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❤️BIBLE VERSES OF THE DAY❤️
JAMES 1:19-20
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
Awesome movie
BEST BIBLE VERSE Genesis 19:33 33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
Amen
Morality is to do what is right regardless of what you are told.
Religion is to do what you are told regardless of what is right.
Religion is the root of all evil. - Richard Dawkins.
Even assuming your god exists, how do you know what ‘he’ desires?
Oskar never recovered his finances, or his marriage; but in a twist the people he rescued financially supported him with donations for the rest of his life. It wasn't much, but it was a genuine thank you to the man that saved their lives.
Honestly, it was his own fault that his finances never recovered. Oskar had a livelong habit of wasting money on extravagance. The Schindlerjuden who supported him until his death attested to this... Every time any of them gave him money, he spent it frivolously and he was again broke in very little time. I don't judge him for it though, my own life is similar having wasted money for decades partying. Caught up with me in my 40s though, when my employment situation changed and I started jumping from job to job after years in a skilled trade that declined in demand. Even in all my years of consistent employment at a good wage, I never saved any money and now live paycheck to paycheck with my body wearing out and heath declining. Like Schindler, it is all my own fault. I threw my money away on a lifestyle and never put any away for my later years. Difference is, I didn't save over 1000 lives and have no one to help me. And, I've learned to live frugally.
The part where he is crying saying he could have gotten more out just kills me every single time.
It always makes me ask why the jews themselves had not used the gold from their teeth to save more.
@@mimikurtz2162 I'm not sure many had gold fillings left. The feeling I got was that the one guy was being thanked so profusely because he might have been the last one? Not sure.
@@mimikurtz2162 because you can’t buy off the Nazi party? Lmao
@@mimikurtz2162 THAT'S the question this makes you ask? Wow... SMH
@@colinbrannon2051 "you can’t buy off the Nazi party"? According to the film Schindler spent all his money buying off the Nazi officials and collaborators, so apparently you could.
In this scene Schindler is distraught that he didn't use his last bit of gold to buy one more life, whereas the jews also had gold and felt no compunction to do the same.
The character of Amon Goeth was actually toned down for this movie. One of the producers said something along the lines of, "We had to tone him down. People might not have believed how truly evil he was. Plus, if we had portrayed him as he truly was, it would have turned into a horror movie."
Oh I’ve seen other videos about him and read about him too and you are so right , there were things he did that were disturbing and so wrong .
It would actually be unwatchable as a film.
I made the mistake of Googling him… the man was an absolute monster, completely devoid of a soul.
@KayAbdi As bad as Goeth was, there was a thing named Oskar Dirlewagner that was even worse. He was so bad that other SS officers were shocked by his cruelty and sadism.
@@NBLP7001 😭
Here in Germany this movie was shown in History class when I was in school! I think that should be the case in every country!
Same here in the Netherlands
Same in Sweden
Before everyone was so soft, it was shown in certain classrooms in the United States as well.
Same in denmark
Yes, however it seems we germans have still not learned our lesson. We are doing business with china who are operating concentration camps and we refuse to give tanks to ukraine to defend themselves. I am so ashamed for my country.
The real Mila Pffeferberg was on set as a consultant. When she saw Ralph Fiennes in full costume, she had a panic attack.
I have witnessed two incredible moments while in a theater to watch a film. One occurred during Saving Private Ryan and the other was Schindler's List. That occurrence was that when the film was over no one left until all the credits went by. Then everyone rose to leave, and not a word was spoken until all had left the theater. I have never seen anything like that ever.
As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.
Same!! Nobody moved a muscle until the lights came on, and still nobody said a word as they filed out
The cousin of my wifes grandfather was the jeweler who made the ring at the end of the film. Schindler himself went through multiple periods where he needed support from his former workers and he called trhem his jews until the day he died. Schindler was also invited to may celebrations of those that he saved. His grave is located in Jerusalem and his jews paid to transport his biody there as well as for the grave. Finally from what I have heard from Family he would never had that breakdown right at the end as he was leaving. He was extremely proud of wht he had done. A couple of changes were made to the story which of course is necessary when making a film. First Schindler was in jail when the list was made as well as when the woman were rescued from Auschwitz. Stern was actually a combination of approximatelt 5 different people. and with the showere scene in actuality no one would have mistaken the showers for a gas chamber being that they were open aired.
