In 2012, the number of descendants of the Schindlerjuden was updated from the 6,000 stated in this 1993 film to over 8,500. That line "There will be generations because of what you did" is no exaggeration.
@sianne79
3 жыл бұрын
10,300 now
@synagogueofsteak5006
3 жыл бұрын
@@sianne79 Look at the descendants of the 669 children saved by Nicholas Winton. Dwarfs Schindler.
@speedygonzales7147
3 жыл бұрын
@@synagogueofsteak5006 no it does not dwarf his achievement. I can name you a dozen other man and women going against the regime saving hundreds of lifes. This is not at all a competition. But you are right the others must be named too like Paul Grüninger, Hans Georg Calmeyer, Gilberto Bosques, Hans von Dohnanyi, Angelo Donati, Kálmán Ferenczfalvi, Irene Gut Opdyke, Rudolf Kasztner, Dimitar Peschew (48000 saved!), Gerhard Schmidhuber, Aristides de Sousa Mendes and many many more. Oskar Schindler was one of the most at risk persons due to the fact he was so close to the regime and saved thousands of lives who couldn't be reached by no one else anymore but even those who saved only one of them and have not been named anywhere are giants and not at all by any meaning something like dwarfing each other.
@tube1062
3 жыл бұрын
@@speedygonzales7147 Let's not forget Raoul Wallenberg's achievements en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg
I love that when Spielberg asked John Williams to score this, Williams saw the draft cut, broke down and told Spielberg he needed a better composer. Spielberg replied, yes, but they’re all dead. Implying that he thought Williams was the greatest living composer.
@Henricque80
2 жыл бұрын
Wow... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@hornerinf
2 жыл бұрын
True
@theblindjedi41
Жыл бұрын
And he was right. No one but John Williams could have done this justice with the music.
@jp3813
Жыл бұрын
@@sophiamarchildon3998 Look up the video "John Williams accepts the 44th AFI Life Achievement Award".
@jp3813
Жыл бұрын
@@tiffaniterris2886 🤦♂This score is so iconic & widely revered that its quality isn't even debatable anymore. And nobody in their right mind would've picked Zimmer to score a holocaust film in the early 90s.
@Darkswordz
2 жыл бұрын
"I could have gotten one more person, and I didn't." That line always gets me right in the heart. Very powerful movie.
@matthewganong1730
2 жыл бұрын
It hits hard because it’s watching a man realize that every life is priceless.
@soranraina4391
2 жыл бұрын
I cry everytime i see that
@xtldc
2 жыл бұрын
@@soranraina4391 me too
@RideAcrossTheRiver
2 жыл бұрын
When Stern shakes his head in surprise and then forgiveness.
@VivyTheHuntress
2 жыл бұрын
Even just thinking about that scene makes me emotional. Just incredible acting.
@illiterateno2
2 жыл бұрын
Robin Williams would often call Spielberg during the production of this movie and would make him laugh to cheer him up. Yet another reason why I will forever love Robin.
@rayreyes5405
6 ай бұрын
I met Mr. Williams a few times back in the 90s. Super nice guy in person. I still miss him.
@Jim87_36
4 ай бұрын
Forever and always the goat. RIP Mr. Williams
@heyitsmemg7494
3 жыл бұрын
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
@jthomann71
3 жыл бұрын
I believe the ring drop was accidental and included for realism. The girl in the red coat was based on a real girl, Roma Ligocka, though she did survive the war.
@merchillio
3 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad they used that visual technique. “A death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic”. The human brain cannot comprehend a mountain of bodies, the numbers are inimaginable, but by focusing on one character that we remember from before forces us to acknowledge the individuality and humanity of each victim.
@jthomann71
3 жыл бұрын
@@merchillio My daughter had a dance class that did a beautiful routine in their end of year show set to Itzhak Perlman's violin piece from Schindler's List and featured all but one of the performers in white and one little girl in red dancing, weaving her way through the others. People in the audience (fans of the movie, I assume) cried their eyes out.
@user-tq8nn8vd8i
2 жыл бұрын
I read that the little girl in the red coat didn’t survive her relatives said it
@captainchaos3667
2 жыл бұрын
You have that backwards. The girl in the red coat was not based on any specific person, but Roma Ligocka had a very similar experience (a little Jewish girl in the ghetto of Kraków wearing a red coat) and identified with the character so much that she wrote a book called The Girl In The Red Coat.
@MichaelScheele
2 жыл бұрын
Dropping the ring is a completely understandable occurrence when the maelstrom of emotions of the moment is considered.
@thedudeabides2531
3 жыл бұрын
"The growth is amazing." That's precisely why Schindler was portrayed as the "selfish businessman" in the beginning only to grow into a selfless hero by the end. It's the perfect character arc which is what makes the story much more interesting.
@crillane
3 жыл бұрын
16:47 Her reaction seeing the girl in the red coat was heartbreaking
@randallshuck2976
2 жыл бұрын
The movie implies that scene was the turning point for Schindler
@funkyjbass7762
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Gril in the Red Coat is just an absolute brilliant piece of film making. Forcing the viewers attention exactly where it needs to be. Manipulating the viewer's emotion to match that of the character's. It is just master class. Almost like the entire movie was in B&W just to be able to show her better and have that impact.
@Trip_Fontaine
11 ай бұрын
Spielberg actually toned down Amon Göth's atrocities since he was worried it wouldn't be believable if he showed the full extent of how evil Göth was.
