It's a story about a character arc. Schindler starts out with no real regard for the workers/victims. He just sees an opportunity to become very wealthy and doesn't care if he has to use slave labor to do it. Over the course of the holocaust his humanity emerges and he begins to see how insane it all is. He sacrifices the money to redeem himself as a human being.
@@Diegesis You are quite right. He was a flawed human, like most or all of us. And in shocking circumstances he made a series of humane and ultimately wise decisions. And he was still not perfect, because nobody is, but over time he did move significantly toward the light.
@@sillybilly1662 he didn’t commit suicide because he was depressed… he committed suicide because he had Lewy Body Dementia. Originally he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s but that was incorrect. Your entire premise that someone depressed can’t make someone else happy is fucking retarded. Robin Williams was a comedian and made people laugh, making people laugh is a sign of happiness, therefore Robin Williams made people happy. Just trying to be edgy to be edgy doesn’t make you cool lol unless you are still in high school. Otherwise grow the fuck up.
I’ve been to Hiroshima to ring the peace bell, I’ve been to the USS Arizona, and I’ve been to Auschwitz and seen 600k shoes. My grandfather served in WWII. The younger generations in this country have gone as far as denying the holocaust and it concerns me, actually it terrifies me. We, all of us must never forget that evil like this not only existed but almost gained absolute power.
Thank you for writing this. It concerns me too, especially Texas banning books on the Holocaust recently. But we will not let it happen! "But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." a great quote from the Lord of the Rings to recall in dark times.
I lost 133 family members in the camps - mainly Stutthof and Auschwitz. Seeing the camps is an important thing- for all people, I think. Bearing witness. I would say though that more so than Auschwitz, the camp that really affected me was Majdanek in eastern Poland. Majdanek was also a death camp like Auschwitz but smaller. However, unlike Auschwitz, the Germans never got a chance to destroy it before fleeing - so it’s all still there, intact. Also, it’s right on the outskirts of the city of Lublin. Like you can see the whole town from the crematoria. That really hits you. I can’t really explain why but unlike Treblinka, for example, Which was completely destroyed and in the middle of the forest, it doesn’t feel like something out of a horror movie - it feels so much more real. It feels like what it was a death factory.
Schindler was what might be called a "business Nazi". He didn't believe in Nazi ideology nor did he agree with what they were doing. But he was a businessman, and in Nazi Germany, either you were a member of the Party or you couldn't do any business at all. Also, Schindler's story was not as cut-and-dried as it's presented in the film. Movies need an "arc", so one was imposed on Schindler's story. He wasn't the callous man who became Good. Schindler was doing things against the Nazis from early on, looking for subtle ways he could undermine them (without losing money, of course). He simply didn't give a crap about the Nazi thing. He just wanted to get rich, and the war was the easiest way to do it, and if he could help some people along the way and thumb his nose in secret at the idiots in their hateful uniforms, so much the better. As things went along, he realized just how bad it was, and that he couldn't look away. THAT is why "you're a good man" upset him so much - because he realized he was being backed into a corner by circumstances, and would have to put up or shut up pretty damn soon. That scared him, but he couldn't run away from the fact that subtle ways were no long going to work - he would have to roll up his sleeves and be REALLY devious, and maybe (god forbid) even... BRAVE.
@@Jericho363 There were Schindlers no one knew about, many if not most of them were murdered. On the other side of the world, Minnie Vautrin was the Schindler of Nanking. She risked her life to save many, many people, but unlike Schindler the reality of what happened did her in. She was also haunted by those she could not save, but in the end they were all she could see, and she took her own life. The irony is that to this day, she is still worshiped as an incarnation of Kwan Yin by families in China - literally _worshiped,_ as in picture on the family altar and everyone prays to her - because of her courage and sacrifice in saving them. We may be a garbage species, but some of us do manage to transcend our awful DNA.
@@Jericho363 You're welcome. Not enough people are aware of what happened in Nanking. When people are knocked out by watching Schindler's List, I always tell them that once they get their strength back they should watch _Flowers of War._ It's a fictional story but it tells quite succinctly the situation in Nanking, and how some people risked their lives to try and stop at least a little of it. Because a little was all anyone could stop.
Yeah they cut out the scenes where he'd feed people to his dogs and specifically used children for target practice with his friends. And the tortures too.
When a survivor of the Plazow camp named Mila Pfefferberg, who was hired as a technical adviser for the film, first saw Ralph Fiennes in costume, she started shaking and panicking because she thought for a moment that Amon Göeth had come back from the dead. He was that convincing.
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
@@maleficusvictor9887 Agreed! A few years ago I got into a heated debate with a holocaust denier. Israel is under constant attack and the UN treats them worse than ISIS and the Taliban!
@@Knight_of_NI To bad you can't explain to him that the rulers of Israel are NOT the Jewish people. We all need to work to ensure that any holocaust does not happen again. That especially includes what we teach our children, keep their minds open and to reject the tyrants and useful idiots. IE, Antifa, BLM, Communist, Nazi's, Corporate tyrants, etc. 😠😔🙏🙏🙏
Sadly it still happens today. Maybe not on the same scale but ethnic cleansing still happens in the modern world. Sadly I don't think it will ever stop.
It’s so interesting seeing someone watch this movie who had no idea who Oskar Schindler was. Since I knew his story before watching this movie, I couldn’t help but see his early behavior in the movie as much less sinister than you see it, and as it indeed was.
Yeah, the real Schindler was no murderer. Just a businessman trying to capitalize on the situation at hand. But then learned what was really going on and used his position of influence to help people survive. Liam portrayed Oskar brilliantly and still remains my favorite role of his.
Her reaction of Schindler was spot on . He was disgusting as were all that followed the Nazis to make money on their end . The transformation of Schindler was great but make no mistake he was not a good man a the beginning . Be careful of what is going on today .
I remember when Ford used to sponsor uncut, ad-free showings of this movie on one of the networks, NBC maybe? If I remember correctly, they did that for a couple of years.
Yes. This one, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Amistad" should be required viewing for all 14 to 17 year olds. And they should be made to know that they are stories about things that really happened.
Ralph Fiennes portrayal as Amon Göth was so close to how the real Amon Göth acted and looked. That a actually survivor of his camp started having PTSD. Thought she saw him come back to life when she saw Ralph in person and saw him act.
I remember a documentary about his daughter and Helen as well. His daughter said she immediately knew it was Amon when Fiennes came on screen and his portrayal was so accurate the real Helen immediately began to shake and cry from fear.
@Cyning And his evil was toned down for the film. Amon was discharged from the SS for excessive cruelty. Think about how bad someone has to be as a camp commandant for the SS to think you are being too cruel
The same happened in theatre where I watched it. Everyone sat in silence for some time before you heard the first chair retract. Very slowly and in silence the audience rose from their seats and left the theatre ( total silence, apart from the retraction of seats) Never experienced anything like this before or since 😪
I think many people really overlook the significance of the scene when you watch those two Nazis debate whether Bach or Mozart is being played while they shoot up the ghetto. It really shows these Nazis at their most terrifying state. Not as demons, or as monsters. But as men. Just men. Men who are educated. Men who appreciate the arts and culture. Men who have a mother. Men who knew what love is. Yet they chose this path, this path of hate, rape, and murder. And yet these men called themselves Christian. They called themselves “civilized”. That scene along shows the horrible, heartbreaking truth of Nazism itself.
Exactly! Plus, I think it shows how these very cultured,.educated, and perhaps "nice" people (in normal situations) cope by dissociating themselves from the reality of the horrors that is happening. Others cope by becoming desensitised to the horrors. It's such a common occurrence (killing, dehumanising, torturing) they can't feel empathy any more. However, even for the hardened Nazis, sometimes the horrors are too much and they snap and go mad like that SS guy shooting into the pike of bodies in the exhuming and incineration scene.
@@martthesling top nazis may not have been Christian but many of the grunts were. The top dogs would never share the same view as their lackeys. If the lackeys knew they were being used they wouldn’t be lackeys much longer. If grunts who were Christian think nazis were fighting for Christendom or western civilization, their masters wouldn’t correct them. Throughout history those in power always played this game - they make their slaves think their interests are aligned.
@@jw1731 Many of the grunts in the Japanese army were shinto/Buddist. That has nothing to do with the Nazis and Party being ant- Christianity: "Hitler explained to his aides. "A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic."
Lol, exactly! Of all the things he could have been during this time, a conman was saintly in comparison to the sadistic psychopaths that overwhelmed the ranks.
Important movie that needs to be seen by everyone. Although some dramatic licence was given to dialogue, it is a fairly accurate depiction of events that really happened. Fun Fact: To gather costumes for 20,000 extras, the costume designer took out advertisements seeking clothes. As economic conditions were poor in Poland, many people were eager to sell clothing they still owned from the 1930s and 1940s.
No true. The conditions at that time were that bad plus most people would have tons of old clothes inherited from elderly relatives stuffed in their attics.
I've liked the reactions I've seen from you so far and your anger is understandable but if you are to caught up in your anger you don't pick up on the difference between Schindler and the ss guards and basically every other German that he's dealing with. Just the fact that he treated them with courtesy was a big deal at that time. When he says "it's dangerous to me" and your response is "all you care about is you" I don't think that you understand the consequences of what could happen to him if the ss suspected that he was creating a safe haven for the Jews. He could have been executed on the spot or worked to death in a slave labor camp. It's easy for us to sit in front of our televisions and say that we would have stood up to the nazi's and we would have saved people ourselves. I've risked death and injury on occasion working construction most of my life but that is nothing compared to the risk of certain death by torture and execution or of being slowly starved and worked to death that you would face by standing up to a horrific totalitarian regime like nazi Germany or the Soviet Union under Stalin or Lenin for that matter. None of us could ever know for sure how we would have acted if we were put into that situation. I doubt that most of us would have had the courage to do what Schindler did during WW2.
Theres a few stories of people doing what he did in some form or other. Incredible bravery in the face of certain death. Most people don't know what it would mean to lose everything for complete strangers.
I'm only 11 minutes into watching this and it is so apparent she can't look past the nazi pin on his chest at this point. That raw anger she is displaying is something else. also makes some interactions (particular with Americans) i have had a lot more understandable. knowing the movie im sure she'll come around and learn a much needed lesson from this. this is probably exactly what makes this movie so good.
@Cyning not even a handful of dudes whining about her responding to the film and the character in real time (most of whom acknowledge that she hasn’t even seen the full arc yet, which is the purpose of the film), and you’re talking about other people being snowflakes 🤣🤣🤣
If anyone is interested theres a group of young folk called White Rose from Munich, that were murdered for resisting the nazi party. Hans and Sophie Scholl and 4 others
TH-cam is already littered with "Come and See" reactions. I for one would opt for a reaction to "Downfall". Not many of those around. Which is a shame since it's highly historically accurate and because it's important to also assume other viewpoints from time to time. Delve into the shades of grey of the whole mess.
An incredibly raw peek into the horror that was the Second World War. The fact that these atrocities had to be toned DOWN for the film and they can still be so horrendous really speaks volumes to the pure evil that can exist in our world should we allow it to go unchecked. A visual and emotional masterpiece by the entire cast, crew, and production teams, and an amazing score by Williams to wrap up this fantastic film. I look forward to your reaction and review, although my heart already aches for you during this experience, because I know that every single time I watch it my soul is in agony for these people.
