*SCHINDLER'S LIST* changed me forever | First Time Watching
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2023
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This movie is not only very important, it is a masterpiece. Steven Spielberg directed this so brilliantly. I don't even know how he did it. In respect to his work (I read after watching "The Holocaust was life without light. For me the symbol of life is color. That's why a film about the Holocaust has to be in black-and-white.") so my reaction was also done in B&W to honor him and the millions of Jewish people who's lives were lost.
Thank you for watching along with me
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ames
From what I understand, Robin Williams used to call Steven Spielberg often to get Spielberg laughing and lift his mood because this film was so difficult to make.
I believe your right! Robin Williams was able to lift up anyone’s spirit. He’s still able to with all his films.
I read this after!
Spielberg would call him in the middle of the night and say “make me laugh.”
“Ho Ho, I _hate_ my Ashbury in these jeans.”
@@holddownaas French. I watched this movie in High School. Our History made us to watch for a Work Topic
I was a theater manager when this came out. I made sure that the ushers knew not to enter the theater to clean it until the last moviegoer had left the auditorium so as not to disrespect them. It’s the only time I ever felt genuinely proud of what I did for a living.
Ce film rend hommage, non pas à Oskar Schindler, mais à ceux qu'il a sauvé. C'est un grand homme, mais les rescapés ont vraiment vécus l'enfer. Juifs, Chrétiens, Musulmans, peut importe. Qui sauve une vie sauve l'Humanité toute entières.
Always take pride in a job well done, Charles…like the job you did that day.
my respect, sir!
Very astute of you.
What you did was a genuinely beautiful thing.
That scene when he looks at his possessions and he counts how many more he could have saved always gets me.
Kills me
@@holddowna
"Oh Stern, I've thrown away so much money... if only you knew... sooo much money..."
"One person... one more person... He would have given me one more person for that..."
Worst part is it's true. He lived with that regret and mentioned it often until the day he died.
Yeah Schindler was at least some beacon of light in that dark history of Germany. Iam from Germany myself and this movie is one of my most favorite. Btw one fun fact about the name Schindler. It is coming from the German word „schinden“ what you can translate to „grind“ something in a bad way. And that’s what has often been done inside the cententration camps. People were grinded down by hard work with no food or water until they just fall down dead.
I mention this because I find it a little sarcastic that someone , that’s name is Schindler „grinder“ , has done everything to save life’s he was meant to kill.
“One more person, for this”
It’s hitting him hard how a single precious life was basically being priced for something as small as a pin.
That last scene with the real people walking alongside the actors to deposit the stones on his grave really gets me every time...reminds you that this is not fictional but very very real
very good point, all of it is after all a movie and all the horror we can see is just acted, but when the real survivors appear you realize that all of it happened
yeah but aamon brutality is way more than you could imagine its just a bit in the movie for the viewers to think that it happened
You can help but cry in Shindler's List b/c this was all true and it was very powerful and Liam Nesson was great as Oscar Shindler'
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire" is such a beautiful line
Look arround.... i CANT be the only person who always thinks about this line.... The world how it is is SO effd up that we just ignore ppl dying from absolut poverty and stuff.... some days this feeling overwhelms me alot these days...
@@nichtdiemamattv You can give of yourself until there's nothing left, you aren't going to stop suffering. Suffering is what makes life have meaning.
@@stevem7192No, it’s not. It may be what gives your life meaning but joy, grace, compassion, kindness, love, redemption.
People are diverse and we each have a different view of what gives life meaning. And no one person’s view is true for the rest of us.
That line reminds me of the Bible, because god give his son to the world as sin offering and take beating and dies for our sins and have eternal life! I love Jesus.
@@AngeloBarovierSD but he makes a valid point imho. Can you imagine a world without suffering? we would not feel human.
'I could've got one more person, and I didnt!'.
That line hits me hard every time.
that hits all of us hard.. i was tearing up just watching these little snippets
I guess we never realize we could do better than we did... while we're doing it. Only later, in retrospect... Let's hope we do enough. We could do worse than enough, couldn't we?...
I am afraid that anyone in his life will come across something like this. Doctors, lawyers, firefighters, etc. And they will always think back to that something they could have done more, but have not done (even if for valid reasons).
😢I agree. When I seen that I could not stop crying
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do” - Voltaire.
Schindler did all he could once he faced the awful truth of what was happening around him.
Not in the film, but the Schindlers were indeed captured by French nationals and showed the letter to them. The group's interpreter read it, burst into tears, and after he translated it to the others, they were so touched that they let the Schindlers go.
the funny part is Schindler didn't even write it lol
@@gew43 - what's your point?
nothing just funny to me@@Davelakful
@@gew43 - how do you know? Please don't state bs without substantive proof.
its well known most people know this@@Davelakful
they literally said this in school?
