Ripping a child out of a mom's loving arms and safety is one of the worst possible things a sadistic person can do. I wish there was a hell only for these types of people.
ripping a child out of a mom's loving arms and safety is one of the worst possible things a sadistic person can do. I wish there was a hell only for these types of people.
This kind of fear and anxiety esp. from knowing that such suffering exists...I haven't become a mother and don't know if I can handle whatever comes my way. I hate hate to see children suffering in any way esp. health. I never knew until recently what this movie, book was all about...always looked like just a love story but this is too sad.
This scene made me burst into tears, and I rarely cry at movies. The acting from the little girl was so great, and that contributed to me crying. Of course Meryl Streep was awesome, but that goes without saying :]. The little boy was great
@Typiquesasu I think it was because the girl was stronger and therefore has a larger chance of staying alive. So she keeps the weakest one with her to protect him.
@Jade10923 Thats terrible... but i remember something about one of the children being stronger. Then the only other reason i can imagine is that the boy is stronger so they girl will probably die anyways, so she keeps the one who has a chance of living?
@ShiSav I've never attempted to watch the film b/c it's just way too depressing to think about, but I just took a BioMedical Ethics class and there's also this idea of a Investment-Frustration principle where there's an example of a burning building with 3 diff aged children (ages 2, 6, & 12) and if you could only rescue one of them most people would save the 12 y/o because there's been more invested in that individual's life. Still a terrible choice though
@chrisgeronimo That's a terrible choice and it is hard to choose but I think I would go with the 6 year old. It sounds harsh but the 2 year old has very little invested in it and cannot run for it self. But the 12 year old might save it self and I would therefore save the 6 year old in the hope of saving the 12 year old and the 6 year old by doing so.
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My mom tried to force this movie on me a few years ago. Meryl was okay but how can anyone say she is better than Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie?
Read Corrie Ten Boom's book "The Hiding Place." She and her father and sister hid a number of Jews in their home before being betrayed. Her sister and father died in the camps. So sad. Words fail.
In reality, there was no choice involved. Either way, she would lose something, which was what the German was aiming for. If she picked her son, her daughter would live, but if she picked her daughter, her son would live. If she picked neither, then both would die. That's what makes me so angry. They give this illusion of "choice". It just proves how sick the Nazi's were.
i didnt know they took both of them:( this scene always makes me cry!! meryl did a good job on this part! but this part was seriously sad! i am against the whole happening of the holocaust. i do not think any one should be treated that way. i don't think that anyone should have to make a decision like that........ but this is a good movie. Meryl rocks!!
Well, the Bible clearly indicates that young children are not punished for their sins, rather, they go to Heaven. But, that is not the point. of this scene.
Hands down, Meryl Streep is the best actor of our time, male or female. If that take couldn't have been done perfectly the first time, it would have just been too bad, cause she refused to do it more than once because she was a mother herself.
It's a disgusting scene. I saw this once almost 30 years ago remembered it very well. There's another version of the same sort of dilemma in which the Nazi hears the mother's choice and then switches the children, sending the favorite to his death and letting her keep the girl.
she didn't chose her favourite to live! She chose the most likely to survive. Her boy had a greater chance of making it through- he might have been able to work and keep his head down, unlike the younger girl. I think we need to see things like this in order to realise how lucky we are, just for having the human rights which we have. This is a terrible, terrible scene. But the worst thing about it is that it was derived from a real event.
the officer said at the beginning that he wanted to bed her so i think the whole time he was just getting a hard on from having so much power over her. what a fuck. fantastic acting
What a powerful scene, leaves me light-headed and slightly sick. People will say or do completely unexpected and uncharacteristic things when under duress. I know exactly when and where my PTSD started and it felt like my psyche sheared. Like a bent spoon it never bends back perfectly straight.
that was the most upsetting film scene i`ve ever watched . that girl reminded me of my daughter .i hav a son bout the same age as the boy .... can`t comprehend this stuff going on in the 20th century .... makes me feel sick
The little girl was actually crying for real, that Nazi man made her scared. Meryl said so herfelf in a interview. Meryl gives us an magnificent performance as usually. Meryl is the best:p
yeh but the boy would have probably had more of a chance of surviving in the camp, I agree with her choice as difficult as it was. I mean dont get me wrong, I sobbed at this scene, its the most heart rendering thing I ever saw.