@Aaron-io8vw
3 жыл бұрын
At the end they put stones on his grave for a reason and its very heartwarming. In Jewish tradition we consider it a mitzvah (a commandment or a good deed) to participate in the burial of loved ones ourselves, when we visit the grave of a relative after they havr been buried already we place a stone on it to symbolically do this again. By putting the stones on his grave they where honouring him as if he was a member of their family.
@mrkemrk
3 жыл бұрын
As brutal as this film is, it's light-handed. It represents a tiny percentage of the wickedness and madness of the camps.
@xhagast
3 жыл бұрын
And light-hearted, a lot of people made it out alive.
@rabbitandcrow
2 жыл бұрын
Almost all of the stories about WW2 and the Holocaust are from the Western European point of view. But the war was primarily a war for Eastern Europe. Half of the people who died in the Holocaust never even saw a camp - they were shot over pits near to where they lived. The reason we hear about Auschwitz is that some people survived Auschwitz because it was a slave labor camp. But there were almost no survivors from Treblinka or Belzec - so we don't even have those stories. The Holocaust was even worse than we imagine.
@Tosse901
2 жыл бұрын
@@rabbitandcrow I think the most stressful movie I have ever watched is "come and see" which shows the horrors in belarus commited by nazis. And it was made by soviets and really is just the best and most painful Anti-war movie I have ever seen. If you haven't seen that, I recommend that movie to you, as it shows the story from an eastern european point of view.
@B20C0
2 жыл бұрын
@@Tosse901 Yeah, that movie completly wrecked me.
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
Stanley Kubrick abandoned his own holocaust film, "Aryan Papers," partly because of Spielberg's film, but also, as he said, to show the true horrors of what the Nazis did would be to make an essentially un-filmable and unwatchable movie.
@adrianfuegoscuro6308
3 жыл бұрын
He says "Christ!" When the gun did not work...The Irony. Ralph Fiennes was robbed of an Oscar.
@SpeedyCM
3 жыл бұрын
Even if he was nominated for best supporting actor he still wouldn't have won being up against Gene Hackman in Unforgiven and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men.
@philuresky2993
3 жыл бұрын
I'm not surprised he said "Christ"as most of the ss officers were roman catholic
@christof329
3 жыл бұрын
@@philuresky2993 And all of them were Christians. The Problem with religions is that you always find some things in their scripture you can use to kill other humans. And people think that this scripture is a justification to do the things they do. And Christians are humans and it happens that the worst things, which happend, were done by Christians most of the time. But we tend to forget that.
@philuresky2993
3 жыл бұрын
@@christof329 no argument from me there mate. when you think you have GOD on your side it can justify all manner of atrocities .
@jessicaross7288
3 жыл бұрын
@@SpeedyCM Except his performance was better than theirs so you know, people can disagree about whether he was "robbed" of an award or not.
@juanv8758
Жыл бұрын
The woman you referred to, who shook at the sight of Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth was Helen Hirsch (she was the woman Amon had as his maid). That's a testament to Ralph Fiennes as an actor and to the unforgettable trauma that she lived through.
@padfolio
7 ай бұрын
There was another German officer, Oskar Dirlewanger, who if anything, was even worse than Goeth.
@daedalron
7 ай бұрын
No, the one who shook at the sight of Fiennes was Mila Pfefferberg. AFAIK Helen Hirsch didn't come to the set of the movie in Poland.
@michelleblackwell5122
3 жыл бұрын
When I was in 7th grade we were shown actual footage of camps being liberated and then investigated. Allied soldiers puking upon entering the camps, film showing the emaciated prisoners, crates of hair, containers of teeth, even a container with body parts (including heads), and film showing the Allied soldiers bulldozing bodies into pits for mass burial. I was old/empathetic/mature enough for that to impact me greatly. Great care needs to be taken when weighing out when a young person should watch this movie. I feel they need to reach a certain place in development that allows the movie to do the work it was meant to do, not just show history, but be horrified, but not traumatized.
@pokes404
2 жыл бұрын
It never fails. After watching two hours of people treating other human beings like cattle, seeing the humanity in Schindler as he weeps that he didn't save one more person always makes me tear up.
@brycealthoff8092
2 жыл бұрын
Worst than cattle. If a farmer treated their animals like this, they’d go to jail.
@mastixencounter
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@Rickhorse1
3 жыл бұрын
A couple of comments from an old guy. :-) I remember before this film was in the theaters, hearing that the production was delayed often by people literally breaking down with emotion. But more importantly, in this day & age when so many people don't "believe" history...the existence of this film delivers the visceral, psychological impact that reading an account of the atrocities just can't deliver in the same way. A painful watch, for sure.
@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps
2 жыл бұрын
_"But more importantly"_ "Importance" is a myth. All our ancestors could have simply gone sterile a very long time ago. Humans are just egomaniacs. If you were really "an old guy" you would know this. 3.4 million years of Stone Age, 6,000 years of post-Stone Age and here we are, a species of egomaniacs who think the universe revolves around us.
@jmacd8817
2 жыл бұрын
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps well, you certainly lived up to your name. And with the usual self centered, oblivious ineptitude. Congrats!
@Mansplainer2099-jy8ps
2 жыл бұрын
@@jmacd8817 How am I self-centered, how am I oblivious and how am I inept? EDIT: Pointing out "importance" is a myth proves I am not self-centered and backing it up with actual facts proves I am neither oblivious or inept.