Ralph Fiennes met a Jewish woman, Mila Pfefferberg, whom was one of the people Schindler helped save when she was young. She was working as an advisor on the film set. He looked so much like Amon Goth in his costume that the woman was instantly struck with fear and nearly broke down in Spielberg's arms when Fiennes was explaining why it was so great to meet her.
It shows you how convincing Fiennes is in this role, particularly when he puts on his uniform.
She appears at the final scene (40:53).
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,”I didn’t know people could do that to other people.”
Magnificent.
What's that Patton quote about the wrong enemy?
My Uncle Roger told us kids about a pile of baby shoes that went clear to the ceiling of one of those buildings.
What platoon? Company? If you could find out, I would love to know my grandfather and my great uncle was also at that camp. I supposedly have the Nazi flag that came from there. He said they killed about 16 nazis they found after making them dig their own grave. He was part of a forward artillery scouting mission throughout the war. Elbert Tinney and Kenneth Bates were their names
@@davidtinney9463 they were traitor golem brother killers
RIP Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 - October 9, 1974), aged 66
You will be remembered as a legend and a hero.
Not enough is ever said about John Williams' incredible score. Half the impact of the final scene is in the music..
John Williams was amazed by the film, and felt it would be too challenging. He said to Spielberg, "You need a better composer than I am for this film." Spielberg responded, "I know.
@@AndysEastCoastAdventures Spielberg actually responded "I know, but they're all dead."
Correct. If I remember right he said ‘I know, but they’re all dead now’. Spielberg walked around the grounds listening to the main theme that John wrote. And wept.
Our community band here in Sudbury Canada plays a moving concert band arrangement of the theme from Schindler's List. One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written...
Agreed. In fact, people never say enough about a film’s score - I believe it’s one of the most important aspects of a great film. (Score, not soundtrack)
So I am german. We had history classes, and, ehr, history classes in germany is not exactly a walk in the park. But it´s all numbers and lists and text, and the occasional image. Then "Schindlers List" came out, and the city played it in the town hall for school classes, and all the 8th grade classes went there, including us.
That hit hard.
The movie made it so much more relatable, and made us realize just how unearthly terrible and ugly and awful it was, how humans were treated. This, for me, is what "Hell on Earth" means. We were very silent on our way back. But I am very grateful we went. I don´t know if I would have gone to the cinema to watch it, but after we made the school trip, I knew that was a movie I needed to see. I mean...it was our grandparents who lived through that time, one way or another. Things you need to wrap your head around.
Thank you for sharing your story with us!
@@holddowna thank you for your video, and for sharing your reactions. It made me relive the movie. I think I got something in my eye..... Thank you.
@@holddowna “The Boy in Striped Pajamas” is also another worthwhile WW2 movie as well. I hope perhaps you’ll see this and check that movie out if you’ve not already watched that one. :)
That certainly is worth a watch. I'd recommend 'The Grey Zone' if you haven't seen it too. Also possibly the best, definitely the most accurate WW2 film, 'Downfall', you won't regret it.@@jakekyser8392
Will it help you at all to know what I have come to believe? I truly think that if any of us found ourselves in that time and place, few of us would behave any differently. That is true whether born a German or a Jew. When I was a child I had some notion that nazis were evil creatures from outer space. I am 70 now and know better. Nazis were human beings like everyone else. People do dreadful things under pressure so none of us has any reason to be smug or judgmental. It could happen again. All of humanity is capable. So it is up to each of us to stand our ground as firmly as we can and resist any tide that comes our way. I think Germans can take pride in their homeland. It is not often the world sees a nation rise again from the ash. It is less often that a country has the courage to acknowledge history without prevarication. I salute you. Love from the USA.
This is the appropriate reaction to Schindler's List. The world would be a better place if everyone had this much empathy.
The world would be a much better place if the Axis forces won world war two.
Most people have this much empathy. But empathy isn't everything.
@@traiascacodreanu4553 What exactly do you mean?
@@fulalbatross That empathy isn't all that it's made out to be. It's too simplistic of a view.
@@traiascacodreanu4553 Ok. And what is that supposed to mean in this specific context?
Thank you for not doing a casual reaction and for showing this masterpiece the respect it deserves.
Thanks for watching
Casual?
@@English_MoFo - some people may have a different reactions, all depends. Some people are not reacting emotionally to those kind of movies/history, or are not dealing well with emotions.
I saw this movie at a theater when it came out in 1993. I was 32 year old man at the time. I wept openly through most of it. The scenes with the child in the red coat affected me deeply, along with many other scenes of course. I was familiar with what had happened during the war, but this movie made me feel it. It honestly moved me to try to be a better person. Every day. I am 62 years old now and I still include words in my daily prayers to remind myself of the evil that men may do if no one is willing to step forward and make a difference. There may not be a better filmed or more meaningful movie ever made
Absolutely
My grandmother had soldiers take over her house. Oma told me of that before this movie was made...so that's a hard scene to watch as depicted in the movie...she wouldn't speak of the other horrors.
