tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post319170633770986221..comments2023-11-05T03:24:07.273-06:00Comments on Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob.: 60/60 Review #23: Schindler's List.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08092564511948736386noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-46635052899701064222011-04-14T16:08:14.254-05:002011-04-14T16:08:14.254-05:00There's a difference between plot and story. I...There's a difference between plot and story. I was careful to choose my words in that instance while writing this review. Just because it has one doesn't necessarily mean it has the other.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092564511948736386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-18513375615481796992011-04-14T15:44:18.066-05:002011-04-14T15:44:18.066-05:00No plot? Really? This thing is drowning in plot. M...No plot? Really? This thing is drowning in plot. Maybe not plot in the sense that there's an end goal someone is trying to meet, but there are still so many layers of story. Schindler doesn't just start get sympathetic in the last hour, he gradually gets there. The scene with the little girl in red is what starts it, Goeth helps, and by the time he's dousing the train cars in water, he's well on his way to saving people. And then there's other things, like the small thing with Goeth and his Jewish servant, Schindler and his wife, and the Jews that the movie focuses on, if only for a second. There is sooooooooo much to this movie. I can understand how some people may be a bit perplexed, but I'd say watch it again. It's one of those films that I think just gets better and better.Sebastian Gutierrezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09301533140915071582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-19790505714763399222011-04-14T09:41:31.911-05:002011-04-14T09:41:31.911-05:00Great review - really clarifies my feelings toward...Great review - really clarifies my feelings toward the film. I sat, transfixed, as I watched it, but it really is a plotless film.<br /><br />Thanks!Alison DeLucahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06979026382091362305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-66650064349400371212011-04-13T19:46:22.587-05:002011-04-13T19:46:22.587-05:00I only saw parts of this when I was a kid and I di...I only saw parts of this when I was a kid and I didn't really comprehend anything at the time. Definitely need to watch this in earnest sometime soon. Nice review Nick!Castorhttp://www.anomalousmaterial.com/moviesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-16146977770097112952011-04-13T08:25:23.597-05:002011-04-13T08:25:23.597-05:00Simon: I suppose I like the ambiguity to a degree,...Simon: I suppose I like the ambiguity to a degree, but I do like it when there is a choice made. For instance, Riddick is one of my favorite fictional characters, and (at least in Pitch Black) he's totally ambiguous on whether he's good or evil. But there is a certain point, at the end, where a path is taken. And there is character development throughout the film, as well. If Schindler had just stayed ambiguous, not taken a path, and not shown growth as a character, I wouldn't have liked him as much.<br /><br />Jess: So, yeah, I agree with you on that front :) .Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08092564511948736386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-58224940528129379912011-04-13T07:58:06.630-05:002011-04-13T07:58:06.630-05:00I love this movie. I enjoy it and get more from i...I love this movie. I enjoy it and get more from it every time I watch it. I think you're right, the cinematography and style of the black and white with bits of color do make for a particularly stylized movie. I really like the choices Speilberg made - in contrast to Simon. I usually don't like it when a director fails to take a point of view, and however right or wrong it might be, Speilberg always takes a side.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06679283194534387443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332312589214574085.post-72959415695579763402011-04-13T06:40:17.474-05:002011-04-13T06:40:17.474-05:00[Nb - i did get your email and will respond ASAP b...[Nb - i did get your email and will respond ASAP but, alas, I cannot go on facebook when in my workplace... which is the vast majority of the day]<br /><br />Reg. Schindlers List. You say the end "we start to get things happening in the sense that the story starts to become more focused and there's a clear idea of what's going to happen".<br /><br />got to admit, one of the strongest things about this film is , for the majority of the film, how Schindler is not clearly identified as good or bad - and, so i read, that remains the truth. Schindler was a buisness man and he hired these workers - yes - saving them from the concentration camps, but also it was cheap labour. The one scene when Neeson is taking parts of his car off and falling-apart: "i could've saved more" etc. is complete fiction and, unfortunately, does clarify that Schindler was indeed a 'good guy'. Spielberg, with this one scene, seems to go back on the ambiguity of the "good" and "bad" characters in that Fiennes, though completely bad, is humanised a little as you can see he is deeply attracted to the Jewish worker and this is a conflict within him. Schindler appears ambiguous throughout... until that scene.simoncolumbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09027922399726786918noreply@blogger.com