Greatest Film Ever?

Of course it's impossible for everyone to agree on an overall best film ever, because, after all, we're all human and have different tastes, but surely for those who have seen this movie it'll rank highly, or indeed be their favourite. For me, it has to be Schindler's List. Personally I think that this movie is perfect in many ways, for example, it virtually accurately portrays the events of what happened in World War 2 Krakow, the enforced inhabitation and subsequent forced removal from the Ghetto, down to the cold-blooded killing, including children, who tried to escape being sent to the Plasow concentration camp and how Oskar Schindler, the hero/anti-hero of the film, managed to use his position in the Nazi party, and the money made from hiring Jewish slave labour, to protect and eventually rescue his 'workers' from the hands of the Nazi killing machine and from the hands of the sadistic and evil Amon Goeth, the commandant of the Krakow-Plasow camp. It's good that the film didn't go all 'Roots' with portraying such a horrific chapter of history and try to merely sugar coat the film to please the wider and younger audience. The film's documentarian style of filming, as well as shooting almost the whole film in black and white, gives it a very dark, realistic and timeless feel to the film, as if it was the actual filmed events of the 1940s. Schindler's List as a whole is filled with poignancy and symbols, such as the girl in the red dress, the Sabbath scene at the start before going to black and white, the flame when the workers get to celebrate the Sabbath and right at the end, when the film turns back to colour and you see the real Schindlerjuden survivors at Mt. Zion in Jerusalem to places small rocks on Oskar Schindler's grave with the actors that played them (except Liam Neeson who places a rose on Oskar's grave). Steven Spielberg did this film justice portraying this film and fully deserved the Oscar for Best Director, whereas perhaps Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes deserved Oscars (damn you Tom Hanks & Tommy Lee Jones, though you're forgiven for Saving Private Ryan and Natural Born Killers) for their portrayal of Schindler and Goeth respectively.

No words can describe what emotions that Schindler's List puts the viewer through, and no words can describe just how brilliant this film is, so my advice is, if you haven't seen already, do so. See why Schindler's List won 7 Oscars (though could have easily been 10) for it could well be the greatest movie of all time.