Runtime: 195 minutes
Directed by: Steven
Spielberg; among all his classics this is his masterpiece
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben
Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall
From: Universal
About time I saw this movie again and could talk about something so important online:
Boy do I wish this wasn't a more relevant movie now than when it was first released a quarter of a century ago.
At least in the United States, this is currently playing in a little more than 1,000 locations as a special 25th anniversary sort of deal. This was viewed by me before, albeit many, many years ago. I imagine everyone can understand how this is not something that you would want to watch often-I remembered there being atrocities on screen although what they exactly were had faded away. Now after this second viewing, those memories came flooding back in and there are plenty of moments that are tough to stomach and those bits will be sticking with me for a long while.
Even in a film like this, not everything is historically accurate to what actually happened. But a lot of it is correct: Oskar Schindler is a German businessman who in World War II had Jewish workers at his factories. Once he realizes the horrors the Nazis are inflicting on them, he spends all of his wealth and comes up with a scheme to save over 1,000 from concentration camps, including Auschwitz.
Seeing the Jews rounded up from the ghettos then all the nightmarish moments from the concentration camps... to say those are rough moments to watch is the understatement of the year. Yet of course those moments had to be shown in order to show how heinous the Holocaust was and how Schindler's sacrifice was such a big deal. Spielberg is one of the most beloved directors of all time and there are some of his films that I love-this is his masterpiece.
For a topic that demands the utmost of reverence and respect, everyone involved had the right amount of skill and effort to bring such a significant story to the screen. The cast was great all around, especially Liam Neeson as the lead and Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth, the commandant of Krakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp who commits almost all of the worst acts you see in the film, such as indiscriminately shooting people in the camp. The editing, the music, the cinematography, all were tremendous so I will give my props to Michael Kahn, John Williams, and Janusz Kaminski, respectively.
Unfortunately the movie seems more relevant now than it did back in late '93. A few months ago there was a shooting in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania synagogue where eleven people were murdered, and the past few years there's been the rise of the “Alt-Right”, which to me is another term for “Neo-Nazi”. Antisemitism is such a plague that it should be rooted out and noted and if not stopped then at least squashed as no one should experience any form of discrimination like what was depicted in this must-see motion picture.
At least in the United States, this is currently playing in a little more than 1,000 locations as a special 25th anniversary sort of deal. This was viewed by me before, albeit many, many years ago. I imagine everyone can understand how this is not something that you would want to watch often-I remembered there being atrocities on screen although what they exactly were had faded away. Now after this second viewing, those memories came flooding back in and there are plenty of moments that are tough to stomach and those bits will be sticking with me for a long while.
Even in a film like this, not everything is historically accurate to what actually happened. But a lot of it is correct: Oskar Schindler is a German businessman who in World War II had Jewish workers at his factories. Once he realizes the horrors the Nazis are inflicting on them, he spends all of his wealth and comes up with a scheme to save over 1,000 from concentration camps, including Auschwitz.
Seeing the Jews rounded up from the ghettos then all the nightmarish moments from the concentration camps... to say those are rough moments to watch is the understatement of the year. Yet of course those moments had to be shown in order to show how heinous the Holocaust was and how Schindler's sacrifice was such a big deal. Spielberg is one of the most beloved directors of all time and there are some of his films that I love-this is his masterpiece.
For a topic that demands the utmost of reverence and respect, everyone involved had the right amount of skill and effort to bring such a significant story to the screen. The cast was great all around, especially Liam Neeson as the lead and Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth, the commandant of Krakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp who commits almost all of the worst acts you see in the film, such as indiscriminately shooting people in the camp. The editing, the music, the cinematography, all were tremendous so I will give my props to Michael Kahn, John Williams, and Janusz Kaminski, respectively.
Unfortunately the movie seems more relevant now than it did back in late '93. A few months ago there was a shooting in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania synagogue where eleven people were murdered, and the past few years there's been the rise of the “Alt-Right”, which to me is another term for “Neo-Nazi”. Antisemitism is such a plague that it should be rooted out and noted and if not stopped then at least squashed as no one should experience any form of discrimination like what was depicted in this must-see motion picture.
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