Divide Et Impera
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I'm surprised that a movie of this magnitude doesn't have its own thread yet, but I guess I'll do the honors....
I just finished watching this about 45 minutes ago and I would use all the metaphors to describe it: tear jerker, heart wrenching, gut wrenching - all that.
Man, when Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) broke down at the end trying to figure ways in hindsight how he could have saved one more person, that killed me. When Itzhak Stein (sp?) tried to console him by telling him how much good he had accomplished, that was a powerful dichotomy - Oskar on how he wonders if he did enough and Itzhak reminding him how much he had actually done.
There were so many examples of purely innocent humanity in this film. When the women were sent to the showers and the water came out and they were actually in real showers shows a terrible transition from fear and despair to joy and relief. When the boy jumps down into the outhouse to avoid capture and is confronted by territorialism from the other children in there was so sad. The trains, crowded and hot, lined in barbed wire, people panting and gasping for air. The taunting and inhumanity of German children who knew no better ("Goodbye Jews!" and drawing a finger across a throat). The insanity and brutality of the German officers firing indiscriminately onto broken, fleeing people. There is just too much to this movie.
This was a true hero's story with an element of unsuspecting if not reluctant friendship. Watch this movie if you haven't already (as I hadn't)....
I just finished watching this about 45 minutes ago and I would use all the metaphors to describe it: tear jerker, heart wrenching, gut wrenching - all that.
Man, when Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) broke down at the end trying to figure ways in hindsight how he could have saved one more person, that killed me. When Itzhak Stein (sp?) tried to console him by telling him how much good he had accomplished, that was a powerful dichotomy - Oskar on how he wonders if he did enough and Itzhak reminding him how much he had actually done.
There were so many examples of purely innocent humanity in this film. When the women were sent to the showers and the water came out and they were actually in real showers shows a terrible transition from fear and despair to joy and relief. When the boy jumps down into the outhouse to avoid capture and is confronted by territorialism from the other children in there was so sad. The trains, crowded and hot, lined in barbed wire, people panting and gasping for air. The taunting and inhumanity of German children who knew no better ("Goodbye Jews!" and drawing a finger across a throat). The insanity and brutality of the German officers firing indiscriminately onto broken, fleeing people. There is just too much to this movie.
This was a true hero's story with an element of unsuspecting if not reluctant friendship. Watch this movie if you haven't already (as I hadn't)....