It doesn't matter WHO has a chance of surviving more, or what happens. In the end, it's still a horrible, horrible choice that wasn't really a choice at all that she had to make.
She supposedly fought hard to get this part. Why? So horrible and I totally believe that this sort of hideousness was perpetrated just because they could. Absolutely brilliant acting she is wonderful as usual. Now I will have to work on getting this out of my head,again.
whereisthediscoteque: your logic is appalling and the conclusions you draw demented. i most certainly can "blame the nazi for that part of it." the "choice" he offered was him flexing his sadistic muscles - if the woman actually chooses, the guilt and horror would traumatize her for the rest of her life. if she, like streep's character, can't choose, he can just say that her inability to make a choice has "forced him" (congrats on being taken in by psychopathic logic) to kill both. god.
He was going to take both children otherwise, so obviously she would have had to choose one. Notice how she refused to choose until the last hope of keeping both children alive was extinguished by his order to "Take both away." You CAN blame the Nazi, he could have let her keep both children...his cruelty was unnecessary to say the least.
How is that "lol" at all? That kind of horror really did occur...and even worse! I find this the most chilling moment in Cinema...how could you choose?
what did he mean take them both over??? my music teach told me bout this movie and how sad it is does it mean the little girl will die or will she be taken to a camp
What makes it all the more sad is, even though it's fiction, that satanic stuff really, actually happened. There better be a Universal Salvation for all, or, God is NOT God when He has set it up where so called Christians are Nazis, turning people off from Christianity.
I shouldn't make this comment and in this day and age will probably get marked down several times for it, but there's not universal salvation for all; it plainly states so in the Bible (if you believe it that is).
If eternal punishment is eternal, then there are scriptures in the Bible that don't make sense such as "as in Adam, all die, even so, in Christ, shall all be made alive", and, "for we trust in the living God, who is the savior of all men, specially those that believe". And, if there is eternal torment, then God is Allah, because God "has concluded all in unbelief" (that He "might have mercy upon all"). Might?
Nazis and Germans are not the same thing. It's this kind of close-mindedness that leads to generalised hate crimes. Remember that a lot of people in the world are fundamentally good, but one bad person among a thousand is usually all it takes.
oh man that wos horrible to watch, cant believe they did stuff like that during the holocaust - fucking pigs!!! i hope they all rot in hell for eternity...
no entiendo como pueden haber personas q esten a favor de los nazis,asesinos despiadados,por eso alemania se merece lo q tinen,si mueven un dedo se lo corten,malditos alemanes.
Before the Russians liberated Auschwitz, the Germans wanted to make sure the kids were annihilated.
In the book, Sophie recalled that all the children were marched to the river to 'bathe', in the freezing winter cold. Then essentially left out to die of pneumonia
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I have never cried so hard in my life.....ever
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Ripping a child out of a mom's loving arms and safety is one of the worst possible things a sadistic person can do. I wish there was a hell only for these types of people.
Em183 1 month ago
ripping a child out of a mom's loving arms and safety is one of the worst possible things a sadistic person can do. I wish there was a hell only for these types of people.
Em183 1 month ago
This kind of fear and anxiety esp. from knowing that such suffering exists...I haven't become a mother and don't know if I can handle whatever comes my way. I hate hate to see children suffering in any way esp. health. I never knew until recently what this movie, book was all about...always looked like just a love story but this is too sad.
Em183 1 month ago
One of the powerful, gut wrenching, sickening scenes in movie history. And at one time in history, shit like that really happened.
PawtucketPatriot66 6 months ago
Oh, this is so sad
bascas715 8 months ago
i never read the book, does it explain why she chose the girl?
