FIRST TIME WATCHING Schindler's List (1993) REACTION
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Nisseem Froehlich
2025-05-04 22:38:46 +0000 UTCThe question why and how was in everybody's heads during my time in school, when we learned about it and visited a concentration camp. Nobody could understand why people joined and did such horrible things. But if you grow up learning that propaganda and somebody promises a better future and shows you people to blame for everything, it can happen everywhere and anytime, I'm afraid. Then there are people who learn to enjoy the power and others who have to decide "them or me and my family". I still don't fully understand how things like that can happen, but I truly hope that we really learned from it and never forget. I also think everybody should watch Schindler's List at least once. For me personally it was also a relief to see that there were at least some good people back then, who tried to help. In school you just learn about everything bad that happens (and feel almost something like guilt at some moments although you weren't even born back then), but nothing about people like Schindler. And the ending scene with all those real people always gets me. We also read a book called "Die Welle (The wave)". It's about an experiment a teacher did with his class, because they said they would've never done such things and a dictatorship couldn't happen anymore nowadays in a modern and educated country. They made it into a movie in 2008, which is worth a watch, but I don't know if it's available with English subs somewhere. If not, I'd still recommend the book. It's not that long, if I remember correctly. And originally from the US I belief. And btw, although one would think it couldn't get any sadder, but the Jewish people weren't alone. They tend to get forgotten, but it was also Roma and Sinti. I can't even remember if they were ever mentioned back in my school days. If so, then just very briefly.
Jess M
2024-12-01 17:18:34 +0000 UTCI'm surprised you didn't recognize Ralph Fiennes. Haven't you seen any movies he's in? He's absolute perfection as Amon Göth. One of the best performances of all time. Every scene he's in is so chilling. I saw the movie the first time when I was 12 years old and I couldn't really seperate the actor from the character, so I actually thought Ralph Fiennes was evil. He was so believable in that role. Then later I watched movies like The english patient or The Grand Budapest Hotel and he's so different. Definitely one of my favorite actors. And Göth is one of the scariest villains of all time.
Ninaofthe90s
2024-02-10 20:48:07 +0000 UTCAnd that's exactly why these things tend to repeat themselves through History..
Superpotroast
2023-09-20 15:23:24 +0000 UTCno one cares bro
Wayneppanic
2023-09-20 07:03:03 +0000 UTCThanks for watching this, I know it's hard movie to watch, but this is why I love this movie, even though, yes, it's horrible and sad.. Spielberg's perhaps greatest movie, in my opinion..At least, his most important. You ask, how can this be done to people? How can people turn against people in such a horrific fashion? In Germany's case, as commented here previously, it was mostly due to the fact that Evil Mustache Man was a charming lad who said that he could turn Germany into a great nation again, and after getting defeated in WW1 and stuck with the bill, the people were desperate for some Change they could believe in..After getting into power, he did a few very important things that set things up for later: he took over the education system for propagandizing the young and took away everyone's guns so that they couldn't fight back..And the people gladly gave them up because Germany was already on the rise again and the government wouldn't do anything to harm them, why would they? And that's why at the start of the movie, you see all the Jews giving their names and following along with the nonsense.. Because not only could they not fight back or had a real choice not to; they didn't think the Nazis would ever be capable of doing such things..Sadly, how wrong they were in that.. And if you think it couldn't happen again? It has happened many times to many different people in many different countries..Some even worse than what happened in WW2.. It can happen to any group of people, be it, religious, ethnic, political divisions.. Sadly, i doesn't take much to repeat the horrors of WW2 and the other massacres in history. That's why this movie is so great and important.. I agree with others, I think that everyone should watch this at least once.. But I pray we never forget, and we never repeat this mistake again..
Superpotroast
2023-08-03 13:15:55 +0000 UTCYou should react to JoJo Rabbit next. It's also WWII, but written/starring/directed by Taika Waititi (director and Korg from Thor Ragnarok).
Corey
2023-08-01 08:23:29 +0000 UTCBy the way I wanted to add something about antisemitism since you're wandering how one man could do that and everybody followed. He wasn't alone, just the one person who decided to do something definite about it. Antisemitism in Europe was already broiling in people's minds and some events way before that could show it. Old posters / adds for example. And I'm pretty sure Trin heard of "L'affaire Dreyfus", which is very significative of this state of mind. Now only for Trin, sorry Rob but it's in French, there's a very good history channel on Youtube called Nota Bene and they made several videos about the topic if you're interested.