Many people think that it was only non-jews who saved jews. We get that from movies like this and Anne Frank stories however a wonderfull film to watch would be "Defiance" with Liev Schreiber and Daniel Craig about jewish partisans.
Finaly, Regarding Schindlers history there is a great video on UA-cam about his life before the war and yes he was a very complicated person to say the least.
When he went back to college to finish his film degree, after almost four decades, he submitted this film to meet his student film requirement. To me that speaks volumes about which film he was most proud of.
Spielberg took NO payment for this film, he said that it would be like taking Blood Money! It is a masterpiece and as horrific as it is portrayed, it was very sanitized because it was felt that if they show all it the horrors, it would NOT be believed!!
Check out 2002's "The Pianist" for another powerfully moving true story about the Holocaust. It features an extraordinary Oscar-winning performance by Adrien Brody as a Polish pianist's struggle for survival after his homeland's occupation.
That one is a Tougher Watch than Schindler’s List.
@jackthomas6952 I agree
Steven Spielberg is legendary for a reason. He was making this and Jurassic Park SIMULTANEOUSLY. He said it was hellish. He'd be filming this in Poland during the day and reviewing special effects shots via satellite for Jurassic Park in the evening. In retrospect, it might've been a blessing in disguise. To have something lighter and more fantastical to occupy his mind with at the end of the day. Because working on this film alone, day in day out....not saying it wasn't rewarding but it takes a toll because of the tone being maintained. The contrast was probably healthy. Also, Spielberg did not receive a nickel of payment for making Schindler's List. To this day. He said it would've felt like blood money..
Good point. And still, monsters in both movies. Worst by far in Schindler's List.
He also said that if hed made List first, Park probably wouldnt have gotten made. As Someone who Saw JP 25 times in the theater when it came out, Im glad it wen down how it went down. List is DOGMA.
Schindler's List typically divide reactors into those who judge the movie scene by scene (as intended, as you do!) and those who go in, expecting Schindler to be planning to save the Jews from the getgo, and they tend to be confused by the movie for the most of it; not only confused (at Schindler's blatant materialistic goals) but they also miss out on the incredible growth this man goes through - since he *did* have blatant materialistic goals initially, but changed over time!
In this reaction, right off the bat, you see this man for who he is - a cold, calculating oportunist (who will then achieve a complete redemption - a real life one!)
Spielberg had no formal training in film so he decided to get his degree not too long after making Schindler's List. As everyone else in his class was struggling to pull together their final project before graduating, Spielberg submitted Schindler.s List, as his final project, and yes, he got an "A".
I'm a grown man and I ugly cry everytime I see this movie. THE ENDING!!! He finally understood the significance of one life.
I can't tell you how heartened I am to hear that you learned of Schindler in school. When I was in school, these issues were never mentioned except in a vague way. All of this was not generally understood until 1977, when the miniseries "The Holocaust" showed on TV. There was a lot of detail in that (though nowhere near as explicit as here; it was TV, after all), and it changed a lot of the way people thought about that war. (The show was also the reason we think of it when we hear the word "holocaust", which actually means a huge fire.) It's good to know kids are learning about these things in school.
When Spielberg asked John Williams to write the score he turned him down saying you need someone better than me. To which Spielberg responded "I know ... but they are all dead."
You should now see his other masterpiece, the one where he pointed his camera at the tragedy of slavery, AMISTAD.
I second Amistad. It's a tremendously powerful film that deserves to be seen more often and by more people.
This still happens in places around the world to people who are not seen as important.
Unfortunately evil is a part of humanity and will always be in the group. Good is also a part of humanity and the two will always show themselves when one is prevalent.
The trick is humanity must maintain a vastly larger amount of good people to make sure evil within us doesn't win.
As black people we know it's not about color or religion or anything but people find reasons to justify evils.
Thank you for giving us this heart-felt reaction. I have always thought of Schindler as having fallen down the slippery slope of good.
Whoever saves one life saves the whole world entirely. My favorite quote.
It is even DEEPER than you think, it is absolution for not getting more.
@@xhagast I agree, all of us can do that. It doesnt have to be as big as this but even little decisions of kindness to strangers may mean little to us but can be the world to someone in need. I try to be mindful of my decisions. I know I cant be perfect but I try my best.
