Hey all, quick clarification on our disclaimer at 1:06. The death camps were in Nazi-occupied Poland and were created and run by the Nazis. They were not Polish death camps. We did not mean to imply otherwise, and it is an important distinction.
@oliyuprimizhu13264 жыл бұрын
What I like about this movie is that Schindler is not a perfect hero. He's an asshole, he cheats on his wife and he's selfish, you don't admire him at the beginning and at certain points, you'll think he's a coward. But then, he starts making right choices. It's small at first, but he as it gets harder to do the right thing, he starts listening more and more to his conscience and it builds up to where he really has to put himself in danger and he still perseveres. He's not perfect, he's still an asshole and a cheater and that makes it easier to relate. He's flawed, human and he did a noble, kind thing. So can we.
@CinemaTherapyShow4 жыл бұрын
Bingo. We can, and MUST do what Schindler did. Be kind, and be brave. We're all flawed assholes, but we can still help!
@thehistoryandbooknerd89794 жыл бұрын
I never knew that stuff about Schindler - thank you!
@rdevries38524 жыл бұрын
Everything you said applies to the real Oskar Schindler to an even greater degree. The real Schindler wasn't just a greedy, selfish, money hungry businessman who cheats on his wife. He was an actual Nazi spy and a full blown war profiteer. Also an alcoholic, though that doesn't seem so bad by comparison. There's a pretty good video about the historic Oskar Schindler here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6Wwf6VvnLGke5Y
@DecemberSfy4 жыл бұрын
It kind of reminds me of Wilkus's character growth from District 9.
@Sarah-fm6ll4 жыл бұрын
Loved this comment
@machicommentsection4 жыл бұрын
That "one more person" scene, hits right through your heart. It never gets old and still makes me cry.
@GirlWhy313 жыл бұрын
That is probably one of the hardest parts in the movie to watch personally.
@kobra666au3 жыл бұрын
Anyone who watches this scene and doesn’t cry is not human.
@JGooden7623 жыл бұрын
I haven't even seen the movie. I haven't been able to bring myself to see it. But I saw Schindler lament his inability to save just one more person in this video and I broke down in genuine heart-wrenching tears. I NEED to see this film.
@donngreitontordilla14563 жыл бұрын
Jeez, just watching that scene here made me cry.
@agent_sus32733 жыл бұрын
@@kobra666au Huh. I guess those mental problems I have and my general inability to become emotional during a movie means I’m not human. Who knew?
@annaliesecancilla8944 жыл бұрын
The scene at the end where’s he’s talking about what else he could have sold so he could have saved more Jews is actually really heartbreaking.
@literaterose67314 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I always choke up at that scene, too. I do want to point out though (at the risk of being a killjoy, sorry...) that it’s probably the most classically Spielberg scene in the film, in the sense of being deliberately emotionally dramatic in a somewhat manipulative way, since it’s completely fictional- it never happened. But I’m not slamming it, honest- I understand why Spielberg felt it was important to include something like that.
@annaliesecancilla8944 жыл бұрын
@@literaterose6731 you know what, that is actually really true. I don’t think I’ve noticed that before with Spielberg.
@Quotenwagnerianer4 жыл бұрын
But even that scene drew some criticism from the people who actually knew him. Ignaz Bubis, then chairman of the Central Commitee of the Jews in Germany said, he never said that it in that moment. He said it years later, long after the war was over.
@annaliesecancilla8944 жыл бұрын
@@Quotenwagnerianer hmm, that’s very interesting. I’m hearing that sort of thing from a lot of people.
@saturated38213 жыл бұрын
@@Quotenwagnerianer That's more than I expected, it's still after all a movie and not a documentary even if based on real people and events.
@Neronix174 жыл бұрын
I feel like I need to say that after all these warnings and stuff that gives you a chance not to watch if it makes you uncomfortable... My history teacher in school showed the class this movie as part of learning about WW2, we were 13/14 at the time and I'm so glad he did. It is GOOD for people to be uncomfortable, you're not meant to be comfortable with this. You only truly learn from history if you yourself see the horror of it and understand why it should never happen again.
@CinemaTherapyShow4 жыл бұрын
People only change when they're uncomfortable, and this film changes EVERYONE. Necessary film.
@AMVactivists4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately for many people in the world genocide is not history, it's part of their own story. We'll never understand these kinds of horror as they do. We must remember the Holocaust, and all the steps that led to it so we have a reference for how we should respond to the genocides that happen in our own lifetime. We say never again every year.... But genocide keeps happening and keeps being ignored.
@noemiecansier84664 жыл бұрын
I wish my history teacher had done that instead of showing us Mel Gibson films and The Joan of Arc movie whose opening gratuitous rape scene traumatised every girl in that class I still talk to.
@Tilly2364 жыл бұрын
My teacher had Jewish ancestry and made us watch documentaries, as well as putting up graphic posters in the classroom (one depicting a candle made of dead victims). I was distraught by it all, to the point where I couldn't sleep, but I'm glad I was now. It was my first lesson in what human beings can do to each other.
@pigpjs4 жыл бұрын
Completely agree. I remind myself that I am safe, they were not. So it is our duty to witness and acknowledge what happened because if we aren't uncomfortable we won't learn. Same for when I am distressed in war movies. I am safe, my grandfathers and father were not.
@Wrencher_864 жыл бұрын
The thing with Fiennes portrayal of Goeth is that the humanizing aspects make him scarier. A cartoon Nazi is a cartoon. They're laughable. They're un-serious. You can dismiss them as a work of fiction. The way he is played in Schindler's List shows that, no, he's not a cartoon, he's not a work of fiction. He's a man. A real flesh a blood person who committed these appalling, unbelievably cruel acts. It really drives home that this kind of thing can happen because people like this ARE real. That's a lot scarier than a mustache twirling boogeyman.
@monicavelazquezrodriguez30354 жыл бұрын
I felt that fear in the scene where nazis are burning the bodies and there is one that is screaming in ecstasy. Because you can think, is a cartoon nazi, but no, is an anonymous person that can be anyone, feeling pleasure surrounded by bodies, bodies of vulnearble people. And I feel nauseous when few people who surrounds me (and a lot who I don't even know) feel so indiferent talking about refugees who die in the Mediterranean sea, or even feel angry when these refugees are given (not even) basic human rights. It's disgusting.
@EH238314 жыл бұрын
Agree! When I read the book - that character scared me so much! I had nightmares....
@idek74384 жыл бұрын
It's also basically the message of Hannah Arendt's book, Eichmann in Jerusalem.
@PalmelaHanderson4 жыл бұрын
@@monicavelazquezrodriguez3035 I didn't see that scene as the man screaming in ecstasy. I saw it as a mental break. There was no life in his eyes. You read stories about German soldiers tossing babies into the air and shooting them like target practice. Stuff like that has to eventually break 95% of us, regardless of how indoctrinated we are. The ones deciding policy weren't the ones that actually had to go and get their hands dirty. Himmler visited a camp one time and couldn't stand it. He would faint at the sight of blood and was uncomfortable in the sight of violence. He was the leader of the SS. For the ones actually committing the atrocities, it eventually took its toll on the mind. Even Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes' character in the movie) was committed to a mental institution by the SS before the end of the war.
@jenniferschillig37684 жыл бұрын
@@PalmelaHanderson He's screaming in German, "Valhalla! This is Valhalla!" It's a reference to the German/Norse myth of the Gotterdammerung, or twilight of the gods, which is depicted in Wagner's Ring Cycle operas (remember, Hitler loved Wagner's work). At the end of the Ring Cycle, Valhalla, the abode of the gods, goes up in flames. The Nazi officer does seem to have broken and seems to see the end of the Nazi regime in the flames.
@biaaraujo4723 жыл бұрын
When I was a teenager a geography teacher was discussing the Holocaust and at the end of the class he showed us a compilation of real videos from the Holocaust. When the video ended the professor dismissed the class and all 40 teenagers grabbed their things and left the class in complete silence. Even the lousy annoying ones. That's how impactful it was.
@disasterjones57984 жыл бұрын
You mentioned dehumanization and the way that affects our capacity for empathy or compassion for others, but I think there's something to be said about how desensitizing yourself to traumatic stimulus can influence that as well. I think of myself as sympathetic and supportive to Jewish folks, and believe I don't have active hate in my heart, but I have come to realize recently that there was a period of time in my youth where I was being groomed to be anti-Semitic. This despite the fact that one of the most influential figures in my life was my 6th grade teacher, a Jewish lesbian, who I adored then and still hold in my heart with fondness today. I first saw this movie in high school, and I was so proud of the fact that I was emotionally apathetic to the atrocities displayed in the film, that I was one of few students who didn't cry even once. Similarly, when my uncle came back from Iraq and showed us photos he had taken, he warned us that some were gruesome, and I managed to observe them unaffected, while several of my family excused themselves because of the triggering content. I thought that my desensitization was some kind of mark of strength or pride, that I had a higher constitution to deal with traumatic experiences, and I boasted about that constantly. At some point along the way, I had learned to remove my empathy and instead actively engaged with content that reflected harm, in an effort to "beat it" I suppose. To see something terrible and feel nothing about it meant that I "won" and wasn't "weak." My turning point was when my friend group confronted me about a person I considered a friend who was a confirmed neo-nazi, and I had had no clue. I was disgusted and horrified that I made a person like that feel safe with me, but in hindsight, I had given all the indication that I might've been the same. That shame follows me still nearly twenty years later, and it's been a long road to rewiring the thought patterns so that they don't default to those harmful foundations. Some days the wiring fails, and I get frustrated because that's not how I want to operate. In a morbidly funny way, I cry at almost everything now. I suspect the desensitization didn't work as well as I thought it did, and was probably just traumatizing myself and bottling it until I became a quasi-functional adult. lol {Edited for clarity, spaced for readability)
@CinemaTherapyShow4 жыл бұрын
Alan here. Similar story. I was terrified of everything as a little kid, tried to "harden" myself as a teen, had to reprogram my brain. Unlocked wells of empathy. Now I feel A LOT of things for other people, including characters in movies. Weird journey to get to a place where I cry on the internet for strangers... Thanks for sharing your story. Hopefully we can cry together someday!