Everyone remembers the girl in the red dress, against the black and white scene really brings it out
I have watched this movie about 10 times by now. I still cry like a child. I don't think I'll ever be able not to cry. It's... impossible.
was really hard to edit
I defy anyone NOT to cry at this movie. If you dont then you are broken!
I watched it once, and it took so much out of me, I doubt I'd have the strength to watch it again. May all their memories be for a blessing.
I bawled for a good five minutes in that final scene... Absolutely lost it. My wife hasn't seen it yet, but I am working up the strength to watch it again (it has been five ish years since I first saw it). I think she might cry even more than I did.
@@Aboz - agree. Only watched once and will never watch again since so painful. Glad it was reviewed so people are aware.
They really had to tone down Goeth as he was such a monster other nazis and SS soldiers were horrified by his brutality.
Ralph Fiennes playing Amon Goeth took time in between takes to comfort the Schindler Jews on set as his performance, mannerisms and likeness actually caused severe panic attacks in some. He truly was the devil. If you ever were to watch footage of him its truly insane how well Fiennes performed him.
I’ll have to watch thank for ur comment
I looked up the history of Brunnlitz camp (Schindlers last factory) and the commandant there , Josef Leipold , was actually executed for war crimes in 1949 as he had been brutal at previous camps.
Inheritance (2006) is a documentary about his daughter and one of the women that worked in Goeth's house. Somewhat in the vein of What Our Fathers Did (2015) with children and grandchildren of Nazi leadership. They still don't show the total horror of what was done.
There is a film on CZcams about the meeting between the daughter of the devil Amon Goethe and the woman who worked as a maid for Goethe. Actually, there were two maids - not just Helen. But they only used one character for the movie. It's actually appalling how traumatizing it must be for someone to be the daughter of such a monster. Although Goethe's daughter practically did not experience her terrible father and certainly could not remember him. But I am convinced that everyone bears sin. only for their own action
@@davidbroz6755 *Goeth
(don't mix him up with Goethe, who was a famous poet)
Wow....just wow! The silent ending of this video spoke louder than any commentary could ever have. It drew tears from me as much as the movie did. Well done. Well done indeed.
Thank u. I couldn’t speak after this nor did I have to. I felt I could write my feelings later than try and articulate them. Thanks for watching
@@holddowna No worries...when I saw this movie in theater, back in 1993., when we walked out after the movie, NOBODY WAS TALKING! There was a completely silence, and there was over 200 people... Greetings from Croatia, from a 55 years old movie collector...
This is the movie to point to when people challenge the war. When then General Eisenhower saw the camps he ordered cameras, pictures, written accounts and survivor statements, cuz he knee some day someone with too much air in their skull would claim this all never happened.
It is so easy for younger generations to read the "Holocaust" and see the numbers. It's a so much harder a moment when faced with a glimpse into the reality. I watched this movie in memory of my neighbor who had his number tattoo on his arm and only dim memories of the family he lost as a child in the camp. Thank you for sharing this.
"It is so easy for younger generations to read the "Holocaust" and see the numbers. It's a so much harder a moment when faced with a glimpse into the reality."
Yeah, that perfectly sums up my (and I'm sure many people's) reaction to getting a glimpse into one of THE worst atrocities in human history. I've read about and studied a little bit about the Holocaust in high school History class. In fact, during my freshman year, we were required to read Eli Whitney's, 'Night,' which was my first literary peek into what happened, firsthand by a survivor. The book only gave me a little more insight- I still haven't read it since; But this film is what really pounded the final nail into the coffin in showing just how terrifying and horrifyingly atrocious the Holocaust and the Final Solution really was...
Amon Goeth is literally one of the worst humans in the history of humans. I did a research paper about him in my 11th grade history through film class... he was terrible human being. Deserved every once of what he got and more. I absolutely love this movie and the dedication to tell the darkest historical events of our time.. it was phenomenal to watch and learn about.
He was embezzling from camp , If Schindler knew that would explain why he got him out of trouble.
At the end of the war, he was in jail. For the mistreatment of his subordinates and potentially facing the death penalty for embezzlement
You see, how terrible he was, even if his portrail in the movie is "incorrect".
Spielberg once said (meaning not word for word) "Goeth is the only fictional part of this movie. Because we had to scale him down, by A LOT! If he had shown, what Goeth did in real life, noone would have bought it, people would have said "thats a cartoon evil character" We had to show a "realistic" portion of evil" Thats heavy... Also the daughter of Goeth, until this movie came out, she didnt know what her father had done. She once went into the cinema to see this movie, after a jewish friend had asked about her last name and was horrified. She went into the cinema and said something like "Ralph Finnes was phenomenal, even before his characters name was said, the moment i looked at him, i knew, this was my dad. The way my mother had described him, i just knew"
@@thomasnieswandt8805 - Ralph Fiennes was so good as Goethe that Helen Hirsch had a panic attack when she visited the set and met him.