@@guymon82ify And as long as it is good enough it is ok. You don't have to torture yourself for the little bit you missed.
The thing with Schindler kissing all the girls: He only did it to protect them, as they were giving him a cake in front of the SS soldiers. So he had to kiss them so the SS would think they're all in Schindler's harem. Yes, it was very awkward for all involved, but actually a pretty smart distraction. Schindler had to learn to walk that line in front of the Nazi's.
I saw this when it came out, with my classmates, who were mostly Jewish. We came out of the theater and it was just absolute silence. I don't have the jewish experience, but every single classmate I had, had lost somebody in their family during the pogrom. It was fucking intense.
In case anyone was wondering or didn't know, the little girl in the red coat was based off a real person.
In the film, the little girl is played by actress Oliwia Dabrowska, who-at the age of three-promised Spielberg that she would not watch the film until she was 18 years old. She allegedly watched the movie when she was 11, breaking her promise, and spent years rejecting the experience. Later, she told the Daily Mail, “I realized I had been part of something I could be proud of. Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film.”
The actual girl in the red coat was named Roma Ligocka; a survivor of the Krakow ghetto, she was known amongst the Jews living there by her red winter coat. Ligocka, now a painter who lives in Germany, later wrote a biography about surviving the Holocaust called "The Girl in the Red Coat."
In episode 9 of Band of Brothers the German Officer's wife in the red coat at the concentration camp was a sort of bookend to the little girl in the red coat. The girl was innocent; the German adults were guilty. Notice in the BoB scene it is filmed in very subdued tones, almost black & white, with only the red coat providing color.
Ralph Finnes, who plays Amon Goeth, actually looks exactly like the real life Amon, to the point where when the real life Helena was on set for consultation purposes, Ralph went to meet her and she had a panic attack upon seeing him
And his reply to her and the way he treated her was extraordinarily thoughtful and compassionate. Fiennes plays great villains but he's a very intelligent and class act person. Friend of a friend story, not me, but someone who was around him on a movie set (Skyfall) a decade or more ago. Said that he seemed like a pretentious prick and avoided him but he was just in character in a tense part of the film. Was watching WWE on his IPad later when the day was pretty much done and he could feel someone standing behind him. He turned around and it was Fiennes who pulled up a chair. Turns out he's a big professional wrestling fan. Which is the last thing in the world I ever thought Ralph Fiennes would be a fan of. I picture him reading classic literature in his study. Not discussing John Cena and Stone Cold and The Rock with the average Joes. He said he referred to wrestling as "rope operas" which I've stolen for my own use. Maybe that's a more well known term than I realize, I don't know. I can't stand wrestling lol but some of the people who dig it shock me. Reminds me of in the 90s when Patrick Stewart said during an interview (for either Star Trek First Contact or Conspiracy Theory) that his favorite TV show at the time was Beavis and Butthead. I mean.....what?? That amused me greatly as a teenager at the time..
The real life Amon Goeth has a daughter named Monika Goeth, she's still alive and now is identified with her father's cruelty. She's now trying to meet the survivors to seek emotional healing for them and for herself also. Just search UA-cam for her name, there are videos about her, now she goes by the name "Monika Hertwig" she changed her surname to distance herself from her father. Amon Goeth not only destroyed the Jews, but also destroyed his family, his own daughter.
@@pygmalion137 and his granddaughter, Jennifer Teege, is biracial. Ahe wrote a book called "My Grandfather Would Have Had Me Shot". It's an incredible read.
If you look at photos they facially dont look alike at all but I'm sure the uniform and the way he carried himself in the role had a lot to do with the impression he made.
@@SRG1966 yeah that’s what I was thinking…. IIRC Fiennes gained some weight to give himself a portly belly…. But I always thought Ralph Fiennes was kinda hot. 🙈 The real Amon Goeth was… definitely not!! There’s maybe a “History vs Hollywood” level of resemblance, but I definitely think it was his acting that was so realistic
In high school, our history teacher brought in someone to speak of the holocaust. This was a very long time ago so I can't remember specifics of what was said. When he was finished, he rolled up his sleeve and walked around the class to show everyone the numbers he had tattooed into his forearm while he was in Auschwitz. I remember that to this day.
As time passes people forget or become detached from the past and what we as humans are actually capable of. Getting to meet people like this in person is important.
