shindlers list.any good?

[gipimann]

I still remember the reaction of my 3 pals and myself when we emerged from the cinema after Schindler's List - usually we'd be all chat about the film, the audience or whatever, but we were unable to speak for some time, it had that kind of effect on us all.

Definitely a film worth watching at least once.

 

[jonnyhotspur]

may well do ninsaga!
ps,i said my top 3 films were
saving private ryan,departed,shawshank redemption.
agree??!

Like Saving Private Ryan and Shawshank but thought the last 20 minutes of The Departed ruined the film for me. Turned a really good film into a mediocre one.
My favorite film of the last few years is Downfall. The proper one. Not the version on utube where Hitler is getting the tottenham results!

 

[truthseeker]

I thought The Pianist was a harsher look at the Holocaust.

 

[Carpenter]

My favorite film of the last few years is Downfall.

Fantastic movie and one of my favourites; I've seen this 3 times and find it very powerful and chilling. I've just seen "Garage" and think this is a wonderful Irish film; I'm glad that Pat Shortt scooped a prize at the IFTAs for his role. Another favourite of mine is "Being There", starring Peter Sellers; a real classic and the last movie he ever made as far as I can recall.

 

[gipimann]

As there has been some interest here in WWII movies, keep an eye out for "Black Book" which is on Channel 4 this week - made by Paul Verhoeven (he of Robocop fame!), it's a film about the Dutch resistance.

It's well worth a watch, and covers a topic that we haven't seen too much of in the WWII genre.

 

[Tarquin]

I have

 

[RMCF]

I thought The Pianist was a harsher look at the Holocaust.

Harsher than Schindlers List? Don't agree with you.

SL had many graphic scenes of people getting a bullet in the head for nothing, to add to stacks of dead bodies, murdered children etc.

But The Pianist is a good film too.

 

[Purple]

The end of 'Schlinder's List' (in colour) is one of the most moving parts of the film and possibly of any film I have ever seen.

Agreed.

By by far the most upsetting thing I have ever read about the holocaust was the last passage about the two Jewish children in Sebastian Falk’s book Charlotte Gray. I didn’t see the film so I don’t know if the same story line was covered. I have read Primo Levi and other books by survivors but none of them came close to those few paragraphs. I wasn’t right for days afterward.

 

[truthseeker]

Harsher than Schindlers List? Don't agree with you.

SL had many graphic scenes of people getting a bullet in the head for nothing, to add to stacks of dead bodies, murdered children etc.

But The Pianist is a good film too.

Agreed The Pianist was less graphic - although the old man in the wheelchair scene affected me badly. Possibly I felt it was harsher because it stayed with the one character who was on the inside looking out for the whole movie as opposed to Schindlers List which gave you the perspective of Schindler on the outside looking in.

 

[Madangan]

There's a very fine line between emotional manipulation and being a master storyteller. Speilberg isn't always on the right side of that line, but it would probably be the case if he didn't get it wrong some of the time, he wouldn't hit the heights he sometimes does.

Telling a story is what he's best at, whether its just a piece of entertainment, as with Jaws, or something rooted in a truely dark reality, as in Shindler's list.

Having said that, I can't actually comment on the film, not having seen it!

At the time of release a lot of people thought that it being a spielberg film it might be a bit mawkish and over sentimental but in many ways its the most controlled film spielberg has ever made.. I thought it was great because he didnt linger on cetain shots etc... characters that you have got to know and other complete strangers get shot completely indiscriminately and the film moves on really quickly giving you a real sense of how it really was just luck whether you survived another day or just got shot.
Best thing spielberg ever did and Im a fan. Definitely one of best films I have seen

 

[eileen alana]

Shindlers list brought back vivid memerories to me when I made a recent trip to Kracow and went to see Autzwich Concentration Camp, it was exactly like it was protrayed in the film, a truely awful depressing place, it took me two weeks to recover from what I saw there. The film is excellent and definately captured the horrendous genocide of what happened to the Jews in that awful time.

 

[joanmul]

Send these idiots to Krakow to see Auschwitx & Birkenau. The sadest place i've ever been to.

Everyone should see Auschwitz and birkenau - after they've read/seen Schindlers List. You can really relate to them then.