I watched this movie in class in the the 6th grade because I had a teacher who thought it was important for us to see and understand just how cruel things can get when people forget their humanity. Not an easy thing at all to think about or see.
You don't learn from the past by hiding from it, you learn from the past by confronting it head-on and learning from those mistakes, to ensure they never happen again. That is why we should not hide from what we have done, we should own up to it in order to move forward, not pretend it never happened.
We see it today to , how cruel it can get when a state get away with Apartheid and Killing of Palestinians every day , so we should talk more on why it happened and that it can happen to not only Jewish People in 1930-40"s Germany. Then truly we can say "never again".
@@erikalulea3608 unfortunately they (overall, not individually) feel what they went through gives them an excuse to do it to others as if by some sort of divine retribution. Which also happens to be exactly how the Germans justified it as well.
What’s really incredible is they toned down the violence and insanity of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels. I read that it was said not only would it make the film more difficult to view, but also that people would not believe he could be that cruel and sadistic.
I also saw thus movie in 6th or 7th grade. They also brought in a holocaust survivor in to talk about it
The part where Schindler says: ‘I could have got more out’ that line always fills me with tears.
And now history is trying to repeat itself. This should be played in every school!
Thanks for watching
@@holddowna sorry that I just saw this. You're very welcome, friend. Happy Thanksgiving.
Remember the evil that one man can do.....Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Putin, .......
It was over and over all through my youth, the ONLY thing we were repeatedly told was how bad the Jews were treated but when I found out more non Jews were killed and how many non Jews died to SAVE the Jews my opinion changed. Bolsheviks (mostly Jews) murdered tends of millions of White European Christians in Eastern Europe and it was NEVER mentioned in school.
History not remembered tends to repeat itself. Please listen carefully for words of hate and division spoken by politicians. Do not take freedom for granted. Vote wisely.
I lost six family members in the camps. Thank you for reacting to this movie!
I’m so sorry for your loss! Thank you so much for watching
Cap
@@dennissheckleburg9775Cap my ass, I lost a full third of my dad's side of the family. I wouldn't be so flippant with accusations like the the one you've leveled
I gave you a thumbs up, but I cannot watch this movie.
My great-grandmother was in one, and I've been to Dachau.
Thank you, and I'll await your next reaction...
In HS we had to interview a veteran or someone who lived through WW2 and write a paper. I talked with my grandmother.
It was one of the best assignments I had.
It's too bad we aren't able to give that assignment any longer.
Such a heart felt reaction ❤ Here in the Netherlands this movie is shown in history class at high schools..I think it should be in every country 💫
I agree!
Pretty sure its part of the curriculum in some kind of subject in school here in Norway as well these days.
I was already 18 by the time this movie was released.
In my state of Washington; the Holocaust (not World War II, just the holocaust) was an entire semester of my junior year, this movie was part of the curriculum which the parents had to sign a waver to allow us to watch due to the graphic depictions. It was shown over a 3-day period in the auditorium with the entire junior class in attendance. I never seen a room of teenagers so quiet.
@@joeldykman7591 What age is that? Here in Norway the movie got a 15+ restriction. Might have been 16 back then as the rating brackets got changed at some point.
@Gazer75 juniors in high school in the US are typically 16-17. The US has its own rating system, and this movie definitely was rated R (for restricted). An R rating means 18+ or older or adult supervision, hence the need for the waiver.
I had to Google it, because I had read or heard something about a survivor on the set for this film, and I found this.
When Holocaust survivor Mila Pfefferberg met Ralph Fiennes - the British actor who won a Bafta award for his portrayal of Goeth in Schindler’s List - she shook with fear on the film set, so close was the likeness.
The last scene at the Schindler's cemetery gets me every time. You should definitely watch "the pianist". Another masterpiece...
Calling it a movie doesn't do it justice. It is a masterpiece by which other masterpieces will be judged.
There are movies, and there are films... this was definitely a FILM!
This is history. Hollywood did their best to glorify it of course. We are forgetting history we are repeating history. It's coming just wait.
@@davidcollver6155True words have never been spoken!
It just isn't though is it
Of all the great films Steven Spielberg has made, this is the one he chose to submit to meet his Student Film requirement when he finally returned to college to finish his much delayed degree in film. To me that speaks volumes.
I cannot say I've seen any of your reactions before this one. However, the true reverence and pure empathy you display in the face of even fictionalized versions of such atrocities (that were likely far more deplorable in reality) has earned you another subscriber. We shall remember together.
Thank u for the sub, I really appreciate it!
What I like about the movie Schindler's List he's not portrayed as a hero originally he just wants to make money and own a business and later on becomes a hero and also he was a complicated man by no means perfect he was a regular man who did incredible things kind of like a message to the rest of us
When I watched this movie, at the end, everyone stood up, but no one left. No one said a word. Some wept, others just stood with their heads down. We sat there for at least 15 minutes. In 52 years, I’ve never seen or experienced anything like that before or since. A masterpiece. Horrifying, but a masterpiece.