Your review of Schindler's List is by far the most salient, insightful, and comprehensive of any of the reviews online. Good Job. I wish others who have seen this movie understand the undertones and the film work as much as you do.
I’ve always thought the Mozart/Bach piano scene was meant to pose a question to the audience: how could a culture/people create such beauty, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and also create such barbarism?
My grandfather was part of the Third Army under General Patton when Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated. He never talked about what he saw there to anyone in the family except to say,”He didn’t know people could do that to other people.”
I have watched countless reactions to this film and yours is by far the most articulate, insightful , cogent and astute reaction I have seen. As someone whose family was decimated by the Pogroms in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 20th century and then again during the Shoah (the Hebrew word for holocaust) it is life affirming to see your generation's reactions to this powerful monument in film. I agree with all of your observations about the cinematography, the score, the acting and was so moved by your reaction to seeing the survicors in color at the end. As long as we can be moved by the plight of those who suffered and those who survived, we may have hope that this won't happen again. I just wanted to share my appreciation for your thoughtful review and hope you are well!
There is a german reactor called "Cultured Bubble". I like her review of this movie, especially for the context and translations she adds.
Her Jojo Rabbit review too.
As always, a great reaction! I think that Schindler's List shows a deeply flawed man (Oskar Schindler) who developed empathy over the course of the war. By the end, he was a much better man than when the war began. At the beginning, he was motivated by profit. By the end, he was motivated by saving lives. Schindler didn't have a "Moses at the Burning Bush" experience, "Saul on the road to Damascus" conversion or "King Josiah reads the Covenant" realization (at least not one that we know about). However, something triggered within him over the course of the war where he cared less about money and more about doing what was right.
In the film, this change is incremental. It first happens when he sees the little girl in the red coat. Then, it (perhaps subconsciously) occurs as the people thank him for "employing" (i.e., saving) them. Eventually, he sees these individuals not as "staff" or employees but as individuals under his care. They begin to mean more to him than profits -- to the point that he ended up bankrupt.
If I were a casting director, and I'm looking for an angel, this woman gets the part, drop-dead gorgeous !!!
I genuinely don' think there is better non verbal acting than when Schindler sees the girl in red being wheeled in. That face really says more than a 1000 words
Such a powerful moment.
Thirty years later, and still as powerful as ever. May we never forget nor repeat the atrocities that this showed. Sometimes all it takes is one person to make a difference for many. Oskar Schindler was that one for more than a thousand souls. To say that 'There will be generations because of what you did' is no exaggeration.
One of the hardest films to watch ever, there is beauty in the world but there is also outright evil and films like this are so important so we never forget and more importantly repeat the atrocities that occurred. When I was in Amsterdam I went to the Anne Frank museum which is located in the same building that she wrote her diary in, I can honestly say it was one of the most poignant and moving experiences of my life.
Unfortunately for Schindler's character, he had to learn late that people's intrinsic worth far exceeds any of the riches he might of gained in the world because a person's worth is typically incalculable, since no one can necessarily predict the value or resourcefulness that just one life might bring to so many others. 😔
My grandad worked in a Displaced Person Camp after the liberation.
Something that stuck with me was learning that a worker in the Krakow ghetto was allowed 860 calories a day. Non workers less.
Imagine that.
It all hurts my heart.
The candle that goes from color to b/w in the beginning, is a symbol of Hope being extinguished and vice versa at the end of the movie.
Only minutes in. I love your descriptions of the opening sequence. The tango. Schindler finessing the situation. You are the one of the only people I have seen react who highlighted that as a character and plot point.
Earned my subscription on that alone.
I can tell I will enjoy your insight watching the art as well as just the emotional rollercoaster.
Ralph Fiennes' Amon Göth is easily a far more horrifying monster than Voldemort. He was real. Fiennes himself said he had difficulty playing THAT callous evil and not breaking down.
It is so humbling to see a beautiful woman of your age with the wisdom and compassion of our history and how important it is for all if us, as well as it to never be erased or forgotten.
God bless
It's always good to see people's first reactions to this powerful movie. It showed how Schindler changed throughout the time, the movie doesn't mention it, but he actually saved an additional 238 in January of 1945 from a train wagon of rejected workers. His wife took care of them until the end of the war in a makeshift hospital in his factory
I really liked your reaction to this film. Thanks for being respectful of all peoples and being empathetic.
