So Sad

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 1999)

I saw this alone. I arrived right before the film started and found a seat in the front row. It was so close, I had to tilt my head back to see and fight a sense of vertigo.
After it was over, I just sat there in the theater until they came to sweep out the popcorn. This isn't a movie you want to see over and over again, but you'll want to see it at least once.
The dark, much talked-about cinematography and the Itzhak Perlman's sublime violin work are so, so sad. Ralph Fiennes is the very personification of human evil; Liam Neeson (as Schindler) is an opportunistic war profiteer. He doesn't have any grand epiphany or sympathy for the Jews. He just knows somewhere that he has to help how he can - despite his fear and greed.
Like Saving Private Ryan, however, the core of the movie's power is the documentary-like scenes that bring home the atrocities we've heard about our whole lives, but never maybe never FELT like this.