38:39 "I... could have got more."
And _this_ is the part that always gets to me. I've seen this movie _over_ and _over_ again and _no_ part breaks me down like the part where Oskar regrets that he failed to do _even more._
Probably THE most powerful scene in cinema history. The culmination of a personal journey of a man who made a complete arc from sleezy criminal to a hero.
I know some reviewers hated that scene and thought it was classic Spielberg being overly sentimental. But personally tears were just streaming down my face during that scene when I saw it in the theater.
Same
Same. Liam Neeson's acting in the whole movie is brilliant and in the end, at that scene, he just breaks me (as if the whole movie didn't break me).
I remember watching this in the theater when it was first released. Afterward, in the restroom, there were a lot of guys whose "allergies" were suddenly bothering them. A high-impact masterpiece that does indeed change you. great reaction. peace.
Spielberg did this film for free. You did a really good job reviewing this true story the won a bunch of Oscars. This movie always make me cry as you did.
I'm 60 and still don't know everything. I was lucky that my grandparents left Europe in 1900. I grew up knowing people who survived the Holocaust.
Steven Spielberg said that he actually made Amon Goeth softer, because he did such really brutal and nasty things, he was afraid that the audience would think he (Spielberg) made it up. Can you image?
“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.”
Your reaction to the one armed man saying God Bless you to Schindler was genuinely one of the most powerful reaction moments I’ve ever seen.
That part goes unnoticed by all other reactors
He was sooo sweet thank u for watching
What was the timestamp for that scene?
@@eXcommunicate1979 07:56
@Bringmethehorizondude - the move is full of such small details.
For example, at the end, we can see the hand that is putting the red roses on the grave. It is Liam Neeson's hand...
I couldn't remeber the details so I googled it:
"When survivor Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes on the set, she began shaking uncontrollably, as he reminded her too much of the real Amon Göth."
50 years after the events took place.
A cinematic masterpiece. This movie set a bar so high it may never be reached again. The small details like the train whistles, the crackling leather jacket, performances of a lifetime by legendary actors, black and white. I can go on and on. There is a reason this is on most top 10 lists. To me, a movie above all others
As a grandchild of holocaust survivors. I never had the courage to watch Schindler's List. Watching it with you as you said. Made it easier. Even though I knew what happen at the camps. It doesn't make it any easier to watch. I went to the Jewish Memorial in Miami. It's gut wrenching and very sad to see all the suffering. I digress, that's for the video.
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I've both read the book and watched the movie. The book was easier, but still gut wrentching.
@@SanctusPaulus-ic5glfrom the jews
@@heathercontois4501You're a sucker for fiction. 🤡
@@BrianEscobar26You're some special kind of dumb, aren't you? Show respect
One of those films I always recommend to people. Not just an exceptionally well made film, but also a history lesson the world must never stop teaching.
Very true and the USA doesn’t realise how dangerously close to the Nazi line they are right now.
There is life before watching this movie & then there is life after watching it. You will never be the same, it changes you. Such a masterpiece…
The way you ended this reaction is truly perfect. Words can not begin to explain what we all watched, nor convey our feelings either. Thank you for taking on this important movie. May we never forget.
Always love the end bit when he fully realizes that he could have done more and let so many people down. Such a stark epiphany to have
We always realize in our lives we could have done better in retrospect. If only we knew what would happen afterward... Sometimes I think, all we can hope for is that what we do is enough. Because, after all, we could do worse than enough, couldn't we?...
The most important movie ever made. Seen this numerous times and I still can never speak once it's over.
"I didn't do enough." That line always gets me...😢
I don't care what people say if you don't cry at this film you're heartless!! No matter how many times I watch it I still cry at the part where he departs the camp
Bravo on you for taking this movie on and doing it publicly! A lot of people just can't make it through it. You're reactions are genuine and thoughtful and after a couple of vids now you got another sub.
Wow thanks for the sub ❤️
Thanks for the bare naked, honest reaction. Yes, it's a very difficult watch but essential for all to see. Realize the reality of things that happened were FAR FAR FAAAAR more horrific, sickening, barbaric, heartless and vicious than the movie exposed.
The holocaust rabbit hole is a dark path
@@morbidangel2424 - very, especially when you realize that some atrocities are still taking place, wars are happening, and whole ecosystems are destroyed - and most of the time all is done in the name of greed, profit, and the next year stock market price... or simply for the geo-political power/influence in some region of the world.
@@tannhauser5399 don't think soliders are using babies as target practice,don't think surgeries are being preformed on them sometimes with out any drugs and sent back to work
I watched this for the first time in 6th grade, almost 14 years ago. Many of the parents of my classmates didn’t want them to watch it and there ended up only being 7 or 8 out of 30 students who watched it. I was one of them, and I’m forever grateful to my mother who felt it was required to watch in order to understand and most importantly: NOT TO FORGET. It was absolutely one of the most influential moments of my childhood,helped shape me into the man I am today. I’m sure it was the Same for all of us who watched it that day.