You need to get yourself some bittersweet Belgian chocolate. My wife and I used to be able to get big chunks of it at a specialty grocery in Fort Worth, and we used it for baking. The brand was Callebaut. You can look them up. Belgians make really good chocolate.
I heard the great Robin Williams called Spielberg at the end of every week while he was filming this just to make him laugh.
I would respectfully suggest also looking at 3 WWI films depicting actual events & persons.
The animated biopic Sgt Stubby, whose body has been on display at the Smithsonian Museum.
The Hello Girls tells of women who served near the front lines, then fought for recognition after returning to the USA.
They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson's restoration and compilation of original footage from a century ago.
All 3 films are exceptional!
Thank you for watching and reacting to this. Sadly today, there is a huge rice and antisemitism. Our older generation, those who lived through the Holocaust, are beginning to disappear. Sometimes, we need to listen more than we talk. Movies like this help. Steven Spielberg made sure, but unlike most movies, where things get very difficult, the scene will usually pan to somewhere else. But this movie stays focused on it. It makes you watch it. And that’s what makes it powerful. We have to be able to see the evil. It needs to be in our face. Otherwise, we will forget it and/or dismiss it.
Schindler is also buried here in Israel. In Jerusalem. His grave is outside the old city gates
The Girl In The Red Coat was played by Oliwia Dabrowski. At the time she was 3, almost 4 years old. Spielberg made her parents promise that she would not see the movie until she was an adult. Oliwia broke that promise, watching the movie as a teenager. Today, she aids Ukrainian refugees leave war-torn areas of Ukraine.
Though John Williams scored the movie, the violinist was Itzhak Perlman. I would encourage to watch one of his appearances as he plays this. It will bring tears to your eyes...again!
Amazing what one man can do if their will is strong enough..... absolutely a heroic story.
There's 3 types of people in life
Those who watch things happen
Those who make things happen
Those who wonder what just happened.....
Which one are you if someone needed your help?
He was under immense pressure to save as many as possible while maintaining appearances.
I think you are right. He didn't have a cause beyond his own success at the beginning. However, he constantly tried to treat people he met as humans. In direct violation of party principals and laws.
The arc in wonderful.
The book by Thomas Keneally does help flesh out what he was going through. More that a few hours can convey.
the word "Ghetto" comes from around 1516 a.d. and became a place to where the Jewish peoples where allocated a place in a city or town (often walled in, and locked down at a given time each night.) and if found outside of the given area after "Jewish curfew." where subject to fine, or death! THANK YOU for this viewing!
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Girl obviously you've never heard of a double agent. Because Schindler was always on the side of life, but he had to act the way he did in order to gain the trust of his enemies.
Amon Goeth (played by Ralph Fiennes, aka Voldemort) has a half-German, half-black granddaughter. She has a book about discovering who her grandfather is, called My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi History. Her name is Jennifer Teege. Very interesting book!
Watching reactions of people watching this cinematic gem for the first time is so cathartic. I cry right along with the reactors. Thank you for your reaction hon. And thank you for showing the grace and humanity that this film deserves. 🥰🤗😊
The movie Conspiracy (2001) is another difficult to watch WWII movie but it all takes place in one room. The screenplay was written using the only copy of theWannsee Conference transcript from 1942 that survived. It's about the meeting where the details of the "final solution" were discussed.
Great reaction! I am impressed that someone your age has a decent understanding of the economic conditions that existed before & after the War.
Amon was years before Voldemort. And far more terrifying.
My understanding is that there are about 50 of the Schindler Jews stull alive, The youngest would be in their 80s.
War makes strange men, and strange men make history.
This is actually a toned-down, ready-to-consume for the masses depiction of the holocaust. The things I have read about what went on in the camps is beyond belief.
The Grey Zone is a very hard watch
"evil prevails when the good remain inactive"
Steven Spielberg actually refused to take any payment for directing this film. He said it would’ve been “blood money” so he forwent a salary for the movie.
All his royalties went to the survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records and preserves testimonies from genocide survivors.
I have so much respect for Spielberg.
Oh Emma, I love love love you for watching this trilogy.
I’m up in arms waiting for the second part.
You are becoming my most favorite of reactors.
You're the most thoughtful woman doing reactions. I don't know you as a person but I feel you. Thanks.
