Schindlers List

[Astrum]

This was one of the best and most disturbing movie i have ever seen. Has anyone else seen it?
it is a movie everyon should see.

 

[derek]

Terrible movie. The subject matter is interesting, but the movie is way off the mark. Stevie can shove his political agenda.

 

[MetalAges]

I only JUST got this on DVD a couple weeks ago, need to sit down and watch it now. Don't know why I haven't watched it before now as everyone I know that has seen it thought it was really good.

 

[Death Animal]

I liked that movie.
I´m going to read that book too sometime.
I think it´s worth checking for.

 

[Astrum]

theres a book?

hmmmm

 

[Söy]

yes it's called a "history textbook"

you know, since Oskar Schindler was a real person and everything...

 

[Death Animal]

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=trade+paper:sale+books:0671880314:5.98

 

[Dodheimsgard]

Yeah I saw this film a while back, Loved the way it was filmed. Very disturbing.

 

[Cythraul]

Terrible movie. The subject matter is interesting, but the movie is way off the mark. Stevie can shove his political agenda.

just curious, how is it way off the mark?

 

[speed]

I thought it was a very, very good movie. The acting is first rate, with Liam Neeson, and especially Ray Fiennes. For me, the Fiennes character really made the movie; the fact he had total power over so many "sub" people, and everyone would obey his every command. His character sort of reminded me of Camus' Caligula.

 

[Pessimism]

Liam Neeson indeed does own

I too wish to know how it was off the mark though.

 

[OldScratch]

I am not certain what the "off the mark" comment was in reference to, however, the film's almost campy at times in its depiction of German troops, SS and otherwise. The near ecstacy of the Germans as they carried out their mission was well beyond the realm of historical believability. I have read extensively on WWII and there is NO doubt that atrocities were committed(on many sides sadly, enough), at times with reckless indifference to human life - but to depict the activity in the film as some sort of glee-filled orgy or violence for the sake of it just went beyond the pale. It should be clear that the crimes of WWII stand on their own...there is no need to take it over the top with sadistic fantasy, casting the Germans as comic-book monsters rather than the decidely human ministers of an at times unspeakably gruesome war.

 

[Astrum]

i agree....

horrible things were done on both sides, but the germans are always portrayed so poorly, "comic book monsters", as you put it, and the americans and the like are always the glorified heroes. The nazis are evil for what they did, and each and every one should burn in hell for all of eternity, but still....

 

[infoterror]

This was one of the best and most disturbing movie i have ever seen.

Not historically accurate / won't watch it

 

[Astrum]

nobody gives a fuck about your opininon, mr. "happy 9/11"

go fucking die, never post here again

 

[derek]

just curious, how is it way off the mark?

I feel it was written with an agenda.

 

[Cythraul]

Well sure, the general tone of the movie may have been indicative of that but were there any glaring factual inaccuracies (in the relevant sense, not in the sense of taking artistic license (of course, that may be hard to demarcate))?

 

[derek]

Well, I'm not terribly well versed in the history of the time-period, but no - I did not sit and watch the movie crying out in disgust at glaring faults beginning to end.