Yea now guess what. Such camps still exist in china or north korea. And yet the world turns a blind eye. It is the nature of humans to ignore everything that does not concern one personally. It happend countless times in the past. Its happening right now. And it will be that way in the future. Humankind is truly the worst virus the world has ever seen....
@@torkilsd the unfortunate truth is that you are correct. And unless the US is directly affected by something involving said nations that would make them risk nuclear war to invade said country, nothing but “talks of help” and bullshit “conventions” will take place. The only change that comes in the world these days is due to an act of revenge in war, or profit in peace.
By the way, that scene where Schindler is riding with his girlfriend and watches to ghetto massacre? It may seem melodramatic, but the real scene (you can read it in the book) was even MORE so. Schindler actually fell off his horse and ended up on all fours, sobbing on the ground. I guess Spielberg thought that would be a bit much, so Schindler stayed on his horse.
When the child is shot at 18:06, one of the soldiers carrying him gets angry and begins to yell at the shooter. At first glance, it may seem like he had some humanity left and was angry because a child was shot. Of course, in reality, he is yelling at the shooter because the shooter could have hit *him*, not because a child was shot.
This movie is flattering in comparison to what the atrocities looked like. I've seen actual German WW2 recordings of soldiers bulldozing hundreds of malnourished rotting bodies into mass graves and I can't take those images out of my head. I will share a story from a youtuber, the username of which I don't remember now because it was years ago: His grandfather was a soldier in a US platoon in Poland and they were tasked with liberating prisoners. At the time they had no idea about the concentration camps and what was done there. I can't recall the name of the camp they stumbled upon, but his grandfather described it like this: "We looked upon a harrowing sight no one should ever witness. There were long buildings that looked like warehouses and on the front and the sides of those warehouses there were piles of bodies stacked 10 feet high. When we opened the doors of the warehouses we found even more bodies stacked to the roof. There was a train track next to the encampment. The wagons were filled so many bodies we struggled to open the doors." His grandfather then described how his platoon mates were breaking down crying or vomiting their guts out everywhere. Against orders his platoon started executing on sight every single german they found in the camp. He then noticed his mates killing prisoners in striped clothing and rushed to ask them what they were doing. They told him it's not prisoners, but germans officers who tried to disguise themselves in prisoner clothing. "You can tell by their full faces" If I remember correctly nobody in that platoon was court martialled for the killings.
I love Ralph Fines in the role of the SSman, absolutely brilliant performance. No wonder this film got 7 Oscars. Everyone should watch this as part of the education system.
Everyone seem to be praising the Amon Goeth character actor and their essay ends there, and that's it. Regardless of intentions seeing people saying Goethe was impressive, goethe was so well played yada dooda makes my stomach turn. Is that everything y'all gotta say?
Major Karl Plagge, a German staff Officer in Lithuania helped save as many of the Jewish people as he could by convincing the higher ups they where essential workers and the best way was to keep them working was to let families live together. Until the end where the SS where executing them as they retreated. He warned them and saved around 200 from being executed until the red army came through. His trial by the allied forces found him innocent with the testimony by the prisoners at the camp he managed to save.
Plagge story is really sad, most of the jews he genuinly tried to protect were killed by SS. He was a real scientist, a real german, a real soldier and above all a real man...
I went to Auschwitz in 2011. The bin the size of a small room filled with baby shoes taken from children on their way to the showers and the ovens broke me. I can't even think about it without weeping.
Spielberg was heavily inspired by "Come And See" when making this and Saving Private Ryan, It'd make a great reaction video and is considered one of the best movies ever. Highly recommend.
"Come and See "was extremely powerful film especially in the scene where the SS death squad turn up at the Belarusian village and massacre the entire population in the church.
Come And See was a Soviet movie, yes? It makes sense that people in the USSR made a more visceral WWII depiction than any Americans, what they lived through was unspeakable.
I'm from south korea. I used to watch this movie many times when I was in middle school. Everytime I watched this movie i cried so hard, because we koreans have the same history. Thank you for the reaction.
I have watched "no I can speak" (I'm not sure what it is called in Hangul) about the two women, one who registered as a comfort women and her friend who worked in the markets,who did not register. And her journey to give evidence and testimony at the tribunal against Japan. We in tge West don't get told everything about the other side of the world and what happened to them in WW2. I've also watched "man behind the rising Sun" about area 731 in China and how they suffered at the hands of imperial Japan during the war. My heart bleeds for those who never got justice.
My Grandmother was part of the Polish govt which helped smuggle Jews out of danger during the war. To the day she died she kept everything they did a secret. When we forget history we are destined to repeat it. This is why films like this must exist. This story even with how horrific it is it must be told and seen over and over again.
I'm so happy part one and two came out on the same day. Yeah this movie is a rough watch but it's so important that brutally honest movies like this exist
Glad you watched this. Brave showing your raw emotions like that to the whole world. I watched this for the first time at 29 as an assignment for my World at War 220 class. I knew about how famous this movie was but watching it for the first time is a real punch in the gut.
Fiennes portrayal of Amon Goeth scared a survivor so bad she started shaking uncontrollably because he reminded her of the real Amon Goeth. My great grandparents fled Nazi Germany and they said when they watched this in theaters my papa sobbed, because it reminded him of what they escaped and what our family had to endure under the Nazi regime. They always told me that a lot of people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own. Just subscribed, love these reaction videos
In 1983 as a kid on a plane to London from New York,I sat next to a man with a beard and glasses. I noticed numbers on his arm and asked him why he had numbers written in his arm. The man's face changed markedly and he looked at my father and asked for permission to tell me. My dad gave it and then looked at me and said "Don't ever forget what you are about to hear". He was a child in the Warsaw ghetto, one of the few survivors, and he answered all of my childish questions until I understood and explained to me in a way I could understand what he went through. I am 49 now and I have never forgotten.
It’s been years, but a suggestion for you: To get something out of anything, you must set aside your prejudice and listen to the story as it is. Your constant disgust only enforce what you are told to do instead of actually feeling what you’re supposed to feel.
The man who started the ball rolling on getting Schindler's story told; Poldek Pfefferberg, said the only thing wrong about the portrayal of Plaszow was that they couldn't portray the stench. One of the survivors couldn't face meeting Ralph Fiennes because he was so terrifying like Goeth in his portrayal; including his appearance. The true horror is that they were right about Goeth in that, if the Nazis had not allowed his evil nature to be free he would have been a very ordinary middle class German with the typical prejudices of hsi kind all over the world; even today. In places like Bosnia; Kosovo; Rwanda and far too many other places, such people are still being freed of their chains of respectability to become Goeth's of their own. That Schindler saw what he was becoming and changed the lives of so many, speaks to what we can all be when faced with the same truths, kerk
She definitely deserves a break, for sure. But she's helping a lot of people right now. At least, she's helping me. It's good to see genuine emotion, someone who genuinely cares about others in this world that seems to grow colder day by day. She's a breath of fresh air when I need to calm down and assess things.
Oh, my goodness, Diegesis, Schindler's List. Won't lie, I believe this to be the greatest movie ever made. Even better than the Godfather 1 and 2. But it is also the most difficult to watch. Also possibly the most important movie as well.
Every time I start a reaction to this movie, the first thought I have is, this poor person has no idea what they are about to watch. Unlike any other movie that can elicit varying reactions, Schindler's List will always cause the same reaction.
"I haven't been this angry watching a movie in a really long time.." "Also this visual is like the saddest visual ever." I couldn't decide which line of yours I wanted to respond to more, and all I could think of is "BUCKLE UP!!!" lol I love seeing your blind reactions to this absolutely gutting subject matter. I'm watching this just after finishing your Band of Brothers series. You should invest in waterproof makeup and/or a tissue company haha
I watched this in the movie theater, opening weekend. No one was talking as they left the theater. It was a surreal experience 300-400 people leaving a theater in absolute silence.
Enjoying your reaction to this one. Found you doing Band of Brothers. This is definitely something everyone should see. Looking foreword to part 2 and your reaction to Part 10 of Bob-Points. Also recommend watching the documentary with the rest of the dialogue from the Band of Brothers veteran intros. I'm sure I'm not the first to recommend it. Very few reaction channels watch it. I think you'll enjoy it.
Never seen anyone react to this movie that didn't know *something* about Schindler going in, super interesting. Articles and trailers at the time gave audiences enough to know he was a real guy, it was based on a non-fiction book, and what he'd done. Because of that, I feel viewers at the time were on his side from the beginning; which made a lot of the scenes take on a different mood or focus. Super cool to see how a movie worked to someone that didn't know anything about it, other than the setting.
16:11 This is an ironic part. Since after the war ended, this is what happened to the German diaspora in neighboring countries. For example, in Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland German microculture of roughly 1.6 million people that existed in that region since middle ages was liquidated. All ethnic Germans were either exiled or lynched.
Maybe a few modern day organisations should look at themselves more closely when they blithely throw out the word 'genocide' to describe their reason for existence.
Schindler played life like a true elite... he balanced the bad and the good... tipping toward only the evil or only the good sides will topple you.... the hardest realization in human life is realizing you can be a monster and an angel at the same time...... being able to balance that tight rope is god like.... Schindler was a god among men.
The liquidation of the ghetto scene is always such a gut wrench. I had two grandparents who were kids in the war, I've taken multiple courses as a history major on the subject, I've been to Auschwitz as well as many World War II museums around the world. I'm not an expert, but I know a fair bit about it and have thought quite a bit about it. I think about this because of the scene you were reacting to with Amon Goeth at the end. I've tried to put myself in the shoes of the German soldiers during the war. My grandmother, who lived under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, told me that she loathed the Nazis but never faulted individual German soldiers she knew, many of whom were there because they were conscripted, and many of whom did not really want to fight. I can put myself in their shoes and separate them from the government. Many German soldiers were doing what most of us would have probably done. I have a much harder time empathizing with the special forces and paramilitary units: the SS and the Einsatzgrupen in particular. You did not have to join these units, and they were the organizers and very worst perpetrators of the Holocaust. A person like Goeth, who was actually much more cruel than he was portrayed in this movie believe it or not, I think does have something uniquely twisted about him. Some of them joined probably not knowing what they were likely to get themselves into, and then you form a brotherhood of sorts, but it does mean you have had to have been a particularly dedicated Nazi. But what the experience of the war showed in general was that there is a very dark part of all of our hearts that can come out if the circumstances are just wrong.
@UCVUG0bLwr0bNiy7icsUSuCg I'm thankful to your grandfather and great uncle for their service, and I certainly respect your grandfather's opinion. But I think your comment shows a bit of a lack of a broader perspective of the war. The Allies also committed war crimes. They killed 600,000 German civilians in aerial bombing raids which purposefully targeted civilians. Anywhere from 500,000 to two million German civilians were killed after the war as they were fleeing Eastern Europe. Many of the people who were killed were not ardent supporters of Hitler, especially in bombing raids of places like Dresden and Hamburg. The Allies also killed and mistreated POWs. The Allies also had a totalitarian dictatorship on its side that was essential to winning the war. Don't get me wrong, the right side won. And there were clear moral and political distinctions between the Axis powers and the Allies. But war is fundamentally about a failing of humanity. Not everyone on the Allied side was wonderful, and not everyone on the Axis side was evil. I think especially given all that has happened since the Second World War in Germany, it's much better to try and patch things up, as many of the European powers generally have.