Jade10923 1 year ago
Fuck that, Im never watching that film - 3 minutes traumatised me
Enderwiggan1 1 year ago
This scene made me burst into tears, and I rarely cry at movies. The acting from the little girl was so great, and that contributed to me crying. Of course Meryl Streep was awesome, but that goes without saying :]. The little boy was great
Janetvdl 1 year ago
Since I saw that movie, I wonder why she choosed the girl... What made her choose the girl ?
Typiquesasu 1 year ago
@Typiquesasu I think it was because the girl was stronger and therefore has a larger chance of staying alive. So she keeps the weakest one with her to protect him.
ShiSav 1 year ago
@ShiSav actually the girl went straight to the gas chambers, and the mom knew
Jade10923 1 year ago
@Jade10923 Thats terrible... but i remember something about one of the children being stronger. Then the only other reason i can imagine is that the boy is stronger so they girl will probably die anyways, so she keeps the one who has a chance of living?
ShiSav 11 months ago
@ShiSav my mom says it was random, shes a mom herself so i guess she would know...
Jade10923 11 months ago
@ShiSav I've never attempted to watch the film b/c it's just way too depressing to think about, but I just took a BioMedical Ethics class and there's also this idea of a Investment-Frustration principle where there's an example of a burning building with 3 diff aged children (ages 2, 6, & 12) and if you could only rescue one of them most people would save the 12 y/o because there's been more invested in that individual's life. Still a terrible choice though
chrisgeronimo 11 months ago
@chrisgeronimo That's a terrible choice and it is hard to choose but I think I would go with the 6 year old. It sounds harsh but the 2 year old has very little invested in it and cannot run for it self. But the 12 year old might save it self and I would therefore save the 6 year old in the hope of saving the 12 year old and the 6 year old by doing so.
ShiSav 9 months ago
It's not QUITE as bad in the book. The girl is sent away with someone she knows, her music teacher.
tamajinn 1 year ago
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savanna21 1 year ago
Where's Eli Roth when you need him?
phxsns1 1 year ago 5
When I see this it makes me happy of seeing Inglorious Basterds... Die Nazis, Die! :)
mariojose23 1 year ago
omgggg
mynamejonas 1 year ago
This scene makes me cry so hard.
tyler9467 1 year ago
That is the most emotional, powerful scene in any movie,EVER.May all those evil bastards be rotting in the deepest circle of hell.BASTARDS.
MrsStrumich 1 year ago 4
The little girl is a great actress. Just her expressions alone are heart wrenching.
1BEAVIS13 1 year ago 3
@1BEAVIS13 I don't think that little girl is old enough to be "acting"
patmold 1 year ago
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My mom tried to force this movie on me a few years ago. Meryl was okay but how can anyone say she is better than Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie?
IconMiley 1 year ago
I don't think there has been any other scene to top one like this.
Even years later, this still makes me cry.
ZombieNrrdGrrl 1 year ago
If it was an extermination camp, they usually gassed them =[
Zelda199 2 years ago
oh meryl meryl.. the world does not have an actress that can meet your excellence.
MD1790 2 years ago 3
weve even got nazi dog kunts in Australia
kangaroosbraun 2 years ago
nazi kunts
kangaroosbraun 2 years ago 2
so much for believing in jesus christ
jegspillerpiano 2 years ago
@jegspillerpiano yeah exactly
Jojokins45 2 years ago
IM BAWLING!!!
Jojokins45 2 years ago
meryl streep deserved the oscar for this one scene alone
thames5 2 years ago 10
Read Corrie Ten Boom's book "The Hiding Place." She and her father and sister hid a number of Jews in their home before being betrayed. Her sister and father died in the camps. So sad. Words fail.
ExZonie 2 years ago
the idea that this happened to so many people makes me sick!
:(
Livia94Dudeee 2 years ago 4
wow meryl looks beautiful!
Tracy3686 2 years ago
In reality, there was no choice involved. Either way, she would lose something, which was what the German was aiming for. If she picked her son, her daughter would live, but if she picked her daughter, her son would live. If she picked neither, then both would die. That's what makes me so angry. They give this illusion of "choice". It just proves how sick the Nazi's were.
timecampf 2 years ago 29
dear god, never let me have to go through something like this!