@gregall2178
3 жыл бұрын
Speaking of Ben Kingsley, the scene where the "pardoned" boy is shot... his reaction as the second shot is heard is brilliant.
@Kasino80
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the way his arms and shoulders are tense until the fatal shot, and then lowers them in a moment of silent dispair while caring on with his day to day.
@markdodson6453
2 жыл бұрын
@@Kasino80 That moment always wipes me out. Just watching his arms sink in utter despair before we, the audience, know what has happened.
@no127
Жыл бұрын
I think the boy's reaction at the first and second shots was brilliant too! He jumps at the first shot and looks back. He just continues to just slowly walk forward after the second shot which makes it seem like he is absolutely helpless and he has lost all hope. Very heart breaking to watch.
@bloof5455
3 жыл бұрын
I love to see people still reacting to and watching this movie. It’s an extremely important movie.
@GatorNick
2 жыл бұрын
I agree....It should be watched by every person on the globe at least once.
@reppinseattle7974
2 жыл бұрын
Simone's reactions were almost too much. You can see the pain in her face.
@free..to..air..
Жыл бұрын
Very...very important indeed.. Man's inhumanity to Man..was never better illustrated...a seminal film
@Paula_Shelton
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@kevtb874
2 жыл бұрын
The one more person scene at the end breaks me every time. One of the greatest pieces of acting I've ever seen.
@optimusprowse6448
3 жыл бұрын
The sad thing is: The stuff that going in this movie is nowhere near as gruesome as the reality was. I think I watched this movie 6 times when I was in school here in Germany. I've been to 3 Concentration Camps and it's just... As soon as I entered the place, I felt sad. What happened in those 12 years is beyond terrible. This movie gets me every time.
@JJ-qc6lh
3 жыл бұрын
he who saves one life saves the world entire. כל המציל נפש אחת כאילו הציל עולם ומלואו. my grandpa (may he RIP) was a survivor from transnitria. he lost his entire family in the holocaust except his brother who found himself somewhere in south america he never got to meet him though. my grandpa met and married my grandma in the ghetto. i really appreciate that you took the time to watch this film. we must never forget.
@Jefferson_starkid
3 жыл бұрын
Idk about y’all but I always thought you could see Schindler starting to get real compassion for the jews and Stern in particular when he says that line ‘then where would I be?’. It’s a brilliant acting moment from Neeson. He says this selfish thing but you can almost see him questioning it at the same time. He covers up his fear for Stern with anger. It’s amazing.
@Deathbird_Mitch
Жыл бұрын
I think at that point it is care for Stern in particular. I suppose you could call that the beginning of his caring for the rest.
@CineBingeReact
3 жыл бұрын
This was a rough one, especially for Simone. We both had to walk away for a few minutes after the film to recover. That being said, we read all your comments from Saving Private Ryan, and we have every intention to watch other WW2 films and shows such as Band of Brothers and Fury!
@listall1970
3 жыл бұрын
The Pianist - you need to check this one
@gregall2178
3 жыл бұрын
A good movie to bounce back with is Amelie ;-)
@dldonedotta5653
3 жыл бұрын
Hacksaw ridge would be a good one
@thedudeabides2531
3 жыл бұрын
Love Simone's reaction. Especially when she broke down at the end when Schindler was overcome with emotion because he couldn't save more. That was a very powerful scene that earned that sort of response.
@NGC6144
3 жыл бұрын
The HBO made film The Grey Zone. That's a real tough one to watch likewise.
@Notsosweetstevia
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a super tough watch, but it must me seen by everyone.
@vegasbaby3669
3 жыл бұрын
Facts
@barkingmonkee
3 жыл бұрын
In my head this film is always linked with "Hotel Rwanda", to my mind Don Cheadle's best role. My impression of the boy in the latrine is his situation represents the degradation of his people and the light on his face is hope.
@ForgottenHonor0
3 жыл бұрын
Amon Goeth was so psychotic even the SS eventually decided they couldn't put up with him anymore and kicked him out.
@Tristan_Anderwelt
3 жыл бұрын
16:50 They dug up the bodies and burned them so the Allies wouldn't find them and have evidence
@deiwi
2 жыл бұрын
Soviet Red Army to be precise.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
2 жыл бұрын
@@deiwi Pot and Kettle with those two.
@chrisboot2468
3 жыл бұрын
Just south of modern-day Krakow is the site of Schindler's camp (the factory still stands near the ghetto in Krakow), which is now a shrine. Less than a mile away is a quarry, with the full set of Amon Goeth's camp, still standing from the film. It's incredible.
@gdiaz8827
2 жыл бұрын
The camps are maintained or are they just remnants
@Mr.Goodkat
3 жыл бұрын
You should react to "Come and see" it inspired Spielberg when making this movie and SPR and is considered one of the most devastating movies.
@lalalarose8197
3 жыл бұрын
That’s a masterpiece that more people need to watch
@MetalDetroit
3 жыл бұрын
@@lalalarose8197 Saw it about 2 weeks ago. Powerful
@jamesm3123
3 жыл бұрын
Come and see .And you thought schindlers list was hard to watch.
@shanek3453
3 жыл бұрын
Its definitely a horror film
@derrickowen8162
2 жыл бұрын
"Come and See" is the most difficult movie to watch that I have seen.