@@BloggerMusicMan I'm with you, to a degree, on this. I'm from the UK and have visited both Dresden and Hamburg. The Hamburg museum under the church was especially moving for me knowing how many ordinary civilians died in the bombings and the terror inflicted on the city. But what stuck with me was that after being presented with all these harrowing accounts there is a message at the end reminding the viewer who started this whole affair and who was ultimately to blame - and it wasn't the RAF. I'm reading a great factual book at the moment - the diaries of Victor Klemperer. He (a jew) survived the war only because Dresden was bombed and he escaped in the confusion. This allowed him to complete is diaries which were published in 1995. In it there are many accounts of normal Germans who showed him support or who secretly opposed the nazi ideology and hoped for defeat. It reestablished some faith in humanity, and also showed how wrong the concept of "national guilt" was after the war.
@@DJLtravelvids Klemperer's diaries were required reading when I was in university. I definitely know them, and I'm glad you brought them up. There is a lot of really good insight in them, including relevantly what you did. I'm Canadian, but my other grandmother was from England and was shipped out to the countryside when the Blitz happened. It was one of her earliest memories. I get a bit of the English cultural memory surrounding this topic. I think there's an important distinction to be made between blaming the government and blaming the people. I think you're always getting into morally dangerous territory when you're talking about bombing civilians, no matter what precipitated it. But it is fair to at least consider that the Nazi government's military activities leading up to that had the reasonable expectation of serious blowback. If you start a war in someone else's territory, it's not unreasonable to expect that someday it might come back on your own. It's just unfortunate that many millions of Germans had no say in the matter.
You are spreading the clean Wehrmacht myth. The lie that the monsters only came from the SS and the "average German soldier" did nothing wrong. That is false and dangerous. The Wehrmacht was just as much a tooo of genocide as was the SS. Please stop pretending as if there was a meaningful difference. And I don't think you realise how right you were when you said you would probably do the same as the average soldier. Yes, you would do the same as they did. Including all the torture, rape and slaughter
@@tilltronje1623 Nope, you are incorrect. Any amount of reading would reveal the difference in behaviours and orders for the SS and Einstatzgruppe compared with most Wermacht units. And neither does the OP claim the Wermacht were "clean", just that they were really no different to the allies. We all know soldiers do dirty work, and we all know soldiers are capable of atrocities. Recognising the humanity in the enemy is itself an act of humanity
I really enjoy your reactions…you seem to have genuine surprise during parts…i don’t like when people correctly know whats going to happen during reactions
Your very genuine and heartfelt reaction is much appreciated in our current shallow and desensitized society. I saw this movie in the theater when it opened when I was 18. Still the only movie I've ever seen where the entire audience was stone silent and didn't move untile after the credits.
That's why I love this channel. I watch her the most because like most of us, I crave real emotion, real signs that someone gives a fuck and still has humanity and Arianna is the best at calming my tornado brain. Bless the man who put(s) a ring on her.
This should be mandatory watching for every neo-Nazi, every right headed Extremist and for those who want to create a autocratic Society. this is what happens when you create such a horror.
You may want to do a little reading. Nazis were and are socialists. In fact Nazi means national socialism. This is the current Democrat party. Sadly the vast majority of the left are so brain washed they have no clue what they are talking about. Spewing the propaganda is a daily occurrence. Also look into the fact, although I am keenly aware that facts are poison to the left, the left were the slave owners. The left is the party of racism.
@@bilyd333 I've done extensive reading on the subject concerning totalism and social based societies. Based with your remarks, I feel you are acting clueless in differentiating the difference between social bound society and dictatorship. Commonly creating a "the fallacy of false comparison" between socialism and NAZIS. Socialism "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." Nazisism "the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer." Now that we have settle on the correct meaning and ground work. Please find within the Democrat party the ideology of Nazisism. Nazisim based on it's meaning has more todo with the Republican party, which now has included racial bigotry, hatred of religious groups and hatred of those they feel are different. Under the current Republican ideology the belief of a supreme leader as was found in Hitler. You may not like the democrat principle, but they are by far not even close to NAZISISM. As for the Communist based system, it is a totalitarian form a government, much like current China government. So please learn the subject mater, as you have stated in your opening remarks or your going to look and act like a buffoon.
"yechh" "disgusting" "pompous!...absolutely pompous!" haha. good lord. i find your reactions.....amusing on a juvenile level. i rather you pause the movie and discuss your points intelligently about the scenes rather than these 14-year-old one-liners about Oskar Schindler himself. ugh. this was awkward to watch.
This movie is an incredible docu-drama recounting the horrors many were put through under the Nazi regime. Equally important is that it is a story about redemption...that redemption is not always an instantaneous switch but, often, a process that takes time to fully manifest itself and how powerful a force redemption and love can be even in the most dire of circumstances. This movie is a masterpiece but, to me, the most powerful moment is near the end when Schindler turns to the guards and says "you can go home either as men or murderers, your choice" (paraphrased). At first only one of them turns to leave which inspires the remainder to leave as well. Essentially he's calling them out to either be like him and spare these peoples' lives, or be like the regime they represent which is now in shambles. These are mostly kids who were indoctrinated into thinking that everyone in that room was evil and deserved to be destroyed being chastised by someone who was part of their own "team" and are forced, in a single moment, to reckon with and face up to their own demons, redeeming themselves in the process, instead of choosing their own destruction.
I can't watch this movie more than once a year. It's just too awful to comprehend. Spielberg really captured the horror of one of the worst events humanity has ever seen.
I'm teacher history and historian. When I was studying for teacher I made an end theme work about WW2, one part about the battles and the other part about the holocaust which is the most intensive genocide in human history. For this work I interviewed several survivors of Auschwitz Birkenau and Treblinka, one of them was Regine Beer. A wonderful Jewish lady living in Antwerp. With her I made also a play coming from a movie called The Wave. This movie and then also our play tells the true story about a history teacher who was asked by one of his student how it was possible that one man could made citizens to commit a genocide, the teacher did not find immediately the way to explain so he started to work out the same idea as Adolf Hitler did. I went also to Auschwitz 5 times and believe me that with the first time as with the last time I walked around with tears in my eyes and a question in my head nl "How is it possible that humans can do this to other humans"?
Well my Grandfather was in Wehrmacht and he served in the Eastern front.He died in 2009. He was born in 1921.I still have his uniform. My Grandfather untill he died didn't liked blacks and juden. I don't have any problem with them as they are humans too.I love my Grandfather but it is on of the things I didn't liked about him.Im sorry for my Grandfather 🙏.
Most movies insinuate the violence, which evokes an emotional response. Actually showing someone's murder, showing the chaos and the monstrous insanity behind it all, evokes a traumatic response. And when it comes to subjects like this, it is important to show the latter.
The purpose of the little girl's red dress was to signify hope and when the little girl climbs under the bed it was to show that hope is lost color in the movie signifies Hope so towards the end of the movie when they light the candle to do their prayers it's in color signifying hope is not all lost
I have seen quite some reactions to this movie because I was very interested in how today’s younger generations view this bit of history. I was born close to Germany begin eighties and our grandparents and sometimes our parents were firsthand witnesses of the war and it’s atrocities. Now these generations are almost gone and ww2 is past history. I want you to know that yours is one of few reaction vids that felt very genuine and wholesome, in which not the person reacting, but the movie and it’s historical meaning had centre stage. It is in the way to what you react and how you respond and how it seems you don’t want to hear yourself talk all the time. I want to commend you for that.
Ironic, my first thought was "come on now, dont make her watch THIS!" But if shes as brave as she is charming, well, go ahead i guess. There are other 'reactions' series but this one is superior! Oh: well done on the first 'Terminator' kiddo, you did a great job catching the plot right on time. 😃
Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played Goeth, sank into a deep depression and self-loathing playing him. Survivors couldn't tell the difference between them when he was dressed up as Goeth, and it hurt him deeply. His worst moments were when he began relating to him. He came very close to never acting again.
This and the 3rd rReich might be one of the darkest times in the history of mankind. Movies like this one are essential, so we never forget what happened and remind us, that horrible things like that should never.ever. happen again.
Us Brits always seem to portray the baddie roles to absolute perfection but I imagine for Ralph Fiennes it was a lot harder portraying Amon Goeth when it's based on real events in history, it's not like Voldemort (Harry Potter) or Francis Dolarhyde (Red Dragon).
Imagine watching this with the applause and cheers of the members of the Canadian House of Commons. They gave a standing ovation to an actual SS soldier. I feel crushed that so many people are unaware of history.
Steven Spielberg sent a copy to every high school in England, I watched it in school at 15 years old on a square TV wheeled in on a trolley... Amazing.
Seeing this again, it's mind-boggling that in 2021 in the United States there are school boards in Texas that want to teach 'both sides' of the Holocaust in history classes. Imagine how disgusted the WW-II veterans who fought against this fascism would be, if they were not buried in cemeteries in Europe.
It's not the school boards. It's the right wing loonies incharge of Texas's State government. This is the same thing a lot of southern states did with teaching about the Civil War. Thus creating generations of southerners who don't think the Civil War was about slavery.
@@Curraghmore you should be linking to legit news sources on this, I find it very hard to believe what you're saying isn't very slanted if not completely made up. Sounds like left winger fan fiction
@@Curraghmore You think teaching both sides is bad, but know know what they mean by both sides mean? Well since you don't know what they mean, and I don't either, I'll argue for why teaching "both sides" matters. Do you want history to repeat? If not, then we need understand why and how such horrors took place. You can't understand if you just teach, we are the good guys and they are the bad guys (I'm not saying that isn't true).
I absolutely adore the fact that you neither feel the need to talk over the entire movie nor make stoopit/ "jokes" all throughout. Kudos to you my fine feathered friend. SUBBED! AND LIKED! I ain't scared! 😁
This is Spielberg's best movie. Essential viewing for any student of cinema, or indeed, history. But at the same time, it's also one of the most confronting, almost traumatising films ever made, so, anyone else who hasn't seen it, proceed with caution.
I make it a point to watch this movie about once a year. The last time I watched it, I watched it late at night by myself as my wife didn't want to sit through it again. Once the movie was over, I made the mistake to visit the 'special features' which included interviews with the folks that survived because of Schindler. Powerful and important recording of history. That being said, the words they said and the events they recounted - while being able to hear their emotion and look them in the eyes kept me up all night and haunt me still. They certainly cut stuff for the movie. Speaks volumes about the propensity of humanity for both amazing good and amazing evil.
Hi, i am from germany and i saw this film 4 times and i be really not a soft soul but every time i have tears in my eyes when i see this great film. Horrible to what poeple are able to do and so awesome that we have had such humans in our country who fight against this.
The actors that played Nazis constantly broke down in tears and apologies, and often walked off set or quit. The Jewish actors constantly reassured them they were doing a good thing by bringing light to a certain part of history.
The little girl in the red coat is actually a memory of Aurdrey Hepburns who spoke of seeing her to Spielberg. She said through the darkness and screaming bodies was this beautiful little girl in the red coat. It was the look on the little girls face that haunted miss Hepburn as she said that even tho everyone around was screaming and crying she looked like she knew what was going to happen and that she had accepted her fate as she was thrown onto the train by the nazi officer who carrying her. Miss Hepburn was working with the allied forces as a spy so she had seen so many disturbing things but it was her that ha I haunted her as no child should know what she did. Spielberg wanted to honour her memory as nobody should ever be forgotten.
