam N.
"I could have gotten more."
Still one of the most powerful lines and memorable ones I think about everytime this movie is brought up.
Agreed. Though it wasn't a speech that actually happened according to the survivors that were there. The speech was written in for the film. His speech to the guards about "going home as men not murderers" did happen.
Especially when you consider how he was in the beginning, to have changed that much is astounding
*_Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire._* 😭 😭
A powerful line.
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@tanelviil9149 what parts? The Amon Goeth stuff is true.
@@tanelviil9149 Please, enlighten us more.
@@W4rr4X Tanel is probably a holocaust denier, don't listen.
That quotation, in Hebrew and English, is on a plaque placed on the wall next to the Schindler factory entrance. Anyone visiting Krakow should also visit the Schindler factory. It houses a very important and interesting museum, featuring Krakow and the ghetto during Nazi occupation.
When Ralph Fiennes (The man who plays Goeth) was on set the real survivors who knew the real goeth were literally shaking in fear when they saw him. That's how well he embodied the character.
Fiennes is an extraordinary actor. Plus he's been especially well directed and shot by Spielberg.
@@yvesandrethevenot3489 He has been excellent in a number of roles. This one being among them. As well as Mr D in Red Dragon. Also a lot of people do not recognize him, in his most iconic role as "He who shall not be named" Lord Voldemort.
@@mot0rhe4d40 has dark has this will sound my favorite family guy joke is when peter reenacts the balcony shouting scene with Lois and Morte goldmen never laughed that hard just so perfect
@@denistardif6650 Yeah I have always appreciated Family Guys twisted sense of humor.
remember people dont hate on the actor.. hes amazing for being able to bring the evil to life and shouldnt be hated like the actor who played Joffrey in game of thrones who literally quit acting.
Because of the reputation of this story and movie, a lot of people seem to expect Schindler to have gone to Poland specifically to save people - and therefore enter the movie very biased, and as such - the beginning is very confusing to them: He's supposed to be there to secretly save people, but he's behaving very cold and unfeeling
This is because Schindler was a cold and unfeeling oportunist - initially! He came there to exploit slave-labour, and he *turned himself around* during the war, as he begun to befriend his workers, and see them as the human beings they really were. Deep down, he was a sensitive guy, and couldn't bear to see people he had befriended end up hurt or killed. The war changed him, the situation converted him - and he ended up deliberately going out of his way to save as many as he could - but he did not start out with that intention!
The transformation in his character is my favorite story arc in any media ever. You can see him start to turn in the scene where he has the Pearlmanns' transferred to his camp. At first he's kinda ranting how his factory developing an underground reputation as a haven is (rightly) dangerous to him. But than he decides to through with it anyway. The subtlety in Neeson's performance is amazing
Imagine what that must have been like for Schindler, having to deal with a devil like Goth. He knows the man is pure evil, yet he has to smile in his presence and do everything to make him feel pampered and comfortable because in the end, better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Goth probably murdered dozens, if not hundreds, of people a day for sport. But he was the kind of scumbag who would take a bribe. Imagine shaking hands with him; knowing that hand earlier that day probably put a bullet through a child's heart, pushed a woman into an oven alive while she was cremating bodies, or threw an old man to the dogs. That had to have been so difficult for Schindler to do, knowing that if he didn't or if Goth had a fatal "accident" the next kommodant wouldn't be so obliging.
@D G
In the beginning, but this guy basically ruined himself to "save" people, not to mention he sabotaged his own productions!
Amon Goeth was actually toned down for this movie. In reality he was far worse than is portrayed in this film. He was arrested and charged over his treatment of prisoners.... BY THE SS. It numbs the mind to think of someone so evil, the SS thought he was out of line
And considering when they brought survivors on set for accuracy, they were terrified of just the actor fearing the monster had returned.
Yeah. Movie would have been a hard NC-17 if they showed how much worse he was. You also know your beyond evil when the SS arrest you even though you are a nazi.
@@ThatShyGuyMatt There were some other cases, like Oskar Dirlewanger, but don't google him if you value your sanity. A local SS commandant sent a letter to high command threathening to personally shoot him if he were not removed from his sight -over his treatment of jewish prisoners.
