The First Movie That REALLY got to me !!

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2000)

PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD !!
This movie survived the fact that me and my class mates saw it in a class room, bit by bit, as the classes weren't long enough to watch the entire thing in a stretch, and I didn't get to see the first half hour, but it has still moved me like no other movie.
It's not that I usually watch Steven Seagal flicks or such, but normally I don't "get emotional", cry and so on. If I see a great scene or a great movie, I just sit there, totally stunned and remember it for a very long time. This was one of those movies.
The great thing about this film, is that it, for me, builds up a very heavy mood, so every scene is affected by this mood and becomes even better. Take one of the last scenes, the one where Amon Goeth ( Ralph Fiennes ) is hung. Any other hanging scene with a ton of blood and eyes popping out, wouldn't have been as gripping, but because we "know" this guy, know that he's queasy, vain, malevolent and totally bungled, know that he is robbed of his uniform and swastika badge, standing alone on a scaffold in a creepily defiant attempt to smack his Hitler-hairdo back into place, we see that he is still as weak, ignorant, hypocritical and pathetic as always. He is basically the German Jeffrey Dahmer, and for me that moment is a marvel in editing, and it is first time that a scene has nearly made me retch.
Schindler's List has been accused of playing too much on peoples emotions instead of telling a "true story". But Steven Spielberg doesn't overplay it, and Schindler's List is something everyone should see, because it's too important not to, and because we SHOULD be bloody astonished once in a while!!!!
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