Ok, So I was watching this movie with my friend in his room, and when the liquidation scene came along I just couldn't take it anymore, and walked out of the room. This is the first time I've ever done this.

Unbelievably horrifying film.

Also, the best movie ever (of what I saw).

One of the most amazing peices of film I have yet come across. It really is beautiful in a macabre sort of way, not one you would want to watch with your significant other I must say.

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it wasn't a significant other, per se. It was a bunch of people on my hall who had never seen it.

Logic forces me to assume someone you wanted to fuck was sitting in the room.

I'll give you that.

I assume you are college age so here is some failsafe advice. Get 2 drinks into her at dinner and take her to then rent "The Notebook" (its terrible but there are some excellent sex scenes). If she is at all interested in you sexually this will ease you into her vagina, and you wont have to watch some poor emaciated souls wondering what will come out of the showerhead.

It is... it is what it is.

The most stark memory I have of the film was the girl in the pink coat. ...

*red

she represented life and hope.

and...she is killed.

so...thats...cool?

This is one of the best films ever made, and one of my favorites. Spielberg really did present it like it was a documentary, which I believe he said was the point for it being presented in black and white. It was beautiful and overwhelming to watch these few characters, real survivors of the Holocaust, going through this extreme emotional process of bewilderment and confusion at the beginning of the situation, terror and fright at the thought that they would surely be murdered, and the piercing sadness of withstanding and eventually overcoming the grief and remorse that accompanied what they witnessed.

The story is one of courage of a man named Oskar Schindler, who used his cool intellect and businessman appeal to save 1100 Jews from certain death. He begins somewhat apathetic, only doing business and using Jews for labor for which they wouldn't be paid. Perhaps just as amazing to watch as the Jews experiencing the torment of the Holocaust was Schindler's process of discovering his humanity in this most horrible of events. Liam Neeson, who is my favorite actor only next to Spacey, was absolutely astonishing in the lead role, taking himself through the experience as well. He played Schindler with that friendly charm and superb cool, and eventually broke down and made us sympathize with him. Liam made one of the best performances of any actor in any kind of role. He had to hold the movie together, because even though the film documented the Jewish survivors' experiences, he was the central figure around which the story revolved. He was, after all, responsible for the lives of all of those Jews.

There were certainly parts of the film that were hard to take, such as the climax where Schindler sees the lifeless body of a young Jewish girl in a scarlet coat, whom he had seen before, hiding. Then, the liquidation scene. Instead of showing gore and disgust, Spielberg decided to show the Jews walking in and then, quite painfully, what was left of them leaving... This scene was really difficult to watch, because we saw the little children holding their parents' hands, we saw the other Jews' reactions to it, and we saw the building into which they walked to their death, all under John Williams' menacingly apologetic violin playing in grief. Most horrible of all, we know that this was a frequent happening during the Holocaust, and there's no overcoming the pure disgust and pain of the thought.

To watch this movie, we have to be willing to undergo some sort of emotional experience ourselves. This film was presented so realistically and honestly that we join Oskar Schindler in discovering his humanity and we join the Jews in the awful experience. Because it was presented so humanely, it's certainly the best Holocaust film ever and one of the most emotional and breathtaking films any of us will ever see.

However difficult to watch, this is a film that I think everyone should see, because we discover a piece of ourselves along the way. I don't really cry much, maybe a few times in my life, but the first time I saw this movie, I lost all control. When Liam begins to cry at the end in front of all of his workers, sobbing, "I could have got more, and I didn't!", I started to cry uncontrollably. I wasn't just tearing, I was actually sobbing aloud and my face was drenched with tears, and I couldn't stop it. It was such a gorgeous moment in film. The whole ending with the actual survivors and their actor counterparts was beautiful and ever so memorable.

This film is nothing short of brilliant.

it's symbolistic of the events in the movie. there's nothing about the movie that's "cool"

She did, but most importantly, she was the driving force of the movie. The sight of her corpse was the climax, as it led Schindler to rethink and readjust and begin the journey of discovering his own humanity. I read that there actually was a girl in a scarlet coat that the man himself saw and was moved by the sight. It's very interesting, and I thought it was a good thought to keep her coat scarlet while everything else is black and white. Like Anaranea said, she was the hope of the film. Schindler may have seen something else eventually that would have changed his outlook, but in this case, the little girl made his mind open and his thoughts divert to hope and life.

exactly what i was thinking but to lazy to write. i've written so much about this movie for classes.

Haha, I know what you mean, I was here when this thread was started and was like, "Eh, I'll do it later." The last analysis I wrote for my film class was about this one.

ow lolz i am so humbawled.

ah, ok. it's been years since i've seen the movie. I knew it was a shade of red, so... yeah. very haunting image.

I really like this movie. I love movies about history.

great movie...very powerful..now i want to watch it again

Same here! I've seen it very many times, actually, and it's not really the type of film you watch over and over. It never tires of me though, and all this talk about it makes me want to relive it!