when they used blood to make their cheeks brighter it wasn't about beauty it was to make them look healthier so they would be deemed fit to work and not be immediately gassed
My mom and I saw it in the Chicago suburbs. We couldn’t even get up to leave until several minutes after the credits were over, and we weren’t the only ones.
I remember that. I saw it in theaters, and it was the exact same for me. It was the most surreal experience I've ever had, and probably will ever have.
The 3 scenes that got me literally bawling my heart and eyes out that I got a migraine for crying too hard: 1. When they loaded the kids in the trucks to be sent to the gas chambers and helpless parents could only scream for their kids 2. When Schindler wished he could have gotten more out. 3. When the actors accompanied the real people they portrayed to pay tribute at Schindler’s grave.
I tell this to my wife this all the time. History is the most important subject..If you don't learn it, you are doomed to repeat it...It's an old cliche that happens to be true...How can you correct something if you haven't even learned about it?..There are Americans, this very day, walking around not knowing why we fought the civil war; or why we fought WWII!...It's insane, and unacceptable!
It is a very powerful line indeed, and originally comes from the Jewish Talmud. The Talmud is the comprehensive written version of the Jewish oral law, and the subsequent commentaries on it.
Psychologically and emotional speaking, the part where he breaks down is the emotional release to all the tension that the movie had us endure - all the good that he accomplished realized in that moment when he broke down crying.....the moment where we all started crying.
Ralph Fiennes did such an amazing job in this film. During filming, a survivor named Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes on the set. She began shaking uncontrollably as he reminded her too much of the real Amon Göth.
. How this film shows the depths of human evil and depravity, but then also shows the lengths people go out of compassion and kindness is just beyond words. Truly Steven Spielberg's masterwork. I read Spielberg struggled working on this film because the subject matter just weighed on him. He describes shooting the scene where the kids were taken away on trucks disturbed him soo much he went home that evening in a daze. When the script first came to him, he thought the story was too important for him to do, as he was convinced he couldn't do it justice. He tried to pass it off to other directors like Martin Scorsese but to no avail. At the time, Spielberg was the blockbuster, crowd pleasing spectacle guy, imagine if J J Abrams did 12 Years A Slave, it was that unexpected.
a good many years ago i discovered Oskar Schindler was a relative of mine and i never got to know him but i wish i could have met him and if i ever did meet him i would shake his hand and thank him and give him a hug because he is a member of my family that i have much respect for.
There are two moments in this movie that get me every time. Obviously at the end... during Shindler's "I didn't do enough" speech. But the first time for me is when Stern accepts the drink from Shindler. The entire movie up until this point, Stern refuses every time Shindler offers him a drink because Shindler is not his friend and is not a good man. This represents a turning their relationship from one of oppression and exploitation to one of friendship. Hits me right in the feels.
I think you're maybe the only reactor I've seen who didn't cut the reaction early to (presumably) hide their tears. Props. Everyone cries at the end of this movie. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
When Steven Spielberg showed this movie to John Williams and asked him to make the soundtrack. John Williams got up from his chair and walked a couple of times round his house. When he came back in he told Steven Spielberg "Steven, this is truly a great film and you need a better composer than I for this film." Steven Spielberg said " I know but they're all dead."
This movie is a tough reminder of what can happen when one group of people view another group as vermin. We Americans have more in common with each other than we have significant differences. We need to remember that. It’s okay that we’re not all the same, but it’s evil to hate one another over our differences. Great review with honest, real reactions!
That scene at the end where people put stones on Oskar’s grave reminded me of Joshua 4:1-7, where God commanded each Jewish tribe to take a stone to be a memorial of what God had done for them to allow them to cross the Jordan River unharmed.
It's also a Jewish custom to place rocks on a gravestone when visiting a cemetery. Flowers wilt and die, but rocks, like the deceased's memory, is eternal.
@@rickardroach9075 Yep, that's right! I just meant to explain that the Jews placing the rocks on the graves wasn't a biblical reference, but an actual Jewish mourning ritual.
When I saw this at the movie theater with my grandparents, the man in the seat in front of us was openly weeping at the end of this. We figured that he had family that was victims of the Holocaust. This movie is so so so good.
The end of the film always has me uncontrollably crying. Even when I've not even watched the film, but little clips here. I am a mess. I have been to Schindler's grave and one day I will go to Auschwitz where many of my family perished. Thank you for watching this film.
I was so touched by your genuine reactions, crying near the end, even before you were convinced it was based on a true story. Bless you for watching it and realizing it is one of films that everyone must see. - Ed
as a german i watched that movie 20 years ago in school (berlin)... and it went so wrong u would not believe it. my class was 50% arabs 30% turkish 10% german and like 10% mixed other nationalities. we went to an actual cinema to watch the movie with 2 other classes which had about the same demographic. everytime a jew got killed the "whole" cinema was cheering... and at the end when "schindler" was crying how he could have gotten more, they "all" mocked him for wasting all his money. when we left the cinema, those ppl went to our teachers and thanked them for going to the cinema to watch the best movie they ever saw (ofc for all the wrong reasons). make out of that what u want... but maybe this movie is something to be watched alone (to make u realy think about it)
First time i saw this movie i didn't shed one single tear, until the very end when he breaks down about how many more people he could've saved. I cried like a baby, and to this days that part always gets me the same. Fantastic movie, fantastic acting, incredible story
The end of the movie was so moving and powerful. Silence in the theater afterwards. Watching this a few years later with our Hadassah group and when the Schindler survivors appear on the screen and stand atop the hill, the elders stood up and CHEERED!!! We all hugged and of course cried like babies!😭😭😭
Good content. You should consider watching "The Pianist" and "Downfall" as well. The Pianist (starring Adrien Brody) dwells deeper into what it's like to hide being a Jew in the 3rd Reich, The Downfall depicts the last days of Hitler is his bunker w/ Bruno Ganz nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards. Needless to say that Hollywood didn't want to give "Hitler" an Oscar, but his performance is out of this world. Gotta watch Downfall in original German language tho... They're both in the top 50 movies of all times.