This reaction was annoying as hell. The arrogance of this reactor is impossible for me to get past. It’s very easy for us in the 21st century living our very cushy lives to demonize someone like Schindler, who was literally just trying to do business in an impossible situation. Let’s just hope and pray we’re never put in a situation like this. I doubt most of us would do as much as Schindler did. Granted, I haven’t watched the second part yet, but these are my feelings so far.
ma'am, the movie wants to you demonize schindler. its a story about character growth. he wasnt born a hero. he becomes a hero when opportunity presents himself. its ridiculous to like a womanizing war profiteer nazi in the first half of the movie
@@Diegesis no, it just shows a woeful ignorance of history to automatically talk shit about every little thing he does. Her understanding of how things were during this time for regular people in Germany is laughable. And I’m not the only person in the comment section who feels this way.
You should still watch the second part. But I do partly agree. I mean it is in the movie when Schindler kissed that jewish girl he was in prison the same day but was able to get out only because he had trust and connections with high ranked SS officers. Alot of people think they'd be the heroes saving jews in the 30s. To those: Ask yourself, would you risk your whole family(everything) for a stranger?
I like the reaction of how american can react in a movie like this. Reacting with a lot of emotions. We in the netherlands seeing this movie on school because history most not forgotten Gets a Total different reaction then most of americans got on movies like this. We are just speecheless of What we see and are just quid the hole movie.
The best reaction i have seen to this profoundly disturbing but necessary film. All reactors get upset (obviously) but your reaction had anger and disgust which is needed in response to injustice this awful.
"Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, damn it!" -Mr. Burns, The Simpsons
I still say this movie and Saving Private Ryan should be mandatory to watch in high school. It's one thing to read about how horrific WWII and the Holocaust were, it's another more guttural experience to see it.
Not Private Ryan. That film has nothing to offer that makes it essential. It has good effects and fairly realistic combat but nothing that makes it relevant to a history class. Schindler's List and Der Untergang would be better as a pair.
@@tilltronje1623 it shows how horrific combat between two conventional armies is. How horrific the Normandy invasions were. Maybe not the whole movie but definitely the first 20 minutes.
@@tilltronje1623 I agree there's a better choice than Saving Private Ryan, and that's the series Band of Brothers. Not only is it one of the finest dramas I've ever seen, but it's absolutely true; based on the experiences and actual words of paratroopers who were on the front lines from Normandy to the end of the war.
@@hammergodsix war being brutal and horrific is obvious. You don't need a movie to know that. Movies mandated in history class must present significant insight into the progress and reasons for historical events as well as the nature of humans involved in said events. Otherwise they are merely entertainment, not education. Even Schindler's List struggles to conform to the first requirement while acing the second one, but apparently people in countries unaffected by the Holocaust have such shallow knowledge of it that Hollywood is their only source of education on the subject. The same does not hold true for DDay
Now you know why this needs to be shown in school like it was when I was young so we never let something like this happen ever again. You also now know why those men and women risked their lives fighting Hitler and his evilness because he wouldve taken many more lives including this country
Your got really emotional watching this film I was going suggest watching another made for t.v. movie called "Escape From Sobibor" based on The Holocaust but its also hard to watch but it happened
Watching you just 8 Minutes into this "Reaction" it's so obvious to me that you are prejudice to every "german" you see, even to Schindler - that's what I would call biased and "I" don't like People who are like you. Watching a Movie, no mater the Contend, should always happen with an open Mind... and at the End you can say what you think about it - but here you show right from the start disgust, even in your Facial expressions, in almost every Scene. Not something I really like to watch for a Movie-Reaction...
You're ridiculous. She wasn't reacting to "germans" she was reacting to literal SS officers. The first Germans we see are actual nazis. Oskar is a total jerk in the beginning of the movie. Stop being a snowflake.
Dude, really? Disgust for the literal command and commandments of the SS is the fucking correct response. We're not watching a movie about random soldier boys standing on watch on a street corner. We're not watching 'the German people: a common history in a common month'. Also, Schindler? Kind of a piece of shit for many reasons, no matter the beautiful things he also did.
Get over yourself. I didnt get this at all from her reaction. She was disgusted by those committing atrocities. She was disgusted by Schindlers apparent callous attitude (as was I at first) not disgusted at the German people. I really don't believe in the concept of "national guilt" following WW2 - plenty of Germans simply fought for their country and not for an ideology, and plenty of Germans disagreed with the persecution of the Jews - but I think shame and disgusted are legitimate reactions to watching this movie You might want to reflect on how you have come across as a bit of a prick here
He wasn’t pompous it was an act he was a con man who earned millions during the war and by the end he was broke because he spent all his money on dedicating himself to protecting as many Jews as he possibly could without blowing his cover
Amon Göth taking potshots is alas far more sinister than “mere” randomness. He shoots those that do not work, be it to tie their shoe or rest due to exhaustion.
The actors playing the Nazis frequently had emotional breakdowns between takes and had to be reassured by the rest of the cast and crew that everyone knew they were only acting. Ralph Fiennes, who played Amon Goethe, often retreated to his trailer in-between takes for extended periods because he had so much difficulty transitioning from the part he was playing. This wasn't helped by the fact that he was so damn good at playing the horrifying Goethe that a Holocaust survivor brought onto the set as a consultant would have panic attacks from how realistic Fiennes seemed when he was acting as Goethe. They also toned down Goethe's persona by a LOT. No one would have believed this really happened if they showed just how Evil he was.
The little girl in the red dress was mentioned at Adolf Eichmanns trial at Jerusalem in 1961. Justice Bach was questioning a witness who had gone through the selection process at Auschwitz. Here follows what happened, you can then understand why Speilberg used the Red Coat in his film. It affected Justice Bach all his life... “The man told me,” said Bach, “’When we arrived at the camp, Nazi soldiers ordered us into a single-file line. They then sorted us into two lines. I later learned that the people they sent to the right, soldiers marched directly into the gas chambers. Those on the left, they packed into the barracks destined for the work units’.” “’I can clearly to this day remember the sounds and images. For my dear wife, they shouted, “To the right,” and my little two-and-a-half year old daughter, “To the right.” My young son asked the guard, “Where should I go?,” and the guard answered, “Okay, young man. You can go to the right with your sister and mother.” The guard asked me what was my profession, and I said I was an engineer. He demanded that I go to the left’.” “’I watched my wife and my son fade into the distance and then swallowed up by the crowd, and the last image I can remember was seeing this tiny but bright red coat, the coat I bought my daughter, grow smaller and smaller into a mere dot and eventually evaporate into the distance. This is how my family disappeared from my life’.” Upon hearing this at the trial, Bach could no longer speak, a lump gathering in his throat. Following an uncomfortable silence, the judge demanded Bach to continue questioning the witness. To regain his composure, Bach began fiddling with his papers, but he could not find his voice for some time. Passing through his mind he fixed on his own two-and-a-half year old daughter, the daughter he had only recently given the gift of a bright red coat. “From that time forward, I can be attending a sports event. I can be dining at a restaurant. I can be sitting outside, and suddenly I hear my heart beating loudly. And then I turn around, and I see a little girl or a little boy wearing a red coat.” Steven Spielberg heard about this incident from the trial, and contacted Justice Bach for the details. He later incorporated this event into his film Schindler’s List, a movie filmed virtually in black and white - except for a scene where Schindler peers into a concentration camp and among the grittiness, the pain, and the sickness, sees a young girl wearing a bright red coat.
It's a story about a character arc. Schindler starts out with no real regard for the workers/victims. He just sees an opportunity to become very wealthy and doesn't care if he has to use slave labor to do it. Over the course of the holocaust his humanity emerges and he begins to see how insane it all is. He sacrifices the money to redeem himself as a human being.
This! Thank you. I am blown away by how many people expected her to love Oskar right off the bat
I see it as a hero's journey/redemption story - and a real-life one at that.
@@Diegesis You are quite right. He was a flawed human, like most or all of us. And in shocking circumstances he made a series of humane and ultimately wise decisions. And he was still not perfect, because nobody is, but over time he did move significantly toward the light.
Yes, an arc of redemption.
I think she got it after watching the second part dude.
I remember reading somewhere that Spielburg actually called up Robin Williams during filming so he could tell jokes and cheer up the crew a bit.
@GhostEye31 Yes you are 100% correct. Its probably one of the all time favorite movie fun facts. RIP Robin you will be forever missed.
It’s also crazy to think he was editing Jurassic Park while shooting this. Going between such different stories and emotions must have been crazy.
Not sure Robin Williams was the best choice considering he was a manic depressive who committed suicide.
@@sillybilly1662 he didn’t commit suicide because he was depressed… he committed suicide because he had Lewy Body Dementia. Originally he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s but that was incorrect.
Your entire premise that someone depressed can’t make someone else happy is fucking retarded. Robin Williams was a comedian and made people laugh, making people laugh is a sign of happiness, therefore Robin Williams made people happy. Just trying to be edgy to be edgy doesn’t make you cool lol unless you are still in high school. Otherwise grow the fuck up.
on the phone? Otherwise, what the fuck does that have to do with anything?
I’ve been to Hiroshima to ring the peace bell, I’ve been to the USS Arizona, and I’ve been to Auschwitz and seen 600k shoes. My grandfather served in WWII. The younger generations in this country have gone as far as denying the holocaust and it concerns me, actually it terrifies me. We, all of us must never forget that evil like this not only existed but almost gained absolute power.
Thank you for writing this. It concerns me too, especially Texas banning books on the Holocaust recently. But we will not let it happen! "But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer." a great quote from the Lord of the Rings to recall in dark times.
I lost 133 family members in the camps - mainly Stutthof and Auschwitz. Seeing the camps is an important thing- for all people, I think. Bearing witness.
I would say though that more so than Auschwitz, the camp that really affected me was Majdanek in eastern Poland.
Majdanek was also a death camp like Auschwitz but smaller. However, unlike Auschwitz, the Germans never got a chance to destroy it before fleeing - so it’s all still there, intact.
Also, it’s right on the outskirts of the city of Lublin. Like you can see the whole town from the crematoria. That really hits you. I can’t really explain why but unlike Treblinka, for example,
Which was completely destroyed and in the middle of the forest, it doesn’t feel like something out of a horror movie - it feels so much more real. It feels like what it was a death factory.
@@perusing350 What books are you talking about? I see no such story. More fake news.
Schindler was what might be called a "business Nazi". He didn't believe in Nazi ideology nor did he agree with what they were doing. But he was a businessman, and in Nazi Germany, either you were a member of the Party or you couldn't do any business at all. Also, Schindler's story was not as cut-and-dried as it's presented in the film. Movies need an "arc", so one was imposed on Schindler's story. He wasn't the callous man who became Good. Schindler was doing things against the Nazis from early on, looking for subtle ways he could undermine them (without losing money, of course). He simply didn't give a crap about the Nazi thing. He just wanted to get rich, and the war was the easiest way to do it, and if he could help some people along the way and thumb his nose in secret at the idiots in their hateful uniforms, so much the better. As things went along, he realized just how bad it was, and that he couldn't look away. THAT is why "you're a good man" upset him so much - because he realized he was being backed into a corner by circumstances, and would have to put up or shut up pretty damn soon. That scared him, but he couldn't run away from the fact that subtle ways were no long going to work - he would have to roll up his sleeves and be REALLY devious, and maybe (god forbid) even... BRAVE.