@henmaydostuff83384 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. I'm sure a lot of people can relate, just as I do.
@chadfalardeau53964 жыл бұрын
I was emotionally sensitive when I was a child and by the time I was a teen my empathy had shut down due to overload. It's only been in the last year that I'm able to feel empathy for strangers again.
@EH238314 жыл бұрын
Wow - that’s some good self-awareness. I’m wondering if you’re a bit on the autistic spectrum- I ask because I am and I went through something similar. People on the spectrum are very sensitive and emotional - even though they struggle to understand others’ experiences. As a child I pretended things didn’t bother me in an effort to protect myself from becoming overwhelmed by emotional stuff. I therefore could come across as uncaring/feeling. I wonder if lots of people on the spectrum also do this and that is where the stereotype of unemotional autistic person comes from? I’m a teacher now, and every autistic child I’ve met is VERY emotional and sensitive.... Thanks for sharing!
@ositaiza8884 жыл бұрын
i was a crybaby as a kid and forced myself to become apathetic to avoid "making a scene" and being embarrassed. after being like that for years, i'm back to being really emotional. it's cathartic and also overwhelming
@morgand.38094 жыл бұрын
Funny how just these few glimpses of the movie were enough to get me sobbing.
@NaimHrustanovic4 жыл бұрын
Yo, same. I'm a person that has struggled for a long time to connect with my own emotions, and yet just the scene of him bargaining for the children's lives by explaining their value as munitions-cleaners choked me right up. Imagine the pressure of being in that situation, having to do something that seems so evil and selfish and greedy in the face of evil itself, just to maybe save a few lives. Fuck.
@abnormallyawesome20624 жыл бұрын
The scene where he's crying because feels he didn't do enough always gets me. He sees the people he's saved and thinks its such a small number, then he starts to see the things he still has as people, lives that could've been saved and it just breaks him. The old jewish man is trying to consol him, but he understands at the same time. It's just such a heart breaking scene that also manages to make you feel a little good. The ones he saved are greatful, Schindler is sad that he didn't do more.. its sad and hopeful... and idk what else to say about it. Its just good.
@EH238314 жыл бұрын
Try reading the book! I had nightmares for weeks....
@abnormallyawesome20624 жыл бұрын
@@EH23831 i barely made it throw the movie the first time i saw it. I can't even now a days. But I don't doubt you. Maybe some day I'll manage it. For now we got cinema therapy. 😊
@Angie-ji7be4 жыл бұрын
Same. Now I seriously need to watch Schindler's List
@SEReina-gk1kx4 жыл бұрын
I remember in middle school, we had to watch both this film and the devil's arithmetic. My history teacher said to us, “this is the reality of what happened. I’m not gonna sugarcoat this. You need to know this so we can prevent something like this happening again.” I remember crying at my desk after both of the films ended. I was 11 years old and I couldn’t believe something like this actually happened and how all those people died so horribly. My classmates bullied me for a month for crying at a movie but I don’t think they fully understood the impact of the films had on me. I wasn’t crying at a film, I was crying for the victims.
@EH238314 жыл бұрын
I’m a teacher of 11-13 year olds. I show my class an Australian movie called Rabbit Proof Fence. It’s about the stolen generations (indigenous children taken from their families by the government) I cry every time at the scene where the girls are stolen from their parents.... I can only imagine how I’d be if I showed Schindler’s List in the classroom (don’t think I can as it’s not PG) Be proud that you cried!
@SaraHouck4614 жыл бұрын
@@EH23831 I'm glad you did, because there's a perfectly valid reason why crying is mandatory when experiencing that type of fare, no matter how boring some may think it is!
@andipants74404 жыл бұрын
We watched it as sophomores. I cried during the clearing of the ghetto and couldn't stop. Got mercilessly teased for it, too. Some people just don't have the capacity to sit with sorrow. ♥️
@sophiejones77274 жыл бұрын
@@EH23831 try asking your administration. They may allow you to send home permission slips for it. At least that was what my school did when they wanted to show an R-rated movie. I saw Schindler’s List in 6th grade. The teacher prefaced the movie by saying that it would be disturbing but that was the point. He told us very sternly that no one was to blame anyone for crying, or for looking away. And at the end of the movie he was crying, so none of the kids could blame each other. This movie is practically burned into my mind and I’m a better person because of it. Heck, I’d say that’s the point. If someone says “but they’ll be traumatized”, look them in the eye and say “good, then it will never happen again”. Though I would say, it’s probably best to watch this movie (or any holocaust documentary) after reading The Diary of Anne Frank. You have to build it up, because this stuff doesn’t just happen in a vaccuum.
@EH238314 жыл бұрын
@@sophiejones7727 yeah, I could try that.... not sure it would work with our precious parents... one teacher was criticised recently for reading “Boy in the Striped Pajamas”. I believe with our education department it’s a hard no to anything above PG
@Rayxster4 жыл бұрын
I honestly think Schindler's List is THE most important movie you can and should watch. No teenagers should have gone through school without watching this movie. I don't know how it is in the US, but here in Europe we get this was and the atrocities with it drilled into our brains, and this movie is a good way of doing so.
@blauespony10134 жыл бұрын
It should be mandatory as a warning. Look at today's events, look at the 6th of January and tell me that we are not on the way to repeating past mistakes.
@mortalgarden4 жыл бұрын
i had to watch it in my christian ethics class in the 11th grade. idk if it was because i went to a catholic school, idk if the other high schools in my hometown had it in any course, but my teacher wanted to do a unit on judaism since it's a big part of like christian history and he felt it was important to learn about the holocaust since none of the other courses really mention it in depth and honestly the experience of watching the movie was the only thing from that course that stuck with me. partially because im not a religious person, but also because we talked about it and how horrifying it was. we really need to be teaching stuff like this in schools everywhere so people can stop saying it "wasnt that bad" or that it doesnt have impacts on like... the present day. edit: i meant to mention, i live in canada
@Firegen14 жыл бұрын
I would say yes but along with other works that show this sort genocide across the world. I have seen what I'd call the Schindler effect where people mourn for this film, but the second a similar event happens in the news, they switch off. Its maddening.
@blauespony10134 жыл бұрын
@@Firegen1 True, but educating them is the first step. Then get them to see or read "The Wave" to make sure they learn that it can happen again. I am German. I know my grand-mothers history. At least from my mom's side, because both families kind of suffered from the nazi regime. I can't watch this film again. The music alone is enough to make me cry. I have been to KZs, to monuments and to other places, I have learned my history lesson and how the world got to the point. And I see it not as "I am to blame", but as "I am responsible to do everything in my power to not let that happen again. I am responsible to speak up when the time comes. And I am responsible to check my own behavior for any signs of discrimination and prejudice and inhumanity."
@literaterose67314 жыл бұрын
Schindler’s List is pretty high up there on my list, for sure. On the subject of the Holocaust, there are a couple of other films that I found more impactful overall, some even more graphic and difficult. Probably the film that most affected me was Korczak, directed by Andrzej Wajda (released in 1990). It’s about Janusz Korczak, a renowned child educator and doctor who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. He refused to be rescued, though he had opportunities (because of his fame), instead choosing to stay with the children he desperately tried to keep alive in unthinkable circumstances. Ultimately, he was deported with them to Treblinka where they all died. It’s not in English, so you have to read subtitles, but it’s also in black and white, very realistic feeling, with the most harrowing scene I’ve ever experienced on film (during deportation, being put on the train). I don’t think I stopped crying for days, and I’ve never forgotten it. I’d also like to see more attention given to Raoul Wallenberg, who was another person who heroically saved Jews. He was a Swedish diplomat who saved nearly ten thousand Hungarian Jews in Budapest, by issuing them passports claiming they were Swedish citizens and buying almost two dozen buildings that he designated as Swedish soil to put them in. He was truly incredible. At the end of the war, he was taken by the Soviets and accused of being a spy, and disappeared; they later claimed he died in prison in the USSR in1947, though no one knows for sure. A terrible end for a courageous hero...
@Rahqui4 жыл бұрын
The first time I saw this movie was in 8th grade. I remember most of our class laughed that we had to bring singed permission slips from our parents for that day. Having grown up at a place in Germany where national socialism to this day is almost glorified, that first viewing with a group of teenagers giggling and groaning throughout much of the movie flew by me. I was much more horrified by my classmates reaction to it than watching a movie I already had a hard time connecting to reality. It made me start asking questions. And maybe that is what it can do for people like me. It made me ask who the people that raised me were before I knew them as my slightly cooky grandparents. It made me realize at what price the life And comfort I knew came. For the last 15 years I have watched that movie once every year to remind myself to be a better human being. To fight for people’s lives and happiness as a nurse and as that stranger who didn’t walk by. Watching that movie changed a lot for my family and I dearly hope it had the same effect on many others in the world.