Helping them would be a death sentence. If he was caught he would be given a bullet or send to a death camp aswell. His luck was he had bought a lot of goodwill with important people.
Iam from Germany and our History, this History shows truly the darkest Side of Human Being. You Reaction was pure and I enjoyed your Video. Thanks for that
Man...one of your best reactions ever. This is a great movie about one of the most horrible times in human history, its very hard to watch. I never have been able to get through it without tears. There is a lot of evil in it but soo much good as well and because its a real story it makes you think what you will do to other protect life. Along with faith, soo many powerful emotions...
History should never be erased, rewritten or (in cases such as this) repeated. History, even the worst of it, must be preserved so that we learn the mistakes of the past.
Another GREAT movie in this genre is The Pianist. It was nominated for best picture and won best director and best actor. I'd love to see you react to that one.
I’m glad I stumbled on this. Your reaction to the movie has shown to be one of the very best in recognizing and understanding the meaning and nuances of most of the situations and choices of the writer, director, and cinematographer.
Someone once asked me what the scariest horror movie that I ever watched. I told them, "Schindler's List." I saw the ghetto "liquidation" scene when I was a kid (someone had it on a TV inside of a snow cone shop). I had nightmares for weeks. It haunted me for years. The worst thing about this is that it is true. This (and even worse things) really happened.
I do have to question the decision to show this movie inside of an establishment that caters to children. It's an important film and one of the best films ever made but the subject is much too heavy for children to grasp at that age and I am not at all surprised that you were traumatized by it. It's just highly inappropriate for the patronage at that establishment.
My Grandmother and her sister ran from Poland when the nazis swept in, it took them 2 years to walk to England, work for a ticket, and get to family in Chicago. Her sister was killed in a robbery shortly after they found a place to stay. It's in my bones to hate bullies. I'm glad you watched it. Slaving still happens everywhere, our work as a Nation is far from over. Peace.
It's funny, I always saw it as him trying and failing to perform what he felt was a hollow gesture. It was awkward for him to "pardon" the boy, and he felt nothing, so he figured it might be more effective if he tried it on himself. After all, he's a complete psychopath and the only person worth a damn to him is himself. Only, "pardoning" himself leaves him feeling empty, confused, bored. Kindness and compassion are alien concepts to him, whereas evil is a deeply-ingrained habit he slips right back into because it's easy. That's what I read into it.
On movie comment, I think my favorite positive/humorous mixed-in moment was the “I’m just saying I’m uncomfortable on the table”. That’s a smooth move for ccepting bribe lol.
Not really something you can really react to, but something related happened with a British man named Nicholas Winton. He was involved in the rescue and transport of 669 Czechoslovakian children, mostly Jewish, out of the country and to Britain. His story was interesting because nobody knew what he had done - he went on to lead a fairly exemplary life for a man, but in the 1980's his work was uncovered by a television show called That's Life, and he was recognized. Here's a short, very touching clip of it: th-cam.com/video/6_nFuJAF5F0/w-d-xo.html (Just sharing a story, not trying to minimize in any way what Oscar Schindler did or the amazing movie Spielberg made about it.)
I love your channel man You rock And I do believe you are one of the most sincere and enjoyable movie reactors I have seen so far Keep you the good work man I appreciate it And promise that as long as you keep dropping these videos I’ll keep watching “liking” and sharing them
The way I see it, Göth wasn't "evolved" enough as a person to really enjoy the feeling of power gotten by *not* killing and instead had to get his kicks in a more bestial fashion.
He not only risked prison, people that were caught helping jewish people were executed, not just them, their whole families. Crazy times. If you read the books written about oscar schindler and the jewish people he saved he did so much more that wasn’t shown in this movie. His wife also did so much, not just to save their lives but to aid in their comfort. It really is a more amazing story than is even shown.
Shakespeare was right "the eyes are the windows of the soul". Your eyes showed throughout the movie that there is a really big heart in there. My guess is you are a really good guy.
One of the Most powerful, true historical events of a man's heart being changed by God to do an AMAZING thing! Beautiful! Oscar;s heartfelt " I could have gotten more..." is one of the most masterful dialouge scenes ever put on the silver screen.
That’s a movie that shakes you to your core. When he cries that he could have saved more people... a punch to the gut. “Because of what you did, there will be generations”
I was around 21, and I picked up a little stone from the pathway at the railroads to remind me, it sits right here on my shelf.. german class trip to poland it was, I'll never forget it. I tell you my organs turned upside down when I saw all the hair..Let's never let this happen again.
