A horrifically realistic depiction of the Holocaust

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2013)

Few movies really stay with me for years and years, but this one does. I think it will leave an impact on anybody, for that matter. Both the cruelty of the Nazis as well as the grotesque Holocaust are very realistic in this movie, and a lot of the scenes are directly painful to watch. A lot of the movie makes the viewer see the Holocaust through the eyes of Schindler, and how he understands more and more that this is wrong. And they have made a very good job in making the viewer feel like they ARE Schindler, watching all this. Especially is a little girl in red walking alone in a ghetto, who we later see dead in a pile of corpses. This is a moment you will remember for the rest of your life. In a lot of other movies, you can comfort yourself with that the violence is only fiction, but in Schindler's List you are forced to face the brutal fact that this actually happened. So why even watch this? Because with what Schindler ends up doing makes you feel that there might be a little hope for the Jews in the camps, a little chance of turning the hopeless situation. And so you end up (spoilers ahoy) all the more relieved when he gets a group of them out. the scene with his realization of everything he could have done to save a couple of more Jews from death was strong enough for me to blink back tears. So prepare for a powerful experience rather than a mere movie, because you are in for precisely that.