@lauramartin76753 жыл бұрын
You are a wonderful person. Be reassured that those kids who laugh and think the Holocaust is a joke/unimportant will never accomplish great things with their small minds. Those people will mean nothing in the grand scheme of things, unlike yourself. Honestly I've never been able to watch the movie to the end, videos like this are easier to handle, but I know one day soon I will force myself through it when i'm alone and can spend the whole day crying and remembering the dead.
@donngreitontordilla14563 жыл бұрын
@@lauramartin7675 I wouldn't be so quick to judge those kids; I would think that part of the point of the movie is to not judge and dismiss others so quickly, whether it's the Nazis doing it to the Jews or the viewing audience doing it to a war-profiteering and womanizing Nazi in Schindler. We have to account for the possibilities of misunderstanding others and of change and growth even when there is no misunderstanding.
@FREAKOFNATURE-mb8oo3 жыл бұрын
This is currently happening in my English class...we're reading a book called "Night" about the Holocaust, and everyone in there is so disrespectful...
@TheHermitHut2 жыл бұрын
Jokes and humour are a coping mechanism. I’m not denying that to this day there are people who actually think those horrific things that happened during World War 2 and actually during any war were good or justified. But I think a lot of teens, especially boys, have never been taught to cope with their emotions other then ridicule the thing the makes them feel this way. Except for anger which is the only “masculine” emotion our system allows. So instead of judging and dehumanising them we should work on building a society where everyone can feel safe to express their feelings, regardless of their gender.
@isaacwadman55222 жыл бұрын
@@FREAKOFNATURE-mb8oo Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
@Nina-df3zq4 жыл бұрын
Nice touch that there wasn't any popcorn in this video. Just shows how serious this topic is and that it's not a movie you watch for entertainment purposes only.
@creelabellehoward4 жыл бұрын
That last scene when Schindler starts to cry, "I didn't do enough," gets me every time.
@MrsAwesomdary4 жыл бұрын
Another movie that has touched me on the same level as Schindler's List, is 'La Vita é Bella' (Life is Beautiful), an Italian film who follows the perspective of a jew in the 2nd world war, and how he tries to protect his son from the atrocities of the war and the labor camp. If you haven't seen it it is one really worth watching.
@nicoleashleyknox4 жыл бұрын
Omg I sobbed during Life is Beautiful
@nicoleashleyknox4 жыл бұрын
Principessa!
@MrsAwesomdary4 жыл бұрын
@@nicoleashleyknox you are not the only one!. And every time I hear that music now I can't help but picture this film and get that rush of emotions again.
@azurzelle4 жыл бұрын
In French schools, we saw La Vita é Bella and Nacht und Nebel. It touched all of us for the rest of our life. (And I think LVéB is a really good idea, since the children see themselves in the kid, and as they grow, they see themselves more and more as the father and understand the film in different ways.) We went to a concentration camp in France for a school trip and I was scared that the other high schoolers would act terribly, some being superficial, being immature and shouting and all. There was snow, so before entering, we did a snow fight. And then, as soon as we enter, and the history teacher started to talk, every student had their head lowered, walked in silence, took respect, took pictures to be accountable later on, took notes about the atrocities committing to not forget. Brené Brown's quote someone that said that dehumanization isn't in our nature. That to hurt others, we have to make them us versus them, we have to strip them from their humanity. Like Jonathan said.
@Evija30004 жыл бұрын
Didn't know the name, but I'm sure I've seen it years ago. I think he tried to make the experience into a game at some point so the kid would be less traumatized.
@WaywardAce4204 жыл бұрын
Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler were mutual admirers of each other, to the point where Ford was given Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, which I imagine is equal to the United States' Presidental Medal of Freedom. It is the highest-ranking medal Germany gives to foreigners, at any rate. Ford had also expressed anti-Semitic views, and as a way to acknowledge and atone for their founder's actions, the Ford Motor Company would sponsor a commercial-free run of Schindler's List.
@JonathanDecker4 жыл бұрын
I did not know that. Boo Henry Ford. Yay Ford!
@annabanana76594 жыл бұрын
A lot of famous people from the fashion industry were nazi sympathizers/supporters as well, like Hugo Boss and Coco Chanel.
@WaywardAce4204 жыл бұрын
@@annabanana7659 Charles Lindbergh and his wife were said to be Nazi sympathizers, too. I could be mistaken, but I recall reading that they met Hitler and Mrs. Lindbergh described him as charming.
@annabanana76594 жыл бұрын
@@WaywardAce420 Yeah, I read an article that Lindenbergh even wanted Congress to negotiate with Hitler and stated that it was the US, the Jews and the british who started the war. Hitler had this air of charisma around him that made him a very dangerous person since he was able to garner support in such a monumental level.
@idek74384 жыл бұрын
Henry Ford also wrote a book called The International Jew where he described Jews as intrinsically un-American. Hitler was so impressed by it that he thought Ford could be a good ally for a potentially Nazi America.
@jenniferhiemstra52284 жыл бұрын
HOO MAMA...I've only seen this movie once and I'm not being hyperbolic when I say my stomach churned so much that I nearly vomited. This is beyond most Holocaust based films in terms of it's pulling no punches, and I still haven't recovered from that first viewing and that was 4 or 5 years ago....and I can take a lot. Hopefully one day I'll be able to stomach it again, but all that said, of course it's one of the best films ever created and arguably Neeson's finest performance. Many people on this earth still need an education on what dehumanizing rhetoric sounds like because this pattern continues onward and it makes my justice loving heart angry/weep/distressed/all the synonyms thereof.
@JonathanDecker4 жыл бұрын
Indeed. That is the exact reason why we chose to do this episode. Every generation needs to see it.
@jenniferhiemstra52284 жыл бұрын
@@JonathanDecker 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Required watching for the human species.
@janwel744 жыл бұрын
Well, Shindler’s List is all sunshine and rainbows compared to The Grey Zone. After seing that movie I had one of my bleakest moments and needed some time to recompose myself.
@morganray5424 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, my highschool English class watched it right after reading Night by Eli Wiesel. I can say they needed to watch it, because until it got serious, they weren't taking the topic at all seriously and it was really hard on the 3 Jewish people in the room when our classmates were making jokes about the Holocaust for a month (some had been making Holocaust jokes since 7th grade, this was 10th grade)
@Milena-dh5uy4 жыл бұрын
If you like it you should watch The Pianist :) I love Schindler's list too, both the book and the movie :) I'm Polish, still can't wait to go to Cracov to visit Schindler's fabric
@mateuszbednarski_fizjo4 жыл бұрын
I strongly agree with the "feeling", that Alan observed during his visit in Auschwitz. I was there something about 8 years ago, as a teen. There is something like deafening silence, the air was unearthly in some way and the sheer scale of it. Barbed wire seemed to loop the horizon. It leaves a mark in your consciousness about human nature.
@jennv29484 жыл бұрын
I haven't been to concentration camps in Europe, but I have been to the Killing Fields in Cambodia, and it felt the same. A deep heaviness. The need to be quiet. A profound awareness that unfathomable atrocities were committed in the very place you stand. Horrific and powerful.
@Meeepower3 жыл бұрын
I went to Auschwitz when i was 14 and I couldn't take it. The feel of the place was just too strong for me (i ended up being physically sick and couldn't finish the visit). I've been to many different WW2 sites since then and while some of those carry an imprint, a lingering feeling strong enough to bring me bring me to tears, Auschwitz is by far the worst place i've ever been. It's been 11 years since then and I still can't get over how worn the stairs were after only a few years of use. That's what really drove home how many people had gone through that place and most likely died there.
@dragonsbeware3 жыл бұрын
I felt the same as a teenager visiting Dachau. It started to snow and the noon bell started to ring just as we were about to go into the crematorium. I remember having to cross over a creek to get to the crematorium and it just seemed so out of place, this little babbling brook. The whole thought of that visit still makes me cry, 20+ years later.
@Karl_der_Genosse3 жыл бұрын
I live near Bergen-Belsen, one of the largest camps. I visited it at 15 after having learned a lot about German History, as a final insight into of what my and my countries history is. While Bergen-Belsen wasn't a camp where they employed mass killing technices, the leader of Bergen-Belsen was one of the worst Nazis. He admired Auschwitz for it's "efficiency" and wanted to build a camp even "better" (just the thought of that sickened me). Bergen-Belsen was notorious for cramping in as much people as possible, first war-captives, then jews. They incarcerated bizzare numbers of people, cramping up to 10.000 people into a single building. Some captives had to dig their own holes for shelter, most of these ended up being filled with a dead person now inside them. While people didn't die from being Shot or industrially killed, they were given near to no food and, even after the camp was liberated, thousands died everyday from the Camps condititions. The Allies had to use heavy building equipment to shovel corpses into mass graves, which was done by the captured Nazis and documented by the Allies. They wanted to show them, what they did. Today, the yard where the internment huts stood is filled with hills. Every Hill is home to up to 15.000 dead people, killed by the Nazis disregard for human life. And there are a lot of these hills. That day, I wanted to walk home. I wanted to contemplate what I have sawn. I learned a valuable lesson about the worth of human life, about why we have to always remember it as immeasurable and about the first article of the German constitution: "Human Dignity is unimpeachable"
@yamifangurl3 жыл бұрын
@@jennv2948 I had the same feeling going to Mauthausen in Austria
@sydneysaint42264 жыл бұрын
You should do Jo Jo rabbit
@CinemaTherapyShow4 жыл бұрын
We definitely will, but it may be awhile.