Humans are capable of as much horrors as possible but we are also capable of as much good as possible. This film tells of a man who in doing good saved generations of people
Oskar Schindler (not a German but a Czech) used his position in the Nazi party to save lives. He was a schmooze and a swindler and used his talents and power for that. The day after I toured Auschwitz, I toured his factory (which is more a museum about the war in Poland than about Schindler himself), his presence and personal effects were all over. They say that nobody knows why he saved lives. Could have been the little girl in the red coat, nobody knows. I just said that if you didn't love him before you'll love him after that. Schindler's Ark is a great book. Isaac Stern is actually a combination of about 3 or 4 people and they were just brilliant. I only knew one survivor (God bless you, Mr Z) and he said there was really no rhyme or reason why they took you away or who lived/who died. They said seniors and children, yet many children survived. The selections never made sense. The saddest thing of all is that...while this genocide is history, they are still happening. What makes this one stand out is the gross scale it was on. There are still deniers, I have nothing to say to them. They continue to ignore the fact that it's still happening.
such a powerful and real story ......one man said No More !!! he looked into the face of evil and smiled . and saved many lives. Oscar Schindler will forever be a great man in history . not just for the Jewish people but for mankind itself . for what he did if anyone who has a spot at gods table in heaven . its Oscar Schindler he was not perfect he was a sinner but his actions for saving life earned him his spot in heaven . godbless Oscar Schindler .
My mother was born in Haifa and she was actually in the British army when they occupied Palestine. She was a Sargent. She was also an agent in the Haganah, the precursor to the Mossad. One of her compatriots was David Ben Gurion and she, along with them helped create the state of Israel.She and her compatriots helped dig the Burma Road with their bare hands to get food and supplies to Jerusalem. She also enlisted my grandmother to smuggle guns in her girdle while taking the bus to do so. When my mother saw “Schindler’s List”, she sat in the very back of the theatre. At the end of the film, in the present day Israel, my mother stood up, tears flowing down her face, and sang along with the film, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav”, Jerusalem of Gold. May my mother’s memory and the memory of each soul lost in the Holocaust, always be a blessing. And may humanity never forget.
I really enjoyed your honest reaction, the finale of the movie always gets me. The company that developed and built the furnaces for Auschwitz to be as efficiently as possible to burn people was located in my town here in Germany. The building is no more but a museum was built to remember what happened there, we should never forget about this horrible part of our history. Also another movie about a polish jew during WW2 I would highly recommend for to watch is 'The Pianist', it's based on a true story too.
The bittersweet part is, Oscar died bankrupt and alone, but in his final years... He received money, not alot, but enough to keep him going.. it was payed in thanks from people and families of loved ones who's lives he saved.
I saw this at the time and at the end everyone was weeping. Everyone then got up and walked out in total silence, as others have said they witnessed. When he wished he could have saved more, at the end, that was me finished. It was traumatic. I just started again.
The most straight up powerful, important masterpiece of a film ever made. Something that is hard to watch and even harder to revisit, but something everyone should watch.
The most common survival stories of the Jews and others being massacred by the Nazis weren’t overly convoluted movie-worthy heroics, but a normal person with a suspicion that there was a person hiding in the woods behind their house who left their left over food outside and didn’t call the authorities when they found an empty plate the next day or an official who saw a fake document and let it pass knowing that they themselves could be killed over their sympathy if they got caught. Oscar Schindler was a good man whose efforts and fortune saved hundreds but we shouldn’t forget the everyday person whose unassuming little good saved a life with no praise or acclaim. It’s horrific to know that the human race can sink so low as atrocities like this and yet it is bittersweet to know that it is precisely these inhuman times that we find the clearest and most shining examples of humanity.
One of the most powerful endings i've ever seen. Yes its based of a real story. I heard his wife was heavily involved, possibly more but i dont know the true facts on that
Fantastic reaction! I absolutely loved your comment at 14:16 about Schindler going from enough money for a lifetime to more than 800 lifetimes. That was perfectly said.
Have you ever heard of the TV mini series "Roots"? Can't remember how many episodes it was, 6, 7, maybe 8? But it was as powerful as this movie was. It's about slavery in America, focusing on one slave in particular, his African name being Kunta Kinte. If you can find it, I highly recommend it. It opened a lot of people's eyes to the horrible truths of slavery.
This is a wonderful channel and you are a great commentator on movies and shows. I loved this review, your Game of Thrones reviews, and your reviews of The Crown.
alph Fiennes, (Voldemort) made this movie. The real Goeth was obese, unpredictable and dangerous. I listened to Thomas Keneally speak for the book he wrote about the making of the film and upon meeting Fiennes was unsure how this softly spoken Englishman would play a fat Austrian gone mad with his own power. Sure enough Fiennes cut his hair, gained weight and put on the uniform. And he affected this look that would show some form of humanity but then the eyes would go dead and the gun would come out. The scene where he shoots every other prisoner in a line. He has blood on his face and uniform but the face is a mask. Terrifying.
Your reaction to this movie gained you a new subscriber! You wear your emotions on your sleeve and I really appreciate it! Keep up the great reactions!
The people at the end were the children he saved many many years later. They came with their children and their children. He saved them. That's who those people were. Not only the actors but the TRUE SURVIVORS. God bless you and your families and stay safe and healthy EVERYONE IN THE WORLD.
@@RideoutReviews you are correct. They ARE the actors. The thing is that they became those poor soles for a roll in a movie and instead became part of those people's lives forever.
there is a woman called Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, she was 18 when she was deported to Auschwitz. She survived cause she was a Celloplayer and Gobbels forced her and others to play music while they killed the ppl in the camp. She still lives and tell her story to this day. There is also a german song about her by a band called Jnanus, which is Anita spielt cello (anita plays cello)
Raph fiennes madr a great job. I remember reading that when some of the survivors saw this movie they couldnt believe the resemblance, he actually was a real amon goth
I live in Krakow and work right next to Schindler's factory, my office is there. These streets are filled with unique and very tragic history and I'm glad you had this experience!
