SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993) - REVIEW IN CO-OPERATION WITH AMC

Today there will be a review, which is a bit different from all the other reviews before. In co-operation with AMC here is a review of a movie, which made history. It is a movie about hunting Jews, and the second world war, which was not there before. It is the movie of his life, talking about Liam Nesson, and Director Steven Spielberg.

It is Schindler's List (1993)

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REVIEW by AMC

The best Holocaust movie ever made is Life is Beautiful. However, since Life is Beautiful came out in 1997, there has to have been another film that held the title before Benigni’s comic masterpiece came along and snatched it away. That film is Schindler’s List.
Schindler’s List is the true story of Oscar Schindler, a Nazi party member, a war profiteer, and a man responsible for saving the lives of over 2000 Jews in the Holocaust. As would be expected from the majority of Holocaust movies, Schindler’s List is a film that you cannot say you love without feeling like a total schmuck (or, practicing my Yiddish again, being very Vashnuked). However Schindler’s List is what you would call an endearing film.
Schindler’s List utilizes a stark score by John Williams and a black & white photography by Janusz Kaminski in order to provide the full effect of the Holocaust: utter depression and hopelessness. The film is about as depressing to watch as Leaving Las Vegas. However, despite the desire to use a Smith & Wesson on yourself while watching this movie, the film manages to compel your interest.
Zaillian’s script is right on target: pulling us in at the beginning with the story of Oscar’s brilliant (although narcissistic) formation of a business out of nothing. The business exploits the Jew so much that you begin to wonder if you are watching the wrong movie. However, after Schindler witnesses the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (still the most touching bunch of celluloid I have ever watched), he begins to work subversively against the Germans and for the Jews.
The one thing that weakens the film is the presence of humor. If a movie is going for the absolute drab, as Schindler’s List did, it would be a good idea to not try to lighten a moment by adding in a joke that you would find in a second-rate comedy. Humor has never been Zaillian’s strongpoint, and he shouldn’t have tried to start.
Regardless, Schindler’s List is still the best movie that Spielberg ever made, and the second-best film about the Holocaust. Schindler’s List is a true dramatic classic, capable of making anyone cry.
See Nazis run.

 Review by MovieTown

 

Schindler's List's running time is about 200 minutes, the movie is R-rated and available on Blu-Ray and DVD and tells us the story about Oskar Schindler, who is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman, who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric German Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, it is a testament to the good in all of us. I know many of you, out there will disagree with me, when I say that Schindler's List is one of the greatest film that there has ever been. It does sound that I'm extremely overrating it, but I truly believe that Schindler's List is up there with The Godfather and Citizen Kane I mean everything about is so good, that its close to perfection.

The acting is brilliant, every actor does an amazing job. Liam Neeson as Schindler is incredible, no doubt about it. He should have won an Oscar for Best Actor. Ralph Fiennes is the one, who truly is the best actor in the film. He plays his antagonist role as Amon Goeth, so well that it is a travesty, he didn't win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

I'm happy though, that the Academy chose this film for Best Picture, it was one of the best decisions they ever made. Because if this film wasn't considered Best Picture by the Academy, I don't know which film would be, expect maybe for The Godfather.

Steven Spielberg certainly deserved an Oscar for Best Director. It was a smart idea for Steven Spielberg to make this film in black-white because it made the movie more bleak, emotional, hopelessness. But you see small patches of color -- A candle and a child's coat bringing the evilness of the tragedy into a agonizing focus.

There's no doubt about it, this film will be a classic in decades, even hundreds of years to come in cinema. This film is without a doubt, the Best film that Spielberg has ever made. With many other Steven Spielberg's classics like Jurassic Park,Jaws,E.T, Raider of the Lost Ark, Saving Private Ryan, etc. Schindler's List will always be Steven Spielberg's most finest, important film. He blends his humanism to the tragic horror of the Holocaust to create an emotional masterpiece.

 

The camera, music, and effects are minor important in this movie. What it is, what is impressive, that Steven Spielberg created something completely different. We all know him as the Director of E.T. or Jurassic Park, where he always takes us into a world full of fantasy and unexpected thing, but in this movie, he tells us a true story, about one of the darkest and sadest chapter in the history of Germany.

 

There is nothing what I don't like about the movie. So all in all 10 out of 10 points for its genre (Biography, Drama, History) as well as an overall rating and so I totally agree with the full and absolutely well deserver metascore of 93 out of 100.

Have fun watching and thanks for readin this very special review.