Damn 6th grade is far too early for this movie. When I was in 6th grade Deathly Hallows 2 came out and we weren’t allowed to watch it in class 😅
13:50 very dangerous situation, at all because his salute was an polish one, with two fingers -means he could be an Veteran. German soldiers didn't recognize it.
I remembered when they played this on network TV uncut and uncensored as a special presentation a very powerful film.
That is powerful
On german television it is shown without commercial breaks, so it doesn't lose its power
The written text you added at the end of the Movie was spot on and very well put.
One of the greatest films ever made
I like the lady reacting. She is kindhearted and I can see her sadness and pain in her eyes like she was there herself. She feels it now. WWII. The Nazi's. Hitler. My grandma was only 4 years old during this war and they had to eat cats to survive. I am from the Netherlands. I salut the Dutch resistance, the German soldiers who helped the jews and others to hide under the ground in houses for shelter. This war is the most horrifying of all. It is the way human beings were treated, exhausted, humiliated, raped, tortured, gassed, executed by gunfire and abused in every disgusting way possible. Bless the world for saving us to give back our selfrespect and our freedom till this day. Thank you. 🙏 And thank you for this lady that is in the video with her pure emotions. I am sorry you had to watch this, but it is the terrible truth of what once happened long time ago. We will never forget. Peace and love for everybody. May you all stay safe 🙏
I was in high school when this came out, and at that point, Spielberg was primarily seen as Jaws, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, etc. a filmmaker for light hearted escapist stuff. This flick was absolutely pulverizing. Another film that he made that hits these emotional heights is “Munich,” a masterpiece on the costs of seeking vengeance. It got overshadowed because it got released the same time as Brokeback Mountain and Crash, but is a powerful story.
It doesn't matter how many times I've watched this film, I always cry at the end. Especially wh3n Schindler breaks down.
My grandfather helped liberate a concentration camp... I can't imagine the horrors he must've witnessed..
Your grandfather was a hero. God bless him.
That scene where Schindler breaks down and the people all move in to comfort him always brings me to tears. He was definitely a scoundrel in so many ways, but this he got absolutely right and it was a great good.
Thank you for caring. This movie, and the message you send in showing it and reacting to it, should never be forgotten. I lost relatives in Europe during the war, and see such hatred continue. These acts of kindness and compassion which you have remind us all what it means to be human.
Every human being should watch this film. ( I loved your sincere, respectful and heartfelt reaction)
N9, people should learn history from history books, not from Hollywood movies, movies won't teach you history as it is
@@agolona2734 History (books) is, has and always will be written by the victors. There's no guarntee that 'history books' are accurate.
Besides, I never said (or implied) that this film should replace the study of history.
I think it's a cinematic masterpiece and it was in that regard I was making the suggestion.
@musicloverchiefsfan5410 Still on this world you can find good and real history sources. My issue is that people watching Hollywood movies and believe in everything what they see. Oscar Shindler in that movie is shown as a good human being , even his wife said that he wasn't. There were more better examples of good Germans ( actually not many of them) as him. Hollywood is last placenwhich should make history movies.
I don't know how it is nowdays but back when I was in school everybody watched it in school (I'm from germany)
I remember watching the people coming out of the theater. Looked like a funeral procession. My neighbor, his Army Unit liberated a Concentration Camp and my Father was a guard at the Nuremberg War Trials.
Your warm heart and your reaction is so genuine and touching that I cried at the movie and I cried at how you fought your way through this masterpiece of a movie. Thanks for your empathy and your important contribution to this black history that will never be forgotten.
Stumbled onto your channel and never saw you before. Now this movie is a monumental masterpiece, no doubt. But I am so impressed by your willingness to show your pure emotion and empathize with the people who had to endure these monstrosities.
First of all thank you for your amazing reaction to this important film.
The cousin of my wife's grandfather was the jeweler who made the ring that was given to Schindler at the end of the film. One of his secretaries was a member of my synagogue that I grew up going to. Schindler's Jews were/are eternally grateful for all he did. The invited him to weddings and other family milestones.
Schindler's Jews were not just generous then at the end of the war. When Schindler could not support himself they raised funds that helped him survive. They also paid to transport and bury his body in Jerusalem. He is the only Nazi party member buried in Israel.
There were some changes made to the historical record during the making of this film. First the showers would never have been confused with a gas chamber. It was open air. Second, Stern is the combination of about 3 different men. 3rd Goethe was worse then portrayed. He was toned down to make him more believable. Finally, Schindler was in jail during both the making of the list and getting the woman out of Auschwitz.
@@highcountrydelatite yes but the the character in the movie was a combination of him and 2 or 3 other people.
