Paper Clips
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Movie Reviews of Paper Clips
Movie Review: Never again; but always remembered!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film documents the progress of an idea to stop discrimination and prejudice and truly live with tolerance of all people. It shows a rural community in Tennessee,a very unlikely location, who affected history now and in the future. What started out as a project to see how much 6 million of anything - paper clips - could be collected to commemorate the number of Jews who were killed in the holocaust. In the first two and a half years, just over 2 million clips had been collected, but as word of the project spread all over the world, in the next four months they had now collected over 29 million paper clips! A cattle car, from Germany was located, was purchased (with donations of private citizens)was transported and set up on ties which had been set up - all without any cost to the students of Whitwell. The car had been renovated and 6 million paper clips, to remember the Jews and were put on one side of the car and 5 million - to remember the homosexuals, Gypsies, and others - were put on the other side. This project changed the entire town in a very touching way. The images of this film stay with the viewer long after it has ended. A film that can be seen many times without tiring of it. It restored the values and principles upon which this country was founded. A truly outstanding film based on a truly wonderful project. From the mouth of babes....Movie Review: Paper Clips
Summary: 5 Stars
I watch a lot of documentaries, but, this one should be in a position apart from the usual fare. (Kind of like the Griswold's Christmas tree, by itself in the forest, with a heavenly-light emitting from it.) After borrowing a copy from my state library, I ordered my own, from Amazon.com, that very day. I'm having it make the rounds of the homes of my four daughter's,in two different states, my six siblings in five states, my parents, in Florida, my siblings-in-law, all in New York, to finally be given to my eighty-six year old mother-in-law, also in New York. She was born in the Ukraine, moved with her mother and brother to Poland, where, as a teenager, she was taken by invading Nazis and placed in one their infamous camps, where she met the man who would, after liberation, become her husband. I feel that it is important for everyone that I love, and more important, for everyone my mother-in- law loves, to view this documentary. Along with the film traveling via manila envelopes, I'm enclosing large paper clips for each person. without telling them why. They'll need to watch the film to find the answer. I recommend "Paper Clips" to all inhabitants of this planet, especially children, so maybe the bad habit of intolerance can be nipped in it's poisonous bud, sooner, rather than later; if ever.Movie Review: If it was possible to give more than a 5, I would
Summary: 5 Stars
If you haven't seen this movie, do. If you're a teacher, get it for your classroom. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, in 1998, Whitwell, TN's schools started a project on prejudice. They just meant to open the minds of their mostly Caucasian, Protestant, kids.
They started viewing Holocaust films and research uncovered that Norweigans wore paperclips on their collars during WWII in memory of the people lost in Hitler's concentration camps.
The kids started collecting paperclips. As more people found out, the world got involved--and a beautiful film and memorial was created. It also changed the lives of many of the students and residents of the town.
This is an amazing film and a testament to the power of committed and concerned people. It is just amazing how these kids from rural Tennessee got together with people from all over the world to give wings both to people who died in concentration camps, but also to allow the survivors to tell their stories.
Probably one of the most amazing touching moments in this film was when a suitcase full of paperclips arrived at the TN school from a class of German students who were writing and apologising to Ann Frank.
Movie Review: Paper Clips
Summary: 5 Stars
Paper Clips is a documentary about a small town middle school in Tennessee that embarked upon the project of collecting a paper clip for every victim of the holocaust. The project was not originally intended to be as far reaching as it turned out to be, but due to publicity help by a German couple who were journalists and who had a personal friend who had been a victim of the Nazis during WWII, the students and their teachers began to hear from many who were interested in their project and who sent them paper clips to add to their collections. In time they were also connected with survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and eventually obtained a German train car used to transport prisoners to camps which they were able to use as both a monument and a storage of the collections of correspondance and of the paperclips. Not only was it the first person accounts of the atrocities that were heart rending but also the process in which the students learned to care, invest in and to mourn for/with the victims as they became personally connected. This was a great study of the consequences of ethnic lntolerance.Movie Review: Paper Clips Review & Jubilee Info
Summary: 5 Stars
For a documentary,I was very impressed. This documentary even got & kept my 8 year old daughter's attention. There is a verse in the Bible which states "Do not despise the day of small things." What is so miraculous is that, in the beginning, the Paper Clip Project, apart from a shipment of 100,000 paper clips all at once, got off to a very slow & small start, yet the staff & students involved did not let that initial reality stop them dead in their tracks. They still persisted & their willingness to continue to "stand" was richly rewarded. In a day & age where there are people in positions of influence & authority out there who would try to have us believe the Holocaust never happened, I was very heartened to see how a small, rural community was used instrumentally to remind the world of just how REAL the Holocaust really was.As for the song "Jubilee" some have expressed questions regarding... I went to the Alison Krauss website & it stated on her website that:
"Jubilee" will soon be available for download ONLY on iTunes...