Powerful and Intense...

Rating: Null/10 (29 April 2005)

This film is unexplainable. There are no words to convey how amazing this film was. Watching this gave me chills, made me shake, cry, and stare astounded and astonished at the end of it. The Holocaust is perhaps one of the most shocking and horrific times we will ever learn about. True, events this like that have occurred before, but this is the one that everyone knows about, survivors from this event still live and are able to talk about its terrors. It's beyond most of our imaginations, the systematic killing of races just because they are different. To us, it just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The eleven or some say up to twelve million people who were murdered became victims of a cruel, heartless, callous, and brutal time; an atrocious idea that it was OK to carry out the "Final Solution." It was not OK. The Jews, Gypsy's, handicapped, Slavs, mentally ill, etc; anyone different from the way the aggressors thought people should be. Anyone who opposed them went away as well. It is so unheard of. Call me naïve, but everyone is the same. Do we not all laugh, cry, bleed, lovethere's only one race and that's mankind. Hatred and scapegoats leads to forceful and concentrated suffering. No one should ever have to deal with that. In my school's One-Act play, we adapted some events from Schindler's List that made our show even more intense. The black and white theme is remarkable, and the touch of the little girl in the red coat is so overwhelming and deep. The authentic and actual landmarks, the recreation of such images that make us the audience gasp in fear, and cry out in agony. It felt like we were there, witnessing the fact, but we couldn't do anything to help them. We were frozen in time, glued to our chairs, shocked at what was happening on screen. Seeing it on screen was real enough, imagine witnessing it for real. Something like that must never happen again. Ever. Oscar Schindler really was a hero who doesn't get enough credit. I'll bet few people even know his name. The millions who died are simply martyrs for a cause; a cause of loyalty to one's faith, family, friends, and a deep devotion to never surrender. We could all learn something from this movie. Generosity goes a long way. Thousands of people are alive today just b/c of Oscar Schindler and the millions of victims and survivors who never gave up. That movie is the only one that has ever made me cry; it is just so powerful...