@@grimsoncrow Dirlewanger and his "Black Hunters"
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A difficult movie to watch, but also one of the most important "movies" ever created.
Spielberg, who was behind this movie, didn’t actually graduate film school-
He finally submitted _this_ as his final assignment.🤯
Talk about an overkill, imagine being one of the graduating students when Spielberg did that. 😂
@@isaacfairburne9981 those students get to say they were Spielberg's graduating class. Lots of borrowed cred there.
One of the most important films of all time, IMO.
definitely brings perspective to life. not only the things we shouldn't take for granted, the rights and freedoms we have and the people that sacrificed to protect those values, but also the horrible atrocities that can occur when people start let intolerance, hate, and anger take over their life.
Absolutely
Those girls are AWESOME!!!
Agreee
But did you ever wonder other part of the story?
You seem to miss the point at the end: Each Schindler Jew appears with the actor who portrayed them (with the exception of Ben Kingsley; Itzhak Stern had sadly died when the film was released).
They did mention that in 53:53 though
Yea she said danka looked so much alike ummm yea the little girl was the actor … so not they didnt get that
@@sylmyl I’m pretty sure she said that “These are the real real people with the actors” and the other one “ah”. She meant Danka’s actress looked so much like the real Danka though. Maybe because she’s sobbing so it’s not clear :))
@lionlons However, Ben Kingsley was accompanying Itzhak Stern’s widow to Schindler’s grave.
The scene where the daughter watches her parents always gets to me. She is overjoyed that her parents are safe but she dare not express it or try to contact them in any way. All she can do is walk away with a barely noticable smile of relief and gratitude.
It's also the first time we hear that poignant musical theme.
As you two are Bulgarian, the fact that your country was one of the few who fell under Axis control to resist the deportation thus extermination of their Jewish population needs to be acknowledged. Regular people, religious leader, politicians, resistance members....all of the above protested, threatened to lay across the tracks as the trains moved through, made efforts to stop the deportations politically, shielded Jews from deportation personally.....Bulgaria resisted in ways other Axis aligned countries didn't. Bulgarians are built different, I'll tell you what. Your fellow countrymen helped stop people from heading to the fate depicted in this movie.
When that movie came out in 1994 in Germany, we went with our school to see it. I bawled my eyes out and for the first time was able to really grasp the dimensions and cruelty of what had happened during that time. The film is as important today as it was back then. Reminds us that this never ever must happen again. And that we Europeans need to stand together. Поздрави за България!
An ordinary man that did something extraordinary. Like the scripture says "Whoever saves one life, save the world entire"
Although there is nothing indicating that this actually happened if you dig deeper into this. I think its a certain group in Hollywood that has had a bit to vivid imagination as usual.
@@martinsv9183 It is very well researched: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler
@@stell4you No but its very well propagandized. Wikipedia will just give you the official narrative. There is nothing of that, that can be verified. Other than by other claims that refer to other claims by other people in the same circle. You will see that much of the whole "H" narrative is like that as soon as you dig beyond the official narrative.
@@martinsv9183 There is only the propaganda you are making.
@@martinsv9183 I disbelieve every comment that includes ‘if you research’. It’s on you to provide the evidence to go with with your claims.
Your woke is just a joke.
I'm proud of the dog for going up to Ellie at the end. She needed some genuine comforting, the kind only a dog can give. Stay strong, ladies. Remember that your fans love you
Or cats. As selfish as they are, when their owner cries many cats do jump at their lap and (in my case) rub their head against you. Heck a former cat literary licked the tears of my sister's face.
Uh, animals are only animals. Humans are the best for genuine comforting.
@@ffjsb Animals can be better than humans majority of the time.
@@MobinKiadeh Animals are animals, they have NO morality, just basic instinct. What a dumb comment.
Very very silly comments
😨 A very difficult film for every human heart, girls!
I am a Slav and I live in a small country in the middle of Europe, Slovakia! My little nation would be wiped off the map of the world if the Nazis won the war!
We have a lot of war graves! We must never forget this suffering of our ancestors! 😨
I am from Brazil, and I have to tell you that my contry had the biggest Nazi party outside Germany
God this movie makes me cry like a baby every time and I have zero shame admitting that.
same
No race / religious population deserves genocide, ever.😢
No shame in that like at all
Same, and why would you be ashamed? Crying in general is nothing to be ashamed of, and this movie is so heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time AND it is real, I honestly could never NOT cry about the millions of murdered people and the humanity of a hero like Oskar Schindler.