@RustyDust101
2 жыл бұрын
Now imagine how this movie feels to a modern, empathetic German decrying (not denying) these vile acts. Imagine the shame, the terror of knowing that someone in living memory committed these attrocities under your nations' name. That possibly some distant relative, related only by several generations removed, may have participated in these acts as they were too young to participate in them. The shame goes incredibly deep. Most modern Germans don't feel guilt for this, as even Germans born at the start of the Nazi era were not GUILTY of any of these acts. But we feel utterly ashamed, and motivated to never allow this be repeated, and to never forget it. That is how deeply this scarred all, the victims who somehow survived, their families and descendants, and finally the modern Germans having to live with this tarring our nation's memory in the vilest attrocities committed in modern times. Crying is completely fine when seeing this powerful movie. I consider myself a modern, empathetic German, and I cry every time I see even only a few scenes. The most gripping scene is Schindler breaking down, noticing that he might have gotten a few more people out if he had sold his car, or his badge, or his ring. But in reality Schindler had spent nearly every single Pfennig of his once huge assets on trying to save as many of the people in Auschwitz by getting them to work in his factory. The utter genius of Ben Kingsley's acting was this. As a prisoner in one these concentration camps showing any emotion of being distraught with these vile acts brought you in danger of being killed yourself. Thus Kingsley acted like prisoners of that time would. They kept their emotions hidden, even with all of the attrocities around them, just for a chance at survival. Kingsley's acting was perfectly on point for nearly all of the movie. Stern does feel the emotions, but he did not DARE to express them even with the slightest bit of a facial twitch. That's what Kingsley succeeded in portraiting in such utter perfection. Only at the end, when Schindler declared his workers to be free at midnight, he allowed himself some emotions. But imagine how hard it must have been to have evolved survival instincts on supressing your emotions, ANY emotions, for several years, even subconsciously twitching, or a curling of the lips, wrinkling of a nose, or even raised eyebrows. None of that would have been acceptable to certain guards, and definitely not Amon Goeth; resulting in almost instant death. And then trying to overcome those ingrained instincts to allow yourself to express emotions again. Another masterclass in acting by Kingsley and Neeson. Thank you for sitting through and watching this masterpiece. It is definitely not easy to watch. Again, crying is a sign of your empathy and humanity. Thank you for not editing out the reactions; it is far more honest to show how you feel than giving a 'brave public face' about it. From a German in Hamburg, Germany.
@Curraghmore
3 жыл бұрын
That was Spielberg's first Oscar (two Oscars, Best Director and Best Picture). Definitely a movie most people will only want to see once.
@xhagast
3 жыл бұрын
I disagree. I don't want to see the Pianist or Life is Beautiful even once. Or Sophie's Choice. The thing is that there is hope in this one, someone fighting the evil and WINNING.
@WilliamKing-hf8lc
3 жыл бұрын
I've only seen it once. The year it was released. Once is enough for me. We caught the second show and the people coming out of the first show looked stunned, sad and angry all wrapped up into once face. We watched, the movie ended, credits rolled and light came on and everybody was still seated there for a few long seconds. Not a sound other than a few sobs.
@BobBlumenfeld
3 жыл бұрын
The song being sung in the final scenes, starting with that wide-march across the screen and the return to color, is Jerusalem of Gold by Naomi Shemer.
@christopherglowienka4680
3 жыл бұрын
You guys were great, this wasn't easy but such a great powerful movie.
@Abbadonhades
3 жыл бұрын
For a polar opposite performance by Ralph Fiennes you could try " The Grand Budapest hotel." It's the movie where he solidifies that he also has tremendous comedic timing. Difficult to even consider after watching this movie, but he truly is a chameleon. For me it was also important that only a few years after "Schindler's list" I saw him as the central tragic figure in "The english patient." I don't think I would have been able to like him as much as I do without it, because his portrayal of Amon Goeth was one of absolute evil.
@aniket8350
2 жыл бұрын
I did not even know they were both the same person until one of my friend pointed it out
@brandonthesteele
Жыл бұрын
There's also his performance in "In Bruges", where he's a sadistic, terrifying asshole, but it's to comedic effect.
@Abbadonhades
Жыл бұрын
@@brandonthesteele That's true. I also enjoyed his performance as a lovelorn and slightly pathetic cop in the sci-fi movie Strange Days, although that's a dramatic, rather than comedic role.
@AlejandraRodriguez-eb7vc
3 жыл бұрын
16:43 Because a buried corpse can be found. Burned corpses not :(
@bartonabrams3433
2 жыл бұрын
This is one of those movies that for a brief time was run in high school and college history classes to show how graphic and brutal WWII was and this was drastically toned down from what really happened. It was pulled from classrooms for being to graphic and traumatizing to high school students. The sad part is students need to see films like this otherwise history is just words on a page they won’t care about. Films like this give the event’s a face. Something we can lock onto and remember. One of the most important lessons of films like this is to remember, and understand war can be used as an excuse to commit and get away with the worst aspects of human nature. So I would ask you to remember and understand. To end this I’ll go with a quote from someone who’s name escapes right now “ for evil to flourish requires good people to do nothing “ he chose to do the right thing and saved thousands of lives literally even when everyone else where acting like monsters.
@Bianca_Arlette
Жыл бұрын
I watched this in the cinema. You know how it is usually after a film, people get up and start talking and discussing the movie, laughing and talking about their favourite parts. After this movie, the ENTIRE cinema was quiet, no one talked. We all just quietly shuffled out. My mother, her partner and I did not say a word until we were in the car and already halfway home. It is one of the most important movies ever made.