This movie was so hard for me to watch, I found myself holding my breath. The movie I can't watch is The Passion of the Christ I just can't watch it, the torture and murder of Christ, I just can't do it.
I think the point that changed his mind was seeing the girl in the red coat running through the ghetto during the mayhem and destruction, and seeing her exhumed remains made him realise he needed to save as many lives as possible. “I could’ve got one more person, and I didn’t....” is him thinking back on that little girl, and all the others he turned a blind eye too until it was too late. This movie is moving beyond words and probably the most important movie ever made.
This movie is an extremely hard watch but should be mandatory viewing. Also, take out the content and look at just the technical aspects. To me it's a perfectly directed movie. Easily Spielberg's best work and one of the best movies of all time.
Fun fact Ralph Finnes the actor who plays Amon, looks so much like the real life Nazi he was portraying that one of the survivors who was on set at the time actually had a panic attack upon seeing him.
What's sad is that the Soviets were doing just as much evil shit and it gets overlooked because they were on "our side." There was so much horrendous shit going on during those years.
This is a movie I think everyone should watch at least once. For many, once is the most times they can watch. Aside from being an incredibly well made film, it's also a very blunt reminder. Spielberg puts the reality of it in the viewers face and says, "It happened! Deal with it!" It's a very important movie.
25:52 This scene still gets me every time. Too me it’s almost Christ like. In Christian theology, Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was so that he could be the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. It illustrates how far is someone willing to go to save one soul from hell. Schindler sacrificed his fortune, his reputation, his character and was ultimately left penniless by the end. His business after the war all failed, his country looked upon him as a traitor. The only byproduct of his deeds during this time period was that 1,100 souls were able to live the rest of their lives and have offsprings and descendants. A true hero doesn’t boast about the lives he saved, he laments about those he failed to save.
A truly wonderful reaction. As the son of a survivor, this film obviously hit me very hard when I watched it for the first time in a theater. What I couldn't foresee was the impact it would have on me years later when I watched it with my own children. Few films achieve greatness and far, far fewer become historically and culturally important - Schindler's List is one of those rare films. Thanks for bring it to the attention of people whom may never have watched it otherwise.
"I could have gotten more people." That part always gets me. 😥
Yeah, I don't know how anyone could have dry eyes with that fucking scene.
yes . but he only did what he could . but yeah that part showed that he only wanted to save life .
Every time.
that scene destroys me
same here ☹️
when they used blood to make their cheeks brighter it wasn't about beauty it was to make them look healthier so they would be deemed fit to work and not be immediately gassed
yeah, I realized that when I was going back to edit. 😢
@@RideoutReviews Watching you review this movie was fantastic. Love from me & my small channel and yes the entire story was true.
When this movie ended in the theatre, when I saw this, no one spoke a word. Everyone left in complete silence.
I imagine it was like that everywhere.
My mom said the same thing, she saw it in canada and said no one even spoke on the car ride home
My mom and I saw it in the Chicago suburbs. We couldn’t even get up to leave until several minutes after the credits were over, and we weren’t the only ones.
I remember that. I saw it in theaters, and it was the exact same for me. It was the most surreal experience I've ever had, and probably will ever have.
Same in the theatre when I saw it and my wife says it was like that when she saw it as well.
exact same experience for me when I saw it in the theater. So moving.
The 3 scenes that got me literally bawling my heart and eyes out that I got a migraine for crying too hard:
1. When they loaded the kids in the trucks to be sent to the gas chambers and helpless parents could only scream for their kids
2. When Schindler wished he could have gotten more out.
3. When the actors accompanied the real people they portrayed to pay tribute at Schindler’s grave.
Apparently shooting the scene of the kids on the trucks messed Spielberg up, he went home in a daze and later started crying.
I tell this to my wife this all the time. History is the most important subject..If you don't learn it, you are doomed to repeat it...It's an old cliche that happens to be true...How can you correct something if you haven't even learned about it?..There are Americans, this very day, walking around not knowing why we fought the civil war; or why we fought WWII!...It's insane, and unacceptable!
The list is life scene gets me too.
The acting in the film is god tier.
Yeah, no. 2 -- that breaks me every time, no matter how many times I see the film.
I got emotional just reading this comment.
"He who saves one life saves the world entire". This line always makes me cry, without fail.
It is a very powerful line indeed, and originally comes from the Jewish Talmud. The Talmud is the comprehensive written version of the Jewish oral law, and the subsequent commentaries on it.
And it is 100% true. Mankind started with 1.
As hard as this film is to watch, I make myself watch it at least once a year.
Never Forget
I admire your strength of character. This is the most powerful film I've ever seen but I've never been able to put myself through it again
Yes, as strange as it sounds, it's part of my vacation movie list. Must never forget.
Real men aren't ashamed to cry
@@chrishowls7545 Always Gotta be one who is insecure with his sexuality.......
@@chrishowls7545 just keep being THAT guy
We don't cry easily, but when we do, it's for something that really matters.
When Schindler is weeping that he could have saved more: If you are not crying or at least tearing up, you are not human.
No! Im not crying 🥺 you're Crying😫😫
Amen
That's what I've always said if you want to test someone's humanity show them schindler's list if they don't cry they ain't human
The "I could have got more" scene breaks me everytime. Tom Hanks was amazing in Philadelphia, he took home the Oscar, but Liam kills it in this role.
i think, in this case, the academy should’ve called it a tie. i don’t know how to choose between two such immensely powerful performances.
