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Movie Review: "Some day this will all end."
Summary: 5 Stars

While watching Steven Spielberg's masterpiece I am faced with a most curious dichotomy: I enjoy watching this film; I am repulsed watching this film. Which, I suppose, is as it should be; SCHINDLER'S LIST depicts humanity at its best--inhumanity at its worst. Spielberg wanted to stress authenticity when he made this film, and he didn't cut any corners. Summary, wanton executions, beatings, herding scores of naked men and women before stern Nazi physicians, hiding in human waste--this is easily one of the most disturbing movies ever. Yet the naked brutality is essential in the telling of this story of the Holocaust; only by showing the depths of pain and despair can Oskar Schindler's selfless goodness come to the forefront.

When we first meet Schindler (Liam Neeson, who is magnificent), he is a self-confident, playboy profiteer looking to make some serious money manufacturing goods for the German army in Poland. Schindler is gregarious, generous, greedy, even a tad corrupt; he has no trouble making fast friends with the Nazi leadership and getting his factory off and running. Hiring an astute Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley), Oskar is making more money than even he anticipated.

But then the Nazi extermination progroms are implemented. The Jewish ghetto is cleaned out, its population shipped to concentration camps. And we see Oskar Schindler begin to transform, from a gregarious womanizer to a humanitarian horrified by what he sees happening before his very eyes. By bribing the Nazi officials at a nearby camp, he is able to employ hundreds of Jewish workers, thereby giving them at least a respite from the daily horrors of the camp. And finally, upon learning the camp will be emptied and its prisoners taken to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, he and Kingsley's character comprise a list of 1,100 names--people he will take with him to his new plant in Czechoslovakia. . .people who will escape certain death. He spends every last dime he has amassed to "buy" these workers, then laments during this film's moving climax, "I should have saved more."

This is one incredible film; the story is extraordinary, the acting phenomenal. I was the most impressed by Ralph Fiennes playing the commandant of the Nazi camp sending workers to Schindler's factory. With a cold, almost listless, expression, Fiennes is brutal, diabolical--chilling. It's an unforgettable role for an unforgettable movie; SCHINDLER'S LIST is one of the all-time greats, and most deserving of all its awards and accolades.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

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Summary of Schindler's List [Blu-ray]

Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career." Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, Spielberg's masterpiece ranks among the greatest films ever made about the Holocaust during World War II. It's a film about heroism with an unlikely hero at its center--Catholic war profiteer Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who risked his life and went bankrupt to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps.

By employing Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army, Schindler ensures their survival against terrifying odds. At the same time, he must remain solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant (Ben Kingsley) and negotiate business with a vicious, obstinate Nazi commandant (Ralph Fiennes) who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony of his villa overlooking a prison camp. Schindler's List gains much of its power not by trying to explain Schindler's motivations, but by dramatizing the delicate diplomacy and determination with which he carried out his generous deeds.

As a drinker and womanizer who thought nothing of associating with Nazis, Schindler was hardly a model of decency; the film is largely about his transformation in response to the horror around him. Spielberg doesn't flinch from that horror, and the result is a film that combines remarkable humanity with abhorrent inhumanity--a film that functions as a powerful history lesson and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the context of a living nightmare. --Jeff Shannon

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