Schindler's List (1993) The Second One

Luckily I didn't have to go far to get Schindler's List, because I have it. And when I watch that movie, I can't help but think, that Fiennes' role in Schindler's List could be one of the great reasons he was asked to play Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter.
To say Fiennes plays a real jerk in Schindler's List would be a grave understatement. He plays a very evil, corrupt villian.
The movie centers around a man named Oskar Schindler (played by the never disappointing Liam Neeson) during World War II in Poland. Wanting to build a successful enamal ware factory, he hires Jewish people who are being held in ghettos by the Germans. He hires Jewish people because they are cheaper than paying Polish people. After the clearing of the ghetto ends in a violent massacre by the Nazis, Schindler becomes sympathetic towards his Jewish workers and their families. The surviving Jews are sent to a labor camp run by Amon Goeth (Fiennes) and he finds pleasure in the sickest of ways. He shoots the Jewish people randomly from his balcony and beats his servants, particularly, his Jewish maid Helen Hirsch. With the help of Schindler's accountant Itzhak Stern (A very Amazing Ben Kingsley) Schindler helps save 1,100 Jews from persecution.
Fiennes plays such an incredibly horrifying character, it's no wonder he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars in 1994. Fiennes plays a man who seems to have no compassion and no sense that the Jewish people are human beings. That is most noted in the scene where he goes down to Helen's quarters and talks to her as she stands there shivering in fear. I have never been more afraid for someone in a movie before. He caresses her body and runs his fingers through her hair, wondering out loud whether she is human like he is human. When I watched this when I was sixteen, it disgusted me to hear that, because anyone with a right sense will know that he is far from human. He reviews in his head what he think she would say, he feels a very slight amount of compassion towards her and then it is changed entirely. He understands that she is tricking him, rather he is tricking himself and beats her viciously although she stays silent the entire time. It was so strange to see him practically talking to himself and translating it into her talking back.
Comparing this to the way he treats others in Wuthering Heights it is evident that Fiennes plays an amazing bad guy. In Schindler's List though, you feel don't feel bad for him at all because the woman he loves, he is beating her terribly. In another scene, Stern states that a man tried to escape from the camp and Goeth shot 25 men surrounding him to show him a lesson. He shot them right in the head, with no remorse after, covered in their blood. The violent scenes shows that Fiennes can play a heartless, cruel person with no regard for human life. Unfortunately, that was how Hitler wanted his followers to feel towards Jewish people. And Fiennes does a terrifying, convincing job.
Do I recommend this movie? You BET I do!!! But be prepared if this is your first Holocaust movie, it's pretty intense.
Favorite Quote: "Is this the face of a rat? Are these the eyes of a rat? Hath not a Jew eyes? I feel for you, Helen." *Leans in to kiss her* "No I don't think so... You nearly talked me into it, didn't you?"

- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List