Thought provoking but hard to watch certain scenes

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 2004)

Spielberg did a great job of depicting the horror of what went on during the holocaust. It's very historically accurate (a rarity now a days). I have a whole new respect for this film in learning that Spielberg refused to take a salary for it. His reasoning behind it is admirable also.
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There were a few scenes where my stomach was in knots and I needed to take a break from it. One was the scene where the little girl in red (seen running in the streets early on) is later seen dead. The one handed machinist execution was hard too. The very worse part (emotionally) is the Auschwitz scene, It's not so much what you see, it's what you do not see. The Jews are being lined up for their own deaths. The only thing you really see is them being lined up to go into the incinerator room. That's enough though, the image of the smoke stack is enough to make it real. Near the end when the Russians hung Amon Goeth, I remember thinking it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Also the speech that Schindler gave to the remaining guards at the camp was really something. They had a choice between murder and doing the humane thing. When they left as "men instead of murderers" that was moving. It's almost like there was a glimmer of hope there. I highly recommend this film to anyone, just make a point to take a break from it every so often.