Anyone who does not cry for this movie has no soul
this last sequence of the real characters accompanied by the actors playing their roles is simply a strike of cinematographic genius. It draws a beautiful line between reality and fiction that few films can ever hope to reach and installs an amazing dialogue between those two aspects of filming art. I am especially touched by the very last shot of the movie where the silouhette of Liam Neesom is mourning over Schindler's tomb. Vertiginous. Beautiful. A great Spielberg movie.
The line about there being only about 5000 Jews left in Poland and there being more than 6000 descendants of Schindler's Jews is what gets me.
Elli is such a gentle soul... She was so affected by the girl in red that she couldn't watch... Remember history or you are doomed to repeat it
yeah. it's only by learning about it can we make better decisions moving forward as a civilization.
Not only remember it but also understand it 👍
History is still repeating even if you remember it, it still happens today
50:20 "Whoever saves one life, saves the World entire"
😭😭😭 IT HITS ME EVERY SINGLE TIME 😭😭😭
Interesting sidenote: Ralph Fiennes actually really sounds like an Austrian speaking English. What a fabulous actor (just like Liam Neeson of course).
Respect to Elle for putting herself through this one again. Just to show Michelle this tragic chapter of human history.
I am so happy to see her in a part of her life where she has light in her eyes. She’s happy. That’s wholesomely heart warming to see.
I saw Ellie react to this movie on her own, it's what got me to subscribe to this channel. I am impressed that she's putting herself through the destressing experience again.
One of the most important films ever made. I don't think Michelle has ever cried during any other reaction. Just goes to show how powerful and moving the film is.
Watch 'The Pianist'. I like both movies, but I prefer The Pianist more. It's just my preference.
I especially like it because it finally opened my ears up to Chopin. Before that movie he was just a salon musician to me. After that movie I understood why Schumann said about his music that it was like "cannons hidden under flowers".
I recommend The Pianist also.
The Pianist is good but hell way overrated. The best complement to Schindler's List is the highly laureated Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful from 1997.
@ Both "The Pianist" and "Schindler's List" are excellent films about the Holocaust and are very moving. Life is beautiful made me cry especially in the end
Same here. The Pianist is may favourite film on the subject.
What the man was removing from the door post is a Mezuzah. They are attached to the doorpost of Jewish homes to fulfill the Biblical commandment to "write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house" (Deuteronomy 6:9).
Ellie you did a wonderful job of not giving anything away especially with the girl in the red coat. It doesn't get easier watching a second time
One of the greatest movies ever made and one of the biggest crimes of Hollywood that Liam Neeson didn't win an oscar for his portrayal of Schindler ..
Great reaction ladies xx
Indeed ... he got robbed! And it was - in part - also a slap to both Oskar Schindler and all of Schindler's Jews!
The Motion Picture Academy should be *ashamed* of itself!
As a parent myself , the scene where the kids are driven away gets me every time , I used to fall to pieces waving goodbye to mine when they went on school trips , the helplessness those poor parents must have felt is unimaginable but what a movie this is , great reaction 👍
The first time I watched this I didn’t think I’d be so brutal and realistic. A total Masterpiece by the Master himself: Steven Spielberg. The performances are phenomenal. Liam Neeson's final scene is superb
20:28 astonishing acting
I have watched 100s of hours of WW2 documentaries and interviews, and one of the things that really get me is that when these people were saved by the soviets, they were so starved that 1000s more died from EATING after getting real food for the first time. You have to re-feed your system slowly, but back in those days a lot of people didnt know. That is really really really sad.
This was one of the ways in which American conscientious objectors, who could not commit violence due to their religious convictions, nonetheless assisted the struggle against bigotry and inhumanity. They volunteered to be starved within an inch of their lives, so that methods of safely rebuilding their health could be studied. Many suffered permanent disability as a result, which they understood was a risk when they signed-up.
I learned this when I visited Auschwitz a few years ago. Also, many people in the concentration camps were too weak and sick to just charge out on liberation Day. It actually can take a couple months to recover from near total starvation.
