Powerful, moving and thrilling, definitely one of the greatest films of all time

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2008)

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Review:
Shindlers List is a riveting experience from start to end. The resounding performances, the emotional score, the visceral and beautiful direction, the landslide powerhouse cinematography and so the list forever goes on. Spielburg has crafted a masterpiece that sculpulates the granger, the brutality and sadness of the Holocaust. Only one kind of director could have designed and re-shaped the emotionalness, the stomach-churning violence and a cascading event that will forever stay embedded in our minds. That director was Steven Spielburg.
The story, though simplistic, is told in a profound vision that one could only feel like they were there, and Spielburg creates this perfectly.
The story is as follows: Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
The way the whole film is shot is only part of it's magnificence, but Spielburg provides substance and deep methodic styles to accompany this with.
Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes all provide magnificent and powerful performances that only when thinking about it resembles the motives and detail of the characters that are so boldly and tightly-suited to perfection.
The decision to put the film in black and white is exactly true to the time and places that the film took place around.
The backdrops and cold baron Polish wastelands show the best cinematography from Spielburg.
Verdict:
A phenomenal account of ones mans passion for saving not one life, but many. Spielburg still proves he's the master of modern cinema by delivering a resounding and heart in-sighted belief of showing the most moving event in history.