@gabor62594 жыл бұрын
@@CinemaTherapyShow You should do (if you haven't already) 12 Angry Men (1957) Gattaca (1997) Good Will Hunting (1997) Shutter Island (2010) The Hunger Games (2012) (all parts) Whiplash (2014) Room (2015) Blade Runner (2017) Wonder (2017) Joker (2019) and when the 4th part comes out, The Matrix (1999) (all parts)
@MyLittleWeirdFriend4 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah Whiplash would be interesting for sure, considering the psychological warfare going on there. Love Jo Jo rabbit as well!
@stickpersonperson19954 жыл бұрын
@@MyLittleWeirdFriend jees wow, I don't think they would do all of them
@parzival95143 жыл бұрын
@@CinemaTherapyShow how about Green Book 😊. Not just because it's took place in 50s. It would be awesome if you could give some thought about when friendships are build in difficult times.
@knory1234 жыл бұрын
My great uncle died in a deathcamp in Germany for providing help to Jewish people, he was only 21 years old when he died. I think about that sometimes when I think that I have a problem in my life or when I don't have the courage to do something for somebody else
@aisling_904 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry for your loss. You are right though- it gives us perspective we need
@knory1234 жыл бұрын
@@aisling_90 I never got to know him, but he was my grandfathers older brother, it made my grandfather join the army at 17.
@blauespony10134 жыл бұрын
I am very sorry to hear that.
@CeramicQuill4 жыл бұрын
He is a hero.
@soggypizzapi87944 жыл бұрын
May his memory be a blessing.
@4Mr.Crowley23 жыл бұрын
Ralph Fiennes gave a great interview in which he discussed how he got through playing a monstrous figure like Amon Goeth. He said he focused on him as a bureaucrat like Eichman, a guy worried about meeting his quotas assigned by his superiors (like how much barbed wire he has to order), etc - how many new workers he needs to accommodate etc. He said it was the only way he could endure it.
@mohammedashian80942 жыл бұрын
As a kid I liked imagining being a hero and saving people and being cheered and proud of myself but as an adult I started to believe that a REAL genuine hero doesn’t say: “I saved a lot.” A real genuine hero would say: “I could’ve saved more.”
@Hufflepuffalous4 жыл бұрын
I’ve never seen this movie but that scene where he’s upset about losing even one person really got to me 😢
@kayisfish4 жыл бұрын
Same
@nicoleashleyknox4 жыл бұрын
I wasn't holding it together when the little boy went in the toilet sewer and then Neeson's acting in that moment was truly gut wrenching. Lost it.
@ladydavinci99144 жыл бұрын
I felt that.
@Quotenwagnerianer4 жыл бұрын
That is the scene that gets everyone. Even if you held out up to that point, this is the moment where virtually everyone breaks.
@staceyme14803 жыл бұрын
That scene is just wow, but what comes after is so precious. Many of the actors are descendants of the Schindler Jews. Just let that sit... please watch the full film it might seem long but it is over before you know it.
@user-nr6po6cy9s3 жыл бұрын
I now understand my grandpa’s anger at his brothers’ apathy when he fled Slovenia. The last of the nazis were rounding up people from the surrounding areas for one last chance to turn the tables... he was young, about 19 I think? He fled, he was thrown in jail twice I think but escaped both times and hopped on a boat to come to Canada. He never went back to Slovenia. He did see his family again through video calls, but he never went back. Before I thought he seemed quite stubborn, but after reading people’s stories and your comments on the movie I understand why he was so angry that his brothers stayed. (And he’s from a family that had 7 children, so we’re talking about a lot of brothers). In his eyes, this was the best thing he could do and the others didn’t care enough to leave (if they stayed and fought back they’d have been thrown in jail and who knows what else, there were bullet holes in the houses from that time period when I went to visit. They were essentially making the choice to go with the nazis if they showed up). My grandpa died last year, he had a hard life but I appreciate his decision to leave so much more now because of this video.
@noemitellez30982 жыл бұрын
Insane story . At 19 too . He is so strong 🤍
@sarahkoren7294 Жыл бұрын
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand up for what is right and against evil.
@kiyahforever4 жыл бұрын
I had a history teacher show us clips from this movie in high school, and I still haven't recovered from those few scenes. It's hard to face the atrocities humanity is capable of, but it's more important to realize we're all human and we all deserve kindness.
@helgaioannidis93654 жыл бұрын
If you grow up in Germany you will see various films about the holocaust as shocking and you will visit a concentration camp and maybe even talk to a survivor.
@Quotenwagnerianer4 жыл бұрын
We were shown the original documentaries instead of an reanactment.
@veradrost96544 жыл бұрын
Ten years ago, maybe, I was shown a documentary about the holocaust and WWII in class. It was impressive, but nothing struck me as hard as the complete silence that fell over my classroom - ordinarily so filled with rowdy teens and laughter - as the conclusion of the holocaust was laid bare without music or imagery. Just pure numbers of how many people had been murdered and reduced to nothing. I've yet to find that documentary again and I so wish to see it. This documentary was shown to a Dutch class and I can't remember if it was in English or Dutch, but if anyone has any idea which one it could be, I would appreciate it.
@sarahkoren7294 Жыл бұрын
No, they are equally as important.🇮🇱✡️
@DanielSelk4 жыл бұрын
This movie RUINED me. Some of those scenes were so shocking that I didn't even cry or react cause it was too much. But when the end came with Oscar saying how he could have done better and saved more ALL my emotions broke out and I couldn't stop for several minutes. One of the hardest movies I've ever seen but a very important one...and I'll probably never see it again as well.
@lazarradovanovic96584 жыл бұрын
A wise man once said: It's not our abilities that define us, it's our choices. That quote perfectly describes Oscar Schindler: An asshole who made the right call, and generations are thankful to him for those choices. edit: Thx @Jenn V for the correction
@damienasmodeus9284 жыл бұрын
but.. but.. but actions are also choices. You don't make an action without making a choice to do that action.
@jennv29484 жыл бұрын
It's not our *abilities that define us, it is our choices.
@lazarradovanovic96584 жыл бұрын
@@jennv2948 yeah that's right, sorry 😅
@dew__drops78443 жыл бұрын
@@lazarradovanovic9658 was it Dumbledore? I’m not joking... and I totally agree with whoever said it.
@lazarradovanovic96583 жыл бұрын
@@dew__drops7844 i think it might be, i just remember hearing it once a long time ago and it stuck with me ever since
@dya-in19974 жыл бұрын
when jonathan talked about hindu community having their stories even for a second, i genuinely felt touched, it feels like we're such an overlooked community regards to what our history and culture is and was, since we are talking about the holocaust right now, not many people know that during the bengal famines created by britishers millions of people starved and died in more numbers. its just we have our stories and we would love to tell the world about it.
@classicambo97813 жыл бұрын
Bollywood is well overdue some serious film making about the atrocities of the British.
@86bhars3 жыл бұрын
@@classicambo9781 yeah... but I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting on it.
@bananatiergod2 жыл бұрын
I think the most frustrating part comes from his a symbol of peace for the Hindu community was taken by Hitler and twisted into one of war and hatred. There wasn't a single country that wasn't tainted by that man's touch.
@enjab76974 жыл бұрын
I am german and my parents watched this movie with me and my siblings when i was about 12. It was really not a fun evening, but my parents skipped the most violent scenes and we made breaks so they could explain things to us. It gave me a lot to think about, but i am really glad my parents did this with us. It's important to remember and be aware of history, even if it is uncomfortable.
@Lone_Star86 Жыл бұрын
You are not german. You are just 1 ape of billions other hairless ape species alongside billions and billions of other animal species living on planet Earth. Stop segregating yourself giving yourself an Identity, it is creating division which is an illusion created by humans. Germany and other "countries" are just one Land created by plate techtonics billions of years ago by planet Earth due to volcanic activity, then broke away to create continents. They are inhabited by billions of species of animals not Just humans. Humans make me laugh with their delusions and "identity". Wake up my friend. All the atrocities that happened in the past is due to ALL of humankind, no point blaming one group of humans living on a particular continent. All Humans need to change as a species. Once you wake up you see the idiotic things humans do from a different point of view you will understand. ☯️🙏 Ultimately none of our small human history matters. We live on a small planet in a galaxy full of billions of other stars, and there are billions of other galaxies in the universe which will outlive our measly small lives. Truth is we are a part of a huge galactic universe and was created by that Universe and we are its eyes and ears. So you are the Universe. Not.. "German" 😊
@jillcnc Жыл бұрын
If only the US would think this way about our history of slavery, instead of ignoring it, or worse, trying to paint enslaved people as being happy and cared for. Slavery us the American original sin and we have yet to come to terms with it the way Germany has faced the hard truths about the Holocaust.