@Gort-Marvin0Martian
3 жыл бұрын
I've only seen it once. That's enough. I saw it with my 3 boys and about 500 other people. When the film ended no one got up until all the credits ran. And then we all arose without speaking and walked out of the theater. I never in my life seen a reaction like that to a film.
@filipnalewaja5609
Жыл бұрын
Stop watching that propaganda.
@jnagarya519
Жыл бұрын
@@filipnalewaja5609 Yes -- we should lie that it is propaganda.
@Gort-Marvin0Martian
Жыл бұрын
@@filipnalewaja5609 Exactly what propaganda are you referring to?? Are you saying this never happened? Are you saying that the atrocities portrayed in this film never happened???
@filipnalewaja5609
Жыл бұрын
@@jnagarya519 of course it is propaganda that film falsyfies history and lies espexially about Poles and whitewashes jews from their nazi past.
@filipnalewaja5609
Жыл бұрын
@@Gort-Marvin0Martian i am saying that spielberg deliberetly lies about many events. That film is based on fictional novel. I am a Poles and we do not watch jews propaganda movies unlike morons in the west. No wonder you people are so brainwashed. I am going to list all lies propagated by spielberg. Polish resistance was one of top 3 best in europe. Poles were the first and biggest victims of so called holocaust and main victims of oswiecim camp( in german auschwitz) there were no jews there. Spielberg wchitewashes jews by not mentioning massive jewish collaboration with germans and austrians.
@lazyperfectionist1
Жыл бұрын
15:09 "He's like a psychotic baby." As I understand it, the most ruthless soldiers in the German army, at this time in history, were not sent to the front. They were sent to supervise the camps because they had shown such disregard for the humanity of another.
@windyhawthorn7387
2 жыл бұрын
I honestly never knew this was a film people only watch once. I watched this when they aired it uninterrupted on TV no adds and without any editing for TV. I also watched it with my parents, with my sister, they showed it during services once instead of a sermon because they where talking about the Holocaust and how people justified it with religion. I have even seen it multiple times as a child because I liked the film because it was vary moving. When I was little I looked at it as a story of an man who only thought of himself and what he could gain and learned about the horrors going on around him and instead of turning a blind eye on it and not caring he did something but the people around him also taught him to care. The real hero of this film is the accountant.
@joevenditti2967
3 жыл бұрын
The other award winning holocaust movie was "The Pianist" based more from a single person's prospective. And another movie based on a true story.
@Deathbird_Mitch
Жыл бұрын
Life Is Beautiful famously won an award or two, and I think The Boy In the Striped Pajamas won 🏆 as well.
@Monkeespankr
3 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch this movie I'm amazed that people throw the title "Nazi" around so casually. Calling other people "Nazi's" like it's nothing. It's an insult to the victims of the atrocities during that time. It humanizes the real Nazi's. I wish the truth was that nobody could become a Nazi, but the actual truth is that with enough manipulation and societal conditioning almost anyone can be molded into a creature so evil as a Nazi. History repeats itself. Instead of continuing the hatred that is present nowadays, due to race, political opinion, or sexual preference, we need to keep history in mind and remember that we are all human.
@ammortal
Жыл бұрын
"I could have got one more person, and I didn't." In my opinion, the hardest line ever committed to film.
@Redladyrae03
3 жыл бұрын
My mother had us watch a lot of movies as children that were hard to watch. This was one them, needless to say. She insisted we watch them so we knew history. She wanted us to know and feel it and always asked us how it made us feel. We were taught to not hold hate in our hearts towards anyone because we would be no better than the people who committed the horrible acts. I own this movie because I want my son to know what happened and to feel it and to become a compassionate person. This movie stays on the must watch list. Thank you for your reaction.
@xhagast
3 жыл бұрын
Wise woman. Ignorance is dangerous.
@kellifranklin4432
3 жыл бұрын
While it's a hard movie to watch it's important for everyone to watch and never forget what happened. You had the exact same reaction that I did the first time. You are correct, it's a masterpiece. Well done guys.
@jthomann71
3 жыл бұрын
Band of Brothers is amazing, maybe the best single WWII project ever. And yeah, it's not a basic cable effort, it's film worthy in every way.
@bernhardtsen74
2 жыл бұрын
almost did a spit take once watching it!it has Tom Hardys first work in cinema/tv story!one of his first roles ever, back in 2001 in that series!!I think it was Spielberg himself wanting him to work on the series after seeing him in Get a Grip!
@dragonoftheeast695
Жыл бұрын
Ralfe finnes omg what a performance.. in order for Liam Neesons and Ben Kingsleys characters to shine Finnes’s needed to be equally if not more despicable. He’s performance was vitally important for this movie to succeed.
@alib6615
28 күн бұрын
Simone and George, you both make me smile and my heart sing! I am so glad I found your channel and I LOVE your friendship. This has nothing to do with the reaction, but just wanted to say I am so glad I found your channel. I am watching these out of order and am finally "in the mood" to watch another reaction to "Schindler's List". This is such a powerful movie. I watched it for the first time in my Sunday school class with a survivor. Afterward she very graciously shared her own story and answered questions. I will never forget it.
@garychambers6848
3 жыл бұрын
My father was in Patton's 3rd army (687th FAB).....In the spring of 1945 after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp....He had pictures HE took when he helped "clean up" the aftermath...History is brutal!!
