I'm curious. Im currently in high school, and am curious if we will watch the film(I've already seen it, Absolute masterpiece)
shareI think it's been shown in high schools
shareIt was certainly shown at my school. Mind you that was 20 years ago.
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Why would a high school show movies? That sounds like lazy teaching, we never got films in my school, our teachers had to earn their pay.
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It depends on the class. We were shown it in social studies not history.
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It was shown to us and I was 13.
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Not sure, but I think they'd be better off making them watch appropriate episodes from The World At War, considered to be one of the greatest TV series in history. There is no sentimental edge to any of the footage...how could there be? Distressing viewing...but it should be seen by all.
shareJust because a film tries to get the viewer emotionally invested doesn't mean it can't have value.
Schindler's List is good for giving people things to think about.
I am 30, and was shown Schindler's List twice in my American high school, and it must have been shown more times to other classes during other trimesters.
I'm not sure how anyone could watch it without getting emotionally involved.
I think it's a fabulous film - beautifully crafted, wonderfully shot, written, edited & acted - but I don't think you need a gooey violin melody to act as an emotional-response-booster...no melody could ever be representative of such horrors anyway.
I think too however that you can't beat real footage to ram home what happened, to leave haunting images in your mind, or, should it be necessary, to demonstrate the unimaginable evils that racism & belief can lead to.
Obvious to say, perhaps, but this:
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will always be a far more powerful a picture than this:
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I'm always slightly bemused at how SL wasn't an 18 cert. You'd think a story centred around one of the worst atrocities in all history would have been.
Segments were shown to us in high school, and then we simulated the healthy/unhealthy scene and some of us were "murdered". Kind of weird looking back.
shareWe saw it in high school soon after it came out on videotape; this was in Virginia (USA) in 1994. I don't know how often it's shown in high schools today.
shareIt was shown to our history class in high school.
shareYes in my junior year high school it was assigned to watch at home.. I never did because it was too long, and I just watched it for the first time about 7 years later.. amazin
shareI am a Sophomore English teacher, and we are currently working through a unit on the Holocaust. The school district policy does not allow me to show an R-rated film to students under the age of 18.
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We watched it in it's entirety when I was in high school in the mid 90s.
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I remember watching Othello in senior English class in High School and we had to sign permission slips.
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