@bananatiergod2 жыл бұрын
Watching this again still feels like a punch to the gut. A lot of people I knew in my life lived during the Holocaust (my grandfather on my dad's side lost his entire family there when he was three, the one from my mom's side had to live there pretending to be a German because of his blue eyes and blonde hair, even using Adolf as an alias, and my mom's teacher went through enough trauma there that seeing two students shaving their heads for a bet caused her to kick them out of class). The fact there are horrible, HORRIBLE people out there who deny this ever existed makes my blood boil and my throat choke with tears. This genocide was real, the suffering there was real and it still goes on decades later. It's an ugly reminder that all people are equal, but to some they are less equal than others.
@LordofFullmetal3 жыл бұрын
God. That scene where he cries over all the people he couldn't save always breaks me. It's an amazing way to show his growth - he's sobbing his heart out because the ring on his finger could have saved ONE more life. He's done so much good, but he's not basking in it; he's heartbroken that he couldn't do MORE.
@solfolgarait37453 жыл бұрын
I'm Jewish, and this movie is extremely hard to watch. To me, when I first watched it, I couldn't connect what I saw in the movie with reality or with my family's past, I couldn't believe that this was something that actually happened, even though I knew it wasn't fiction. Maybe because I grew up seeing so much violence in movies, I just thought that it had been exagerated for "the sake of entretaintment", like many movies that deal with important topics are. Now, it's become harder and harder to sit through it, the crying is constant and I take many breaks to clear my head, but I think that it's a movie that everybody should watch. Sadly, I couldn't bring myself to watch your video, but I will when I'm ready (still streaming it tho). Thank you for your amazing content, been a fan for a while now, continue with your excellent work!! Love from Argentina.
@sarahkoren7294 Жыл бұрын
You live in Argentina, where so many Nazis fled to, including Eichmann, and you thought this was exaggerated? What about all of the Terror Attacks, in Argentina against our people? Were you never taught the Holocaust in school? What about your parents? As a fellow Jew, I am horrified that you were unaware of the actual evil extent of the Holocaust.
@constancep76322 жыл бұрын
I took 20th century history as an elective in my last year of high school and we watched Schindler's List. I remember that me and most of my classmates, we didn't cry, we were just... completely shellshocked. Like... you hear about all of it and you understand that's it's terrible, but seeing it portrayed like this, then you really *get it*. The sheer horror and inhumanity. As we watch extremism and white nationalism gain in popularity around the world, I'm starting to think this film should be part of high school curriculum for everyone. If we forget history, we're bound to repeat it.
@MrrMechassult4 жыл бұрын
All seriousness though. I have never actually seen this movie. I've seen videos like this where people talk about it and all that but I have never seen it. I will never see it because I know how I will react. I am not Jewish, my family is not Jewish (as far as I know), but I went to the holocaust museum in DC once when I was a kid and could not stay for the whole thing because I was just crying. I can't handle how humans could do that to other human beings. I know Hitler and the Germans did not see the people they did all that to as people but they were, they were human beings. If you see somebody as not a person just because they look different, believe different, speak different, then it makes it easy to justify doing horrible things to them. But we are all human beings.
@attesmatte4 жыл бұрын
I totally respect anyone who says they won't see it because it will make them sick to their stomach... ❤️ It's a horrible, horrible film, very accurately depicting the worst things humans can do to each other... 😭😭 It was obligatory to see it when I was in school, and I was probably 15 when I saw it, back in -93... And I've seen it once after that. I'm 43 now. I don't know if I'll ever see it again honestly. 💔
@musicadictor4 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean. I'm not Jewish either but when I visited Auschwitz I couldn't stop crying for hours after the fact. I couldn't fathom how people can be so terrible to others. I don't think I can ever watch the whole of this movie. This video was enough to make me cry again.
@robertbouley76974 жыл бұрын
Normally I encourage people to confront evil and ugly truths to better forge their values and identity, but it sounds like you have a healthy understanding of yourself, and you’re not taking the easy route for the sake of convenience.
@tiedyedowl83674 жыл бұрын
I understand where you’re coming from. It’s good you know that about yourself. I wish I’d not seen or read as many things about the Holocaust and other tragedies as I have. There’s knowing enough to be aware and then there’s consuming so much to the point of overwhelming yourself which is just crippling and helps no one.
@blauespony10134 жыл бұрын
The worst thing is: The people they killed were not really different. They killed their own. They killed them out of jealousy, out of need for a common enemy. And if you go through history: This is not the first time something like this happened. The question is: Will it be the last time?
@yola61394 жыл бұрын
This movie has had a big impact on me as we watched this in school right after visiting birkenau and auschwitz and saw many of the settings irl... at least here in germany many more should be required to watch this peace of art as a reminder what can never happen again... the spreading of hate and the loss of a country wih any foundation in human dignity
@nateds73264 жыл бұрын
Ok can you guys believe that the studio wanted this movie to be in color? It's like shooting 2001 a space oddyssey without vfx I can't imagine this movie without it.
@sarasamaletdin45744 жыл бұрын
Few movies are shot in black and white but they can still show brutally in color, like 12 Years A Slave. So while black and white worked I understand studio being skeptical.
@janedoex13982 жыл бұрын
@@sarasamaletdin4574 They used faded colours in key moments like the little girl in a read coat in the "on the hill on horse" scene....it worked great to point out certain "details" , but damned was it brutal.
@sonorasgirl4 жыл бұрын
Hey Alan - I know this is kinda meaningless coming from an internet stranger, but just wanted to say I hope you’re doing ok after that and with...you know...what’s going on. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have relatives who lived through it. I lived in Israel when I was 14 and learned about the Holocaust while in school there. Most of my friends, who were Israeli, had family who’d been in the camps or fled. I went home that day after school and spent hours researching and crying quietly on my computer. I’ve never been able to watch this movie - just seeing the pictures and hearing my friend’s stories was enough. I don’t know how to end this, so just saying wishing you well from Washington
@vivilonrane13304 жыл бұрын
"If we want to retain our integrity, we can't sit it out." What a quote. I became an activist two years ago out of the same sentiment. It's hard as hell sometimes, but I am surrounded by good people and feel like I'm living more sincerely than I ever could otherwise. Growing up in Germany, I'm in my early 20s now; we get in touch with topics like these comparatively early which probably also helps to not just turn toward an ideology of hate or supremacy as the "easy way out" of dealing with the often horrible truth. I know how hard it is to sort of burst the protected and priviledged bubble most of us were socialized into by default in western society- more so for people who are even older than me. Cognitive dissonance is very prevalent, and probably only human. And yet, I believe helping people and taking responsibility is our duty as human beings. Unfortunately, in a world that is threatened and already affected by catastrophic climate change, postcolonial exploitation, division, war, famine, extreme poverty and so much more, where everything is so integrally connected and globally intertwined, the choice of apathy is the choice of complicity. It is a burden, but if we are more people to bear it, we might make it work together.
@KossolaxtheForesworn3 жыл бұрын
"If we want to retain our integrity, we can't sit it out." is the same reason why Im the direct opposite of what you said. everything that wishes to change us, our nation, our traditions, our culture, is an enemy to be destroyed.
@vivilonrane13302 жыл бұрын
@@KossolaxtheForesworn how does that make sense? It just sees like highly flawed logic. You follow the idea of an out-group vs an in-group that you connect to a specific idea of nationalism and culture, which are, by nature, constructed, imagined and ever-changing. And yet you connect very real, destructive ideology to those imagines things. Of course those things can still hold meaning to you, but at some point you are obligated to stop and think- why do you want to destroy, why do you feel the need to categorize the "outside" as an enemy? That is facist narrative 101. How is that definable as integrity? Please reconsider
@KossolaxtheForesworn2 жыл бұрын
@@vivilonrane1330 we are not ever changing, we are the same people we were and we will always be the same people. those who wish to say otherwise want to diminish our sense of nationality and our pride in our achievements and our very freedom it self.
@kaiaonfire Жыл бұрын
@@KossolaxtheForesworn how can you say something like that after watching this video? I can only conclude that you are only here with the intention of emotionally harming people on the internet, not with any actual interest in the subject matter (or ability to empathise with other humans for that matter)
@TheGirlonfire252 жыл бұрын
I watch Schindler's List for the first time in 2021. I had just been to the exhibit "Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away." We spent five hours in the exhibit listening to the audio tour and going through all the pieces of history that had been brought to America from Poland. We finished and my sister and I watched this movie when we got home, and I was awed to finally witness it. I'll also say the "guest" book for the exhibit was incredibly moving, too. I got to see Itzhak Perlman play the Theme from Schindler's List live a few years ago as well, and it was just shattering beauty in the silence of the concert hall.
@powerofk4 жыл бұрын
Schindler’s List is one of those movies that everyone needs to see - but very few will ever see more than once. Everyone needs to see it because of how powerful it is - but that’s also why most can’t handle watching it more than once. Thankfully, one time is usually enough for the lessons of the movie to stay with you forever.
@TheRickymausi4 жыл бұрын
Hey guys, I was wondering if you could make a Vid on "The King's Speech" and how childhood trauma and overly strict parenting may lead to a persistent stammer in adulthood? Great content as always and love from Germany :)
@Author.Noelle.Alexandria4 жыл бұрын
Good GOD, I want to scream at the idiots who had a problem with the swearing in that movie. It was actually directly relevant, yet that is what a lot of stick-up-their-ass Karens and Chads whined about. This is such a damned good movie.
@ladydavinci99144 жыл бұрын
Yes! Great movie.