@RideAcrossTheRiver
2 жыл бұрын
Patton said concentration camp victims were the saddest sight he'd ever experienced.
@MyraJean1951
2 жыл бұрын
Seeing your humanity as you watched this film and experienced such deep and true emotion, was truly moving for me. You've won me over and I have subscribed. Keep up the reactions.
@ellygoffin4200
3 жыл бұрын
Couple of interesting facts. Stern is actually based on about 3 people. Goethe's daughter found out about her father after watching the movie Goeth was actually much worse than how he was portrayed Finally the cousin of my wife's grandfather was the jewler who made the ring at the end of the movie.
@pashvonderc381
3 жыл бұрын
There’s a good interview with Monika (. Göthe‘s daughter ) on KZitem
@derrickowen8162
2 жыл бұрын
Even without watching the full film, it gets me each time I see Liam's performance of the "one more" breakdown scene.
@seongpum
3 жыл бұрын
Whenever I feel dust on my eyeballs, I watch this film, cuz I always have tears to this film. Great reactions, esp on the ending scene : "I could've gotten one more person, and I didn't..."
@KurtAnderson812
3 жыл бұрын
An interesting side story is that of Amon’s granddaughter, Jennifer Teege. She is a black woman who wrote a book “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me” details finding out about her family’s heritage. Here’s a short news article on her, kzitem.info/news/bejne/0KqB2aadcHqldX4
@puzzled012
3 жыл бұрын
not exactly... blacks were not killed by nazis, neither for example black French nor black US soldiers it was far more dangerous being very pale Russian than black whatever
@KurtAnderson812
3 жыл бұрын
@@puzzled012 perhaps you should tell her that she’s wrong about her grandfather. I didn’t name the book, she did
@tigerjonn
Жыл бұрын
The way Oskar realizes his possessions means nothing in the face of human lives... Its just devastating after witnessing the spectacle of destroying human lives in a industrial scale.
@maisiesummers42
2 жыл бұрын
In 1994, Television New Zealand negotiated to get a copy of the film for television broadcast. This was normal for films at the time; they'd be released in the cinema, then a few months later they'd be made available for television. Spielberg was reluctant to let the film be broadcast in that way, because TV companies had a habit of cutting gore & sex & stuff out of movies, and sometimes robbing the films of essential scenes. He ultimately agreed to let TVNZ broadcast film provided: 1. The film was broadcast uncut. 2. The film was broadcast without any ad breaks. 3. No conversion to 'pan and scan' (4:3 TV ratio format). It would have to use letterbox broadcast, to ensure everything was seen. This kind of demand had never been done before. But, to their credit, TVNZ agreed. The film was broadcast at 7:30pm on a Sunday evening, uncut, in letterbox format, with no ad breaks. We sat down as a family to watch it. Had family friends over as well. Our TV at the time was a 29-inch CRT. We watched the whole film in silence. No one got up. We were held to that screen, and nothing could have torn us away. I've seen the film a couple of times since. It still has incredible impact, and to my mind is Spielberg's single best work.
@pantlessreactions
3 жыл бұрын
This, "American History X" and "Glory" should be required viewing for everyone.
@SaraHouck461
3 жыл бұрын
I agree wholeheartedly. Those R-rated movies are _way_ too educational to _not_ be shown in schools!
@michaausleipzig
3 жыл бұрын
"Give 'em hell, 54!" Gets me EVERY time! 😅😭
@anakinskywalker8610
3 жыл бұрын
@@SaraHouck461 I was lucky to go to a school that didn't believe in muting and censoring history and education for the sake of safety or comfort. In world history we watched Schindler's list. In American Conflicts we watched Glory (it's surprising how many people don't even know of that movie) and Saving Private Ryan. In American History we watched History X and To Kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbird is more on the literature side but it has a very good educational point and lesson to the story.
@anakinskywalker8610
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaausleipzig yep I had to do an essay in English class and I chose to do the 54th Infantry Regiment. I went to a really small school but they were very adamant on allowing anything to be learned from history and not censoring a tough or uncomfortable subject.
@michaausleipzig
3 жыл бұрын
@@anakinskywalker8610 huh ... didn't know the clone army had a 54th regiment too. Cool. But hey ... before you try anything now, please consider: I have the high ground... 😉
@merchillio
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for that raw and genuine reaction. That movie is so heart wrenching.
@trumphatesyou
3 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie in a theater when it first came out. The thing that I will never forget is, nobody said a thing at the end or walking back to their vehicles. I was with 6 people and the whole ride home was silent
@ToniMcGinty
3 жыл бұрын
Oh, my God, you guys are absolute sweethearts. So raw and honest. I´m glad I´ve found you both. I try and bring the same authenticity to my (Spanish-language) podcast, and hope to get into reacting soon. And incidentally, I help run a film festival here in Madrid devoted exclusively to terrible movies, so, if you need recommendations, I´ve got plenty!
@Iginihechanska
3 жыл бұрын
About the tombstones that ‘paved’ the way of the Plesow camp's main road. The thing is, that Plesow Camp was built partly on a huge and - at that time - almost 100 years old jewish graveyard. There was also a big chapel that the Germans used for various livestock - horses, pigs, cows and poultry. The chapel was eventually pulled down bit by bit, mostly as a piece of entertainment for the guests who were at the many parties at Amon’s villa.