Best acting ever.
Don’t worry man everyone cry’s at the end of this movie. Its the „I could have gotten more people“ that always gets us.
Psychologically and emotional speaking, the part where he breaks down is the emotional release to all the tension that the movie had us endure - all the good that he accomplished realized in that moment when he broke down crying.....the moment where we all started crying.
Ralph Fiennes did such an amazing job in this film. During filming, a survivor named Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes on the set. She began shaking uncontrollably as he reminded her too much of the real Amon Göth.
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How this film shows the depths of human evil and depravity, but then also shows the lengths people go out of compassion and kindness is just beyond words. Truly Steven Spielberg's masterwork. I read Spielberg struggled working on this film because the subject matter just weighed on him. He describes shooting the scene where the kids were taken away on trucks disturbed him soo much he went home that evening in a daze. When the script first came to him, he thought the story was too important for him to do, as he was convinced he couldn't do it justice. He tried to pass it off to other directors like Martin Scorsese but to no avail. At the time, Spielberg was the blockbuster, crowd pleasing spectacle guy, imagine if J J Abrams did 12 Years A Slave, it was that unexpected.
a good many years ago i discovered Oskar Schindler was a relative of mine and i never got to know him but i wish i could have met him and if i ever did meet him i would shake his hand and thank him and give him a hug because he is a member of my family that i have much respect for.
You can thank him every day by how you treat others that you come in contact with!!
There are two moments in this movie that get me every time. Obviously at the end... during Shindler's "I didn't do enough" speech. But the first time for me is when Stern accepts the drink from Shindler. The entire movie up until this point, Stern refuses every time Shindler offers him a drink because Shindler is not his friend and is not a good man. This represents a turning their relationship from one of oppression and exploitation to one of friendship. Hits me right in the feels.
*Schindler
I have seen my altruistic stoic dad cry two times in his life.
1. When his mother died
2. When he watched this movie
Incredible to think that Spielberg directed this and Jurassic Park in the same year. He's a total genius.
or a total psychopath.
@@jasonnicholasschwarz7788 how is Spielberg a psychopath?
@@esyphillis101 you've got to be at that level he's playing. All excellent artists are. Otherwise, you go mad.
The People at the end were the real descendants of the Shindler Jews.
I believe some of them were actual survivors as well.
they werent the descendants... they were the real people with the actors who played them
I think you're maybe the only reactor I've seen who didn't cut the reaction early to (presumably) hide their tears. Props. Everyone cries at the end of this movie. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
When Steven Spielberg showed this movie to John Williams and asked him to make the soundtrack. John Williams got up from his chair and walked a couple of times round his house. When he came back in he told Steven Spielberg "Steven, this is truly a great film and you need a better composer than I for this film." Steven Spielberg said " I know but they're all dead."
This movie is a tough reminder of what can happen when one group of people view another group as vermin. We Americans have more in common with each other than we have significant differences. We need to remember that. It’s okay that we’re not all the same, but it’s evil to hate one another over our differences.
Great review with honest, real reactions!
I don't have the vaccine or plan on getting it will you be OK when they separate us from the population like they already are starting to?
This is a movie that everyone should watch at least once in their lives
That scene at the end where people put stones on Oskar’s grave reminded me of Joshua 4:1-7, where God commanded each Jewish tribe to take a stone to be a memorial of what God had done for them to allow them to cross the Jordan River unharmed.
Yeah, thats exactly what it is. Its Ebenezer "stone of help" you saying that made me remember it.
Liam Neeson places the flower on top of the stones.
It's also a Jewish custom to place rocks on a gravestone when visiting a cemetery. Flowers wilt and die, but rocks, like the deceased's memory, is eternal.
@@meerkat36 Yes, but Schindler was a Catholic hence Neeson placed a rose.
@@rickardroach9075 Yep, that's right! I just meant to explain that the Jews placing the rocks on the graves wasn't a biblical reference, but an actual Jewish mourning ritual.
When I saw this at the movie theater with my grandparents, the man in the seat in front of us was openly weeping at the end of this. We figured that he had family that was victims of the Holocaust. This movie is so so so good.
The end of the film always has me uncontrollably crying. Even when I've not even watched the film, but little clips here. I am a mess.
I have been to Schindler's grave and one day I will go to Auschwitz where many of my family perished.
Thank you for watching this film.
I went to Auschwitz with my class from germany as a trip. It made a really powerful impression on me.
I was so touched by your genuine reactions, crying near the end, even before you were convinced it was based on a true story. Bless you for watching it and realizing it is one of films that everyone must see. - Ed
I spent most of this movie crying. It was EXHAUSTING.
Same.
Good you passed the human test
"This pin could have saved one more"... I imagine he thinks of the girl in the red coat.
i watched both parts. love this man.
its okay to cry when watching this movie. the little girl in the red coat always gets me.
I will never be able to watch the end without tears. He did so much but still wishes he did more.
Now if the whole world could just watch this as a mandatory school film.. can't believe you didn't know its real.
I was thinking the same thing.
We did in denmark, but I dont know if its mandatory
We watched this in school. That was about 20 years ago though.
as a german i watched that movie 20 years ago in school (berlin)... and it went so wrong u would not believe it. my class was 50% arabs 30% turkish 10% german and like 10% mixed other nationalities. we went to an actual cinema to watch the movie with 2 other classes which had about the same demographic.
everytime a jew got killed the "whole" cinema was cheering... and at the end when "schindler" was crying how he could have gotten more, they "all" mocked him for wasting all his money.
when we left the cinema, those ppl went to our teachers and thanked them for going to the cinema to watch the best movie they ever saw (ofc for all the wrong reasons).
make out of that what u want... but maybe this movie is something to be watched alone (to make u realy think about it)
@@peterlusstig2680 Yeah, your teacher wasn't very bright. If your students are all racist, you don't watch a movie about nazis. You put in mr. rogers.