Elisha2Kings 2 years ago 7
It is too much to even imagine.
nabeshabu 2 years ago
riveting...
RaidersRock 2 years ago
Damn! that man is a assss
monkeygal53 2 years ago
Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawitowski = the greatest female performance of all time !!!
mensahcarrelle 2 years ago 7
i didnt know they took both of them:( this scene always makes me cry!! meryl did a good job on this part! but this part was seriously sad! i am against the whole happening of the holocaust. i do not think any one should be treated that way. i don't think that anyone should have to make a decision like that........ but this is a good movie. Meryl rocks!!
money226156 2 years ago
so emotional what a horrible choice to make.
iceskatemelike 2 years ago
Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking.
jazon345 2 years ago 3
I wouldn't be able to live with what just happened to that mother...
Yudelfi 2 years ago 3
anyone else want to stab that man in the eyes?
amyXanguish 3 years ago 33
Please... stabbing him in the eyes is the least of what I would like to do to that douche.
johnroshan 2 years ago 3
@amyXanguish Man? That schuine hund doesn't deserve to be called a man.
canuckleful 1 year ago
Well, the Bible clearly indicates that young children are not punished for their sins, rather, they go to Heaven. But, that is not the point. of this scene.
Progo35 3 years ago
whatever the BIble say, it's not a reason to kill them...!
firelullyfly 2 years ago
He is only doing it out of sadistic pleasure.
nabeshabu 2 years ago 3
Dear Jesus, that's almost beyond words.
hew35s 3 years ago
Hands down, Meryl Streep is the best actor of our time, male or female. If that take couldn't have been done perfectly the first time, it would have just been too bad, cause she refused to do it more than once because she was a mother herself.
cirac01 3 years ago 3
It's a disgusting scene. I saw this once almost 30 years ago remembered it very well. There's another version of the same sort of dilemma in which the Nazi hears the mother's choice and then switches the children, sending the favorite to his death and letting her keep the girl.
Interlingua 3 years ago
my teacher watched this a long time ago she couldnt remember it very well she said that she thought they put the baby down and killed her right there
koolfunchick 3 years ago
she didn't chose her favourite to live! She chose the most likely to survive. Her boy had a greater chance of making it through- he might have been able to work and keep his head down, unlike the younger girl. I think we need to see things like this in order to realise how lucky we are, just for having the human rights which we have. This is a terrible, terrible scene. But the worst thing about it is that it was derived from a real event.
wendychard 2 years ago 5
the officer said at the beginning that he wanted to bed her so i think the whole time he was just getting a hard on from having so much power over her. what a fuck. fantastic acting
ogoperasinger 3 years ago
What a powerful scene, leaves me light-headed and slightly sick. People will say or do completely unexpected and uncharacteristic things when under duress. I know exactly when and where my PTSD started and it felt like my psyche sheared. Like a bent spoon it never bends back perfectly straight.
duanedragon2 3 years ago
that was the most upsetting film scene i`ve ever watched . that girl reminded me of my daughter .i hav a son bout the same age as the boy .... can`t comprehend this stuff going on in the 20th century .... makes me feel sick
stevi541 3 years ago
The little girl was actually crying for real, that Nazi man made her scared. Meryl said so herfelf in a interview. Meryl gives us an magnificent performance as usually. Meryl is the best:p
noflo02 3 years ago
is this a true story?
I would have given up the little boy, I mean the girl was IN her arms at the time!
TiggerGrl217 3 years ago
yeh but the boy would have probably had more of a chance of surviving in the camp, I agree with her choice as difficult as it was. I mean dont get me wrong, I sobbed at this scene, its the most heart rendering thing I ever saw.
charleeXD 3 years ago 3
It doesn't matter WHO has a chance of surviving more, or what happens. In the end, it's still a horrible, horrible choice that wasn't really a choice at all that she had to make.
timecampf 2 years ago 6
How awful, her screams unforgettable.
alexv1993 3 years ago
She supposedly fought hard to get this part. Why? So horrible and I totally believe that this sort of hideousness was perpetrated just because they could. Absolutely brilliant acting she is wonderful as usual. Now I will have to work on getting this out of my head,again.
bajoma123 3 years ago 2
That little girl's screams are heart wrenching.
broadwaymelody33 3 years ago 5
I didn't cry until I saw the little girl's face.
