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Added 2023-08-04 23:19:41 +0000 UTCFULL UNCUT MOVIE REACTION!
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"Sophie's Choice" by William Styron will go a long way to help people remember the Holocaust. Great movie (with the incomparable Meryl Streep in the role of her lifetime) and an even greater book. William Styron also wrote "Confessions of Nat Turner," based on a true story of the largest slave revolt in the American South. (Strangely, I now live about an hour from that plantation, and I visited it, and it looks unremarkable.) I wonder if there will ever be a movie made of it. Styron got a lot of criticism for writing about slavery and not being a slave and writing about the Holocaust and not being Jewish, but he soldiered on, and now we have two great works of art.
DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma
2023-09-01 19:41:28 +0000 UTCLove your honest and true reactions . I’ve seen this movie a few times and it still emotional each time. A very sad time in our history
rtt143
2023-08-07 04:51:55 +0000 UTCI first watched this movie in 1996 on a Sunday afternoon. Full disclosure: I avoided it for the longest time because I knew it would be a very different movie and an intensely emotional experience. Quite frankly, I didn’t know how I was going to react or handle it which is why I never watched it in the theater. However, I knew it received rave reviews and that it was a film I not only wanted to see, I had to see it. I did see it and I was extremely overwhelmed with anger and sadness throughout the movie. There was also optimism and hope towards the end, but after they showed the real-life Holocaust survivors I lost it and wept uncontrollably for 10-15 minutes even after the film was done. In my late 30s (I’m 50 now) I dated a Jewish woman whom I thought was THE One. She looked a bit like Anne Hathaway and was an aspiring filmmaker, super-smart, strong, lovely woman. Ultimately, it wasn’t meant to be with her and I, but she opened my mind and heart to so many wonderful things. A few months after we broke up, I got to meet a Holocaust survivor through my job and it was and still is one of the greatest experiences of my life. I got to speak with him and gave him a hug afterwards. His name was Joe Engel and he died last fall at the age of 95. His message was simple: “Never let them forget”. I promised him I never would and I would help spread his message. I’m sorry for the long message, but I just wanted to express my gratitude to you both for discovering this movie and discuss my personal experience with it. Thank you for listening.
Jeff Mills
2023-08-05 11:21:49 +0000 UTC