Please stop feeling her
I’m a little impressed but disturbed that she didn’t cry whatsoever
Without a doubt the smartest reaction to this movie I've seen. You have a good head.
Your perspective is VERY impactful for me. Thank you for everything you said throughout the film & especially during the outro. ❤
I saw this movie in middle school history class. We learned about the holocaust really early. Everything that led up to it. This was a really crazy part of our history. One way or another these events affected everybody around the world.
This film is one of the most important films ever made. Dehumanisation is the root of all of this horrible behaviour. I saw this film in school and it has changed me in a way nothing else has done before. Thanks for sharing your reaction with us.
Beware those who talk about "others", as if they are less important than anyone else. It happens frighteningly often today, even on the news.
@@davidblauyoutube Do you mean beware of those who talk about others as "goyim"?
never noticed before, but the flame of the last dying candle in the very beginning was the same color as the little girl's red coat. all of the candle flames were in color, to the end.
feinnes was robbed of his oscar for this performance by tommy lee jones in the slightly above average tv movie the Fugitive
I never met a person who didn't cry, watching this movie...
I watch this movie once a year. I now have my age appropriate children watch it with my wife and I. I want them to know what hate, if unchecked, can lead to.
"when the light goes out, the darkness spreads"
There's no emotion more consistent than the reaction to the transition of Schindler's Jews from the film to the present, real people.
Imagine living through this. My grandparents did…
I saw this at the theater when I was 12/13. Probably too young but my parents were going and I had no choice. A three hour black and white movie. Great. Obviously it didn't go that way. It's seared into my brain. You can hear about the Holocaust all day long but to see such a startlingly real feeling recreation of it (not that I know first hand). I don't remember being bored or getting restless. And the movie didn't go over my head which also surprised me. First time I remember actually tearing up because of a movie. I tried to hide it but I'm sure they heard all the sniffing at the end. The first time I became aware of Liam Neeson and he's been one of my favorite actors ever since. He's so damn smooth in this. Even after his change. I love that Schindler used all of his smoothness and social skills and public reputation to save people after that point rather than schmoozing with high society. I won't blow smoke up anyone's ass about how the theater reacted to certain things although I do remember my sniffling wasn't alone. It's not exactly a stand up and cheer fist pumping movie anyway. I think I walked out of that theater a little more grown up that day..
You are not alone. I think more than 80% of all viewers of this amazing film cried in the theatre (or shed tears in silence).
I am crying every tim I watch this film again, and I am a 58 old male with balls of steel, as my 4 sons says :)
Your reactions to 'Band of Brothers' and now this movie have been outstanding. You're insightful, intelligent and you don't rush to judgment or spew outrage without first trying to understand exactly what is going on. You tried to understand Schindler and allowed him to evolve with his situation and the circumstances around him. If you want to see another brutal movie based on the holocaust and the atrocities committed by the nazi's during their occupation of Poland then I highly recommend watching 'The Pianist'
If you learned about Oskar Schindler in school, it is almost certainly because of this movie. Most people had never head of Schindler until this movie came out.
I think movies like this are SO important to help people really understand what was going on in Germany. Oskar gives us someone to follow as we see everything happening around him. And Oskar's story is also very important. But I really believe that this movie is more effective than any documentary I have seen on how bad it was for the Jews, Gypsies, LBGTQ+, and other "undesirables". I am so happy that we can see people react for the first time to the horror of what Germany did.
I just found this reaction channel an it's top quality. Brilliant reaction on this movie.
P.s What a beautiful women, love her hair. God bless and hope you're all well.
Human anger, or any anger produces nothing but anger and then festers into hate. The only thing that Evil needs to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
Only movies reaction i like to see is with this smart and emphatic lady...me being a movie buff....it would be an honor to watch movies with you. Love every second of it.
I would also recommend "The Hiding Place", about a Dutch Christian named Corrie ten Boom, whose family hid Jews in the Netherlands during World War II, and who ended up in a Nazi concentration camp along with her sister Betsie.
This is one of the few movies I can say that restores my faith in humanity. Spielberg was under so much stress and emotionally drained every day after shooting he would call Robin Williams just so Robin would make him laugh.
Someone else said it best,he was always a abject failure in business,but he became a spectacular success as a human being.