First time i saw this movie i didn't shed one single tear, until the very end when he breaks down about how many more people he could've saved. I cried like a baby, and to this days that part always gets me the same. Fantastic movie, fantastic acting, incredible story
The end of the movie was so moving and powerful.
Silence in the theater afterwards.
Watching this a few years later with our Hadassah group and when the Schindler survivors appear on the screen and stand atop the hill, the elders stood up and CHEERED!!!
We all hugged and of course cried like babies!😭😭😭
Good content. You should consider watching "The Pianist" and "Downfall" as well. The Pianist (starring Adrien Brody) dwells deeper into what it's like to hide being a Jew in the 3rd Reich, The Downfall depicts the last days of Hitler is his bunker w/ Bruno Ganz nominated for best actor at the Academy Awards. Needless to say that Hollywood didn't want to give "Hitler" an Oscar, but his performance is out of this world. Gotta watch Downfall in original German language tho... They're both in the top 50 movies of all times.
Helping them would be a death sentence. If he was caught he would be given a bullet or send to a death camp aswell. His luck was he had bought a lot of goodwill with important people.
If he was caught the best thing he could of wished for was a quick bullet to the end
Iam from Germany and our History, this History shows truly the darkest Side of Human Being. You Reaction was pure and I enjoyed your Video. Thanks for that
Man...one of your best reactions ever. This is a great movie about one of the most horrible times in human history, its very hard to watch. I never have been able to get through it without tears. There is a lot of evil in it but soo much good as well and because its a real story it makes you think what you will do to other protect life. Along with faith, soo many powerful emotions...
I must be the realist of real men, because I cry every time I watch this film. Every. Darn. Time.
Those who don´t remember history are condemned to relive it!
“The height of human sin”
I like that as a formal description of these events
History should never be erased, rewritten or (in cases such as this) repeated. History, even the worst of it, must be preserved so that we learn the mistakes of the past.
Another GREAT movie in this genre is The Pianist. It was nominated for best picture and won best director and best actor. I'd love to see you react to that one.
I’m glad I stumbled on this. Your reaction to the movie has shown to be one of the very best in recognizing and understanding the meaning and nuances of most of the situations and choices of the writer, director, and cinematographer.
Someone once asked me what the scariest horror movie that I ever watched. I told them, "Schindler's List." I saw the ghetto "liquidation" scene when I was a kid (someone had it on a TV inside of a snow cone shop). I had nightmares for weeks. It haunted me for years. The worst thing about this is that it is true. This (and even worse things) really happened.
That is the most horrible thing is that this actually occured. 😞
I do have to question the decision to show this movie inside of an establishment that caters to children. It's an important film and one of the best films ever made but the subject is much too heavy for children to grasp at that age and I am not at all surprised that you were traumatized by it. It's just highly inappropriate for the patronage at that establishment.
@@michellefitzpatrick2672 - Very true. It was traumatic for me.
He recited every one of his workers names.
One of those women at his grave was his wife.
I was in high school when this film was released. We watched it in History class. Cried then and still do. Great, powerful film
You should watch 'The Pianist'
yes, another great one!
But that director tho...
@@joeyjoed1 Yes I know but that should not detract from the story of the film.
@@joeyjoed1 I believe that director is a survivor himself
There's also "city of life and death"," son of saul", and "come and see".
My Grandmother and her sister ran from Poland when the nazis swept in, it took them 2 years to walk to England, work for a ticket, and get to family in Chicago. Her sister was killed in a robbery shortly after they found a place to stay. It's in my bones to hate bullies. I'm glad you watched it. Slaving still happens everywhere, our work as a Nation is far from over. Peace.
The way I always saw it, at 3;05 Goeth decided to pardoning himself in the mirror and went back to his old ways of killing.
mmm that shows he recognized he was wrong in what he was doing yet in some way felt he could absolve himself. How horrible people can be
It's funny, I always saw it as him trying and failing to perform what he felt was a hollow gesture. It was awkward for him to "pardon" the boy, and he felt nothing, so he figured it might be more effective if he tried it on himself. After all, he's a complete psychopath and the only person worth a damn to him is himself. Only, "pardoning" himself leaves him feeling empty, confused, bored. Kindness and compassion are alien concepts to him, whereas evil is a deeply-ingrained habit he slips right back into because it's easy. That's what I read into it.
On movie comment, I think my favorite positive/humorous mixed-in moment was the “I’m just saying I’m uncomfortable on the table”. That’s a smooth move for ccepting bribe lol.
Not really something you can really react to, but something related happened with a British man named Nicholas Winton. He was involved in the rescue and transport of 669 Czechoslovakian children, mostly Jewish, out of the country and to Britain. His story was interesting because nobody knew what he had done - he went on to lead a fairly exemplary life for a man, but in the 1980's his work was uncovered by a television show called That's Life, and he was recognized. Here's a short, very touching clip of it:
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(Just sharing a story, not trying to minimize in any way what Oscar Schindler did or the amazing movie Spielberg made about it.)
"He who saves a single life, saves the world entire".
This is how dictators tell themselves they are good people. From time to time, they spare one life.