One of the best and most important films ever made
Thank you for the reaction, even though it was a tough one! Ellie, I think you will agree, this movie is more difficult to watch the second time. You know what is coming, but you feel it even deeper! Michelle, thank you for staying all the way through this movie! It is an important experience that will stay with you.
56:50 "I dont think you need to visit this place" Yes you do I visited places of some of greatest WW2 tragedies in my country. In city of Kragujevac (I am from Serbia (part of ex Jugoslavija)) Where german troops killed around 7000 peoples in one day (man, women, children (who literally were pulled out of the school) because they were doing 100 civilian for 1 german solider killed. And we had lots of Guerrilla and Partisan fighting there during world war 2.
So yea you should go and visit places like this because things that are forgotten are things that WILL happen again. It is not if but when. So yea places of big tragedies should not be forgotten.
thats a hard movie and history...
As a German, I will always think about it and never forget it. we will always fight for humanity in the future
Somehow, I memorized that Berlin had the first gay mayor-
It’s interesting.
As a german , i agree, brother. Lets hope youre right.
You can’t built a national identity on shame and culpability. Germany has a glorious history darkened with somber parts, as every country. Be proud of your nation which enabled one of the greatest civilisation on earth to emerge. From a French friend
@@pianoman1857 Thank you neighbour. But you know what? I am proud of being a german. Proud that we have build a functionating democratic system with good medical healthcare and some social systems for poorer people. Proud that we have an independent supreme court that controls our government. And - not to forget - that we build up the European Community together with our partners, especially France. And much more...
But for keeping that its important that we never forget about our past. That we always must be in the first line to fight against Facism whereever it rises
its ugly head. Facism is the enemy of civilization, and its not dead...
OK, Michelle seams to be the coolest person in the world, her face still untouched at the end... while Ellie is so emotional. I can see every single emotion in Ellie's face. I am with you Ellie! Felt almost like you.
I've never cried like this while watching a movie.
54yr old man, cried like a baby at the cinema watching this and its stayed with me ever since 🙏🏼😔
You 2 have got to check out - 'The Pianist'
The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war drama film produced and directed by Roman Polanski. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a Holocaust memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman, a Holocaust survivor.
Also, 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (released as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in North America) is a 2008 tragedy film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. Set in World War II, the Holocaust drama relates the horror of a Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys: Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp's Nazi commander, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish prisoner.
After Schindler's List the top best Holocaust film is the highly laureated Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, a direct account from Roberto Benigni's years in a Nazi concentration camp back then.
I was born in Germany and I am definitely not proud of our past. - But this film also shows, as in today's politics, that there will always be people who believe in good and in justice.
Almost all countries in the world can be ashamed of some part of their history. At least Germany does quite a great job assuming it and trying to avoid to do the same mistake, even if it isn't perfect.
Please know most countries have bad in their pasts, I live in England, most of our history is unforgivable. But we are not those people and we live in a time where we can all do better ❤
im more worried about americans turning into them than modern germanz
@@oakeysmokey That and China, seem to be in a heatful situation.
I am Polish and I don't have negative feelings towards Germans. The people currently living are not guilty of anything. And as others have written, every country has reasons to be ashamed of some aspects of its past. The most important thing is to learn from our mistakes and never let such situations happen again. Greetings from Poland brother.
React to "Come And See" Spielberg showed it to the cast and crew of this movie before filming and it was an inspiration for it and Saving Private Ryan, it's considered one of the greatest movies ever made and the greatest war movie.
It's amazing and really shows the horror of the Nazi occupation of Belarus which saw the greatest horror of any European country in WW2
The final scene in the graveyard was the real people and the actors who played them in the film. Spielberg said he thought of it late one night towards the end of filming.
Exactly, and the rose in the posed in the middle of the graveyard was posed by Liam Neeson.
Im glad that he added that part
Feeling those feelings is called Empathy... And It's all in your honor cause it's really hard but it shows your humanity... God Bless you
As someone who is Jewish and lives in Israel now this movie hits hard because it is the history of my people and no matter how many things I see about it or the stories I hear from real life survivors of the Holocaust it's still shocking to see and hear just how cruel people can be and how far things can go when unchecked and unnoticed.