@TheWanderingChemist4 жыл бұрын
I think it would also be interesting to get a therapist's opinion or interpretation on Lionel Logue's role as a speech pathologist :)
@TheRickymausi4 жыл бұрын
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria You are so right! (I didn't even realise, there were people complaining about that though). The swearing scene was important for Bertie's progress. Frankly I also found it hilarious 😂
@praycost20244 жыл бұрын
wow, I knew I liked your channel but I am now literally waiting patiently 2 hours in advance!!!
@brennanc27234 жыл бұрын
I applaud the patient part of your statement. I run across many comments on the internet (regarding many topics) who are not, so thank you.
@lesterparedes83584 жыл бұрын
Couldn't get through this without tears. The end, where he's just ripping himself for not doing more just ruins me. I remember watching this when I was little. They actually aired it on Fox with no commercials and a brief intermission.
@TheMuseAphelion3 жыл бұрын
I remember that airing, that's the first (and last) time I watched it. I literally screamed the second time the girl in red is shown and broke into sobbing tears when Schindler breaks down.
@TimedRevolver3 жыл бұрын
I've only seen the movie once, to this day. And I'll never watch it again. I was so enraged by what I saw that I put several holes in my wall. I really just can't handle movies like that, seeing innocent people essentially turned to ash and being helpless to even try to protect them. I know it sounds egocentric, but I'm overprotective to an intensely unhealthy degree. To the point of destroying my own body for the sake of someone else's safety. So someone with my issues sees things like this, it's my literal personal Hell. There's nothing worse someone could do to me than force me to watch innocent people suffer with no way to help them. So, you know, modern day US is a very literal Hellscape for me.
@bluesira3 жыл бұрын
@@TimedRevolver That sounds very unhealthy. I hope you are getting help for your rage & control issues.
@TimedRevolver3 жыл бұрын
@@bluesira I'm very much not. And, as a result, I've slipped into the seventh circle of Hell.
@bluesira3 жыл бұрын
@@TimedRevolver What can you do to get help currently?
@cloudyatlas38364 жыл бұрын
We watched this movie in 9th grade and I still remember just how sad and sick i felt during the whole viewing. I'm so thankful that we got the chance to watch it.
@jessicasalminen60604 жыл бұрын
Same here, 9th grade..
@SomsOxbow4 жыл бұрын
This is going to be a good one. Unfortunately I won’t make the premiere for it.
@RougeOso4 жыл бұрын
Bummer
@JonathanDecker4 жыл бұрын
Catch you on the other side!
@thisguyzack99224 жыл бұрын
Same😂
@walnutwalnutson87233 жыл бұрын
I am grateful you covered this film. It's important to talk about these things despite the difficult emotions that they bring up. This reminds me how incredibly grateful I am for my mother who, despite a learning disability that led to her dropping out before high school, supplemented our education with information when she thought our small country school wasn't covering important topics well enough. Through her desire to make us compassionate and thoughtful she shared movies and read books to us that were hard but told us about the humans that lived through this history. The history was no longer dates on a page, or wars that we were far removed from, it was filled with people like us, like our neighbors, like the strangers we saw in the street. It made us ask questions in class and dig deeper, which didn't always make us popular but i wouldn't have it any other way. She showed us this film and Life is Beautiful, she read books like The Hiding Place and Night to us, she taught us about Japanese internment camps in the US (which was a topic our history teacher refused to talk about). When we asked questions she truly answered. She helped us understand our emotions about these horrifying acts. Thanks, mom.
@tainanobre22724 жыл бұрын
I'm actually just crying so much with this, can't imagine what'll be like when I watch this movie. I cry for my country, I cry for all my people, and I cry (and pray) for the world. Thanks and kisses from Brazil.
@tobythomas34134 жыл бұрын
I was in high school when it came out, and our history teacher had every class go to the theater one day and watch the movie. We had to get parental consent forms, of course. Such a powerful movie. Also, Itzhak Pearlman’s violin playing in the score is perfect!
@law06034 жыл бұрын
I've got a suggestion of a movie! Finding Nemo! You've got Marlin who clearly suffers from some sort of PTSD after his wife and all but one of his kids get killed and is way too overly protective of Nemo. There have been some videos I've watched where they suggest that once Nemo is captured, Marlin goes through the 5 stages of grief
@nicoleashleyknox4 жыл бұрын
Pixar film I've cried to #300 😭💗 I quote Dory often when the moment requires her. 🥰
@oakenshadow67633 жыл бұрын
"I could have gotten one more person, and I didn't." The way his voice breaks. 20:01
@Th3Unsusp3ctedOn34 жыл бұрын
Found this channel a couple months ago and now watching movies isn't the same 🤣🤣
@CinemaTherapyShow4 жыл бұрын
Sorry we ruined it for you?
@Th3Unsusp3ctedOn34 жыл бұрын
@@CinemaTherapyShow Its a good thing!
@wintrysnowflake33854 жыл бұрын
Same! Whenever I watch or view something, I try to be open-minded and be empathetic as possible to the characters and story, and despite being judgy about "plot holes" and "Character A should've done this" and how the plot is "boring af", I try to view movies in a way that makes me try to "feel"for the characters, no matter how flawed or how much I'm annoyed or hate them, so yes, I cry easily when watching stuff XD
@sarahkoren7294 Жыл бұрын
I am not sure why you put laughing emojis on a breakdown of Schindler's List. Explain please.
@t.k.90744 жыл бұрын
There is actually a book written about the girl in the thumbnail for those who are interested. It's called "The Girl in the Red Coat". Hard to read but also like this movie a very valuable piece.
@DancingAngelOfSpira4 жыл бұрын
I think there's a video game about it too... can't remember the name.
@ScarletShade134 жыл бұрын
I am thorn between dread and anticipation on this one. I love this movie, it had such a big impact on me but hearing the music is enough to make me tear up. Kudos that you decided on this beautiful, heartwrenching masterpiece.
@JonathanDecker4 жыл бұрын
I hope that you enjoy the episode :-) It is not nearly as brutal as watching the film.
@brandencortez12052 жыл бұрын
There are so many lines, like "one more person", but I also smiled with Schindler when he said "the day that one of my shells fire is the day we failed "
@RhamanaChan4 жыл бұрын
Oh the scene with him contemplating how he could have gotten 2 more people with the ring gets me sobbing every single time I see it. Powerful subject, excellent acting and masterful direction. Not a film you can watch multiple times but one that resonates and sticks with you.
@emeraldviqueen4 жыл бұрын
“One of the biggest instigators of change is interacting with people who are different than you and seeing that common humanity and feeling that ‘Oh! This person that i hated is still just a person.’” This idea is so important and it’s a core belief i’ve held for years. We fear and distrust what we don’t understand and that makes it so easy to other and demonize people. This is how islamophobia and ever other form of racism happens, it’s discrimination against gay and trans people, it’s ignoring issues rooted in systemic poverty, it’s ableism that makes you not even considering basic physical accommodations- Really it’s anything that has us looking at another human being and has us think that they are somehow lesser. And it’s wrong. And the only way to fix it is to widen your perspective through experience and allow yourself to be open to seeing the Other as being just as human and deserving as you are.
@azuregriffin11164 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean. I had a sort of mental revelation not long ago, and even the people who would hurt those close to me (e.g. homophobia in the Middle-East) are almost always undereducated. I concluded an essay, in German ironically, with "Schlechte Ideen verschwinden nicht vor Hass, sondern vor Liebe und Bildung." Bad ideas don't vanish before hate, but before love and education.
@classicambo97813 жыл бұрын
@@azuregriffin1116 wish I could make the world safe and loving for you ❤️
@azuregriffin11163 жыл бұрын
@@classicambo9781 thank you. It's not me who needs it much, though.
@sarahkoren7294 Жыл бұрын
Actually, homosexuals were also killed in the Concentration Camps along with 6 million of my people, and the Gypsies.
@Firegen14 жыл бұрын
I know its been recorded already but hope you both were ok as you watched. Hotel Rwanda hit me as hard if not harder on the same theme. I would be interested if you would be up for doing it as a companion piece.
@thes0mething4 жыл бұрын
Hotel Rwanda is fantastic. I'm very happy that we watched it in school because most of us had never even heard of what happened there. Til this day I'm shocked that such a big historical event is so unknown
@Norienful4 жыл бұрын
Sometimes in April is an excellent movie on the same topic as well
@Joy61683 жыл бұрын
I remember renting Hotel Rwanda and watching it with my parents, to help me understand more of what had happened back then, as I was just a child when those real events took place. I felt very nauseated at that one particular scene, Firegen1, and I consider myself a tough person, although I also have empathy.
@cintsscha58992 жыл бұрын
Hotel Rwanda is also such a hard movie to watch!!!
@Chubbasaurus4 жыл бұрын
My mother let me watch this movie when I was quite young, over twenty years ago now. I've never watched it again, but I always remember two scenes vividly: the little girl in the red coat walking down the street while people are gunned down around her, and Schindler's breakdown at the end. And wouldn't you know it, they showed both scenes. They hit just as hard now as they did then.
@shoshanachanaaxtell58304 жыл бұрын
The little girl in the red coat was a tough one, although it didn't hit me as hard while everyone was getting gunned down around her, since I'm Jewish and was raised with Holocaust imagery, documentaries, stories from my own family, etc. by the time I saw this film as a kid. The part that crushed me with her was then seeing the red dress in a pile of bodies about to be mass cremated. I lost it.
