Has any one seen and understood the movie Schindler's list?
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the movie is about what happens to european jews during ww2, the major charactor in the story is not german but is allowed to run a factory where jews are allowed to work by nazi germany, the owner with help from jews he learns to respect as humans and not profit, begins to smuggle jews out of war torn germany, eventually he realizes he can never smuggle enough jewish people to satisfy his conscience. the jews he saves emigrate to israel finally! It is a sad but good movie, see it. many of us lost love ones during that period, i am not jewish but of portuguese heritage and my family suffered too. good luck to you
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Laylo Q, How can the people possibly be the wrong color for the most part they were from that region??\n\nI thought Mel did a great job, it was a lot less graphic then the real thing. If he would have been true to detail they would not have even allowed it into theaters. The Bible says they beat Him beyond recognition as a man. Also when He was on the cross He was totally naked. I thought the whole thing with Satan among the crowd at the mock trial and the garden was brilliant. I think one of my favorite parts of the whole movie was when Jesus and Simon locked arms when carrying the cross, it shows that Jesus is always with his people. I own the movie and every time I watch it God reveals something new to me.
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To show how horrible the Holocaust really was the sexual scenes were necessary. If "Schindler's list" had been censored in any way I don't think the magnitude of how horrible it was would have come across the way it did. Also I think it was necessary to show how Hilter really was.
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I have read the book and I just saw the movie last night. I am a christian; however, I have read scripture and other religously based works, both fiction and non-fiction regarding almost every known religion in the world. I am a christian by choice, not because it is the only religion I have ever been exposed to or know anything about. \n\nThat said, I loved the book and thought the movie was way underwritten. Definately worth seeing, but the screenplay was terrible and character development was absent. How, people knew what they knew and when they knew it was absurd. And the stupidity (you don't have to let everyone know about your change in flight plans immediately after you decide to change them. You don't buy train tickets on a credit card when your running from the cops....) started to get annoying. The movie sped up when it should of slowed down and left things in that could have been omitted. On the other hand it also had a kindergardenish way of over explaining when it should have moved on (like the mansion scene). This may be okay for those who haven't read the book or aren't aware of who Mary Magdalene was.\n \nI didn't think it was boring, but I'm into this kind of material a lot. As for the fictional/nonfictional status. definately fictional, and I don't say this because it conflict with the Holy Bible whose origins and completeness have its own host of questions. To me, it just doesn't make sense for God to leave a bloodline through Jesus.  It makes sense for Jesus to have a wife or a 'companion' as much as it makes sense for any Jewish carpenter to have a wife. Was this fact entirely omited during the assembly of the Holy Bible???? Possibly.  Just one of many questions. I think the Da Vinci Code is a 'what if' type of work that does not try to affend anyone, but have fun with this question.\n\nI'll tell you what....What if...through DNA testing they found out that Mohammed suffered from severe BiPolar disorder? Imagine the Hoopla that movie would stir.\n\nExplore life...spread peace.
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I have watched this movie several times and to tell you the truth, I felt bad after every viewing.  Not bad in the "I shouldn't have watched this" way, but bad that I have a part in nailing Jesus to the cross, even today.  I actually cried when I first watched it, and I am not one of those people that cry at movies, but this was a moving experience for me.  \n\nThe movie was adapted from a book that a num wrote a couple of hundred years ago.  She had visions from Jesus about what the Passion was like, and was told all of this in great detail, including how many times He was whipped, and the crown of thorns and everything else.\n\nI haven't read the book, but am still looking for it, but I have heard, from people who have read it, that the movie is very close to what this nun had written.\n\nI don't think the movie was supposed to "bring people to Christianity", but was meant to show people how Jesus suffered.  I agree that something should have been done about the Resurection, since Passion referes to the crusifixtion, death and resurection, but I did kind of like the ending, showing Him walking out of the tomb.
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all right... it was a very painful movie, not because it's boring and not good at all but because it was so powerful you'd feel real pain watching some scenes in the movie. it's also directed by the great miike (he's seen in the movie hostel!).\n\nhere goes. this man just lost his wife and his son's actually okay with the idea of his dad being remarried again. he held an audition but that was a front - because he really wanted to meet the girl he would want to marry through this, so he met this girl. but it turned out that this girl had a very dark past and led him into something really painful. painful is just the right term for all of this. anyway, i don't want to tell you all the details. i suggest you try to find a copy of this movie and watch it. trust me, it's good. :)
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the little girl in the red is just a symbol of the innocence of the Jews. She was only a little girl, and yet she was being persecuted just like everyone else. I think that seeing this little girl made Schindler realize this.
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I hear you Asif, I really enjoyed the film but was not blind to its flaws. \n\nFirstly the story is more disjointed than the graphic novel on which its based as the film had to fit a decent time. \n\nYou dont get to understand the eye, the ear, the finger and the head. You don't understand how the fire at Larkhill started, then you would appreciate the Scarlett Carson rose connection even further. You don't understand how V has access to the core of the system. \n\nSecondly, from a visual point of view the film used the same cues as the Matrix series which is almost a bit cliched now. \n\nBefore the dictatorship has normal colour, the present day is saturated with blue. The shadow gallery and Detrich's house are warmer coloured. \n\nBullet time is used in the action sequences and jars with the style of the comic which portrays violence in a much more real way. \n\nWhilst V has a very powerful message the film stayed less true to the comic than the likes of Hell Boy and Sin City. \n\nInstead of the Guy Fawkes intro if the real factors that catalysed Moore and Lloyd to write the novel were listed (the miners strike, the cold war, the palpable fear of AIDS and the homophobia that went with it, the race riots of the early 1980s) rather like the the intro to Star Wars then it would have made more sense.\n\nIt was also jarring for UK media to see the UK portrayed as being run by a pious leadership as we are secular country in comparison to the US.\n\nLastly and most importantly, Alan Moore asked for his name to be removed from the film. This communicates the wrong message to reviewers, after all Moore allowed his name to be associated with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film, which truly was dreadful.