It is a very impactful film that everyone of a mature age should watch.
Illustrates how events in WW2 escalated so quickly and how inhumane people can be when steered towards hatred.
This is why the war in Ukraine is concerning. Don't we ever learn?
You would probably really like "The Pianist" too. Highly recommended.
Similar, but told from one individual's perspective.
Nice reactions BTW!
No, people seems to never learn, sadly. See all the politicans which are voted in high ranks and all the wars on the globe rigth now.
If we would have learned out of all wars since the killing of Abel (speaking as a christian raised man, I am not connected to an established religion now but made my own thougth about a greater beeing) than we all should live in peace, as the lion and the lamb in the garden of eden.
What people do not understand, is that ALL humans have the same DNA and are all sisters and brothers.
And even in the christian lore, ALL humans are the offspring of only two people (Adam and Eve). So the Caucasin german human is a sibling to the maori wartribe members. (so many connections)
OK, I let go of the fact, that Eve was the second wife on earth ;)
I've seen this movie, and reactions to it, many times. If I don't lose it at the "I could've gotten more" speech, I lose it when it shows the surviving Schindler Jews.
The stones that they were walking on in the concentration camp were Jewish headstones.
Moje babička měla to štěstí, že přežila Bergen Belsen. Kameny na hrobě symbolizují odkaz a trvalou vzpomínku. Květiny vadnou a umírají, ale kámen vydrží navždy. Každý kámen umístěný na Schindlerův hrob byl životem a dědictvím, které pomohl zachránit.
Another great Holocaust movie is “Life is beautiful” it’s in Italian but it’s one of the best ones out there
Two more very powerful films are 'The Pianist' and 'The Railway Man'.
It might sound just unbelievable, but Amon Goeths grandchild is actually a black woman (-->Jennifer Teege)!! She had no idea about her family because she was adopted. One day she went into a library, took a random book out of the shelf, and on this random book cover there was a a small picture of an old woman on the cover. By browsing threw this book, she finds out that it was the story about her cruel grandfather.
You're becoming a full-blown WWII historian, Gab... :)
Though Spielberg is already an extremely wealthy man as a result of the many big-budget movies that have made him one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, he decided that a story as important as Schindler’s List shouldn’t be made with an eye toward financial reward. The director relinquished his salary for the movie and any proceeds he would stand to make in perpetuity, calling any such personal gains “blood money.” Instead, Spielberg used the film’s profits to found the USC Shoah Foundation, which was established in 1994 to honor and remember the survivors of the Holocaust by collecting personal recollections and audio visual interviews.
Despite the fact I'm sitting here crying with you I can't help but notice how beautiful you are God bless darlin
Thank you for this. It is a part of history that needs to be told.
I had the extreme honor of working in an Assisted Living facility several years ago now, where many residents were of the Jewish faith.
One of those residents was a survivor of the holocaust, he even showed me the now worn serial number that had been tattooed on his arm for identification.
He told me a story I would like to share, to keep his part alive.
When the war ended and he was finally free, he walked all the way back to the small village where he was originally from. When he arrived, it was night. Several other men had also made this journey from other camps, hideouts, and so on. The town was destroyed.
So that night, these few men that were strangers, who all had just survived hell, made a campfire and to sit around. They began to tell their stories to one another. What happened, where they'd been, and what they had seen. They cried, and held one another, for now they each were all the other had in the world.
His story has stuck with me ever since.
Hopefully, one day, the people who are "in charge" around the world will start making better decisions. Ones that don't wind up sacrificing or negatively affecting generations to come.
❤️
I still have not watched this movie. I can't bring myself to watch it. It's too heartbreaking for me. I applaud your courage to do it. you are braver than me. God Bless you and protect you and yours.
It's not so much that Schindler was complex, but when you are living under an oppressive regime, one so powerful to where if you don't act a certain way and speak a certain way, under a regime where doing the wrong thing, or even SAYING the wrong thing can get you killed or disappeared, well, for self-preservation most people simply won't say anything or do anything and will instead act and speak as if they are okay with all of the horrible things. I think Schindler started in that head space but eventually came around and worked to save people the only way he could while existing in that regime.
And YES, Schindler was ABSOLUTELY trying to plant something in Goeth's head, hoping he could make him think before killing again. Of course, sadly, that tactic was never going to work with that type of personality.