@heathertomlinson19612 жыл бұрын
@@shoshanachanaaxtell5830 I've managed to watch the movie a few times, but the scenes with the little girl are some of the hardest for me. From an artistic pov, it was a brilliant choice on Spielberg's part. We cringe as the others are being shot around her, and have a flash of hope for her fate, but then it's crushed. I've cried every time. I cried watching this episode. On the other hand, the scenes with the candles always lighten my heart a bit. Light is so important to every culture, it imbues us with hope. Spielberg gave us enough hope throughout the film to actually make it through without giving up. He's a brilliant filmmaker, and this is truly a masterpiece.
@sivonni4 жыл бұрын
My mother had very strict upbringing and refused to let us see movies in theaters (something about buying a ticket was supporting all the movies that were shown there and some theaters used to have porn films shown in a back area. Or something). But my junior year in high school our school received tickets to go see this movie as part of our world history class and dad thought it was important. So the first movie I ever saw in a theater on a big screen, the first movie I ever saw that wasn't edited for television, was Schindler's List.
@jp3813 Жыл бұрын
Amon Göth is reportedly tamer in this film than the real one b/c the latter was so monstrous that he came off as almost unbelievable. The modern trend in writing villains is to make their motivations relatable. You'll hear lots of film enthusiasts preach that making a one-dimensional antagonist who's just evil for the sake of hatred and only wants to get rich is the wrong way to go. It's almost as if the script is trying to give Amon a character arc regarding power & attraction, as well as attempting to provide answers on why he is the way he is. Only for him to reject that exploration and immediately go back to the pleasure of violence. A reminder that monsters do exist in real life no matter if they're human.
@sawanna508 Жыл бұрын
Amon Göth from the movie IS evil he always scared me so much. I can't relate to his motivations.
@jp3813 Жыл бұрын
@@sawanna508 Whoever said he isn't evil? Again, he's "a reminder that monsters do exist". For he rejects any kind of character arc or exploration that would make his actions understandable in any way. Even the other characters in the film are perplexed about his behavior. Schindler tries his best to dissuade Amon, but it didn't stick.
@LMC_Jarred4 жыл бұрын
I've only seen this movie once, years ago in high school history class. One of the less talked about moments that sticks with me the most is the simple "This is gold" line, which we see at 19:34 in the video. The idea that he was evaluating all the ways he could have saved even more people and kicking and blaming himself for it really stuck out to me, but man, I forgot about the breakdown he had after it. That nearly got me crying almost instantly.
@originaozz4 жыл бұрын
I've watched it only once when I started to discover great films and now I'm crying just from the sniplets in this video. The point that struck me was "one more person" you can save (as many other films duplicate) it makes the act of helping a more achievable. May be it's time for another rewatch.
@josephspence49684 жыл бұрын
I know this is a movie channel and that y’all had a guest. But the Oscar winning John Williams score is such a vital storytelling method in this movie in addition to the cinematography and writing.
@graceboucher26823 жыл бұрын
Jonathan talks about the "I just can't" trap at 9:47. I think we often turn a blind eye to suffering because of fear that it will overwhelm us. There's so much need in the world that we could give everything we have and it would never be enough (21:00). We protect ourselves from being swallowed up by misery and need by remaining willfully ignorant and distant. But it's a classic (moral) fallacy of excluded middle. The way out of the trap is to recognize that while (a) it's true: you can never do "enough" to eradicate all suffering, (b) you can usually do something, even if it's small, and that something will make all the difference to someone. Or more succinctly: 21:56.
@dedf153 жыл бұрын
"I could have got one more" Damn that scene hits so hard.
@blackluce13 жыл бұрын
To this day, Schindler's List is the only film that is shown on German TV without commercials inbetween. In school, we start dealing with WW2 in 5th grade when we are about 10 years old and every year the pictures shown to the students get rougher. I saw the movie once and I am on the same page as Alan about the feelings he had watching it. Thanks for making a video about it the way you did.
@LolaKlein3 жыл бұрын
Spielberg is a genius. This movie was such a masterpiece. I can't think of one flaw about it, everything in the way it was produced made it so real and so gut wrenching
@isabelled.77322 жыл бұрын
What I really adore about this film is that it has one of the best character arcs I've ever seen. You were in correct, he didn't change all at once. It was a gradual shift from indifference, to slight irritation, to upset, to helping a little, to saving hundreds of people's lives. Not to mention- I personally think the way it was shot was positively gorgeous.
@carahr94134 жыл бұрын
A film suggestion: the green mile. Not sure what link to therapy it has but I am guaranteed to cry by the end of it, not matter how many times I see it.
@Author.Noelle.Alexandria4 жыл бұрын
There’s a trend of claiming to be empathy. (Hint: People who post about how they’re empathy aren’t empathy at all, but rather people who think they’re so special that the world needs to know how much they feeeeeeel for others.) The reality is that being overly empathetic is very hard. It’s hard to find joy when you’re absorbing the hurt of others. John showed how the weight of that can make you tired and wish for death to escape from it. I personally had to learn to harden myself so I could get through life without constantly breaking down. I’ve lost friendships because smiling was too hard. I literally hard to harden. My daughter is is my shoes now, so empathetic that’s she struggles to be happy. All she can see sometimes are things the ways others hurt, and she can’t be happy when others suffer. Her empathy is so strong. It’s not a good thing. Yet being an “empath” is trendy, and pretty exclusively claimed by people who don’t know what it really means to have such deep empathy that you suffer for it. John is a perfect example of that.
@TimedRevolver3 жыл бұрын
They could examine Percy and Bill, or even John himself. There is something of value for therapy to be found in that movie.
@Surunasu4 жыл бұрын
I've watched this movie several times, and I will continue to watch it several more times. It's not like I feel nothing or I see it as "entertainment", I feel the same feelings with every viewing that I felt with the first viewing. I love it to death and I firmly believe that everyone should watch it at least once. To say that this is an important movie is an understatement.
@juliahenriques2104 жыл бұрын
One day you'll get to do "Eternal Shine of the Spotless Mind", right? It's kinda the perfect "there's no instant magical way to get over your painful experiences" movie for you to comment on.
@williamjoachim18973 жыл бұрын
I remember being young when I saw this movie for the first time. My mother had seen it in the theater and we used to have movie nights at home. When it came to VHS my mother brought it home from Blockbuster one night and said "This isn't our usual type move move but you need to watch it". She rarely made such importance on such things. I don't think I truly understood what I was seeing at the time but it still sticks with me. I watched again once in my 20's and cried like a baby. The girl in the red coat gets me every time.
@megan884 жыл бұрын
Cant we talk about how Alan is bearely in the discussionen because familyhistory and you just feel for the guy when he shoch up. Love man! ♥️
@girlwtuba4 жыл бұрын
My grandma (nagymama) was in a refugee camp in Germany after feeling from Hungary at around the age of 7. She told me a story of being hearded into an area with everyone else at the camp. Much like the scene in the film, all the adults thought they were going to get gassed but instead it was a shower. My grandma says that she was just concerned she was naked around strangers. She has a way of telling stories from that time in her life like punchlines of a joke. I'm always amazed by her resilience.
@cupofcait3 жыл бұрын
This is the first time I've watched clips from this movie since the one and only time I watched it in high school 15+ years ago. It's been burned in my memory ever since. So I definitely feel what Alan said about it being one of the best movies you only see once...maybe twice.
@VividlyDreamin3 жыл бұрын
Like many of us, I watched Schindler's List for the first time in history class at secondary school. I was of course horrified that this could be real and I grew more and more emotional numb as the film went on, but what got me then and got me again now watching this episode was when Schindler broke down saying " I could have saved more...". It just broke me, I ugly cried into my blazer then and I ugly cried now. He meant the world to those he saved.
@annabanana76594 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this with us guys. Big thanks (and hugs) for Alan!
@mindyreplogle42424 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie as a child when it first came out with my parents. I was about 6. My mom wanted me to be educated about what happened but she covered up the really bad things so I wouldn’t see it. I still to this day remember that film and how it made me feel. I cried so much that my parents had to stop it and finished it after I went to bed. Watching this review brought back that sick feeling in my stomach that I felt when I was little, the same feeling that I had when I went to the Holocaust museum at 13. I will never forget this film or the museum ever. Thank you for doing this so others may know and not forget
@DecemberSfy4 жыл бұрын
I love the opening bit about Alan. Not the fact that he has a delicate history on the subject matter, but I can relate to him really well! My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor and lost his entire family (at the age of seven) with the exception of his mother and an aunt.
@sarahkoren7294 Жыл бұрын
May Their Memories Be a Blessing.
@janavolkner92513 жыл бұрын
We watched it in 8th Grade. It was carneval in germany and our history teacher started to play it. Before we started everyone was laughing and dressed up in silly costumes. Nobody spoke a word during the movie and we left the classroom quietly. It is a very powerful piece of cinema and i appreciate my teacher showing it to us.
@mismiserables4 жыл бұрын
I loved this show and I can't wait for this video. Someone else recommended Hotel Rwanda which is another good story to learn about.
@JonathanDecker4 жыл бұрын
That is a fantastic film
@Firegen14 жыл бұрын
It me. I really would encourage them to do so. It has a lot of the same story beats yet from a different time with a different conflict. Don Cheadle is incredible in that film.
