not a movie

Rating: 10/10 (7 December 2000)

Calling Schindler's List a "film" seems to bring it into reality. A film is something you may experience a few times a month. This movie is not something you may experience very often in many months. To watch it is not like watching a film at all, it is like living through something in your life that consumes you, makes you want to no longer exist, and live forever at the same time. It is more like an event in your months, then a movie you watched last night.
When people talk about how they liked this movie, some may try to articulate the deep horror, hope and heroism purveyed, many will shake their heads and say that it was beautifully filmed. All will stop short, and just tell you to see it. It is impossible, perhaps, to sum this story up. A movie is to be reviewed and criticized, this, though, is something besides a movie.

I will not critic it, I won't even tell you to watch it. But if you do decide to watch it, do so when you are alone, and when you have time afterwards to be alone. There are many stories with far greater personal impact than this story, but none else have been made into something you can rent at your corner store.