@@Jericho363 There were Schindlers no one knew about, many if not most of them were murdered. On the other side of the world, Minnie Vautrin was the Schindler of Nanking. She risked her life to save many, many people, but unlike Schindler the reality of what happened did her in. She was also haunted by those she could not save, but in the end they were all she could see, and she took her own life. The irony is that to this day, she is still worshiped as an incarnation of Kwan Yin by families in China - literally _worshiped,_ as in picture on the family altar and everyone prays to her - because of her courage and sacrifice in saving them. We may be a garbage species, but some of us do manage to transcend our awful DNA.
@@Jericho363 You're welcome. Not enough people are aware of what happened in Nanking. When people are knocked out by watching Schindler's List, I always tell them that once they get their strength back they should watch _Flowers of War._ It's a fictional story but it tells quite succinctly the situation in Nanking, and how some people risked their lives to try and stop at least a little of it. Because a little was all anyone could stop.
As monstrous as Amon Goeth was portrayed in this film, know that he was actually much worse in real life.
Ralph Fiennes did an outstanding job. Really capitalized on the role and perfectly portrayed a monster in human form.
Yeah they cut out the scenes where he'd feed people to his dogs and specifically used children for target practice with his friends. And the tortures too.
@@TJ-ve8sv Ralph Fiennes on playing the horrifying villain: th-cam.com/video/0cDtK0HzHRY/w-d-xo.html
When a survivor of the Plazow camp named Mila Pfefferberg, who was hired as a technical adviser for the film, first saw Ralph Fiennes in costume, she started shaking and panicking because she thought for a moment that Amon Göeth had come back from the dead. He was that convincing.
At the end Liam Neeson's performance is outstanding. 1st and only time I ever cried over a movie.
Dang. I cried when Mufasa died. You must have a heart of ice!
Never cried during a movie but this def nearly had me
Watch Hachi - A Dog's Life.
@@solongdentahlplaan7975 ....or not really seen that many good movies
never cried during a movie? Fuck, I cry when my alarm clock goes off every day...
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
The people in the west still hating the jews, saying that jews are warmongers and dishonorable people, a New holocaust is a possible scenario.
@@maleficusvictor9887 Agreed! A few years ago I got into a heated debate with a holocaust denier. Israel is under constant attack and the UN treats them worse than ISIS and the Taliban!
@@Knight_of_NI To bad you can't explain to him that the rulers of Israel are NOT the Jewish people. We all need to work to ensure that any holocaust does not happen again. That especially includes what we teach our children, keep their minds open and to reject the tyrants and useful idiots. IE, Antifa, BLM, Communist, Nazi's, Corporate tyrants, etc. 😠😔🙏🙏🙏
Sadly it still happens today. Maybe not on the same scale but ethnic cleansing still happens in the modern world. Sadly I don't think it will ever stop.
bullshit
It’s so interesting seeing someone watch this movie who had no idea who Oskar Schindler was. Since I knew his story before watching this movie, I couldn’t help but see his early behavior in the movie as much less sinister than you see it, and as it indeed was.
He plays it soooo well.
Yeah, the real Schindler was no murderer. Just a businessman trying to capitalize on the situation at hand. But then learned what was really going on and used his position of influence to help people survive. Liam portrayed Oskar brilliantly and still remains my favorite role of his.
I agree! It was so frustrating to hear her take on Schindler early on.
They show this in i think 6th grade when I was in school in Sweden and we had no idea who he was either, but I remember everyone tearing up at the end
Her reaction of Schindler was spot on . He was disgusting as were all that followed the Nazis to make money on their end . The transformation of Schindler was great but make no mistake he was not a good man a the beginning . Be careful of what is going on today .
This is by far Steven Spielberg's best film. Nothing has ever come close.
saving private ryan
@@soundbreak7 That’s his second best.
@@soundbreak7 Brilliant film! But yes, I second the notion that it's his second best.
Definitely his most important, if not his best.
Maybe " empire of the sun".
This is one of those movies that should always be shown to the new generations.
Yes, they need to see the realities of genocide and how the world is when evil people have control.
I remember when Ford used to sponsor uncut, ad-free showings of this movie on one of the networks, NBC maybe? If I remember correctly, they did that for a couple of years.
Yes. This one, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Amistad" should be required viewing for all 14 to 17 year olds. And they should be made to know that they are stories about things that really happened.
@@RealTechZen SPR is total American propaganda lol
why
Ralph Fiennes portrayal as Amon Göth was so close to how the real Amon Göth acted and looked. That a actually survivor of his camp started having PTSD. Thought she saw him come back to life when she saw Ralph in person and saw him act.
I remember a documentary about his daughter and Helen as well. His daughter said she immediately knew it was Amon when Fiennes came on screen and his portrayal was so accurate the real Helen immediately began to shake and cry from fear.
@Cyning And his evil was toned down for the film. Amon was discharged from the SS for excessive cruelty. Think about how bad someone has to be as a camp commandant for the SS to think you are being too cruel
A film very difficult to see.
I saw this in the theater when it was first released. We all left the theater in complete silence. Never happened before and never since.
I experienced this, too. The atmosphere when leaving the cinema after 'The Downfall' was very close, though.
The same happened in theatre where I watched it. Everyone sat in silence for some time before you heard the first chair retract. Very slowly and in silence the audience rose from their seats and left the theatre ( total silence, apart from the retraction of seats) Never experienced anything like this before or since 😪
If I remember I watched it in theater when it first came out, some people walked out, they couldn't take it !
I think many people really overlook the significance of the scene when you watch those two Nazis debate whether Bach or Mozart is being played while they shoot up the ghetto. It really shows these Nazis at their most terrifying state. Not as demons, or as monsters. But as men. Just men. Men who are educated. Men who appreciate the arts and culture. Men who have a mother. Men who knew what love is. Yet they chose this path, this path of hate, rape, and murder. And yet these men called themselves Christian. They called themselves “civilized”. That scene along shows the horrible, heartbreaking truth of Nazism itself.
Exactly! Plus, I think it shows how these very cultured,.educated, and perhaps "nice" people (in normal situations) cope by dissociating themselves from the reality of the horrors that is happening. Others cope by becoming desensitised to the horrors. It's such a common occurrence (killing, dehumanising, torturing) they can't feel empathy any more. However, even for the hardened Nazis, sometimes the horrors are too much and they snap and go mad like that SS guy shooting into the pike of bodies in the exhuming and incineration scene.
The Nazis were anti Christianity
@@martthesling top nazis may not have been Christian but many of the grunts were. The top dogs would never share the same view as their lackeys. If the lackeys knew they were being used they wouldn’t be lackeys much longer. If grunts who were Christian think nazis were fighting for Christendom or western civilization, their masters wouldn’t correct them.
Throughout history those in power always played this game - they make their slaves think their interests are aligned.
@@jw1731 The Nazi party sang anti Christian songs.
@@jw1731 Many of the grunts in the Japanese army were shinto/Buddist. That has nothing to do with the Nazis and Party being ant- Christianity: "Hitler explained to his aides. "A
slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets
worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and
more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in
nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic."
"You're a CONman honestly!" What a GREAT reaction at that point in the film. Yes he was... thank God.
Lol, exactly! Of all the things he could have been during this time, a conman was saintly in comparison to the sadistic psychopaths that overwhelmed the ranks.
Important movie that needs to be seen by everyone. Although some dramatic licence was given to dialogue, it is a fairly accurate depiction of events that really happened.
Fun Fact: To gather costumes for 20,000 extras, the costume designer took out advertisements seeking clothes. As economic conditions were poor in Poland, many people were eager to sell clothing they still owned from the 1930s and 1940s.
Nothing better than a 'fun fact' when talking about a Holocaust movie.
Friis Torben Tappert ...I could rely horrific "fun" facts about the events depicted in the movie. Would you rather that?
No true. The conditions at that time were that bad plus most people would have tons of old clothes inherited from elderly relatives stuffed in their attics.
I've liked the reactions I've seen from you so far and your anger is understandable but if you are to caught up in your anger you don't pick up on the difference between Schindler and the ss guards and basically every other German that he's dealing with. Just the fact that he treated them with courtesy was a big deal at that time. When he says "it's dangerous to me" and your response is "all you care about is you" I don't think that you understand the consequences of what could happen to him if the ss suspected that he was creating a safe haven for the Jews. He could have been executed on the spot or worked to death in a slave labor camp. It's easy for us to sit in front of our televisions and say that we would have stood up to the nazi's and we would have saved people ourselves. I've risked death and injury on occasion working construction most of my life but that is nothing compared to the risk of certain death by torture and execution or of being slowly starved and worked to death that you would face by standing up to a horrific totalitarian regime like nazi Germany or the Soviet Union under Stalin or Lenin for that matter. None of us could ever know for sure how we would have acted if we were put into that situation. I doubt that most of us would have had the courage to do what Schindler did during WW2.
Theres a few stories of people doing what he did in some form or other. Incredible bravery in the face of certain death. Most people don't know what it would mean to lose everything for complete strangers.
I'm only 11 minutes into watching this and it is so apparent she can't look past the nazi pin on his chest at this point. That raw anger she is displaying is something else. also makes some interactions (particular with Americans) i have had a lot more understandable. knowing the movie im sure she'll come around and learn a much needed lesson from this. this is probably exactly what makes this movie so good.
@@braytac I swear she was more judgmental of Schindler than Amon 😂
@Cyning not even a handful of dudes whining about her responding to the film and the character in real time (most of whom acknowledge that she hasn’t even seen the full arc yet, which is the purpose of the film), and you’re talking about other people being snowflakes 🤣🤣🤣
If anyone is interested theres a group of young folk called White Rose from Munich, that were murdered for resisting the nazi party. Hans and Sophie Scholl and 4 others
I recommend "Come and See", a soviet film that shows WW2 in eastern europe from the perspective of a 14 year old boy.
TH-cam is already littered with "Come and See" reactions. I for one would opt for a reaction to "Downfall". Not many of those around. Which is a shame since it's highly historically accurate and because it's important to also assume other viewpoints from time to time. Delve into the shades of grey of the whole mess.
Very good movie
Watch europa the last battle
@@finch-island theres literally like 6 or 7 come and see reactions on all of youtube haha
I will not recommended that movie , that is so hard to watch .
An incredibly raw peek into the horror that was the Second World War. The fact that these atrocities had to be toned DOWN for the film and they can still be so horrendous really speaks volumes to the pure evil that can exist in our world should we allow it to go unchecked.
A visual and emotional masterpiece by the entire cast, crew, and production teams, and an amazing score by Williams to wrap up this fantastic film.
I look forward to your reaction and review, although my heart already aches for you during this experience, because I know that every single time I watch it my soul is in agony for these people.
Yea now guess what. Such camps still exist in china or north korea. And yet the world turns a blind eye.
It is the nature of humans to ignore everything that does not concern one personally.
It happend countless times in the past. Its happening right now. And it will be that way in the future.
Humankind is truly the worst virus the world has ever seen....
@@torkilsd the unfortunate truth is that you are correct. And unless the US is directly affected by something involving said nations that would make them risk nuclear war to invade said country, nothing but “talks of help” and bullshit “conventions” will take place.
