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Schindler's List was our final film of the day. It was celebrating its 25th Anniversary and uncoincidentally it was being shown on International Holocaust Day and had a fairly good turn out. It was introduced by Steven Spielberg, who talked about the importance of the movie and how he had felt at the time that it was a story that needed to be told. He also spoke about the USC Shoah Foundation established in 1994 to honour and remember the survivors of the Holocaust.


It was the first time in many years that we had watched the film, but we had both seen it before so knew what was coming, however it brought back all of the shock and outrage of the first times we had seen the film, and it is still a brutal reminder of how hatred can be instilled, grown, nurtured and channeled when left un-challenged.

It still evokes tears but probably for different reasons now than 25 years ago but it remains relevant, and feels like a film that should be shown to everyone, as a warning of just how wrong things can go, and as much as we believe that the Holocaust could never happen again, there are atrocities happening right now that require our attention.

We started this week with a Superhero movie, and have ended the week with a film about a man who risked his business, his reputation, and his life, to save the lives of over a thousand people that were among those who were beaten, degraded, thrown out of their homes and stripped of every shred of humanity by this mans' friends and colleagues. He saw an opportunity and used his own personal wealth to extend the hand of kindness and alter history for all of those people, for no personal gain. From a period in history when an estimated six million Jews were killed, it was estimated, a few years ago that there are over 8,500 descendants of the Schindler Jews. What constitutes a superhero?


We will give each film we see a score out of 10 for overall enjoyment.
Schindler's List = 10   Its a masterclass in film making, beautifully and sympathetically constructed, with a story to tell. Timeless, emotive and honest. We weren't sure what, if anything, would warrant a 10, but we both left the cinema in agreement that this was it.

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