I love your channel man
You rock
And I do believe you are one of the most sincere and enjoyable movie reactors I have seen so far
Keep you the good work man
I appreciate it
And promise that as long as you keep dropping these videos
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The way I see it, Göth wasn't "evolved" enough as a person to really enjoy the feeling of power gotten by *not* killing and instead had to get his kicks in a more bestial fashion.
He not only risked prison, people that were caught helping jewish people were executed, not just them, their whole families. Crazy times.
If you read the books written about oscar schindler and the jewish people he saved he did so much more that wasn’t shown in this movie. His wife also did so much, not just to save their lives but to aid in their comfort. It really is a more amazing story than is even shown.
Shakespeare was right "the eyes are the windows of the soul". Your eyes showed throughout the movie that there is a really big heart in there. My guess is you are a really good guy.
One of the Most powerful, true historical events of a man's heart being changed by God to do an AMAZING thing! Beautiful! Oscar;s heartfelt " I could have gotten more..." is one of the most masterful dialouge scenes ever put on the silver screen.
That’s a movie that shakes you to your core. When he cries that he could have saved more people... a punch to the gut.
“Because of what you did, there will be generations”
9:24, crammed into the train like that, people died before reaching the camps.
I visited Auschwitz when I was 12. An experience that will never leave me....
I was around 21, and I picked up a little stone from the pathway at the railroads to remind me, it sits right here on my shelf.. german class trip to poland it was, I'll never forget it. I tell you my organs turned upside down when I saw all the hair..Let's never let this happen again.
I legit cannot watch this movie without crying.
Humans are capable of as much horrors as possible but we are also capable of as much good as possible. This film tells of a man who in doing good saved generations of people
Oskar Schindler (not a German but a Czech) used his position in the Nazi party to save lives. He was a schmooze and a swindler and used his talents and power for that. The day after I toured Auschwitz, I toured his factory (which is more a museum about the war in Poland than about Schindler himself), his presence and personal effects were all over. They say that nobody knows why he saved lives. Could have been the little girl in the red coat, nobody knows. I just said that if you didn't love him before you'll love him after that. Schindler's Ark is a great book. Isaac Stern is actually a combination of about 3 or 4 people and they were just brilliant. I only knew one survivor (God bless you, Mr Z) and he said there was really no rhyme or reason why they took you away or who lived/who died. They said seniors and children, yet many children survived. The selections never made sense. The saddest thing of all is that...while this genocide is history, they are still happening. What makes this one stand out is the gross scale it was on. There are still deniers, I have nothing to say to them. They continue to ignore the fact that it's still happening.
Didn’t they show Mrs. Stern placing a stone?.
such a powerful and real story ......one man said No More !!! he looked into the face of evil and smiled . and saved many lives. Oscar Schindler will forever be a great man in history . not just for the Jewish people but for mankind itself . for what he did if anyone who has a spot at gods table in heaven . its Oscar Schindler he was not perfect he was a sinner but his actions for saving life earned him his spot in heaven . godbless Oscar Schindler .
My mother was born in Haifa and she was actually in the British army when they occupied Palestine. She was a Sargent. She was also an agent in the Haganah, the precursor to the Mossad. One of her compatriots was David Ben Gurion and she, along with them helped create the state of Israel.She and her compatriots helped dig the Burma Road with their bare hands to get food and supplies to Jerusalem. She also enlisted my grandmother to smuggle guns in her girdle while taking the bus to do so.
When my mother saw “Schindler’s List”, she sat in the very back of the theatre. At the end of the film, in the present day Israel, my mother stood up, tears flowing down her face, and sang along with the film, “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav”, Jerusalem of Gold.
May my mother’s memory and the memory of each soul lost in the Holocaust, always be a blessing. And may humanity never forget.
I really enjoyed your honest reaction, the finale of the movie always gets me.
The company that developed and built the furnaces for Auschwitz to be as efficiently as possible to burn people was located in my town here in Germany. The building is no more but a museum was built to remember what happened there, we should never forget about this horrible part of our history.
Also another movie about a polish jew during WW2 I would highly recommend for to watch is 'The Pianist', it's based on a true story too.
You passed the test. Very few can get through the "I could've got more" scene without getting misty eyed.
Yes!! Hold on to that feeling that touches us all so deeply. Everyday no matter who it is love them! Show them that you love them!!
The bittersweet part is, Oscar died bankrupt and alone, but in his final years... He received money, not alot, but enough to keep him going.. it was payed in thanks from people and families of loved ones who's lives he saved.
You think about this happening during possibly the most terrifying time to be alive..man had guts
I saw this at the time and at the end everyone was weeping. Everyone then got up and walked out in total silence, as others have said they witnessed. When he wished he could have saved more, at the end, that was me finished. It was traumatic.
I just started again.
"It's sad to see that such hope and greatness came from such despair." You speak truth, my man.
"The height of human sin" You were so right.
The most straight up powerful, important masterpiece of a film ever made. Something that is hard to watch and even harder to revisit, but something everyone should watch.
The most common survival stories of the Jews and others being massacred by the Nazis weren’t overly convoluted movie-worthy heroics, but a normal person with a suspicion that there was a person hiding in the woods behind their house who left their left over food outside and didn’t call the authorities when they found an empty plate the next day or an official who saw a fake document and let it pass knowing that they themselves could be killed over their sympathy if they got caught.
Oscar Schindler was a good man whose efforts and fortune saved hundreds but we shouldn’t forget the everyday person whose unassuming little good saved a life with no praise or acclaim.
