I went to Philadelphia during last christmas and one night we (myself and Gunjan Patel) were at home with some time to kill. While browsing through the DVD collection, we came across this movie and I wanted to watch this movie. Gunjan obliged, even though he watched it before.
It's a must watch if you have any interest in history or World war II or AntiSemitism. Steven Speilberg got best director Oscar that year and if not for Tom Hanks, Liam Neeson(who played the role of Oscar Schindler) might have grabbed one too. Infact, Tom Hanks admitted the same during his Oscar speech.
Half way through the movie, I was completely confused guessing the climax and character of Oscar Schindler. Circumstances turn the Nazi businessman into a secret saviour of Jews and was awarded righteous gentele after the war. So sad he died poor. Ben Kingsley(Oscar for lead role in Gandhi) too played an important role in the movie.
I think the scene depicting the inside of the concentration camp is very daring and shameful for humanity. One more touching scene was, when one of ghetto's engineer informs German soldiers about flaw in a construction's design, she was shot in the head for correcting Germans. Even more humiliating, the officer orders the structure be changed exactly the way she said before.
I first read about Jews and World war II through Mein Kamph, when I was in bangalore. I read Anne Frank-the diary of a young girl and saw many Discovery channel documentaries about world war II stories, but this movie was too touching.
I saw few more world war movies since then, viz., Life is beautiful(1997), Letters from Iwo Jima(2006), Valkyrie(2008) and recently Defiance(2008). I am trying to watch Charlie Chaplin's: The Great Dictator (1940).
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