This film has been and likely always will be the best film I have ever watched. Spielberg tapped into his muse on a legendary level to create something like this that transcends the medium. This is a masterful work of art, more an experience than simply a movie.
Even today, after seeing this film hundreds of times, I always need time to decompress after a viewing. I hope you had some time after as well. God bless!
I did I had a popsicle
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Some of the finest method acting master classes ever captured.. The intensity and integrity of the conversations between Oscar and Amon was spellbinding.. Some quid brilliant performances from Liam Raiph and Ben.. A very special film and an equally important one
That scene where he says goodbye to everyone is the scene that touches me the most. Even if I did not watch the full movie (I was a kid first time) I always cry at it. I remember and feel empathy for all those who suffered during the most inhumane time of humanity's history. I imagine the suffering and Oskar's sadness for not being able to save one more life.
The scene is so powerful! Thanks for watching
@@holddowna I have a (Jewish) friend who is very frustrated that, even in a Holocaust film with a Jewish director, the main cathartic moment goes to a non-Jew played by a non-Jewish actor...and in a scene that, according to Schindler Jews interviewed when it came out, was not something they witnessed or believe happened.
Cinematically, it's definitely powerful, and Neeson and Kingsley are amazing in the entire film. It's a powerful film to me for so may reasons, including the fact that Schindler was not a good man, not a good person, not a good businessman, not a good husband...after his failed post-war businesses, he lived mostly on the kindness and donations from Schindler Jews, and he sold the ring he was gifted for more schnaps...
And yet, despite all of that, for this brief, shining moment, at the greatest of risk, he did a beautiful, world-changing thing. His one great accomplishment was the greatest of accomplishments, the most extraordinary of things. The complexity of him as a human being, someone who did One Great Thing with his life--and really nothing before or after--but whose One Great Thing saved over 1100 people, resulting in (by now, over 30 years later) FAR more than 6000 descendants. Human beings are bafflingly inconsistent. What an AMAZING One Great Thing for someone to have done.
Thank you so much for sharing your response and your words with us.
There are few movie that every one must see at least once... This is one of it.
This film is for me a master piece, the apogee of the talent of Steven Spielberg and all his team.
May we never forget.
Thank you for watching and sharing your reaction to this. Such an important film.
Thank you for watching with me
The part that always get me is the lighting. At first Schindler is shot in the shadows and slowly his face is shot in light. Goeth is nearly always in dark. Hard to see in black and white, but once you notice it, you see the beauty in the macabre, the horrific and the downright evil.
What happened to the guns when the hinge maker was going to be killed is actually a clever way of showing Goeth is not a soldier. Both the standard officer pistol and the Czech copy of the Browning he switches to require a clean mechanism to fire... Because he used his weapon often to shoot people for no reason, its unlikely he ever actually cleaned it - hence the jamming.
Plus, the Browning copy was prone to jams in cold weather
If I could embrace you, I would. Thank you for reacting to this important film. It is Steven Spielberg's best film. Nothing has ever come close.
Great reaction like always, everytime i watch this masterpiece of cinema i cry, its so emotional and touching. 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."
Keep up the good work.
Your reaction really touched me deeply. As a german I have seen this movie 20 years ago in school. It was devastating.
Thanks for watching!
This is such a solemn movie. I really appreciate the ending where it tells the story of an deeply flawed man who failed in other things but who rose to the challenge at one point his life and did something truly great.
That was a classy ending. Not doing a wrap-up was highly respectful.
The subject matter is tough and this was a great movie to cover it.
History should be studied...all of it, the highs and the lows so that we may never repeat the lows and strive to reach higher than our previous highs.
To be better humans than those that came before us, we must know their history as we make our own.
This needs to be a top pinned comment!!!
@@Raelynn-nl5rd Thanks, yo. I just say it like I see it.
1:06 He is not very wealthy, in the scene before you can see him going through his home to find as much money as he could, he basically gambled and spent almost all his money on that one night in order to make military contacts, it was a gamble that paid off since he was able to get the contracts later on with those contacts he made that night.
I had a great grandfather that helped liberate Buchenwald. I was young when he passed but my father always told me stories what my great grandfather told him. Every time I watch this movie, I can’t imagine the horrors that went on in the camps
Thank you for shining a light on this masterpiece. I knew it would tear me up again, but sometimes thats what we need to remember how cruel people can be if we stay complicit. Our emotions are important. May we never forget, and may we strive to be better humans.
This film is still shown today in many schools in Germany to educate and prevent forgetting.
@@slendrboiofficial778 At least we here in Austria are taught in school that it was Hitler who started the war by invading Poland. Also: What kind of national guilt are you talking about? The same guilt that every single russian should feel for invading Ukraine?
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@@user-mu7zn5iv5w The comment doesn't make a lot of sense, since the previous comment I was referring to was deleted ;)
The song the kids sing as they get on the trucks was a song my mom used to sing to us when we were children. She stopped after she saw this film.
