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Quite possibly one of the top five motion pictures ever produced. The topic and subject matter, The Holocaust, along with the extreme coldness and brutality of Nazism leaves you emotionally drained. Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is an unrepentant war profiteer who uses Jews as cheap labor in his factory where he produces cookware for the German Army. He is a womanizer who is not above using young attractive Jewish women as his sex partners, fully knowing that they have no choice. He is a member of the Nazi party, and openly associates and courts the friendship of high-ranking Nazi officials through bribes, wine, women, and fun. Of course, this is all done for his personal profit. Jews were a commodity; and there were many of them available - never mind that they are being slaughtered like sheep! After seeing the wonton slaughter of Jews at the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Schindler begins to see the terrible evil of Nazism. The jews that work for him are transferred to a forced labor camp under the control of Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), one of the worse and most sadistic Commanders around. He regularly likes to take target practice at inmates, and is reputed to have killed at least seven women and children one morning just for fun. In another instance, he shot a young Jewish boy for scuffing his saddle. Schindler now begins bribing Goeth to get his Jews released to live inside his factory. With the help of his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), who holds everything together, by knowing how the "pecking-order" of bribes is distributed, Schindler is able to eventually get almost 1100 people released from the camp and brought with him to the safety of his new munitions plant in Czechoslovakia, where they survived the war. This is a vividly graphic movie in many ways and is not intended to be just "entertainment". This is an epic production, no less than "Ben Hur" or "The Winds of War" or even "The Ten Commandments". This is a reminder of the horrors that mankind is capable of producing. A lesson in history for those misguided people who believe that this sort of thing never happened or will never happen again. It is in some ways an indictment of humanity.Read full review