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Schindler's List
Tagline: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. Plot Outline Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career." Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, Spielberg's masterpiece ranks among the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust during World War II. It's a film about heroism with an unlikely hero at its center--Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who risked his life and went bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. By employing Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army, Schindler ensures their survival against terrifying odds. At the same time, he must remain solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) and negotiate business with a vicious, obstinate Nazi commandant (Ralph Fiennes) who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp. Schindler's List gains much of its power not by trying to explain Schindler's motivations, but by dramatizing the delicate diplomacy and determination with which he carried out his generous deeds. As a drinker and womanizer who thought nothing of associating with Nazis, Schindler was hardly a model of decency; the film is largely about his transformation in response to the horror around him. Spielberg doesn't flinch from that horror, and the result is a film that combines remarkable humanity with abhorrent inhumanity--a film that functions as a powerful history lesson and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the context of a living nightmare.
User Comments: A beautiful film about the holocaust horror
MPAA: Rated R for language, some sexuality and actuality violence. Runtime: 195 min Country: USA Language: English / Hebrew / German / Polish Color: Black and White / Color (DeLuxe) Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Certification: Argentina:13 / Australia:M / Canada:14A / Chile:TE / Denmark:15 / Finland:K-13 / France:U / Germany:12 / Hong Kong:IIB / Iceland:16 / Israel:PG / Italy:T / Malaysia:(Banned) / Netherlands:12 / Norway:15 / Peru:14 / Portugal:M/12 / Singapore:M18 (re-rating) / Singapore:R(A) (theatrical release) / South Korea:15 / Spain:13 / Sweden:15 / UK:15 / USA:R Trivia: When Oskar Schindler kisses the Jewish woman at his birthday party, his hands jump from her shoulders to her face, possibly a deliberate continuity error, designed to highlight the intimacy (or otherwise) of the moment. |
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Undoubtedly, this is a masterpiece, one of the most recent ones created in cinema history. Can a movie about the holocaust be beautiful? Of course it can, and here we have an example. We have more than three hours of poetry about the human nature, about love, about hate, about madness, about egoism, about altruism, all of them mixed to produce the human being as what it really is. It's a film that cleans our soul, makes us feel like humans, and makes us understand a little bit better the aim of the Human Race. John Williams gave the most beautiful sound-track he ever created to set the emotional background this film needed. |
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