01-29-2019, 12:47 PM
Schindler's List (1993)
A 25th Anniversary Cinema screening on Holocaust Memorial Day with a little spoken intro by Steven Spielberg. I've seen 'Schindler's List' so many times but not for years, it might be the first time since I visited Krakow and Auschwitz. I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that lasted until well after the credits had rolled and I could hear that I was not the only one in the cinema sniffing back tears at the end. It's rare that a film can elicit such a physical and emotional reaction.
Making a Holocaust film about the depths to which humanity can sink would've been relatively simple but Spielberg manages to also show us the heights to which individual people can rise too. I'd forgotten how many moments of subtle humour he works in there too. John William's score and in particular Itzhak Perlman's violin could move the stoniest of hearts. Of course the high contrast black and white photography looks incredible in 4K. Comparing Spielberg's popcorn blockbusters and 'Schindler's List' is like comparing apples and oranges but those aside this is his best movie and one of the greatest ever made.
It's sad to think that many of the survivors and real people from the story we see processing past Schinder's grave in the epilogue are probably no longer with us in 2019.
A 25th Anniversary Cinema screening on Holocaust Memorial Day with a little spoken intro by Steven Spielberg. I've seen 'Schindler's List' so many times but not for years, it might be the first time since I visited Krakow and Auschwitz. I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that lasted until well after the credits had rolled and I could hear that I was not the only one in the cinema sniffing back tears at the end. It's rare that a film can elicit such a physical and emotional reaction.
Making a Holocaust film about the depths to which humanity can sink would've been relatively simple but Spielberg manages to also show us the heights to which individual people can rise too. I'd forgotten how many moments of subtle humour he works in there too. John William's score and in particular Itzhak Perlman's violin could move the stoniest of hearts. Of course the high contrast black and white photography looks incredible in 4K. Comparing Spielberg's popcorn blockbusters and 'Schindler's List' is like comparing apples and oranges but those aside this is his best movie and one of the greatest ever made.
It's sad to think that many of the survivors and real people from the story we see processing past Schinder's grave in the epilogue are probably no longer with us in 2019.
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