One of the most important films ever made.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 2015)

I watched Schindler's List for the first time a couple of nights ago. I can't really put into words how great it was.
At first I thought wow that's amazing and horrifying. I'm so glad I have now seen it and never want to watch it again...
But it's still playing in my brain and I actually can see myself watching it again now quite easily. Not that it would be easy to watch, it could never be that. I cried and cried and was shaking with anger and fear and pure horror at it (especially scenes like the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto). But I can see myself wanting to see it because of just how brilliantly made it is.
The performances were fantastic and not just the two leads of Liam Neeson as Schindler (I hadn't realised he was such a flawed protagonist and had built him into this thing of perfection in my head because without seeing the film and knowing the story i couldn't realise that to do what he did you needed to be sneaky as hell and have that edge to you) and Ralph Fiennes as the truly wicked and evil Amon Goeth. I keep on forgetting, and did so in the film too, that it was Ben Kingsley playing Schindler's "clever accountant". He was so good in the role that he disappeared into it.
The score was brilliant too and also stayed hidden and didn't get in the way if the part it was playing in the film as a whole. (I loved reading this in the trivia of the film "When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of the film, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside for several minutes to collect himself. Upon his return, Williams told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, "I know, but they're all dead."")
It can't not get a 10/10 from me. I will watch it again, and be utterly heartbroken again.