Bless you for a touching and empathetic movie reaction to "Schindler's List." Your editing was exceptional, the black market and bribes were significant in Oskar Schindler's effort to save so many, your edits preserved that context.
Thank you for sharing your movie reaction with us.
Thank you for covering this film. It's very important that you did.
This was one of my mother's favorite movies to this day I still regret not watching it with her I only got to see it a couple years after she died and now I understand why she loved it and said it was a very important movie to be seen
The first time i saw this movie, i held it together the whole time..... Only to be so unprepared for the final grave scene that i lost it and burst into tears. So overwhelmed. I couldn't stop crying for a solid five minutes. Ended up having to pause the movie and then resume when i could see enough to continue (still leaking of course).
Such and incredible story and movie. 10/10 would recommend
You watching this vicariously was beautiful. I’ve seen this amazing film many times but through you I was able to feel it more again. Still do every time anyway but your reactions show your person. ❤️
I’m from Germany and 20 years old now and this movie will always remind me of one thing.
Like 6 years ago, back in Highschool we got this history teacher. She was the most strict teacher I’ve ever had. Never cracked a smile, always a straight face, always disciplined. She was like 55-60 years old atp.
But every year since this movie dropped she watched it with every single history class. We got her for 3 years I think and we watched it 3 times.
Every time we watched this movie she cried like a tittle baby. She probably watched the movie a hundred times before and she still cried every single time.
Makes me tear up till today every time I watch it
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I paused @ 17:15: You asked about the road stones; the Germans had the Jewish cemetary stones removed and made into roadstones to move on. You were moved when you saw the Jew remove the Mazuzah from his front door. I have watched many reactions to Schindlers List and very few people know why removing the Mazuzah is significant, you did. I appreciated your reaction to this great movie.
I read about the tombstones after … thanks for watching
I am always also moved when the man removes the mezuzah, kisses it, then brings it with him. The weight of him pausing while Nazi soldiers are rushing them out of their home is, to me, so important. I hope it was one of the many real stories that Spielberg put into the film and, if so, I hope that, for the many families in the ghetto accommodations, they were able to put the mezuzah into their doorway again for a time.
Its even impossible to watch an edited reaction to this film and not get choked up. Loved it.
Got it shown in history class and from that day on it lives rent free in my head, im 25 now. Normally im not that emotional, especially when it comes to movies. But that movie broke me and im not emberassed about it. For me personally one of the hardest movies i ever had to watch which i didnt rewatch since back in the day i first watched it. Just the thought of that shit actually happening, it been done by germans like i am one though im not 100% german since my grandma was romanian, just fills me with fear. And im not lying, if theres a movie im impressed by, but afraid as hell of its shindlers list.
You were quiet when it was respectful and so incredibly empathetic. This was a beautiful reaction and thank you for not saying anything at the end. I had the same reaction. I couldn't say anything for a long while.
This is the only film I've ever experienced that I was speechless at the end. Even as I cried, I couldn't make a sound.
I watched this movie once in a theater and couldn't watch your reaction since movie so painful, but thank you for reviewing.
It’s a hard one! I cry the whole time
I myself am not jewish as I am adopted, but my uncle is and he had his own uncle who lived through the Holocaust. His uncle was just a boy who watched his family shot over a river, and he was the only survivor. He doesn't really talk about it much, unless we mention it in family gathers, but it really does come like a brick smacking your face. The fact that there are still survivors, family members not so long ago who lived and survived this horrific event really brings into reality, the things you read in the history books. It makes the history you learn so real and makes me appreciate and respect it more.
I remember what my grandmother says about this days. Reality was much more brutal and evil . Many things in the film were toned down
Yeah, I have actually seen some old footage allies produced as they went trough the camps after Germany lost and it's just insane. That said, I think film did really well, and honestly just the amount of absolute violence and brutality would actually distract from the story.
Loved the way you edited this video. The film speaks for itself, what else can anyone say?
As far as I know, every Student gets to see this Movie in School (I did and every other I know too), I believe in the 6th or 7th Grade. The first time I saw it, I couldn't even really figure out what I just saw, but i, in an instant, wished I could have done anything for people then and people around me nowadays. I see this Movie, this Story, as a Sign to, whenever we can, do something good. As the Quote that every time breaks a little Piece of me says: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire"
We as German watch this Film in scool now ;not long after he came out
And I do have the DVD and we all cry in cinema first watching😭 NEVER FORGET
Don‘t forget that it’s an american movie…Hollywood! I think you know what i want to tell you…
@@moho3060 yes but it can't be wrong to be emotional seen that and knowing thats far to close to the truth 😥
I remember seeing this as a kid with my parents in theatres, and it was so moving. Seen it countless times since. A few years they released it in theatres again and I got a group together, several friends who had never seen it… not a dry eye in the house.