This movie is one of the best ones out there about a wonderful man who risked his own life to save others. Another good movie to watch about someone who risked everything to save others back in world war 2 is the movie the Zoo Keeper's wife but just a warning it's not an easy movie to watch and yet it's about 2 amazing people who saved others just because they knew it was the right thing to do.
The real history of it all was far worse than this,it's only a small part of what people went through...I don't want to give details cause I will cry if I think about it but basically they were treated as worse than even the animals and like they were nothing but dirt on the Nazi's shoes meant to be scrapped off and destroyed.
Yes, the zookeeper's wife is a fantastic movie.
I love Jessica there it was such a moving movie as well
I sincerely hope she educates herself after she proclaimed Hitler didn’t have a problem with black people.
Yeah I was a bit suprised by that. The whole thing with the Nazis is the pure race, whites. German whites at that who weere "pure". Hitler killed anyone else. To be fair I do not know what they are taught in their country. In my wifes country they aren't really taught about world history much unless it involves their own country. I mean she knows of the Pacific war only because her counrety was involved. But she doesn't know the actual history beyond that of the Pacific War or WW2 with the nazis.
She just knows the Nazis were evil and killed jews. Some countries have better edication about world history then others. Some just only teach of their own history. And lets not forget even if hsitory is taught, it doens't mean people always pay attention or care.
You should educate yourself. Hitler did not have a problem with black people as long as they was in Africa and not Germany. Many black people fought on the nazis side in africa against the british
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@crimsondeath7468 The fact that you think saying “black people should only live in Africa and stay TF out of my country” does NOT constitute “having a problem with black people” is, at best, extremely misguided.
@@SolidSnake8295 They should stay TF out of other peoples countries and other peoples "like the british empire" should stay TF out of the blacks countries. Flock of a feather flock together
I just feel I must correct some stuff Ellie said, Hitler's mom wasn't Jewish (that would make him a Jew by the Jewish law, thus an insult to Jews made up by conspiracy and anti-Semite people) and the whole thing wasn't about a "mommy issue" but about early 20th century racism and nationalism. It wasn't only Hitler, a lot of people in the world were actually convinced human races exist (some people still believe this nonsense in the US) and that some races are superior and others are inferiors. Also if you were in Germany you were not near Auschwitz, since this camp is pretty far East in Poland, like most of the death camps. Other than that, great reaction as always, the "How nobody see her" that Michelle said about the red coat girl is exactly what Spielberg wanted you to think, because the girl was supposed to be an allegory of the genocide, how nobody did anything while 6 millions people were killed in the middle of Europe. Making her red in a Black and White movie made it even more obvious.
It was also the only way to recognise the dress later and realize her fate. It is one of the strongest moments of this movie.
And anti-semitism wasn’t just an early 20th century thing. It goes back to the Middle Ages and before. And it still exists, in somewhat different forms but still part of the same bunch of myths and prejudices.
Hitler mom was not jewish . He was kind of a mommy boy he hated his father . The lose of Germany in world war one blamed the Jews .
When Ralph Finnes (the actor who plays Goeth) plays villains, he always does his best acting!!!!!!!!!
I know you guys just reacted to "American History X" - see, THIS movie is why the skinkhead version of the "Derek Vinyard" character, and people like them, never have a "point", at least not one that's logical. This movie is what that movie finally leads up to. Thinking one group of people are less than human finally leads to treating them as less than human. Here is the horrible result. Thankfully, some, like Oskar Schindler, didn't buy into the rhetoric hook line and sinker.
Rolls eyes
For your review, a timeline: The first world war ended on November 11th, 1918. Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919. He attained power in March 1933. The invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, marked the beginning of World War II as a global conflict. This is an important film I'm glad you're both watching it.
17:13: Ellie, he’s the same actor who played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter.
The cousin of my wife's grandfather was the jewler who made the ring at the end of the film
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
I love Liam Neeson but had to say that Ralph Fiennes did a great performance too playing Amon Göth. Even he also played Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter, you need to see a movie called Sunshine. Ralph Fiennes played many caracters of the same jewish family through the ages, including during the World War II and the holocaust. Maybe playing this role was cathartic after portraying a monster like Amon Göth in Schindler's list.
