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Devil's Playground (2002)
Very Interesting
This movie overall was very interesting. Before watching it, I knew very little about the Amish customs and their beliefs. The movie starts out showing how the Amish live their lives, which are in very simple, small, close knit communities and they all are very strict on religion. The Amish faith believes that they should let their teenagers be able to choose if they want to follow the Amish faith by letting them go free into the "English" world and see what life is like there. Through that Rite-of-Passage, they would hope that the teenagers will then be able to go and choose if they want to live in that type of lifestyle with technology and innovations, or if they want to come back and live a very simple life with no power or any things that would separate you from the family life. What I personally thought was very interesting is the struggle the kids had to go through when they decided on which faith they wanted to follow. Many wanted to live the English lifestyle and have cars, television, and stuff to do, but the thing they struggled with the most is being shunned from their community if they decided to leave and many couldn't live with the thought that if they were to leave, they would lose all of their friends and family in which they grew up with. Overall very interesting theme and story behind the movie. I thought it was a very interesting documentary.
Schindler's List (1993)
Great Movie
I had to use this for a class paper and I thought the movie was great and very touching. Schindler's compassion towards his prisoners is something that you don't normally see in holocaust movies, and I thought it was wonderful. The movie starts out with you seeing him visiting a mass burial of dead prisoners. After seeing the little girl in the red coat being wheeled to the mass graves and also seeing how the guards treated the prisoners, Schindlers attitude towards the whole holocaust was changed. Through out this movie you can really see a conversion of a man with high power and wealth into a man who dedicates his money and time, even risking his life, to help save his prisoners from a common fate in which most of the prisoners at the time faced.