@Kiki-cs8xv4 жыл бұрын
I have to say, Hotel Rwanda unsettled me a lot more than Schindler's List. Possibly because I didn't know much about the Rwanda genocide before watching the film, and possibly because it happened within my lifetime. That film did an amazing job of capturing the confusion and utter mindbending horror of what it must have been like to see a country and people destroyed.
@kelseybrown95932 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather would have loved this movie. He was part of the rainbow division that liberated dacchu. He took photos of it and he was always afraid people would think it was fake. And told my mother as much and said to never forget that this happened and to make sure to do everything in our power to never let it happen again.
@hereticalzed17054 жыл бұрын
Just watching clips and I'm getting a little teary eyed. Liam Neeson SLAYED this role.
@kassandragoldstein46614 жыл бұрын
I have never seen Schindler’s List. Honestly you showed some clips and I’m nearly sobbing. The first time I was introduced to the Holocaust, I was 11 and in the 5th grade and it was for our reading class. My teacher had us read one of my favorite books, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and even though it’s a historical fantasy, it’s stuck with me ever since. It also brought me closer with my dad. We aren’t Jewish, but my dad was adopted by one of his step father’s who was. My dad changed him name from Christian to Samual and he still has his kippah from his Bar Mitzvah and he would tell me stories about his adoptive grandfather who was a Holocaust survivor. He even let me bring his keepsakes from his Bar Mitzvah to school with me. And that’s what really invested me in learning more about the Holocaust and Judaism because no one in my class was familiar with Judaism and I hadn’t even realize how much of it actually gave me my name and life I have today until that point. So I study it because I feel like I need to understand as much as I can about the horror and small miracles one individual had to face to keep their name alive for their future generations, and honor those who were unable to do so.
@graceboucher26823 жыл бұрын
At 17:58 Jonathan talks about the similarities and differences between Goeth and Schindler. They're like two different two versions of the same person, and both represent real aspects of humanity. To me that illustrates an important theme in this film: the capacity for malice and cruelty lies in each of us alongside the capacity for compassion and selflessness. Our job as conscious beings, then, is to recognize that dual potential within ourselves and make a conscious choice at each moment which potential to realize in our thoughts, words, and actions.
@mizuki87064 жыл бұрын
I live in Germany. We watched this film at school. I guess I was 14/15 y/o. So picture this: a 14 y/o girl sitting in class in-between all her friends, in front of her teacher and just- crying. Crying, unable to stop. Even though she is just at school watching and more importantly coming from a family that was not persecuted by Nazis. But this describes the power that this movie posses perfectly. The power that people, telling a story, have. And making the past immortal is the most important task humanity has. We have to learn from it to shape the future. And I, a 20 y/o German woman, will never, ever let anyone forget this past. And that is also because of this film.
@BossBratwurst4 жыл бұрын
Oh my, am I gonna cry again today?
@JonathanDecker4 жыл бұрын
Yep. :)
@stellabella34904 жыл бұрын
Are you okay, because of the again...
@BossBratwurst4 жыл бұрын
@@stellabella3490 I'm okay. I just watched a video essay on Jojo Rabbit last night and it left me bawling my eyes out and then I saw the notification for this vid. The good thing about these vids though is that it gives us hope that people are capable of doing better.
@tracyroweauthor Жыл бұрын
I saw Ralph Feinnes doing an interview before I saw the movie. I couldn't believe the total difference between the actor and the character. It was like they were two totally different people. What a brilliant actor.
@sharpeslass545211 ай бұрын
He deserved the supporting actor Oscar for that one. I've never been as bent out of shape at The Academy as I was that year.
@Alo11314 жыл бұрын
Had a friend commit suicide on Saturday. I can’t say that my pain is in any way the same as the pain of this kind of atrocity but it was somewhat cathartic watch you guys talk about such a deep topic in such a strong and definite way. Thanks for being there with some really good content, I literally tell everyone to watch you guys and that’s never been something I do.
@meganhirschi62484 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry. I hope you are doing ok.
@Christina-xc7on4 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry for your loss, I'm glad you found a moment of respite and catharsis in this video. Take care of yourself.
@nicoleashleyknox4 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry for your loss. Memories will be sad right now but lean into how they are happy memories and let them comfort you. Loss is so hard. Give yourself grace to feel all the stages of grief. Don't forget to drink water and care for yourself. I'm glad this video with our CT guys helped you. 💗
@Author.Noelle.Alexandria4 жыл бұрын
I witnessed my dad’s suicide, and am so sorry you’ve having to go through this. This is a shitty boat to be in. The pain of loss doesn’t need to be a competition. The pain of the Holocaust is compounded by not only the loss of lives, but the hurt and confusion of how there a can be so much hate in the world, but if you cut off a finger, it won’t hurt less for someone else cutting off both arms. Your hurt is just as valid and you are absolutely entitled to every tear and every scream you need.
@Flareontoast4 жыл бұрын
Sending you love, and my condolences. Take your time to grieve.
@Sophie-ww3bp4 жыл бұрын
I am actually from Germany and the Shoah, the 2. World war ... was always a big topic in school. When I first saw this movie I was maybe 15 and it made me realize that 6 million isn't just a number but 6 million lifes were ended. Thank you for talking about this movie! It's so important!
@bexc3483 жыл бұрын
The last scene when he goes through his possessions and how many more people he could have saved. It’s a scene that will be burned into my mind for the rest of my life. It is so heartbreaking for so many different reasons. Thank you for making this video and all the others you have done, I really do think many people overlook the power of film.
@darkplaymo28243 жыл бұрын
I am from Germany and I think this movie is a masterpiece. I saw it in school but also multiple times privately and one time in the cinema 2019 (because of the 25th anniversary). Actually I plan to see Schindlers List all 2-3 years or so, because it really hits me, as it shows cruelty and inhumanity, the way it was and real. No one should ever forget what happened and I perceive it as a part of my (but also everyone's) duty in life to prevent such cruelty from happening ever again.
@g-rated-g4 жыл бұрын
This is going to be heavier than I am after 3 confinements in France
@NicholasDeLaat Жыл бұрын
My Grandfather was in the Fighting 69th (Second wave of Normandy, first company to meet the Russians), first division to free many of the concentration camps), I was in Afghanistan, but before that my first war was in Kosovo for NATO stopping what turned out to be Ethnic Cleansing. We were both proud of what we participated in, but just as much disappointed to see that in the long run, it didn't matter. The slavery and Genocide just moves into a new environment under a new regime, accepted under new laws, and done in a new way under the guise of some new psudo-morality. But it's the same ol'. Reminds me of what my grandfather told me before I went to war. "The world doesn't change, only your perception of it does. Which is why we need those to always fight against the world's evils, because those men are born every single day. Therefore evil cannot be eradicated, only fenced in and controlled as best as we can, even the evil from the ones that come in empirical peace time with promises of prosperity at the cost of others." I miss that man, would love to talk to him now. I sure am struggling finding peace, knowing the battle is never over.
@deleted01 Жыл бұрын
nice
@eyden15624 жыл бұрын
They had us watch this in either Social Studies class, or English class. I can't remember which, but I couldn't have been more than 14 years old when I first saw it. Amazing, intricate, and heart-wrenching movie.
@cintsscha58992 жыл бұрын
¿14 years old? I saw it when I was 30 and I got traumatized!!!!
@Aashbard01 Жыл бұрын
9:46 Hearing this, the first time I watched this video, hit hard for me, I never ignored the world's horrors before watching this, but hearing those words really stuck with me and it gave me the will and courage to see the worst possible things, feel empathy for it and come out enlightened with the desire to fight for the people that experienced it because the horrors I saw were so raw and so painful to watch. Other than this video I watched one on a main character's backstory from one of my favourite animes "Spy x Family" and I never looked at him the same way afterwards because he went into war and then after killing so many he comes across a man who would later become his closest friends, and coming out of that he says: "Ignorance isn't bliss, Ignorance is pain, ignorance is a sin". Those words really stuck with me about how ignorant humanity is, and I made a promise in mind in that moment that I would never light myself hide from the world's atrocities because the people who experience those atrocities need someone to listen and watching this video and the one on that main character's back story gave me the courage and the will to always witness and never hide from the atrocities, because ignorance truly is a sin, an it is one that I will not commit. Thank you Cinema Therapy
@missu84804 жыл бұрын
the first movie I saw, where at the end -the whole audience sat in complete silence; nobody moved during the credits...
@stefanlaskowski66603 жыл бұрын
My girlfriend gave me her DVD of Schindler's List right after we watched it together. She told me was glad she'd seen it, but would never be able to watch it again. It's been sitting in my DVD rack, unwatched, for nearly twenty years now. I don't know if I will ever be able to watch it again either.
@Answerisequal424 жыл бұрын
Still that movie quote i cant say without a quivering in my voice: "I could've save more" Seen the movie multiple times, i like to watch this movie, not because its fun, because it shows what war is and what dehumanization creates.
@LivingWithDeath4 жыл бұрын
I haven't watched this film and I don't know if I ever will. The Holocaust has always been an experience that is very sensitive for me. Not because I am Jewish but because I am a Native American. It happened to my family, it happened to my people and it sorrows me to know that it happened to the Jews and to many of groups of people around the world. This is why I think its extremely important to teach about it and for movies like this to exist so people can learn from it. I think its important for people to still cover this topic so we can try and never have something like this again. I think its important for us to be vigilant and stand up for each other. We should view each other with compassion and love. Thank you for touching on this topic.