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Schindler's List (1993) - Patreon Version

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Mathew Hill

Thank you for this reaction. It's a movie I tried to watch some years ago but couldn't manage. Having you both on the other screen got me through it. It's such a painful and important history, so powerfully told. I will never understand how people can do such things or endure after living through it.

REDR58

The only time I saw it was when it came out in 1993. I don’t think I could manage to see it again, even now.

Brad Lowry

You know, I didn't think I was ever going to watch "Schindler's List" again, but I had a reason to watch it again... to watch YOU, Simone watch it. I love laughing again at "Happy Gilmore" and getting a bit of the trill of the first time watching "Remember the Titans"... but being able to share your watching really important movies like this is really what it's all about. My recommendation to you guys, find a Reaction Channel as good as yours and you will be able to re-watch this... when you're ready... this is my first time since it first opened. Thank you guys.

Amelie W

If at some point you'd like to stop being afraid of understanding how fascists think, I can recommend Umberto Eco's essay Ur-Fascism as a quick and simple starting point. Because you have nothing to gain from not understanding them, but understanding them will let you worry less about how unwittingly useful you are to them.

Sergio Meira

You will perhaps find it strange, but I think Schindler's List shows us a character -- Schindler -- that I find strangely reminiscent, qua personality, of the Jimmy McGuill of Better Call Saul. Asking if Schindler was simply a 'good person', or 'one of the righteous', is like asking if Jimmy is 'just evil'. Nobody is simple. Oskar did something others simply couldn't do -- and we saw him talking to other businessmen who were also secretly helping Jews, but who lacked the courage of taking this last step. And yet, Schindler was right when he told his wife that the opportunity that let him achieve his dreams was... the war. I don't know what Schindler would have been if he hadn't been in these extraordinary circumstances, if he had had a more normal life... but my guess is that he would be like Jimmy McGuill. A ladies' man, a con artist, a profiteer of other people's work... but with the courage to take that last step, and do an incredible act of human kindness under the worst possible circumstances, regardless of the risk or danger for himself. And yet, this incredible experience didn't make him "a better person" -- after the war, he failed at his marriage (he cheated on his wife), and he failed at every business he tried. He ended up living from the support of the Jews he saved. Why? What's "a good person"? What's "a bad person"?... The only thing I think life has taught me so far is that, no matter what you did in the past and who you were before, you can always decide, this one time, to do the right thing. After that conversation with Stern, Schindler couldn't sleep, and watched his lover sleeping in bed, and looked through the window at the street, and then... for some reason.... he did the right thing. We all can, in the smaller scale of our own lives, do the same. No matter what we were doing before.

China Andronicus

I first saw this when I was about ten years old. It took me until this past January (twenty years later) to watch it again. The shower scene has haunted me since that first viewing. It's a relief that they aren't killed, but their sheer terror as they think that's what's about to happen is just horrifying. The entire film is heartbreaking, and I don't know how I managed to watch it again two months later. I honestly think it should be required viewing, especially when we have people who deny that the Holocaust ever happened.

Mario

I remember when the movie came out in 1993, almost al the schools here in Holland and Belgium took the students to the movie. It is a movie that should be seen by everybody so this horror will never be forgotten in the hope mankind will eventually learn from it....

J.p. Gill

Love the Epica shirt! Also love Nightwish!

Emrhys

Hi folks ....... your newest patreon supporter here. Yes, this is a diffucult movie to watch. It has some particular impact for me. My uncle was in a Canadian army recon unit attached to the British 11th armoured division. They liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany. He never talked about his experience until much later in his life, but when he did, he said, " .... walking around Belsen was like taking a stroll through hell, complete with the souls of the damned". You both seem very sensitive people, so no surprise you reacted the way you did.