Schindler's List

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I watched Schindler's List last night for the first time! And omg! :eek:

I have always been interested in what went on during the Holocaust but I was still really disturbed at this film! I watched the film on my own as my hubbie is away at the moment and I found myself talking to the TV! Especially when I saw the part where the women ended up at Auswitz instead of Brunnlitz, I shouted ' omg thats Auswitz!'

Im really quite moved by the whole thing! :cry:

I'm just interested on what other peoples views are on this film?
 
I think Schindler's List is an amazing film.

I'm very surprised you have only recently just seen it for the first time. I was 16 when I first saw it. I went to a late screening of it at our local cinema, and it's stayed with me ever since. It's a very powerful, moving picture.
 
It was just one of those films that I just didn't get around to watching! I wish I had watched it earlier now! And I will definately be watching it again!
 
The first time i watched this was in History when i was about 12. we were all made to watch it as part of our course.

i think this is easily one of the best films of all time, and one that should be watched in schools.

i love the scene at the end with the stones on the grave.
 
I had to watch it in a history lesson as well. I don't really remember much of it though - I wish I knew it was going to be on last night, I only realised when it had finished! :mad:
 
how funny i watched it on dvd last week for the first time since it was at the cinema

its incredible

the scene where the children are all driven off to be gassed is devastating

i think the 3 principal characters are amazing. ralph fiennes...that bit where he attempts to be 'nice' with his maid and enRAB up beating her..

the only thing that i feel lets it down is the girl in the red coat. totally unnecessary i feel - the holocaust was appalling, they didnt need to highlight them killing just one child, it almost trivialised everything else - 'not only did they murder millions BUT THEY KILLED A SMALL GIRL TOO!!'

i find the last scenes with the real people and the actors incredibly moving too
 
the girl in the red coat was just a device to help the audience empathise more.

same thing in titanic - by telling us the story of Jack and Rose come the ending (which we all knew anyway), it becomes mre powerful than just seeing hundreRAB of nameless people drown.

it's a fantastic bit of cinema tho' - can't believe they gave Tom Hanks the oscar that year.

Iain
 
I watched this on the opening night at the Empire Leicester square, and what an amazing experience that was.

Back in those days the Empire had a laser show before each performance to make every presentation more of an event. For Schindler's however, they dropped all this out of respect. I'll never forget the stunned silence at the end of the film and during the end credits, for which everyone stayed.
 
yeah everyone was quiet when i saw it too

re girl in red coat - yes i know why he did it, i just felt it was unnecessary. i dont think anyone needed that to emphasise with what was going on!
 
Spielberg made it a condition of the TV rights that no one - not even NBC in America (or ITV over here) - can show it on TV with commercial interruptions or any cuts, including the end credits. I always felt the fact that the Amblin Entertainment logo is absent pretty much sums up how powerful the movie is - no Elliott and E.T. riding by the Moon, just the worRAB "From Amblin Entertainment." Anything else would have seemed wrong somehow.
 
Definitely Spielberg's finest film. I watched this a month or two back on DVD, hadn't seen it in a while. It's still fresh and just as shocking.

Just amazing all around really. And the acting is superb, from everyone.
 
I actually read the Thomas Keneally book for A'level english some years before the film was made, and the girl in the red coat is mentioned there.

I find it a very powerful and emotional film, and can't watch it without crying.
 
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