I finally watched Schindler's List.

[Shell Beau]

I have owned it forever but have never watched it. :cry: I know what was going on during that time period, but seeing it was heartbreaking. :cry: I've watched so many documentaries on the Holocaust and Hitler, but this movie really touched me.

[lizziegrace]

1. You're much braver than I

I can't bear to watch it.

[Shell Beau]

2. It was tough!!! Really tough, but

it was also touching. I recommend seeing it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Two words:

Red dress.

If that didn't make you feel like shit, you're not a carbon-based lifeform.

[Shell Beau]

4. Yeah!! I very rarely cry in movies; I very rarely even cry, but

I think the majority of the movie there were tears flowing.

[Shell Beau]

9. Also the part when the women had heard the story of the

Jews getting gassed but thinking they were going in for a shower and when they got to Auschwitz, they were crammed into a room naked and they thought they were getting gassed but were actually getting showers. The whole movie was just sad.

[jonnyblitz]

11. the red dress is always the first thing i think of when somebody

mentions this movie.

[Arugula Latte]

28. The little boy hiding in the latrine broke my heart as well.

:cry:

[Texasgal]

5. I could barely get through that movie...

I thought the most poignant scene in the movie was at the end, when all of the generations of families he had saved put rocks on his grave.... amazing.

Excellent film, very hard to watch.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Nah. See #3. (nt)

[Texasgal]

17. your right!

I forgot all about that scene. Heartbreaking....

[Shell Beau]

7. Yeah and it stated that there are over 6,000

Jews today that came from Schindler's list and there are only 4,000 Jews in Poland today (or at the time of the movie). So, even though he felt like he didn't do enough at the time, the numbers say it all.

[malta blue]

8. My stepfather's cousin was one of jews saved by Schindler.

I watched the movie with my stepdad in the theatre. I have never seen him cry so hard..

on edit: typo

[Shell Beau]

10. I bet. I can cry thinking of it now.

[China_cat]

24. If you want to see what he did

check your library for the book "Schindler's Legacy". A compilation of stories from survivors and their families. It's the perfect companion to the movie.

[lizziegrace]

12. We lost 39 family members

ranging in age from 5 to 83 in two of the death camps.

[Shell Beau]

13. It was a tragic and horrific time for the Jews.

[Missy Vixen]

14. I think that "Schindler's List" is Spielberg's magnum opus

I'm sure that there will be lots of disagreement on the above statement, but I don't believe that Spielberg will ever make a film more powerful than "Schindler's List". I believe it is the greatest film I have ever seen.

I can't watch it again, either, but the little girl in the red dress still haunts me.

Julie

[grace0418]

18. I will agree with that. I generally think Spielberg "disneyfies" his films

too much for me. But I will say that I've always thought that teens should have to see Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan as a way to understand what happened during those years. If they can gain even an ounce of understanding of what people endured during the Holocaust and the war, it will make them better people.

[Shell Beau]

19. He certainly didn't sugar coat those two movies.

[grace0418]

31. It's true. He did them right.

Saving Private Ryan really made me sit down and think about what it must've been like for 18-yr-old boys to face what those boys faced. My dad turned 18 in 1945, joined the Navy but was never sent anywhere before the war ended. My uncle, just a few years older, went and was never the same. He drank himself to an early grave. I think about them as teens, BOYS really, having to experience those horrors.

Then, after seeing Schindler's List, to think about what those poor people experienced. Even more horrific.

When I have a child, I'm requiring them to watch those two movies. I just think it's too important to ever forget.

[Shell Beau]

33. I agree with you. I will not rely on the schools to teach my

child about those events. It will certainly make you appreciate what you have.

[grace0418]

38. They really should be required viewing in high school, but you know

some parents would object (even though their kids are at home playing Doom and Grand Theft Auto).

[Shell Beau]

39. They absolutely should be required.

It is a great historical lesson!

[grace0418]

15. I cried for hours after it was over. I'm glad I didn't see it in

the theater. I just couldn't stop crying.

[Shell Beau]

16. It was horrific. Seeing what they went through!

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. It is for me one of the best movies ever made about WWII......

If not THE best....

I LOVED the scene near the end where he is given the ring which has the inscription "to save one life is to save the world entire" or something like that....

And he is weeping or nearly so, and saying how he could/should have saved more lives......

That scene always sticks in my memory.......

[Shell Beau]

21. Yeah, I bawled my eyes out there.

I thought Liam Neeson did a fab job. As did Ben Kingsley.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. OK. The Red Dress scene is for the emotion. For the mind, there's...

...Schindler trying to explain to Goeth what "real power" is -- that Goeth could deal life and death, but could only consider himself powerful if he dealt one or the other in a truly arbitrary fashion.

And later we see that Goeth is INCAPABLE of dealing anything but death. He has no real power -- he has lost his humanity long ago, which would be a prerequisite for having power. He is as rational as a rat carrying bubonic plague. At that moment you're seeing the "virus of Evil" under a microscope.

[Taverner]

23. Excellent description

And yes, that speech was pretty much the entire crux of the movie.

I loved Schindlers List, but think I can only see it once.

[MiniMandaRuth]

25. I saw it a few months ago.

I think that every teen should see it. But, it does haunt me.

Not just the red dress part, but when the kids are hiding from the Nazis in the camps... to think that kids my age were KILLED for no reason still haunts me.

[Shell Beau]

26. Kids hiding in the outhouse sewage. It hurt seeing that.

The desperation they all felt. The one armed man who was so thankful to be alive who was killed. The man who couldn't make enough hinges and the gun just wouldn't fire. The engineer woman who was only trying to help when she told them the foundation wouldn't hold who got shot for saying so. So many unbelievable moments. There is a special place in hell for those murderers.

[Tsiyu]

27. It is one of the best movies ever made

I had to watch it at home, too. :cry:

I always think of that red dress when someone mentions this film. And I always used to wonder how people could just let the Nazis get away with their atrocities.

These days I look around and I don't wonder.

[Love Bug]

29. The hardest movie to watch I've ever seen.

After that, I decided I am done with movies about genocide. I can't watch them anymore.

[Shell Beau]

30. I know what you mean. It is tough on the heart, but it

is so important. I know a girl who is 25 and had never heard the word Holocaust. Sure she knew about Hitler and knew about the atrocities, but had never learned that word. I was amazed. I am sure she isn't the only one either.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

32. It is a brutal film.

[kwassa]

34. Watch "Shoah" and "Night and Fog" for two powerful documentaries about

the Holocaust.

I find them more powerful that "Schindler's List", personally.

[Shell Beau]

35. I also want to see The Pianist.

[kwassa]

36. That is excellent

I think Polanski did as much as a fictional film maker can do to show the horror of the Warsaw Ghetto. He is an extremely smart film maker.

[Shell Beau]

37. I'll probably just buy it and add it to my collection. I have

heard it was a great film.

[kwassa]

40. It is definitely worth owning.