Schindlers list - is it as good as the reviews ?

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This image and symbolic meaning in the film.

And an indication of a poor directorial choice—this is the prime example of cheese.

NP, agree to disagree. I did not think that was cheesy. Somebody mentioned Life Is Beautiful, which I thought was just a terrible movie - super cheesy. I was only able to watch a few scenes from it (I illegally downloaded it thinking it would be good and quickly realized it sucked). The main character looks like he's only missing makeup to be a clown, and so much of the music and script seems like something a child would write. For better or worse, Schindler's List is probably the best holocaust film there is. Unless you want to get into straight up horror or intentional fictional accounts like Inglorious Basterds or OverLord or something like that.

Never saw life is beautiful, but the pink coat is something that belongs in a hallmark movie.

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Anonymous wrote:Great movie. Never want to see it again- once was enough.

+1

agree

I agree too.The message came clear and was so upsetting.

[Anonymous]

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This image and symbolic meaning in the film.

And an indication of a poor directorial choice—this is the prime example of cheese.

There were some cheesy parts to it but this was not one.

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I’ve heard Schindler’s List is excellent. I haven’t seen it and don’t feel the need to. I’m Jewish and am here because of pogroms. My uncle’s family was killed in the Holocaust. Every single nightmare I had as a kid was about Nazis chasing me.

But I’m glad if it helps you understand.

In the 1960s at Jewish summer camp, my dad had to watch unedited video taken by Allied soldiers when they liberated the camps. That was his first exposure to the Holocaust — he was 7. The camp counselors told them “This is why you have to support Israel and perpetuate the Jewish people.”

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This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This image and symbolic meaning in the film.

And an indication of a poor directorial choice—this is the prime example of cheese.

NP, agree to disagree. I did not think that was cheesy. Somebody mentioned Life Is Beautiful, which I thought was just a terrible movie - super cheesy. I was only able to watch a few scenes from it (I illegally downloaded it thinking it would be good and quickly realized it sucked). The main character looks like he's only missing makeup to be a clown, and so much of the music and script seems like something a child would write. For better or worse, Schindler's List is probably the best holocaust film there is. Unless you want to get into straight up horror or intentional fictional accounts like Inglorious Basterds or OverLord or something like that.

I also mentioned The Pianist (there is another film by the same name, I mean the one directed by Polanski).
I have my reservations about Life Is Beautiful but it touched me much more than Schindler’s List.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great movie. Never want to see it again- once was enough.

Agree. It took me a while to get emotionally prepared to watch it after it came out. It hit close to home for my family.

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IMHO
nothing is better (worse?) than Shoah because it is a documentary and it is coming from the lived experiences of survivors. there is no archival footage, so the horrors that are being described have to be filled in by your imagination, which is more real and horrific than anything seen on film. I liked schindler's list, the piano, etc but love love love Shoah

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Anonymous wrote:Most of it. There’s still lots of elements of cheesiness in film making despite it being a Holocaust pic.

Spielberg gonna Spielberg.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of it. There’s still lots of elements of cheesiness in film making despite it being a Holocaust pic.

This.
Polanski’s The Pianist and even Life Is Beautiful are much better (they cover the same subject). Just rewatched it after seeing it when it first came out.

Life is Beautiful is far too unrealistic.

+1
Schindler's List is a good film, but it's a Spielberg film, for good and ill.

Other good films about the Holocaust include:
1945 (Hungarian)
Au revoir les enfants (French)
Conspiracy (HBO, mostly British cast)
Denial
Ida (Polish)
In Darkness (Polish)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Son of Saul (Hungarian)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German)
Jacob the Liar (East German)

I would add Europa Europa to this list.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

Seriously?

+1. I am not sure how else to respond to the first PP. It's one of the techniques of the film.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of it. There’s still lots of elements of cheesiness in film making despite it being a Holocaust pic.

This.
Polanski’s The Pianist and even Life Is Beautiful are much better (they cover the same subject). Just rewatched it after seeing it when it first came out.

Life is Beautiful is far too unrealistic.

+1
Schindler's List is a good film, but it's a Spielberg film, for good and ill.

Other good films about the Holocaust include:
1945 (Hungarian)
Au revoir les enfants (French)
Conspiracy (HBO, mostly British cast)
Denial
Ida (Polish)
In Darkness (Polish)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Son of Saul (Hungarian)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italian)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (German)
Jacob the Liar (East German)

I would add Europa Europa to this list.

I forgot about Europa Europa-- such a great movie.

[Anonymous]

FYI, the granddaughter of the Nazi from Schindler's Lisa (Amos Goeth) wrote a book, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me (her name is Jennifer Teege). I checked it out of the library and am reading it right now. It is amazing.

Her mother was less than a year old when her grandfather was executed, but she didn't know this aspect of her family's past until she was 35 (this is the first part of her book; I'm not giving anything away). She went to Israel for college and had plenty of Jewish friends, so this blew her mind.

I haven't seen Schindler's List since it came out (I went to a Jewish school so we had a 1-year course on the Holocaust), but the juxtaposition of the book and movie is amazing.

I highly recommend that you watch the movie and then read the book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will sound terrible but is there a colourized version? I just can't commit that time to a black and white movie. It's like strapping on a poultice when I know antibiotics exist.

Seriously?

+1. I am not sure how else to respond to the first PP. It's one of the techniques of the film.

Most people don't know this but they actually didn't have color film when Schindler's List was made. I've heard a colorized version will be released for the anniversary edition soon.