The only change that comes in the world these days is due to an act of revenge in war, or profit in peace.
Yeah, the movie didn't show even a fraction of what really happened. "Sick" doesn't begin to describe it.
By the way, that scene where Schindler is riding with his girlfriend and watches to ghetto massacre? It may seem melodramatic, but the real scene (you can read it in the book) was even MORE so. Schindler actually fell off his horse and ended up on all fours, sobbing on the ground. I guess Spielberg thought that would be a bit much, so Schindler stayed on his horse.
When the child is shot at 18:06, one of the soldiers carrying him gets angry and begins to yell at the shooter. At first glance, it may seem like he had some humanity left and was angry because a child was shot. Of course, in reality, he is yelling at the shooter because the shooter could have hit *him*, not because a child was shot.
This movie is flattering in comparison to what the atrocities looked like. I've seen actual German WW2 recordings of soldiers bulldozing hundreds of malnourished rotting bodies into mass graves and I can't take those images out of my head.
I will share a story from a youtuber, the username of which I don't remember now because it was years ago:
His grandfather was a soldier in a US platoon in Poland and they were tasked with liberating prisoners. At the time they had no idea about the concentration camps and what was done there.
I can't recall the name of the camp they stumbled upon, but his grandfather described it like this:
"We looked upon a harrowing sight no one should ever witness. There were long buildings that looked like warehouses and on the front and the sides of those warehouses there were piles of bodies stacked 10 feet high. When we opened the doors of the warehouses we found even more bodies stacked to the roof.
There was a train track next to the encampment. The wagons were filled so many bodies we struggled to open the doors."
His grandfather then described how his platoon mates were breaking down crying or vomiting their guts out everywhere.
Against orders his platoon started executing on sight every single german they found in the camp.
He then noticed his mates killing prisoners in striped clothing and rushed to ask them what they were doing.
They told him it's not prisoners, but germans officers who tried to disguise themselves in prisoner clothing.
"You can tell by their full faces"
If I remember correctly nobody in that platoon was court martialled for the killings.
I love Ralph Fines in the role of the SSman, absolutely brilliant performance. No wonder this film got 7 Oscars. Everyone should watch this as part of the education system.
May I suggest: Sunshine 1999🎬❣️
And: Inheritance documentary 2006 & YT videos with Jennifer Teege⁉️
We watched this movie in class when I was in School around 2003-2004 so some schools do realise its significance
@@bucky7162 American History X is also another one I think should be studied.
Everyone seem to be praising the Amon Goeth character actor and their essay ends there, and that's it. Regardless of intentions seeing people saying Goethe was impressive, goethe was so well played yada dooda makes my stomach turn. Is that everything y'all gotta say?
Major Karl Plagge, a German staff Officer in Lithuania helped save as many of the Jewish people as he could by convincing the higher ups they where essential workers and the best way was to keep them working was to let families live together. Until the end where the SS where executing them as they retreated. He warned them and saved around 200 from being executed until the red army came through.
His trial by the allied forces found him innocent with the testimony by the prisoners at the camp he managed to save.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Plagge story is really sad, most of the jews he genuinly tried to protect were killed by SS. He was a real scientist, a real german, a real soldier and above all a real man...
I went to Auschwitz in 2011. The bin the size of a small room filled with baby shoes taken from children on their way to the showers and the ovens broke me. I can't even think about it without weeping.
Spielberg was heavily inspired by "Come And See" when making this and Saving Private Ryan, It'd make a great reaction video and is considered one of the best movies ever. Highly recommend.
wish he made a movie about the Holodomor
@@capnhands I would not want to see an American movie about the Holodmor, europeans do so much better.
"Come and See "was extremely powerful film especially in the scene where the SS death squad turn up at the Belarusian village and massacre the entire population in the church.
God, Come and See is a movie I think everyone should watch. Best movie I'll never watch again.
Come And See was a Soviet movie, yes? It makes sense that people in the USSR made a more visceral WWII depiction than any Americans, what they lived through was unspeakable.
Your feelings toward Schindler in the beginning is proof you should get to know someone before you make judgement.
I'm from south korea. I used to watch this movie many times when I was in middle school. Everytime I watched this movie i cried so hard, because we koreans have the same history. Thank you for the reaction.
I have watched "no I can speak" (I'm not sure what it is called in Hangul) about the two women, one who registered as a comfort women and her friend who worked in the markets,who did not register. And her journey to give evidence and testimony at the tribunal against Japan. We in tge West don't get told everything about the other side of the world and what happened to them in WW2. I've also watched "man behind the rising Sun" about area 731 in China and how they suffered at the hands of imperial Japan during the war. My heart bleeds for those who never got justice.
My Grandmother was part of the Polish govt which helped smuggle Jews out of danger during the war. To the day she died she kept everything they did a secret.
When we forget history we are destined to repeat it. This is why films like this must exist. This story even with how horrific it is it must be told and seen over and over again.
I'm so happy part one and two came out on the same day. Yeah this movie is a rough watch but it's so important that brutally honest movies like this exist
Glad you watched this. Brave showing your raw emotions like that to the whole world. I watched this for the first time at 29 as an assignment for my World at War 220 class. I knew about how famous this movie was but watching it for the first time is a real punch in the gut.
I admire it too. I can't really feel deep emotions so when I watched the movie I was more sceptic.
I do like to watch others react.
Fiennes portrayal of Amon Goeth scared a survivor so bad she started shaking uncontrollably because he reminded her of the real Amon Goeth.
My great grandparents fled Nazi Germany and they said when they watched this in theaters my papa sobbed, because it reminded him of what they escaped and what our family had to endure under the Nazi regime. They always told me that a lot of people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.
Just subscribed, love these reaction videos
In 1983 as a kid on a plane to London from New York,I sat next to a man with a beard and glasses. I noticed numbers on his arm and asked him why he had numbers written in his arm. The man's face changed markedly and he looked at my father and asked for permission to tell me. My dad gave it and then looked at me and said "Don't ever forget what you are about to hear".
He was a child in the Warsaw ghetto, one of the few survivors, and he answered all of my childish questions until I understood and explained to me in a way I could understand what he went through. I am 49 now and I have never forgotten.
An absolute masterpiece. As bad as this movie makes us feel about the evil, I am sure is was 1000 times more intense to live through it 😩
It’s been years, but a suggestion for you:
To get something out of anything, you must set aside your prejudice and listen to the story as it is. Your constant disgust only enforce what you are told to do instead of actually feeling what you’re supposed to feel.
The man who started the ball rolling on getting Schindler's story told; Poldek Pfefferberg, said the only thing wrong about the portrayal of Plaszow was that they couldn't portray the stench. One of the survivors couldn't face meeting Ralph Fiennes because he was so terrifying like Goeth in his portrayal; including his appearance. The true horror is that they were right about Goeth in that, if the Nazis had not allowed his evil nature to be free he would have been a very ordinary middle class German with the typical prejudices of hsi kind all over the world; even today. In places like Bosnia; Kosovo; Rwanda and far too many other places, such people are still being freed of their chains of respectability to become Goeth's of their own. That Schindler saw what he was becoming and changed the lives of so many, speaks to what we can all be when faced with the same truths, kerk
Is making Arianna cry a new sport or something? This is as brutal as it gets, might as well have her watch some comedies after this.
She definitely deserves a break, for sure. But she's helping a lot of people right now. At least, she's helping me. It's good to see genuine emotion, someone who genuinely cares about others in this world that seems to grow colder day by day. She's a breath of fresh air when I need to calm down and assess things.
I applaud you for getting through this because knowledge is power and if we fail to learn from history and truth, we are condemned to repeat it
Oh, my goodness, Diegesis, Schindler's List. Won't lie, I believe this to be the greatest movie ever made. Even better than the Godfather 1 and 2. But it is also the most difficult to watch. Also possibly the most important movie as well.
Every time I start a reaction to this movie, the first thought I have is, this poor person has no idea what they are about to watch. Unlike any other movie that can elicit varying reactions, Schindler's List will always cause the same reaction.
"I haven't been this angry watching a movie in a really long time.." "Also this visual is like the saddest visual ever." I couldn't decide which line of yours I wanted to respond to more, and all I could think of is "BUCKLE UP!!!" lol I love seeing your blind reactions to this absolutely gutting subject matter. I'm watching this just after finishing your Band of Brothers series. You should invest in waterproof makeup and/or a tissue company haha
"I haven't been this angry watching a movie in a really long time.." You should watch Jesus Camp. That movie will really piss you off.
@@sspdirect02 That documenty The Imposter pisses me off
I watched this in the movie theater, opening weekend. No one was talking as they left the theater. It was a surreal experience 300-400 people leaving a theater in absolute silence.
Enjoying your reaction to this one. Found you doing Band of Brothers. This is definitely something everyone should see. Looking foreword to part 2 and your reaction to Part 10 of Bob-Points. Also recommend watching the documentary with the rest of the dialogue from the Band of Brothers veteran intros. I'm sure I'm not the first to recommend it. Very few reaction channels watch it. I think you'll enjoy it.
Never seen anyone react to this movie that didn't know *something* about Schindler going in, super interesting. Articles and trailers at the time gave audiences enough to know he was a real guy, it was based on a non-fiction book, and what he'd done. Because of that, I feel viewers at the time were on his side from the beginning; which made a lot of the scenes take on a different mood or focus. Super cool to see how a movie worked to someone that didn't know anything about it, other than the setting.
I watched this in High School history class.. definitely the most moving and heart breaking films ever..
16:11 This is an ironic part. Since after the war ended, this is what happened to the German diaspora in neighboring countries. For example, in Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland German microculture of roughly 1.6 million people that existed in that region since middle ages was liquidated. All ethnic Germans were either exiled or lynched.
Maybe a few modern day organisations should look at themselves more closely when they blithely throw out the word 'genocide' to describe their reason for existence.
Schindler played life like a true elite... he balanced the bad and the good... tipping toward only the evil or only the good sides will topple you.... the hardest realization in human life is realizing you can be a monster and an angel at the same time...... being able to balance that tight rope is god like.... Schindler was a god among men.
The liquidation of the ghetto scene is always such a gut wrench.
I had two grandparents who were kids in the war, I've taken multiple courses as a history major on the subject, I've been to Auschwitz as well as many World War II museums around the world. I'm not an expert, but I know a fair bit about it and have thought quite a bit about it.
I think about this because of the scene you were reacting to with Amon Goeth at the end. I've tried to put myself in the shoes of the German soldiers during the war. My grandmother, who lived under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, told me that she loathed the Nazis but never faulted individual German soldiers she knew, many of whom were there because they were conscripted, and many of whom did not really want to fight. I can put myself in their shoes and separate them from the government. Many German soldiers were doing what most of us would have probably done.
I have a much harder time empathizing with the special forces and paramilitary units: the SS and the Einsatzgrupen in particular. You did not have to join these units, and they were the organizers and very worst perpetrators of the Holocaust. A person like Goeth, who was actually much more cruel than he was portrayed in this movie believe it or not, I think does have something uniquely twisted about him.
Some of them joined probably not knowing what they were likely to get themselves into, and then you form a brotherhood of sorts, but it does mean you have had to have been a particularly dedicated Nazi.
But what the experience of the war showed in general was that there is a very dark part of all of our hearts that can come out if the circumstances are just wrong.