Doesn't it matter who lays the flower there, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Liam Liam Neeson? It is a tribute to the fantastic and extremely courageous behaviour of Oskar Schindler in Germany's darkest history. Personally, I think it is also representative of all the people (some of them not so many) who saved Jews from death and stood up against the Nazi regime, e.g. the Scholl brothers and allies ("White Rose"), Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and allies (film: "Operation Valkyrie - The Stauffenberg Assassination" with Tom Cruise), and some smaller, unnamed helpers. In the 1970s, for example, there was a very popular, Jewish and well-known quizmaster Hans "Hansi" Rosentahl, who reported at the time that he had been saved from Auschwitz by a German family.
My Dad fought from Africa, Italy, Holland, France,Germany Austria (special operations) until they Linked up with Russians (accidentally shot at each other 1st) liberated a couple of concentration camps, and hung Nazis at Nuremberg ... then some more in Korea and elsewhere. Grew up being told about all of it.
Its a very good movie, but incredibly sad.☝🏻🥯❤️💙🇮🇱🇺🇸
Also, its a little known fact that:
Spielberg, who was behind this movie, didn’t actually graduate film school-
He finally submitted _this_ as his final assignment.🤯
The grandaughter of Amon Goth, the nazi in the movie shooting with a hunting rifle, is a black woman in Germany, when she discovered this she fell into depression but later wrote a book about her story
And it's a damned interesting book.
17:20 He was shooting the people that stopped working
A poll taken in Europe in 2018 showed that 1/3 of Europeans knew 'little or nothing' about the Holocaust. I would guess that figure is even greater in the U.S. As some of the wonderful comments stated, there is a lot to learn and understand about what happened, in order to not let it happen ever again, to any group of people. I believe it is up to us, the ones who were curious enough to come here, to make sure the lessons from this movie are never forgotten.
My wife and I went to see this movie at the theater when we were dating. After it was over, everyone was leaving the cinema in tears and in silence.
"I love movies based on real life...."
Two and a half hours later
"Don't make me watch movies like this again..."
LOOOOOL
He didn't just save 1,100 people, he saved generations.
Hats off the Ellie for going through this movie so soon after watching it so Michelle wouldn't have to watch this alone.
Michelle most SS officers died of either acute traumatic lead poisoning or a long drop on the end of a rope.
Some escaped justice but not many.
It was hard for the SS to hide with their blood type tattooed underneath their arm.
Where do you get the idea that most SS officers were executed? Far too many escaped justice in Germany after the war and others used to the Odessa ratline to get to Spain or Latin America
He who saves one life saves the world entire. That hit hard for me
When Amon forgives and pardons the last boy, then turns to the mirror and pardons himself, I knew he was going to kill the boy...
1,000 likes for your dog recognizing you needed and gave you a hug
My first reaction to you mentioning how it’s Michelle’s first time seeing it was “don’t do this to her.”
And here I was thinking "don't do this to Ellie again"
I went to Dacau Concentration Camp outside of Munich. It was very unpleasant.. but necessary. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that every German high school class was required to visit and tour Dacau before they could graduate. This is interesting because before I was born when my father was stationed in Germany during the late 1950s, he told me that the German schools didn’t teach them anything about Nazi Germany. They just acted like it never happened.
I understand both Ellie and Michelle's emotional grief of this film, WWII and the Holocaust happen on their continent. So painful for them to watch.😢
Thank God you have a puppy to hug after watching Spielberg's dark masterpiece.
You ladies are awesome for watching these classics.
It reminds me of that Queen song, "A Puppy To Hug": "Can't anybody find me...a puppy to hug."
11:00 in fact hitlers mother wasn't jewish she was (like almost everyone in austria) catholic as was his dad and even adolf hitler himself up to his death. he never left the catholic church for political reasons and he admired the hierarchy with the pope on top
Not many people around the world know about the British empire's atrocities or admit it but a movie called sardar udam has been released recently which would be comparable to this film
Thank you, i just looked it up and it looks very good.