@johnnywright609
3 жыл бұрын
My great grandpa went through a camp idk what one but he said what messed him up was seeing stacks of baby shoes
@stanzelot
Жыл бұрын
Amon Göth was a real person. After the war his daughter was interviewed when she had become a grown up. She said the he was a good father to her. She later had a child with a black man. Her daughter appeared on TV some years ago and told the story of her. It was later confirmed that she was in fact the daughter of Amon Göth. I appreciate the irony in that.
@GaunteroDimmm
3 жыл бұрын
The hardest part of this movie for me is not all the killing, murder, and despair. It’s the look of absolute confusion and fear in the little boy’s eyes at 16:02.
@MomCatMeows
Жыл бұрын
I was in 10th grade when this movie came out. Our history teacher took our class to the theater to see it. Definitely made an impact on me. I bet anyone who disputes whether the holocaust ever happened, has never known this story. 💔
@larrybell726
3 жыл бұрын
I have watched this film so, so many times…. At this point I watch the faces of people who are watching it for the first time. Thank you for the strong emotions that you endured through watching this, I know it was hard. Steven Spielberg has said in interviews that this movie was not meant for entertainment. Blessings to you.
@Rossebma
2 жыл бұрын
In germany this film came out with german voice actors synchronizing the actors. This made the film so much better. 16:45 burned bodies can't be found...
@joefriedman9843
Ай бұрын
I always loved him dropping the ring for some reason. I think it's bc it feels so realistic but also not something you see in movies typically. It's fitting bc this feels more like a documentary than a movie. Great reaction as always guys.
@Rage-_-Quit
26 күн бұрын
It was an unscripted accident, Neeson fumbled it but they left it in because it fit so well
@lewisbreland
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I watched it when I was young. It has impacted my politics and my worldview ever since.
@jthomann71
3 жыл бұрын
If you're going to delve any further into this subject, some amazing suggestions would be Life is Beautiful, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the anime Grave of the Fireflies.
@timlamb6196
3 жыл бұрын
Geddy Lee, the vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock trio Rush had parents who was in a concentration camp during WW2. Thank god they made it out. The drummer/lyricist Neil Peart wrote a song about it titled Red Sector A. A must listen, especially when done to scenes in this movie.
@muhest
3 жыл бұрын
There is some light in this. It is a very dark chapter in human history, but at the same time kindness and hope shines through. _“For evil to succeed it only needs good men to do nothing.”_
@Smileybeeblevrox
2 жыл бұрын
Commentaries for this movie usually have in it the question, why dig up bodies just to burn them? Nazi's realized that digging mass Graves and burying bodies still left too much of a trace of what was done, so at a certain point protocol was changed from burial to cremation for dead Jews and other undesirables deaths, which meant that all mass graves had to be dug up and bodies that were buried had to be burned to ash. Much less evidence of number of deaths in a large pile of ashes then in mass Graves containing decaying bodies.
@shortybarnesyanik
3 жыл бұрын
You should read the book “My Grandfather would’ve shot me” Written by Amon Goeth’s biracial granddaughter.
@XeonAlpha
8 ай бұрын
George does a pretty good job of keeping his emotional cards close… but… dang… when he puts his hand to his face you know he’s breaking inside.
@leogothisoscar271
2 жыл бұрын
In regards to him dropping the ring, my view is that it was done to show how much it meant to him. As fumbles a bit when he receives it because, in my opinion, it is very emotional for him and the moment he drops it as a result he immediately drops down and desperately tries to find it. So I feel it was meant to convey how precious it was to him.
@sspdirect02
3 жыл бұрын
20:38 This scene always gets me every time. To me, it’s almost Christ like. In Christian theology, Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was so that he could be the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. It illiterates how far is someone willing to go to save one person from hell. Schindler sacrificed his reputation, his character, his fortune to the point where he was practically penniless by the end. His business after the war all failed and his own country condemned him as a traitor. The only byproduct of his deeds were that 1,100 men, women and children were able to live the rest of the lives, have offsprings and decedents. A true hero doesn’t boast about the lives he saved, he laments about the lives he failed to save.
@anthonymanuge6237
3 жыл бұрын
check out "The Pianist", another very powerful one.
@CharlesWStricklin
10 ай бұрын
Simone, my heart broke watching you watch this film. I wanted to be there and hug you and mourn with you. Of the several reaction videos of this movie, your reaction was the most genuine and heartfelt of all of the. God bless you. And George, I don't mean to leave you out. 😂 You're awesome, too, both of you are great.
@Anomondaris
2 ай бұрын
Simone’s reaction broke me. She has such an amazing personality and glow about her that it’s truly awful watching her go through that❤
@seongpum
3 жыл бұрын
And the Talmud quote on the ring, "Who saves one life, saves the world entire" has been the biggest motto for me since I heard it. That made me to keep donating for abandoned babies and North Korean defectors(I'm South Korean), which are because of that quote. This movie and Shawshank redemption can change your life I believe.
@xhagast
3 жыл бұрын
It is a blessing, an inspiration and a CONSOLATION. Schindler could have saved more, should have saved more. And if he had started thinking like that very early he might have ruined everything. He did plenty, more than many. Let that be enough.
@Showstealer13
3 жыл бұрын
"The Pianist" by Roman Polanski deserves to be seen too.
@AndrewMartinez1776Redux
3 жыл бұрын
Such a great guy Roman Polanski.🙄😂🤣
@AndrewMartinez1776Redux
2 жыл бұрын
@@lightup6751 I could say the same about Adolf Hitler. Separate his genocide from his other stuff. 🤔 If he didn't commit genocide; he would've been regarded as the world's greatest leader.