@UCVUG0bLwr0bNiy7icsUSuCg I'm thankful to your grandfather and great uncle for their service, and I certainly respect your grandfather's opinion.
But I think your comment shows a bit of a lack of a broader perspective of the war. The Allies also committed war crimes. They killed 600,000 German civilians in aerial bombing raids which purposefully targeted civilians. Anywhere from 500,000 to two million German civilians were killed after the war as they were fleeing Eastern Europe. Many of the people who were killed were not ardent supporters of Hitler, especially in bombing raids of places like Dresden and Hamburg. The Allies also killed and mistreated POWs. The Allies also had a totalitarian dictatorship on its side that was essential to winning the war.
Don't get me wrong, the right side won. And there were clear moral and political distinctions between the Axis powers and the Allies. But war is fundamentally about a failing of humanity. Not everyone on the Allied side was wonderful, and not everyone on the Axis side was evil. I think especially given all that has happened since the Second World War in Germany, it's much better to try and patch things up, as many of the European powers generally have.
@@BloggerMusicMan I'm with you, to a degree, on this. I'm from the UK and have visited both Dresden and Hamburg. The Hamburg museum under the church was especially moving for me knowing how many ordinary civilians died in the bombings and the terror inflicted on the city. But what stuck with me was that after being presented with all these harrowing accounts there is a message at the end reminding the viewer who started this whole affair and who was ultimately to blame - and it wasn't the RAF.
I'm reading a great factual book at the moment - the diaries of Victor Klemperer. He (a jew) survived the war only because Dresden was bombed and he escaped in the confusion. This allowed him to complete is diaries which were published in 1995. In it there are many accounts of normal Germans who showed him support or who secretly opposed the nazi ideology and hoped for defeat. It reestablished some faith in humanity, and also showed how wrong the concept of "national guilt" was after the war.
@@DJLtravelvids Klemperer's diaries were required reading when I was in university. I definitely know them, and I'm glad you brought them up. There is a lot of really good insight in them, including relevantly what you did.
I'm Canadian, but my other grandmother was from England and was shipped out to the countryside when the Blitz happened. It was one of her earliest memories. I get a bit of the English cultural memory surrounding this topic.
I think there's an important distinction to be made between blaming the government and blaming the people. I think you're always getting into morally dangerous territory when you're talking about bombing civilians, no matter what precipitated it.
But it is fair to at least consider that the Nazi government's military activities leading up to that had the reasonable expectation of serious blowback. If you start a war in someone else's territory, it's not unreasonable to expect that someday it might come back on your own. It's just unfortunate that many millions of Germans had no say in the matter.
You are spreading the clean Wehrmacht myth. The lie that the monsters only came from the SS and the "average German soldier" did nothing wrong. That is false and dangerous. The Wehrmacht was just as much a tooo of genocide as was the SS. Please stop pretending as if there was a meaningful difference.
And I don't think you realise how right you were when you said you would probably do the same as the average soldier. Yes, you would do the same as they did. Including all the torture, rape and slaughter
@@tilltronje1623 Nope, you are incorrect. Any amount of reading would reveal the difference in behaviours and orders for the SS and Einstatzgruppe compared with most Wermacht units. And neither does the OP claim the Wermacht were "clean", just that they were really no different to the allies.
We all know soldiers do dirty work, and we all know soldiers are capable of atrocities.
Recognising the humanity in the enemy is itself an act of humanity
I really enjoy your reactions…you seem to have genuine surprise during parts…i don’t like when people correctly know whats going to happen during reactions
Your very genuine and heartfelt reaction is much appreciated in our current shallow and desensitized society. I saw this movie in the theater when it opened when I was 18. Still the only movie I've ever seen where the entire audience was stone silent and didn't move untile after the credits.
That's why I love this channel. I watch her the most because like most of us, I crave real emotion, real signs that someone gives a fuck and still has humanity and Arianna is the best at calming my tornado brain. Bless the man who put(s) a ring on her.
This is the most genuine reaction video for Schindler's list, in my opinion, the best move ever made.
This should be mandatory watching for every neo-Nazi, every right headed Extremist and for those who want to create a autocratic Society. this is what happens when you create such a horror.
Especially those in favor of putting the unvaccinated in camps.
I'm sure that minority is aware of these things.
You may want to do a little reading. Nazis were and are socialists. In fact Nazi means national socialism. This is the current Democrat party. Sadly the vast majority of the left are so brain washed they have no clue what they are talking about. Spewing the propaganda is a daily occurrence. Also look into the fact, although I am keenly aware that facts are poison to the left, the left were the slave owners. The left is the party of racism.
@@bilyd333 I've done extensive reading on the subject concerning totalism and social based societies. Based with your remarks, I feel you are acting clueless in differentiating the difference between social bound society and dictatorship. Commonly creating a "the fallacy of false comparison" between socialism and NAZIS.
Socialism
"a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."
Nazisism
"the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer."
Now that we have settle on the correct meaning and ground work. Please find within the Democrat party the ideology of Nazisism. Nazisim based on it's meaning has more todo with the Republican party, which now has included racial bigotry, hatred of religious groups and hatred of those they feel are different. Under the current Republican ideology the belief of a supreme leader as was found in Hitler.
You may not like the democrat principle, but they are by far not even close to NAZISISM. As for the Communist based system, it is a totalitarian form a government, much like current China government. So please learn the subject mater, as you have stated in your opening remarks or your going to look and act like a buffoon.
@@richunixunix3313 based
I love the "who stole the chicken?" scene. Either Amon randomly shot the right person, or that kid is a fckn genius.
"yechh"
"disgusting"
"pompous!...absolutely pompous!"
haha. good lord.
i find your reactions.....amusing on a juvenile level. i rather you pause the movie and discuss your points intelligently about the scenes rather than these 14-year-old one-liners about Oskar Schindler himself. ugh. this was awkward to watch.
It actually got annoying. Like a man hating lesbian or something.
@@jejohnson1982 bingo.
@@jejohnson1982 and literally screaming every time a person would get shot, like yeah its sad but are you really that transparent?
It’s understandable once I realized it’s basically AOC doing movie reactions and virtue signaling.
This movie is an incredible docu-drama recounting the horrors many were put through under the Nazi regime. Equally important is that it is a story about redemption...that redemption is not always an instantaneous switch but, often, a process that takes time to fully manifest itself and how powerful a force redemption and love can be even in the most dire of circumstances.
This movie is a masterpiece but, to me, the most powerful moment is near the end when Schindler turns to the guards and says "you can go home either as men or murderers, your choice" (paraphrased). At first only one of them turns to leave which inspires the remainder to leave as well. Essentially he's calling them out to either be like him and spare these peoples' lives, or be like the regime they represent which is now in shambles. These are mostly kids who were indoctrinated into thinking that everyone in that room was evil and deserved to be destroyed being chastised by someone who was part of their own "team" and are forced, in a single moment, to reckon with and face up to their own demons, redeeming themselves in the process, instead of choosing their own destruction.
I can't watch this movie more than once a year. It's just too awful to comprehend. Spielberg really captured the horror of one of the worst events humanity has ever seen.
Same. I watch it once a year too. Only once, because it's too horrible, and every year because we cannot let ourselves forget this happened, not ever.
I'm teacher history and historian. When I was studying for teacher I made an end theme work about WW2, one part about the battles and the other part about the holocaust which is the most intensive genocide in human history. For this work I interviewed several survivors of Auschwitz Birkenau and Treblinka, one of them was Regine Beer. A wonderful Jewish lady living in Antwerp. With her I made also a play coming from a movie called The Wave. This movie and then also our play tells the true story about a history teacher who was asked by one of his student how it was possible that one man could made citizens to commit a genocide, the teacher did not find immediately the way to explain so he started to work out the same idea as Adolf Hitler did. I went also to Auschwitz 5 times and believe me that with the first time as with the last time I walked around with tears in my eyes and a question in my head nl "How is it possible that humans can do this to other humans"?
A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NOT EVER BE FORGOTTON IN OUR LIFETIME, OR ANY FUTURE LIFETIME!
Well my Grandfather was in Wehrmacht and he served in the Eastern front.He died in 2009. He was born in 1921.I still have his uniform. My Grandfather untill he died didn't liked blacks and juden. I don't have any problem with them as they are humans too.I love my Grandfather but it is on of the things I didn't liked about him.Im sorry for my Grandfather 🙏.
They used to play this, uncensored, on PBS back when I was in high school. Sobering stuff.
Most movies insinuate the violence, which evokes an emotional response. Actually showing someone's murder, showing the chaos and the monstrous insanity behind it all, evokes a traumatic response. And when it comes to subjects like this, it is important to show the latter.
The purpose of the little girl's red dress was to signify hope and when the little girl climbs under the bed it was to show that hope is lost color in the movie signifies Hope so towards the end of the movie when they light the candle to do their prayers it's in color signifying hope is not all lost
I have seen quite some reactions to this movie because I was very interested in how today’s younger generations view this bit of history. I was born close to Germany begin eighties and our grandparents and sometimes our parents were firsthand witnesses of the war and it’s atrocities. Now these generations are almost gone and ww2 is past history. I want you to know that yours is one of few reaction vids that felt very genuine and wholesome, in which not the person reacting, but the movie and it’s historical meaning had centre stage. It is in the way to what you react and how you respond and how it seems you don’t want to hear yourself talk all the time. I want to commend you for that.
"For what reason?"
Like Amon told the Maid, "The reason I beat you now, is because you ask why I beat you."
Ironic, my first thought was "come on now, dont make her watch THIS!" But if shes as brave as she is charming, well, go ahead i guess. There are other 'reactions' series but this one is superior! Oh: well done on the first 'Terminator' kiddo, you did a great job catching the plot right on time. 😃
Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played Goeth, sank into a deep depression and self-loathing playing him. Survivors couldn't tell the difference between them when he was dressed up as Goeth, and it hurt him deeply. His worst moments were when he began relating to him. He came very close to never acting again.
ralph fiennes did an impeccable job depicting the worst of humanity
He deserved an Oscar. He was robbed by the academy.
@@SupremeCommanderBaiser agreed
This and the 3rd rReich might be one of the darkest times in the history of mankind. Movies like this one are essential, so we never forget what happened and remind us, that horrible things like that should never.ever. happen again.
Us Brits always seem to portray the baddie roles to absolute perfection but I imagine for Ralph Fiennes it was a lot harder portraying Amon Goeth when it's based on real events in history, it's not like Voldemort (Harry Potter) or Francis Dolarhyde (Red Dragon).
Cause you have trained actors ✊
Well… you have a long history of being oppressors
@@Ant-bm1qk Oh dear Ant. Chip, shoulder much? I encourage you to read into 1833.
@@Ant-bm1qk So do many nations - and some still do. So what makes British actors so special?
@@mred20 why would I have a chipped shoulder over your history? Lol
I was just stating a fact
Imagine watching this with the applause and cheers of the members of the Canadian House of Commons. They gave a standing ovation to an actual SS soldier.
I feel crushed that so many people are unaware of history.
React to The Stanford Prison Experiment. It really happened... Regular students.
yeah we know about it
when he said he was a metal press operator, quite skilled. that's where i see his arch in the movie
Your initial hatred of oscar was a little harsh.
Steven Spielberg sent a copy to every high school in England, I watched it in school at 15 years old on a square TV wheeled in on a trolley... Amazing.
