Schindler's List

1993 ยท Historical drama

Acceptable with guidance. Age: 18+. A Catholic review of this movie for parents.

Our review

This is a conversion story told at the scale of the Holocaust. Schindler begins as a bribing, womanizing opportunist and ends weeping that he could have saved one more. The film refuses despair without softening the evil. Our reservation is content, not message: the camp nudity is harrowing, and a few sexual scenes with nudity are not. Adults only, and worth it.

For parents

For adults and the oldest teens with a parent beside them. Ask: what changed Schindler, and when did he first choose a person over profit? Read the Talmud line he is given, then John 15:13. Name the sexual scenes beforehand so no one is ambushed. CCC 1931 on the neighbor as another self.

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