ln_wanderbooks
2023-07-31 14:04:22 +0000 UTCI was actually surprised at the details you didn't know about what happened at that time, especially for people living in Europe where it was intensively taught when I was young, and I'm the same generation as Rob (I don't know if Trin went to school in France or if she came later). But maybe I had a very invested teacher. She had us do a lot of investigation projects and presentations, she took us to a lady's house who was in the french resistance so she could tell us stories and for us to ask questions. She also took us to an exhibition about the Krakow ghetto (by the way the capital of Poland is Warsaw), and we saw the real pictures of piles of corpses and other horrors. Even so many years later, it's hard to forget. All the people I met later as a teen had a similar education about this time period. One of my cousins is half German but from Polish descent, and other than her mom and grandma who could escape (I never got to meet them, I was too young when they died for me to remember), there was nobody else left on their side of the family at all! It's great to see these kinds of movies helping others learn and never forget how far can humans go with hatred, especially at a time where hatred is becoming normal speech again.
ln_wanderbooks
2023-07-31 13:19:37 +0000 UTCHad never seen this one, but I know the history quite well (not an expert at all). I turned off the reaction after 1.5 hours, and first: it wasn't the reaction so its not on you two, I just found out I should not have watched this first time with reactors. So I'm not going to finish it, but watch it on my own again and maybe after that I'll watch this reaction fully.
Danny Jasper
2023-07-31 10:03:41 +0000 UTCGrowing up Jewish I read/watched everything I could about the Holocaust. I have no idea how but I hadn't watched Schindler's List until I was an adult. The hardest I cried was when the shower scene was actually a shower. That moment has never ever been anything but certain death. The LA Holocaust museum has a very moving room where it recreates sitting in the shower room and projects footage on the wall. I sat in there for a very long time.
Anna
2023-07-31 03:59:59 +0000 UTC1:25:33 - that Nazi brainwashing really saved Helen. Not from constant beatings (but to be fair Goeth beat all his women), but against rape. Thankfully he really believed that Jews were rats and couldn't bring himself to have sex with one, no matter how much he wanted.
Scarlett Monrow
2023-07-31 03:44:47 +0000 UTCI've only seen the movie once before, and I heavily debated whether I would watch it again with you two. I did, but I think this is my last time. But, yes, it should be watched at least once. Once seen, never forgotten.
angie808
2023-07-31 02:05:42 +0000 UTCHitler believed that the Jews controlled the wealth, stealing it from pure blood Europeans. In the movie, they stated that the Jewish people held Prestigious jobs as they excelled in higher education and became bankers, doctors, engineers, fashion and other valuable trades in science and mathematics. So he made the Jewish ✡️ people a scapegoat among other minorities that Hitler deemed unfit to live as part of his master race. The German people were so upset that they had to pay war reparations, they didn't need much to follow someone who promised a better life. I recommend that if you have a chance find a local holocaust museum and visit it.
Anthony Ancona
2023-07-31 00:45:46 +0000 UTCWhere I live in the island of Puerto Rico is of more of 3 million people, and more than 6 million jews died wow 😔
Jenny Lee Villanueva
2023-07-31 00:42:17 +0000 UTCDefinately gonna need some Harry Potter after this
Gilstead
2023-07-30 22:04:25 +0000 UTCI watched this in my early teens and for some reason i had in mind Ralph Fiennes instead of Liam Neeson as Chindler. 🤦🏾♀️
Jenny Lee Villanueva
2023-07-30 21:44:32 +0000 UTCBeing of Jewish ancestry, the thing on the door was called a Mezuzah, it holds the Minorah, the first 5 books of the Bible. It is to be hung on the right side of the of the front door. It is to remind you to meditate on God's word. It's important to remember that this was actual history. If we forget it, we will be doomed to repeat it.
Anthony Ancona
2023-07-30 21:12:43 +0000 UTCAnd the movie the boy in the striped pajamas
Jenny Lee Villanueva
2023-07-30 20:35:48 +0000 UTCRalph firmness was nominated for best supporting actor for playing Amon goethe
Beth
2023-07-30 20:27:37 +0000 UTC(sorry, had to lighten the mood somehow)
Gilstead
2023-07-30 20:26:41 +0000 UTCWorst comedy ever.
Gilstead
2023-07-30 20:25:40 +0000 UTCI watched this movie a few years after it came out, when I was 13 or so and it was horrifying and eye-opening, but even then I think I understood how important it was. A gut-wrenching but necessary watch. You ask why the Nazis focused their hatred on the Jewish people and I expect there are many reasons, but anti-semitism was rife in many countries at the time, and had been for centuries. They were convenient scapegoats. During medieval times Christian countries often persecuted them, citing religious reasons. For example, in the city of York there were instances of Jews being taken to the top of Clifford’s Tower and, if they didn’t convert to Christianity, being pushed to their deaths. The hill the tower stands on now has daffodils planted all over it, to symbolise the Star of David, in their memory. Christians also weren’t allowed to own money-lending businesses (referred to as the sin of usury) so banks and money-lenders tended to be in the hands of Jewish families, leading to the rise of the popular myth that Jewish people liked to enrich themselves at the expense of others. They were often blamed for plagues too, and accused of witchcraft. All ridiculous, of course, but all examples of how ingrained anti-semitism became over the years. Hitler latched on to that anti-semitism, and I’m sure he believed it, and used it for his own ends. People wanted someone to blame for the sorry state Germany was in: for losing the First World War, for the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, for the Depression … and here was a group of people that were already distrusted by many. There was far more to it, but I think that was the main reason why Hitler was able to get the whole thing started. It boggles the imagination that so many people allowed it to happen, but they did. Utterly horrifying.