Seeing this again, it's mind-boggling that in 2021 in the United States there are school boards in Texas that want to teach 'both sides' of the Holocaust in history classes. Imagine how disgusted the WW-II veterans who fought against this fascism would be, if they were not buried in cemeteries in Europe.
It's not the school boards. It's the right wing loonies incharge of Texas's State government.
This is the same thing a lot of southern states did with teaching about the Civil War.
Thus creating generations of southerners who don't think the Civil War was about slavery.
What do you mean "both sides"?
That's what they said in Texas, I guess they know what they mean by 'both sides'.
@@Curraghmore you should be linking to legit news sources on this, I find it very hard to believe what you're saying isn't very slanted if not completely made up. Sounds like left winger fan fiction
@@Curraghmore You think teaching both sides is bad, but know know what they mean by both sides mean? Well since you don't know what they mean, and I don't either, I'll argue for why teaching "both sides" matters. Do you want history to repeat? If not, then we need understand why and how such horrors took place. You can't understand if you just teach, we are the good guys and they are the bad guys (I'm not saying that isn't true).
I absolutely adore the fact that you neither feel the need to talk over the entire movie nor make stoopit/ "jokes" all throughout.
Kudos to you my fine feathered friend.
SUBBED!
AND LIKED!
I ain't scared!
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This is Spielberg's best movie. Essential viewing for any student of cinema, or indeed, history. But at the same time, it's also one of the most confronting, almost traumatising films ever made, so, anyone else who hasn't seen it, proceed with caution.
I live across the street from a Jewish school and a synagogue and on Saturdays I can hear them singing. It's quite beautiful.
I make it a point to watch this movie about once a year. The last time I watched it, I watched it late at night by myself as my wife didn't want to sit through it again.
Once the movie was over, I made the mistake to visit the 'special features' which included interviews with the folks that survived because of Schindler. Powerful and important recording of history.
That being said, the words they said and the events they recounted - while being able to hear their emotion and look them in the eyes kept me up all night and haunt me still. They certainly cut stuff for the movie. Speaks volumes about the propensity of humanity for both amazing good and amazing evil.
Hi, i am from germany and i saw this film 4 times and i be really not a soft soul but every time i have tears in my eyes when i see this great film. Horrible to what poeple are able to do and so awesome that we have had such humans in our country who fight against this.
The actors that played Nazis constantly broke down in tears and apologies, and often walked off set or quit. The Jewish actors constantly reassured them they were doing a good thing by bringing light to a certain part of history.
Again, I'd very much appreciate a source to this since I find that a bit hard to believe.
If someone doesn't cry or feel sad during the red dress girl scene, that person has no soul
Absolutely love your reviews they're always so moving!
Amon Goeth was much, MUCH worse than this movie portrayed him. They had to tame him down otherwise the movie would have been a PG18
Ok for real though. Please just let Arianna watch love actually or some shit. She needs a break guys 😂
Remember: You aren't born with hate; it is a learned trait.
Want another emotionally scarring, heart wrenching movie in the same vein?
The Pianist
That movie, like this one, will leave you fckd up.
The little girl in the red coat is actually a memory of Aurdrey Hepburns who spoke of seeing her to Spielberg. She said through the darkness and screaming bodies was this beautiful little girl in the red coat. It was the look on the little girls face that haunted miss Hepburn as she said that even tho everyone around was screaming and crying she looked like she knew what was going to happen and that she had accepted her fate as she was thrown onto the train by the nazi officer who carrying her. Miss Hepburn was working with the allied forces as a spy so she had seen so many disturbing things but it was her that ha I haunted her as no child should know what she did. Spielberg wanted to honour her memory as nobody should ever be forgotten.
This reaction was annoying as hell. The arrogance of this reactor is impossible for me to get past. It’s very easy for us in the 21st century living our very cushy lives to demonize someone like Schindler, who was literally just trying to do business in an impossible situation. Let’s just hope and pray we’re never put in a situation like this. I doubt most of us would do as much as Schindler did.
Granted, I haven’t watched the second part yet, but these are my feelings so far.
ma'am, the movie wants to you demonize schindler. its a story about character growth. he wasnt born a hero. he becomes a hero when opportunity presents himself. its ridiculous to like a womanizing war profiteer nazi in the first half of the movie
@@Diegesis no, it just shows a woeful ignorance of history to automatically talk shit about every little thing he does. Her understanding of how things were during this time for regular people in Germany is laughable.
And I’m not the only person in the comment section who feels this way.
You should still watch the second part. But I do partly agree. I mean it is in the movie when Schindler kissed that jewish girl he was in prison the same day but was able to get out only because he had trust and connections with high ranked SS officers. Alot of people think they'd be the heroes saving jews in the 30s. To those: Ask yourself, would you risk your whole family(everything) for a stranger?
@@baronbolsak1900 Statistically improbable to be a hero in 3rd Reich. Even today when the stakes are low people are afraid to speak up.
I like the reaction of how american can react in a movie like this. Reacting with a lot of emotions. We in the netherlands seeing this movie on school because history most not forgotten Gets a Total different reaction then most of americans got on movies like this. We are just speecheless of What we see and are just quid the hole movie.
The best reaction i have seen to this profoundly disturbing but necessary film. All reactors get upset (obviously) but your reaction had anger and disgust which is needed in response to injustice this awful.
"Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made shells for the Nazis, but mine worked, damn it!"
-Mr. Burns, The Simpsons
I still say this movie and Saving Private Ryan should be mandatory to watch in high school. It's one thing to read about how horrific WWII and the Holocaust were, it's another more guttural experience to see it.
Add Band of Brothers.
Not Private Ryan. That film has nothing to offer that makes it essential. It has good effects and fairly realistic combat but nothing that makes it relevant to a history class. Schindler's List and Der Untergang would be better as a pair.
@@tilltronje1623 it shows how horrific combat between two conventional armies is. How horrific the Normandy invasions were. Maybe not the whole movie but definitely the first 20 minutes.
@@tilltronje1623 I agree there's a better choice than Saving Private Ryan, and that's the series Band of Brothers. Not only is it one of the finest dramas I've ever seen, but it's absolutely true; based on the experiences and actual words of paratroopers who were on the front lines from Normandy to the end of the war.
@@hammergodsix war being brutal and horrific is obvious. You don't need a movie to know that. Movies mandated in history class must present significant insight into the progress and reasons for historical events as well as the nature of humans involved in said events. Otherwise they are merely entertainment, not education.
Even Schindler's List struggles to conform to the first requirement while acing the second one, but apparently people in countries unaffected by the Holocaust have such shallow knowledge of it that Hollywood is their only source of education on the subject. The same does not hold true for DDay
John Williams-"you need someone better than me to write the score for this movie"
Steven Spielberg l-"I know John, but they're all dead"
Now you know why this needs to be shown in school like it was when I was young so we never let something like this happen ever again. You also now know why those men and women risked their lives fighting Hitler and his evilness because he wouldve taken many more lives including this country
Your got really emotional watching this film
I was going suggest watching another made for t.v. movie called "Escape From Sobibor" based on The Holocaust but its also hard to watch but it happened
Watching you just 8 Minutes into this "Reaction" it's so obvious to me that you are prejudice to every "german" you see, even to Schindler - that's what I would call biased and "I" don't like People who are like you.
Watching a Movie, no mater the Contend, should always happen with an open Mind... and at the End you can say what you think about it - but here you show right from the start disgust, even in your Facial expressions, in almost every Scene. Not something I really like to watch for a Movie-Reaction...
You're ridiculous. She wasn't reacting to "germans" she was reacting to literal SS officers. The first Germans we see are actual nazis. Oskar is a total jerk in the beginning of the movie. Stop being a snowflake.
Dude, really? Disgust for the literal command and commandments of the SS is the fucking correct response. We're not watching a movie about random soldier boys standing on watch on a street corner. We're not watching 'the German people: a common history in a common month'.
Also, Schindler? Kind of a piece of shit for many reasons, no matter the beautiful things he also did.
Get over yourself. I didnt get this at all from her reaction. She was disgusted by those committing atrocities. She was disgusted by Schindlers apparent callous attitude (as was I at first) not disgusted at the German people.
I really don't believe in the concept of "national guilt" following WW2 - plenty of Germans simply fought for their country and not for an ideology, and plenty of Germans disagreed with the persecution of the Jews - but I think shame and disgusted are legitimate reactions to watching this movie
You might want to reflect on how you have come across as a bit of a prick here
He wasn’t pompous it was an act he was a con man who earned millions during the war and by the end he was broke because he spent all his money on dedicating himself to protecting as many Jews as he possibly could without blowing his cover
Amon Göth taking potshots is alas far more sinister than “mere” randomness.
He shoots those that do not work, be it to tie their shoe or rest due to exhaustion.
The actors playing the Nazis frequently had emotional breakdowns between takes and had to be reassured by the rest of the cast and crew that everyone knew they were only acting. Ralph Fiennes, who played Amon Goethe, often retreated to his trailer in-between takes for extended periods because he had so much difficulty transitioning from the part he was playing. This wasn't helped by the fact that he was so damn good at playing the horrifying Goethe that a Holocaust survivor brought onto the set as a consultant would have panic attacks from how realistic Fiennes seemed when he was acting as Goethe.
They also toned down Goethe's persona by a LOT. No one would have believed this really happened if they showed just how Evil he was.
The little girl in the red dress was mentioned at Adolf Eichmanns trial at Jerusalem in 1961. Justice Bach was questioning a witness who had gone through the selection process at Auschwitz. Here follows what happened, you can then understand why Speilberg used the Red Coat in his film. It affected Justice Bach all his life...
“The man told me,” said Bach, “’When we arrived at the camp, Nazi soldiers ordered us into a single-file line. They then sorted us into two lines. I later learned that the people they sent to the right, soldiers marched directly into the gas chambers. Those on the left, they packed into the barracks destined for the work units’.”
“’I can clearly to this day remember the sounds and images. For my dear wife, they shouted, “To the right,” and my little two-and-a-half year old daughter, “To the right.” My young son asked the guard, “Where should I go?,” and the guard answered, “Okay, young man. You can go to the right with your sister and mother.” The guard asked me what was my profession, and I said I was an engineer. He demanded that I go to the left’.”
“’I watched my wife and my son fade into the distance and then swallowed up by the crowd, and the last image I can remember was seeing this tiny but bright red coat, the coat I bought my daughter, grow smaller and smaller into a mere dot and eventually evaporate into the distance. This is how my family disappeared from my life’.”
Upon hearing this at the trial, Bach could no longer speak, a lump gathering in his throat. Following an uncomfortable silence, the judge demanded Bach to continue questioning the witness.
To regain his composure, Bach began fiddling with his papers, but he could not find his voice for some time. Passing through his mind he fixed on his own two-and-a-half year old daughter, the daughter he had only recently given the gift of a bright red coat.
“From that time forward, I can be attending a sports event. I can be dining at a restaurant. I can be sitting outside, and suddenly I hear my heart beating loudly. And then I turn around, and I see a little girl or a little boy wearing a red coat.”
Steven Spielberg heard about this incident from the trial, and contacted Justice Bach for the details. He later incorporated this event into his film Schindler’s List, a movie filmed virtually in black and white - except for a scene where Schindler peers into a concentration camp and among the grittiness, the pain, and the sickness, sees a young girl wearing a bright red coat.