@perrylay6639
8 ай бұрын
The girl in red is so important to the story arc of Schindler as you said, the first half of the movie he is a selfish man only thinking of money. When he’s horse riding he sees the real horror of what’s happening and all the murder as the red dress girl walks by… When he sees her later in the film on the trolley dead.. you see the realisation in his face. …. Everything changes at that point, he becomes the man that makes the list…
@warrengday
2 жыл бұрын
Well done to Simone for wearing an appropriate top.
@grimmlight4541
2 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite films of all time. The acting by Ralph fines and Liam Neeson is phenomenal.
@RideAcrossTheRiver
2 жыл бұрын
Fiennes was the natural win for Best Supporting Actor but no way the Academy could grant an award for the character portrayed. It went to Tommy Lee Jones.
@braxtonagee412
2 жыл бұрын
As brutal as this film is, it is one of the most beautifully shot in history.
@danprat6748
2 жыл бұрын
her ' FUCK FACE ' is the frame of mind a soldier gets when he sees what the enemy has done to your friends. you change into a WARRIOR, my dad said inside every man, there's a good guy and a warrior and god help you when you run the good guy off and only the warrior remains.
@imperial109
5 ай бұрын
16:40 Why were the bodies exhumed? At that time, Germany was losing the war on the Eastern Front, with Russia making advances. The bodies were exhumed to eliminate any evidence of their crimes.
@Chris-es7qp
3 жыл бұрын
The disgusting thing is, there are still people amongst us who deny this never happened... MTG for one
@Soulsphere001
2 жыл бұрын
One important thing to remember is that everyone is multifaceted, meaning that humans are very complex. No-one is purely good or purely evil, we're all mixes of grey. Oscar Schindler starts out as a man who's very self-interested and just wants to get rich, so he uses the war to his own advantage to make money. He also cheats on his wife. But that's obviously not all he is, and overtime he realizes how horrible the war is and how despicable the Nazi's are. He's a great man, with some flaws (like everyone), put into a position where he can help others and he does just that. I like the fact that we see the negative aspects of his character, and that makes him all the more real. Knowing the negative aspects of his character may even enhance the good aspects in him and help realize just how good a person he was. Saving Jewish lives was extremely dangerous for him, seeing as a lot of people hated the Jews, but he took that risk and did what he could to save as many lives as he could.
@robbyrthomas5623
11 ай бұрын
26:24 its history ,schindler himself lost the ring shortly after war. He was captured by the army,but when he produced the letter, its said the soldiers cried reading it and set him free
@Michael_L_Morrison
2 жыл бұрын
I'm late to the party for this reaction. But . . . in real life, Amon Goeth 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!
@JokoCi
3 жыл бұрын
Starting watching Schindlers List by saying: "We do what we are told" ...
@cshubs
3 жыл бұрын
Please watch Ben Kingsley in the epic masterpiece, Gandhi.
@ronmaximilian6953
2 жыл бұрын
Schindler's List deservedly won the Academy Award for best movie. You really should watch the speech by Branko Lustig, who was one of the producers and also had a cameo as the maitre d in the beginning restaurant scene. You will understand what the movie meant for him, Even if he was from Croatia and not to Poland. 5 years after his role in Schindler's List, Ralph Fiennes played a man in three generations of a Jewish family in Hungary from around 1890 to 1989. If you want to watch a Spielberg movie that few people cover, watch "Empire of the Sun." Yes, it said during World War II in the Pacific, largely in a POW camp. But it's a truly amazing movie. Christian Bale gave an absolutely amazing performance as a boy
@kirstenshute2729
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, I really liked Empire of the Sun. Hard to watch in some parts, too, but the acting is incredible and I'm a sucker for epic music.
@SPEEDPAINTER1
Жыл бұрын
I saw this in a theater back in 1993. There was no sound inside. No trailers. No popcorn or candy wrapper sounds. The curtain opened. And I was introduced to the Holocaust. When the movie ended, the audience walked out. You could hear a pin drop. There was crying, but crying with no sound. In the lobby? No sound. I have never experienced anything like this before or since. I think the audience was in total shock. Total shock.
@aerynoftalyn1307
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for doing this reaction, hard as it was. The number of survivors still living to give witness is small and declining every day; while the number of deniers who spread the lie that the Holocaust never happened or was not so bad is growing. Forcing ourselves to face reality is important and an act of leadership on your part. In addition, the steps taken by the Nazis over the course of several years to dehumanize Jews and normalize violence against them primed the German people to mostly either embrace or at least be willing to look the other way when it moved to systematic, organized genocide. We must stop the process in its tracks when we see "leaders" and movements that dehumanize groups of people and normalize violence through language or through action.
@willmendoza8498
2 жыл бұрын
Poor Simone. You can tell this shook her to the core. Such a magnificent film.
@Zoulz666
Жыл бұрын
When I went to school they took us to watch this movie when it came out. It was thought of more as an important documentary than anything else. And I tend to agree. Everyone should see this film. No matter how hard it is to watch, it's important that we all understand. This is one of the absolute worst atrocities our species has perpetrated and it must never happen again.
@arkadybron1994
2 жыл бұрын
Your humanity shines out in every tear that glistened on your cheek. I will love you both forever, just for sharing those moments with me.
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