Everybody has a mentor, a person or thing that strives them to achieve. Schindler's List was my inspiration to watch movies. Not that i didn't see movies before, i just didn't observe them that closesly.. i guess that's different for most of us.. I remember the first time i saw it, i was i think 15 then... (Censor Board can go f*** itself).. it was recommended by my mom at a planet m store in dehradun.. so we bought it and one day, the whole family began to see it, sure enough my little sister was kicked out of the room soon enough, and i myself was arguing that it's okay for me to watch it.
To the Ignorant
Firstly, to those who haven't seen it yet. Schindler's List is a movie by Steven Spielberg (the guy who gave us Jurrasic Park) about the life of Oskar Schindler, a businessman from germany who saved around 1500 jews from nazi ocupation. Read the wikipedia article if you like.. Oskar Schindler On Wikipedia... The man is still a legend among the descendents of those who survived who call themselves the "Schindler Jews".
The movie casts Liam Neeson (the guy from Taken), Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort in HP series) and Ben Kingsley (the dude who played Gandhi)... BTW, The movie is ENTIRELY Factual. at one point i thought that the entire script could have been carved by piecing together real life incidents..
My Perception
The movie, i don't care who denies it, in my opinion is the greatest Holocaust movie ever made. Coming from the previous paragraphs, people might see Oskar Schindler kind of like a holy pure character, who fought bad and was always right kind of like the an Amitabh Bacchhan character. Sorry, but no. Oskar Schindler is no saint, the theme of the movie could be said to be the change of a greedy businessman who did great deeds. He changes through the course of the movie, one of the reasons the movie is so great. His primary motive as he said himself was "Every business i ever did, failed... not beacuse of my decisions, not beacuse of me... there was something missing, something that i have now... " and the his wife says.. i don't know what exactly.. but i think it was "money?" and he says "War". I was like that is the sickest douchebag in the world, i mean... to derive profit from death? that is evil dude.. anyway, that's what he was like in the beginning... but he changes along the way and the best part is you can never tell what exactly set him off!! me and my mom actually had a bog debate about this...
The second greatest thing, and perhaps the best performance in the entire movie was of Ralph Fiennes. This dude plays a psychopathic Nazi officer Amon Goeth. I mean this guy is beyond redemption... he kills jews like sheep .... literally.. But you get some of the things that he's trying to do.. More than anything he wants power, ironically, he shows a great respect for schindler.... There was this one scene with the guy where he falls in love with this Jew girl and according to the law at the time, people were not allowed to copulate with jewish girls.. and he talks to her .. you can see that he's trying to convince himself that it's not wrong to fall for this girl.. he convinces himself that the nazi propaganda is wrong.. then as soon he hold her.. he says "Dear Lord, you almost talked me into it"... and starts to go on a murderous rage and beats the shit out of this girl.. I felt sorry for the guy at the time.. it was like true brainwashing, when you can't out-think yourself from an induced philosophy..
When to see
Apart from all it's greatness, this is not a movie you would like to see every second day. It's 197 minutes of misery on screen .... well treated misery that would make any person will a normal head at least have a lump in his throat.. but still misery. TOI once voted this as the saddest movie of all time. This is a movie i would recommend on a day when you have nothing to do... chilling in your hostel room and this movie will chill you to the bones..
Final Verdict
Schindler's list doesn't deserve one, i feel puny just reviewing it. Some things are just too great for me to give my verdict upon.. It will be like Justin Bieber reviewing Pink Floyd. It wouldn't matter if he says they're good, it would be an insult to Pink Floyd's music no matter what he says.. I feel if anyone picked any 5 minutes of the film, people who watch films closely could write a 10 page essay describing what happened. I have nothing more to say.
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