It’s horrific to know that the human race can sink so low as atrocities like this and yet it is bittersweet to know that it is precisely these inhuman times that we find the clearest and most shining examples of humanity.
One of the most powerful endings i've ever seen. Yes its based of a real story. I heard his wife was heavily involved, possibly more but i dont know the true facts on that
Fantastic reaction! I absolutely loved your comment at 14:16 about Schindler going from enough money for a lifetime to more than 800 lifetimes. That was perfectly said.
'Tell the truth, even if it means your death'.
Have you ever heard of the TV mini series "Roots"? Can't remember how many episodes it was, 6, 7, maybe 8? But it was as powerful as this movie was. It's about slavery in America, focusing on one slave in particular, his African name being Kunta Kinte. If you can find it, I highly recommend it. It opened a lot of people's eyes to the horrible truths of slavery.
This is a wonderful channel and you are a great commentator on movies and shows. I loved this review, your Game of Thrones reviews, and your reviews of The Crown.
my mother used to always tell me "you cant change the world, you can only change your little piece of it."
good words
alph Fiennes, (Voldemort) made this movie. The real Goeth was obese, unpredictable and dangerous. I listened to Thomas Keneally speak for the book he wrote about the making of the film and upon meeting Fiennes was unsure how this softly spoken Englishman would play a fat Austrian gone mad with his own power. Sure enough Fiennes cut his hair, gained weight and put on the uniform.
And he affected this look that would show some form of humanity but then the eyes would go dead and the gun would come out. The scene where he shoots every other prisoner in a line. He has blood on his face and uniform but the face is a mask. Terrifying.
Good reaction bud. This movie really does make you feel the power one person is capable of.
Your reaction to this movie gained you a new subscriber! You wear your emotions on your sleeve and I really appreciate it! Keep up the great reactions!
The people at the end were the children he saved many many years later. They came with their children and their children. He saved them. That's who those people were. Not only the actors but the TRUE SURVIVORS. God bless you and your families and stay safe and healthy EVERYONE IN THE WORLD.
Those are the real people but I think they are accompanied by the actors and actresses that portrayed them. (thats what I was saying when I said that)
@@RideoutReviews you are correct. They ARE the actors. The thing is that they became those poor soles for a roll in a movie and instead became part of those people's lives forever.
"Who stole the chicken? A man walks around with a chicken, and nobody notices this!"
there is a woman called Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, she was 18 when she was deported to Auschwitz. She survived cause she was a Celloplayer and Gobbels forced her and others to play music while they killed the ppl in the camp. She still lives and tell her story to this day. There is also a german song about her by a band called Jnanus, which is Anita spielt cello (anita plays cello)
Raph fiennes madr a great job. I remember reading that when some of the survivors saw this movie they couldnt believe the resemblance, he actually was a real amon goth
I live in Krakow and work right next to Schindler's factory, my office is there. These streets are filled with unique and very tragic history and I'm glad you had this experience!
This movie was so hard for me to watch, I found myself holding my breath. The movie I can't watch is The Passion of the Christ I just can't watch it, the torture and murder of Christ, I just can't do it.
I think the point that changed his mind was seeing the girl in the red coat running through the ghetto during the mayhem and destruction, and seeing her exhumed remains made him realise he needed to save as many lives as possible. “I could’ve got one more person, and I didn’t....” is him thinking back on that little girl, and all the others he turned a blind eye too until it was too late. This movie is moving beyond words and probably the most important movie ever made.
I think the child in the red coat represents Schindler's conscience
Just subscribed to you channel buddy. Your reaction the this movie speaks volumes about your humanity and your humanity speaks volumes.
This movie is an extremely hard watch but should be mandatory viewing. Also, take out the content and look at just the technical aspects. To me it's a perfectly directed movie. Easily Spielberg's best work and one of the best movies of all time.
Fun fact Ralph Finnes the actor who plays Amon, looks so much like the real life Nazi he was portraying that one of the survivors who was on set at the time actually had a panic attack upon seeing him.
The actual list is preserved at Yad Vashem.
What's sad is that the Soviets were doing just as much evil shit and it gets overlooked because they were on "our side." There was so much horrendous shit going on during those years.
This is a movie I think everyone should watch at least once. For many, once is the most times they can watch. Aside from being an incredibly well made film, it's also a very blunt reminder. Spielberg puts the reality of it in the viewers face and says, "It happened! Deal with it!" It's a very important movie.
25:52 This scene still gets me every time. Too me it’s almost Christ like. In Christian theology, Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was so that he could be the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. It illustrates how far is someone willing to go to save one soul from hell. Schindler sacrificed his fortune, his reputation, his character and was ultimately left penniless by the end. His business after the war all failed, his country looked upon him as a traitor. The only byproduct of his deeds during this time period was that 1,100 souls were able to live the rest of their lives and have offsprings and descendants. A true hero doesn’t boast about the lives he saved, he laments about those he failed to save.
Thank you for doing this and making more people aware. You are a good man.
Thank you for watching this. It’s an excellent movie, but also an important one. You did it justice.
A truly wonderful reaction. As the son of a survivor, this film obviously hit me very hard when I watched it for the first time in a theater. What I couldn't foresee was the impact it would have on me years later when I watched it with my own children. Few films achieve greatness and far, far fewer become historically and culturally important - Schindler's List is one of those rare films. Thanks for bring it to the attention of people whom may never have watched it otherwise.
I was told it was must see. It is hard to watch but definitely needs to be seen and remembered.