Veteran Chinese Dad React to 'Schindler's List' for the First Time | Movie Reaction | Commentary

This reaction was filmed over 3 months ago along with the other videos with my dad over the span of a week, and they are just in a queue to be translated and is released now because its the most recent one to be finished. Nothing to do with timing with current world events.

The fact that your dad can keep highlighting the atrocities committed even directly upon his own family by Imperial Japan, and then go on to say, "We are all people of this earth, I do not understand racism." Shows he's a good man. Not harbouring hate or holding a grudge for the Japanese people as a whole, but a disgust at its military action, which is totally fair.

Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth, met one of the survivors who was an advisor while filming the movie. She was an old woman at the time of course. But Fiennes, who rather looks like Goeth, was in uniform, and the poor old woman had a panic attack. He, of course, felt terrible. A great actor.

I appreciate learning about what happened in China during WW2, thanks for having your father talk about it.

I just love your conversations with your dad. He seems such a wise man. Thank him for all he’s sharing with us.

Ben Kingsley getting a shout out from your dad not knowing its ben kingsley is pretty insane testament to his acting.

"We're all from the same planet." Your father just made me cry.

My grandmother was also kidnapped by the Japanese in the Philippines to try and get her to give up where my grandfather was. When I took care of her at the height of her Alzheimer's some of the scariest times were when she would wake up thinking that anyone moving outside was the Japanese coming for my grandfather.

"The most blameless are the children" and many more quotes from him shows his understanding and empathy towards these events

45:00 I have to agree with your father there. The way Japan (and a lot of other nations) still refuse to take responsibility for their historic atrocities is more than shameful. The first step in healing is admitting something is or was wrong.

I’m glad your dad brought up Unit 731. No one ever hears about it, only Mengele who was of course a monster but what was done in Unit 731 is just on another level. I understand why there is so much animosity between the Japanese and Chinese…. It’s only natural those wounds take a long time to heal….

Thanks for having your dad again with us. Its truly amazing hearing his perspective. I like hearing his thoughts on the other videos you put up with him. I personally feel, Its a shame because during WW2 China, like Russia, was our ally as well. Now there's this unnecessary divide because of politicians. Hopefully some day we can all have world harmony.

MY grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Sadly, 63 members of my family perished in Poland (some fighting the Nazi occupation, some in death camps.) I love your channel and you and your family have my admiration and respect. Thank you for doing this video. Failure to study and comprehend history dooms us to repeat it.

Thank your father from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate him sharing his knowledge more than I can put into words.

Your dad is a lovely person. Such compassionate, insightful, humane thoughts. You two had a very good communication, exchanging your thoughts and experiences. History really is important.

As a Polish person who learned a lot about WW2 in Europe throughout my education, but not much about other places in the world I find it incredibly interesting to see/hear different perspectives. We never really learned much about Asia's history at school, and this video inspired me to fix that mistake.

I'm also a veteran. I knew that I had to watch this film when it came out, but it took a few years to get round to it. All my life all I had known was the Army. We'd even lived in Germany for almost a decade. I'd grown up with, lived inside of, and enjoyed German culture, its food and its people, whilst we were in and just starting to come out of the cold war. The history of WWII wasn't lost on me, but this specific story wasn't something I knew about. So, this came out in '93, and I got round to seeing it in '97 during my initial Army training. I made sure that I wasn't going to be interrupted, closed the door, and .... by the end, that final scene, I was a complete mess, and for quite a while. When this was in the cinema, my parents still lived on a military base (in the UK). My Mum told me that our neighbours had told how they drove back from the cinema, in complete silence, stopped in the driveway, looked at each other and just held each other in tears for about 10 minutes, before regaining their composure and going into their house. This film, together with some of the closing episodes of Band of Brothers, when they are liberating the camps and dealing with the aftermath, should be part of the National Curriculum. It is so important that every generation understands the mistakes of the past in the hope that the chance of them being repeated is reduced. Sadly, during my lifetime, places like Chechnya, Bosnia (ethnic cleansing), Kosovo (ethnic cleansing), Ukraine (targeting of civilians, murder, kidnapping etc), Iraq (chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein against the marsh Arabs), and more, have also seen horrific atrocities committed. If only we, as a species, could learn from the lessons of the past.

spielberg made this and jurassic park at the same time, he said it nearly killed him, jumping back and forth from holocaust and survivors to animatronic dinosaurs, just imagine, hard to not see him as the best director ever after that, hell of a film, very important film

Your father mentions kindness. I tell my kids you dont have to like everyone but treat everyone with kindness.

I really love the way your dad singled out Ben Kingsley's performance. Very insightful.