Laura Dawson
2023-07-30 20:01:25 +0000 UTC"Desirable" as in looking more healthy.
k4rizz4
2023-07-30 18:31:13 +0000 UTCGöth was not sleeping with Helene Hirsch guys. The pricked fingers/blood was not to make them "look desirable", it was to make them look more healthy, like they had rosy cheeks. Then they wouldn't be shipped out to the concentration camps (supposedly). One of the things I like to do, after watching this, is to go watch the Göth execution, which is on YouTube. He was hung but they messed it up the first 2 times and executed him on the 3rd try. Unsurprisingly, he was completely unrepentant to the end with his last words, as they are shown in the movie, being “Heil Hitler”. This doesn't even deal with the medical experiments that were done on people, including women and children, in the name of "research" because they didn't see the Jews as people, they saw them as livestock or vermin. So any morality went out the window. After the scene with the ash, they were NOT digging mass graves, they were exhuming the bodies out of the graves and burning them. There's an excellent YouTube channel called @WorldHistoryVideos, which has short documentaries about some of the most vile Nazis, including Amon Göth, what they did and how they were executed. They had no morality whatsoever, some of the stories of what they would do will turn your stomach. The forced evictions and taking of property still happens now by the way, except it's the descendants of those who survived this, doing the exact same thing to Palestinians. There will be those who can justify it to themselves with speeches too, just like the Nazis did. The horrible treatment and blaming of "the other" still goes on all around the world too, we've seen a very similar example over the last 7 years by a certain orange person. That's why Hitler rose, after World War I, Germany was on their knees, he convinced the Germans that his victims of the Holocaust were to blame for the problems of the country, fermenting hatred and a singular "vision", the "final solution". That kind of animosity and blaming the "other" still goes on to this day, we haven't learned a damn thing. The number of non-Jews killed in the Holocaust actually out-number the Jewish victims : Jews: Approximately 6 million Soviet Civilians: 5.7 million (excl. 1.3 million Jews) Soviet POWs: 2.8–3.3 million Poles: 1.8–3 million Serbs: 300,000–600,000 Disabled people: 270,000 Romani: 130,000–500,000 Freemasons: 80,000–200,000 Slovenes: 20,000–25,000 Homosexuals: 5,000–15,000 Spanish Republicans: 3,500 Jehovah's Witnesses: 1,250–5,000 Total 17,109,750 – 19,619,500
PsYcHoKiLLa
2023-07-30 17:38:58 +0000 UTCJust to clarify, Helen Hirsch was not sleeping with Amon. He didn't want to admit that he liked her so the woman you saw in his bed earlier in the movie was not her. Such a raw movie. I feel like it should be required viewing, even if it's absolutely heartbreaking. Thanks for reacting to it!
Maggie Barbour
2023-07-30 17:20:49 +0000 UTC20:54 - that was not a hinge, but a mezuzah. It's a Jewish religious artifact - a tiny container with blessed scripture quotes. It's vital for any Jewish home.
Scarlett Monrow
2023-07-30 17:10:39 +0000 UTCone of my favourite movies oat, it destroys me every watch. just curious what your schedule with Harry Potter
juzism
2023-07-30 16:34:43 +0000 UTCOooh boy. This is going to be a hard one. But I still firmly belive everyone should watch it atleast once in their lifetime
Pepe-G
2023-07-30 16:16:54 +0000 UTCThis movie is devastating but also a must watch. Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes are amazing actors and did a great job.
Alyssa Dyson
2023-07-30 16:11:10 +0000 UTCIt's hard to watch, but important that the population know some of what went on, would like to believe nothing like this would ever happen again, but there is still awful things happening daily that the world just watches even today :(
Kim Magee
2023-07-30 16:03:36 +0000 UTCMight need something light hearted next after this gut punch of a film, one of the few films to have me uncontrollably sobbing. The tragedy of it can't be put into words, the words don't exist to explain how or why it happened. I visited Auschwitz on my travels couple years ago and its the single most harrowing experience of my life. Liam Neeson is only really known as a grunting action hero these days, it's crazy how underrated and talented he is, that scene where he breaks down just kills me. Shindler saved so many but still didnt think he did enough. Such a powerful film
Michael
2023-07-30 15:41:13 +0000 UTCOh hell naw lol. Good luck on not crying
james moore
2023-07-30 15:23:56 +0000 UTCI’ve never seen this movie before so I’ll watch it with you guys
Schmaster
2023-07-30 15:23:11 +0000 UTC
