Schindler's List Filmmaker Uncut Movie Reaction!

That was a hell of a perfect way to react, especially at the end. I’m not Jewish, but obviously one doesn’t have to be to intake the power of this hellacious truth that occurred. All the more happy to follow you here after the end of this. Thank you for your voice (even if it interrupts dialogue!! Haha).

ChickensAreRacist

So glad you reacted to this. I try to make a point of watching it every Xmas season as a recalibration as a sort of balanced perspective after seeing all the jolly commercials etc.

ChickensAreRacist

The book is incredible. He started helping people a lot earlier than the film, and even clandestinely traveled to Hungary to tell the underground about the deportations to the death camps. I can see why they couldn't fit it all into a single film, but I hope more people read the whole story about Schindler and Pfefferberg and everyone around him.

Kaitlin

Oskar was first and foremost a war profiteer who saw the potential in Jewish employees as cheap labor. That's what makes this movie so amazing is you can see his slow self-realization of who he is and who he needs to be to help these people and THAT is what his heritage becomes.

Emily Smith

I cried with him too. I was talking to the screen like "let it out James. let's cry together, I feel it, I'm with you" lol.

Simson Ward

I saw this about 20 years ago (just turned 40) and talking to friends then, I said it was one of the most moving films I'd ever seen and I never wanted to be moved like that again. The violence was so absurd, I remember laughing at points, because during that period of my life, the evil was so novel and out of reach that it didn't register as reality to me. Much different experience this time around. Instead of vowing to never watch it again, I probably should have vowed to watch it once a year. It's a reminder that together, we govern the evil around us together as a society, and ignoring evil -- letting it grow unchecked -- is how you give birth to the devils that define its ceiling for the generations to come. The evils we know to be true are the evils we've allowed to be true. I think everyone should have to watch this film every so often to be reminded of that. If every German had to directly face the horrors adjacent to removing the value of a human being, to be reminded of it constantly, I doubt Hitler would have ever risen to power in the first place. Anyway, I'm glad you gave me an excuse to watch this one again.

Jesse Stilwell

I wasn't expecting to cry along side you at the end of this video. I understand how you feel and I just want you to know that just by expressing your thoughts and being so raw and honest helps people. Never underestimate the power of vulnerability. 💚

Moxie McMurder

Just joined your patreon after having seen your reaction to this on YouTube. We can all do the right thing. So now let's do it.

Mema Random

We all have your back, James. Be well, brother.

GoodDocGonzo

Hi James. It’s a very heavy film, and don’t worry. I think everyone on here believes in your talent and the awesome human being that you are. Just keep doing what you are doing and you’ll get to where you want to be.

Cody Price

"As a society the American people are being habituated into accepting cruelty on a wide scale. Americans are being taught not to see other people as human beings whose lives are as important as their own. Once that line has been crossed … then we know where that all leads, what the ultimate destination is. There is no mystery about it. We know what happens when a government and its leaders dehumanize large numbers of people." - Fintan O’Toole

I'm writing the biography of someone who was in the Warsaw Ghetto who didn't make it out. I can't even tell you how overwhelming it is to visit a place where there should be as much Jewish culture as New York, and it's almost entirely destroyed. I don't know if that part of Poland will ever recover, and the country is still healing. Thank you for taking the time to watch this movie. Please take all the time you need to take care of yourself. It's a heavy movie. We've got you too.

Kaitlin

great movie, seen it many times. poland lost a total of 5million people in ww2, sixteenth of its population. this happens when we classify people in categories so we can mentally do things we normally couldn't do. much of the population of germany were complicit to this gynecide, for many different reasons. the population of germany at the start of ww2 were as educated as any population is today. this will happen again to a major country. maybe even here in the us.

michael anderson

I usually have the reaction on Patreon through my phone, and then the movie on my tv or laptop. I connect my regular wired Apple earbuds to my phone and keep one earbud in, to listen to the reaction/commentary

Patrick

Very cool, thanks man! I have a dumb question for fellow patrons. I watch a lot of reaction videos but I've never gotten into watching uncut reactions alongside movies. How do most of yall go about it? 2 monitors, or 1 monitor and your TV, etc.? Just curious, thanks!

WhatRaySay

Thanks for this James! :)

Meili