Schindler's List Part 1
Added 2023-07-11 17:39:54 +0000 UTCFirst part of my reaction to Schindler's List
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“We got an hour more of this?” I know the feeling. This is one of the greatest films ever made, but it’s one of those that’s so harrowing and real and honest in its nature, that you feel very much like a different human being after you’ve finished it. Loved what you said about people who are oppressed. Oppression like this still persists. Notably, and this might get me some hate, the people of Palestine. Here in the UK no thanks to an adoption of a definition of the term that was authored by individuals who knew it to be flawed, to speak up about the oppression of the Palestinians, oppressed by a government that openly has stated it is proud to be fascist, is to be labelled an antisemite. I am not antisemitic. I watch films like Schindler’s List, and see the text mentioning how the Jews were forced into an area of sixteen square blocks, in the Ghetto. I therefore relate that same struggle of oppression to the image of Palestinians being walled in by gigantic concrete walls in their territory, and something instinctively in you says “This is wrong”. You see videos of nationalist thugs in the streets of Tel Aviv shouting “Kill the Arabs” and see no one stopping them for shouting out about a hate crime. It’s never not important to scrutinise history at every turn, and discern who the oppressors are and who are the oppressed. Are the oppressed doing anything seriously wrong to deserve the oppression? No. Then you side with them. How else are we to defend human rights if we don’t stand against racism, hate crime, human rights abuse and oppression?
Jack Mellor
2023-07-21 23:06:36 +0000 UTCThank you Alan. Yeah it's just too harrowing isn't it? I know everything that happened in detail because of documentaries, I feel weird watching films that turn it all into entertainment.
Elizabeth Cushway
2023-07-13 22:48:23 +0000 UTCGlad you had family that made it out. I don't blame you about not being able to watch it. It's one of those I'll only ever watch once.
David A Simmons
2023-07-13 22:22:45 +0000 UTCFilms and documentaries like this need to exist in the vain hope that it will never happen again, but still these type of events happen in places such as Cambodia and various other conflicts
phillip green
2023-07-13 20:16:27 +0000 UTCFACTS what you said about oppression
Dave (bmofano)
2023-07-12 15:20:12 +0000 UTCmy dude, if we didnt want your commments we'd watch it else where lol
Dave (bmofano)
2023-07-12 14:00:07 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry but I can't watch this. I've seen the film once and that was enough for me. We lost all but one of my great-uncle's in the concentration camps. My Nan and her sisters escaped Nazi occupied Belgium and came to the UK.
Elizabeth Cushway
2023-07-12 13:41:12 +0000 UTC