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The movie was good. It was well-done and directed attention to interesting aspects of discrimination. \n\nThe song performance at the oscar was however not so great.
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As a firm believer in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, I must admit, that the book was well written. The cast of the movie is top notch. However the movie is complete blasphemy against our Lord. The Bible clearly shows the Life of Jesus, no where does it mention Him being married or having children. \nIt is sad, but true, that many Christians and non-Christians that watch this movie are going to be shown a perverted view of Jesus Christ.\nIf somebody was really interested in learning about the Lord God, please I encourage you to pick up a Bible. \nCompare how Jesus fulfills all the prophecies about the coming messiah. Some of which were written 500+ years before His birth.\n\nJohn 3:16- For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son, that whoever shall believe in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.\n18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God
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Loved the movie. I wish we had the "Eye for an Eye" punishment. Those punks deserve the same thing.\nI am a sraight grandmother of 9, have a gay brother & lots of gay friends. They are the most caring people in the world.
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That movie almost changed my mind about studying abroad in England.  It's one of the only times I ever remember being scared.\n\nI think the underlying theme was the fragileness of our civilization.  It only took 28 days to dismantle an entire country.
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There are so many that I have seen, Schindler's List, I am Sam, Hotel Rwanda. These are Wonderful, but VERY emotional stories. I haven't seen Passion of Christ yet, but that would probably be number one on my list.
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It's a well made movie, as most of Spielberg movies are.  I truly was thinking it was going to be a Jew sympathizing movie, but was pleasantly surprised that Munich gave both sides of the issue.  Arabs kill Jews, Jews kill Arabs because they kill Jews, and the cycle continues upon itself.\n\nI won't ruin the ending if you haven't seen it, but it is a psycghological portrail of a man torn between what felt was right and how he feels after his journey.\n\nShould be an Oscar winner!
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Paperclips is a very powerful documentary and I agree, EVERYONE should watch it.  It should be a requirement in school.  As should be Schindlers List.  All through my childhood I heard my fraternal grandparents talk about Hitler and the Nazis.  They came to the state not long after he came into power and started persecuting the jews.  While not jewish themselves they had many close friends that were and couldn't stand to watch them suffer.  Knowing this was only the beginning they left Germany and came to the US. If Hitlers name was mentioned around my Grandma tears welled up in her eyes and she called hi the worst evil that had ever happened to mankind.  But by far the most powerful and moving thing I have ever felt was when I was 16.  I was visiting relatives in Europe with my Aunt.  Knowing what I was studying in school that semester we took a side trip and she took me to Auschwitz so that i could truely understand what I was being taught, though we weren't Jewish she wanted me to understand.  As long as I live i will remember that, seeing the ovens and hearing what happened there.  It was almost as if that place screamed in pain still for the evil that was committed there.  No member of our tour group was left dry eyed by the time it was over.  The most vivid memory of it was seeing the ovens then hearing the older lady next to us break down in tears.  Turns out she was dying of cancer and before she departed this earth she had to see where he parents and brothers had perished.\nTo so many of us evil of this enormity is hard to grasp and fathom but every day of our lives we see or hear a small part of it.  Every time you utter a racial slur, make a biggoted remark, show intolerance to anothers religion or belief system you are perpetuating Hitlers legacy.  Because that is what it was, hatered and biggotry and intolerance.  It took 6 million people dying for the rest of the world to understand that lesson, of what that mindframe and and those views can bring about.  And the worst thing we can do is forget it or glorify the kinds of acts or thinking that brought on all of those deaths. Because it wasn't hitler alone that killed them all, it was people who felt the way he did and thought nothing of it.  Look around you and i bet you have met people like that.  Or maybe you are yourself, so none of this has gone away and all the lessons have not sunk in. Six million people, our minds truely can't wrap around that number.  All because of intolerance and biggotry.  As you read through the answers to some of the questions on these pages you can see it here as well.  Intolerance to other peoples view or religions, a supreme and superior attitude because 'I am right my religion is right the rest of you are wrong'.  That attitude is what helped take 6 million people from this earth.  That is what ALLOWED the nazis to do what they did.  They saw those in those camps as wrong and not as good as themselves, that they were superior.  Those camps still exhist today as a reminder of that evil.  And believe me if you walk through the gates you can feel it, you can feel the pain and anguish that went on there.  It screams at you from every inch of it.  6 MILLION people killed because someone else was sure they were right and they were superior.  \n\nThose shows on the History Channel SHOULD upset you!  They should upset you every time you see them and never should you become callous to them or what they show.  That is about the only reminder this world has left of what can come from biggotry and hatered.\n\nNext time, before you write out from your superior point of view and point out how everyone else is wrong, or laugh at an ethnic joke or make fun of someone because they are different think about Hitler and what that kind of mindset can cause...\nSIX MILLION SOULS TAKEN FROM THIS EARTH BECAUSE THE NAZIS THOUGHT THEY WERE BETTER AND KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT!
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I watched it but i thought it to be very strange. please dont get angry with me because i answered it this way. some ppl get angry with ppl on here because they dont agree with them. I just thought the movie to be strange that's all. good luck and god bless and happy thanksgiving.
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This is my FAVORITE movie! Lots of irony in it. I think its a masterpiece. Of course, the movie is not for everyone. I didnt understand it the first time I watched it, but I figured it out. It's definately film noir, and I bet most people who watch it don't really see how funny and pathetic military and groupthink can be. \n\n'has he got a chance?? hell ye........'