@@cjhere2224the facts shown are all real
The tome like book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich tells the tale of a failed Austrian artist became a world burning megalomaniac. Adolf Hitler was claimed by his birth Father (Alois) just before his (if I recall) 13th birthday as his own son. Alois did not live with Adolf's mother and he was born out of wedlock. Had Alois not claimed him, his legal would have been Adolf Shicklegruber. Not saying a name is everything but I don't think that would have lent itself as much towards the NASPD.
The book Night by Ellie Wiesel, a first account of a Holocaust survivor.
There is a 2011 documentary titled Hitler's Children. It is about the descendants (most of them the children) of high ranking Nazi officials and their experience of dealing with, understanding and coping with what their family did.
And a book titled The Perfect Nazi about a British man who discovers his grandfather's past.
The people at the end placing the stones are the actual people accompanied by the actor that played them, or their children
See the Russian films "Come and See" and "The Ascent".
I also love movies that’s based on a true story. You should see ”Changeling” with Angelina Joulie. Amazing story and Angelina is playing a very strong woman. And you won’t believe that it has happend for real.
The movie is like the same tempo as Schindler’s list.
LOVE your reactions 💋
I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau and Schindler's factory (now a museum) last month, and during my trip I stayed in the old 'Jewish Ghetto' in Kraków (Kazimierz). Walking around that massive concentration camp was a very surreal experience - the air was so heavy, and the silence was deafening.
For those who don't know, the prayer said by the rabbi during the 3 minutes of silence is called the mourners prayer. It is said to mourn the dead. They were saying to to mourn the 6 million dead.
Also if I could make a powerful yet devastating movie suggestion: Sophie's Choice.
I have seen many powerful movies relating to the Holocaust and the horrors of human warfare but I actually had to stop Sophie's Choice partway through for one hell of an ugly cry.
It's amazing. Meryl Streep is amazing. And it left me a total wreck by the end.
10:40 Elie, think this way: they know they will be stripped of everything, including their homes. Maybe they are trying to save something to be able to survive later.
It’s desperation.
A truly powerful and a very emotional film understandably!!!! We will never forget!!!!😔👏🙌🙏
Your reactions are a testament to your good hearts. Yes, this was hard to watch, but it should not be watched just once; it is important that the horrors never be forgotten, so you should watch it every so often (yes, even though it hurts; athletes have a saying, "No pain, no gain" ... a little pain - but not too much! - strengthens you so you can handle worse things). For me, I make sure to watch it *at least* once each year.
Oskar Schindler was a saint; he had his faults, he had failings, he wasn't perfect (nobody is - not you or me or anybody); but in the end he knew the Righteous Path, and chose it. He was willing to give up anything - his wealth, his comforts, even his life I believe. We all need to follow his example, and walk in the same Path.
Ellie & Michelle - in every country of the West there is at least one Holocaust Memorial Museum (I think they have a special name, but I can't remember it), I think there are 2 or 3 in the U.S. You should visit any of them if you get the chance; there is more to learn in them. And there you will find a book you can sign your name in, basically promising to *Never Forget!*
Part of Never Forgetting is to *Never Look Away!* There are places in the world - even today! - where these kind of horrors happen!
Example: in China the Chinese Communist Party has what they call 'Re-education Camps', but they are Concentration Camps, for Uyghurs. In them the Uyghurs are tortured, and sterilized, and raped, and forced to work, and often killed; several of the Camps have over 10,000 people in them!
*Never Forget! Never Look Away!*
Just think that Steven Spielberg was making Jurassic Park at the same time!
The man's a legend.
One of the best movies ever indeed. Despite fellow Irish man Liam Neeson starring. It hasn't even started and I am in tears already.
Schindler’s List might be the greatest film ever made.
The tears at the end. Thank you girls for taking the time to know about this.
Just imagine all the movies made about World War II. This is just one of them. And there are still so many stories that have yet to be told.
There are two things you ought to react to on Netflix:
Einzatsgruppen and Nazi concentration camps.
A lot of people living now have lived during world war 2, that could be the reason it hit you so hard. A part of you remembers the pain.
But I believe this is one of the best movies ever made about this subject, because its in your face. It shows what really happened...almost impossible to believe, but it did! They used the stories of survivors to make this movie. My opinion is that everyone who can, must have watched this movie at least once in their lives. Just to remember what really happened.
Jojo Rabbit is a great film that uses both humour and drama to express the terror of this part of human history, as well as the challenge for the german young, and dissenters.
Spielberg refuses to edit this film for high schools
If you can, I highly reccomend reading the book or listening in Audible. I listened to the book before seeing the movie and as faithful as the movie is to the written material, there are interesting differences.
The little girl in the red coat is actually named Red Genya in the book. She survived the liquidation and went on to write her own book as an adult.
A reason Oskar takes notice of her over the others is her little red coat seems so much more opulent than the clothing of her compatriots. He watches her be ferried along by Nazi soldiers past the dead and the injured. He watches her be ferried along with the others to her likely end.
The "it will take more than that" scene where the Jewish woman is shot by Goerth for citing a buildings instability is different in the book and more powerful in my opinion.
The woman is calm and stoic and confident in her declaration. She is shot in the neck and doesn't die immediately. She lays on the ground and pierces Goerth with a stare that tells him "It will take more than that". Goerth is shaken by that staredown. You can see as the book goes on that his cruelty toward Jewish prisoners is partially driven by his fear of their resilience.
Sidenote: I believe the real Helen Hirsch met Ralph Fiennes following production of the movie and she was sent into hysterics because of how much Fiennes resembled Goerth...
This is also the 1st of 2 roles Fiennes played a man who persecutes Jews- the second was Ramses in the Prince of Egypt. It strikes me so strangely that he was typecast this way lol
Legend says that every so often in UA-cam a reaction appears. Such a GENUINE reaction that the person not only transmits what the films wants to generate (acting as an amplifier of these emotions), but also, at times, the happiness for being seeing a great work of art.
It's sad seeing Ellie cry about the girl in the red coat, because she knows what will happen to her latter in the movie.
This movie should have been a solo reaction from Michelle. It is such a powerful film, and when its over you just want to sit in silent reflection of all the atrocities committed against the Jewish people during WW2. But unfortunately for many of them, as bad as the treatment they received from the Nazi's was, the Russians were little better, and forced many of them out of the Motherland...especially Polish Jews. Films like this are important to us from a historical perspective, and we should never forget that one person with courage can make a difference in the lives of many.
Elle, I'm glad that you not only watched it again, but you got one more person to watch it with you. We should always remember, to never experience it again. Good job, Elle!!! ❤
Michelle, I'm glad you got to watch it. I know it's tough to see re-enacted events of such cruelty, but it must always be watched, and most importantly, remembered. I'm glad you toughed it out. Good job! ❤
The little girl who went to hide and hoping she will make it it is heart breaking and not to forget those who perished
11:02 it’s a mistake to think Hitler is the starting point of all of this. Historians called this trend a « Hitlerio-centered vision » of the war. Antisemitism in particular has a complex and long history and was widespread in Europe (England, France, eastern Europe, Russia, Germany, Poland) and also in the USA, long before Hitler were born. One thing true though is that the nazis turned antisemitism from something associated to a certain elite, into a widespread pattern in the overall population, in germany at least
To hear the music is one thing. To hear it in person played by Yo Yo Ma and conducted by John Williams himself is an experience! 😭🎻
Getting your John Williams soundtracks crossed. Yo Yo Ma performed the cello solos on the Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack. Itzhak Perlman played all of the violin solos for Schindler's List.
@@NBLP7001 It was at a concert (if you re-read my post).
@@JedHead77 My mistake. I've heard the Theme from Schindler's List played on a cello and it left me flat. For me, the plaintive, mournful part is taken out by the cello's lower register. I saw Perlman himself perform Schindler's List back in 2016. (with Rohan De Silva on piano) It was a brilliant performance.
I like this movie, shows how insane hollywood can get with fantasy .... taking something that is true on the surface and then starts to twist and distort and by the end of it you have no idea that most of it is made up BS.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Counter question!" - What do you do when your government says, "Now it's war !!!!!!!"
Things like this are still happening today. Not in this scale of course, but they are happening.
13:42 all find this boy so nice. but actualy he is not.
Before he noticed he know her. he blew the whistle to call for the army.
When he noticed he know her and saw the girl, then he started to save them.
If he didn't know them, he would get them killed.
The girl in the red jacket did survive the war. no idea why she's dead in this movie.