What horrible, disgusting people the Nazis were to do something as terrible as this.
Oliviax0x08 3 years ago
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meryl streep did it, she chose. you can't blame the nazi for that part of it. she chose to go along with it, to partake of his little nazi game.
whereisthediscoteque 3 years ago
are you a moron? or just void of all emotion?
charleeXD 3 years ago
whereisthediscoteque: your logic is appalling and the conclusions you draw demented. i most certainly can "blame the nazi for that part of it." the "choice" he offered was him flexing his sadistic muscles - if the woman actually chooses, the guilt and horror would traumatize her for the rest of her life. if she, like streep's character, can't choose, he can just say that her inability to make a choice has "forced him" (congrats on being taken in by psychopathic logic) to kill both. god.
ameliabedelia99 3 years ago
He was going to take both children otherwise, so obviously she would have had to choose one. Notice how she refused to choose until the last hope of keeping both children alive was extinguished by his order to "Take both away." You CAN blame the Nazi, he could have let her keep both children...his cruelty was unnecessary to say the least.
Zelda199 2 years ago 3
How is that "lol" at all? That kind of horror really did occur...and even worse! I find this the most chilling moment in Cinema...how could you choose?
april02me 3 years ago 3
Lol...The most shocking moment of cinema.Great meryl
th3fake 3 years ago
Hardly... there are many in the history of film; that's what makes film such an incredible thing. BUT, definitely very disturbing, without a doubt.
tall32guy 3 years ago
pauroso...
irgalam 3 years ago
The little girl is a hell of an actor... that scream is chilling
biglittlecare 3 years ago 6
Someone else on the comments said, she was not acting; she was scared by the actor portraying the colonel or whatever he was, for some reason.
tall32guy 3 years ago
She was acting, but having children of her own she refused to do the scene again, as it was to emotionally draining for her.
bananagirl89 2 years ago 3
I was talking about the girl that screamed as she was being taken away, not Meryl Streep. LOL Sorry for the confusion.
tall32guy 2 years ago
The two child actors would have had a difficult time knowing what they were interpreting. I can still hear that little girl's scream.
nabeshabu 2 years ago
this is terrible.
hddsmith 3 years ago
I could not choose. She is stronger then me.
PowerhousePaluch 3 years ago
She said she couldnt', but she had to. It was either that or they both would have taken. It would have been deathly hard for her either way.
tall32guy 3 years ago
what did he mean take them both over??? my music teach told me bout this movie and how sad it is does it mean the little girl will die or will she be taken to a camp
koolfunchick 3 years ago
It's pretty self explanatory. He said if she didn't choose he would send BOTH the children to death.
tall32guy 3 years ago
oh well that would be a horrible choice to make but we know why she made tthe choice since the little girl wouldnt have a chane in the camps
koolfunchick 3 years ago 3
"taken over" to the gas chambers
wendychard 2 years ago
What makes it all the more sad is, even though it's fiction, that satanic stuff really, actually happened. There better be a Universal Salvation for all, or, God is NOT God when He has set it up where so called Christians are Nazis, turning people off from Christianity.
BruceRamsey28 3 years ago 2
I shouldn't make this comment and in this day and age will probably get marked down several times for it, but there's not universal salvation for all; it plainly states so in the Bible (if you believe it that is).
tall32guy 3 years ago
If eternal punishment is eternal, then there are scriptures in the Bible that don't make sense such as "as in Adam, all die, even so, in Christ, shall all be made alive", and, "for we trust in the living God, who is the savior of all men, specially those that believe". And, if there is eternal torment, then God is Allah, because God "has concluded all in unbelief" (that He "might have mercy upon all"). Might?
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4713173 3 years ago
stupid germans
4713173 3 years ago
Nazis and Germans are not the same thing. It's this kind of close-mindedness that leads to generalised hate crimes. Remember that a lot of people in the world are fundamentally good, but one bad person among a thousand is usually all it takes.
wendychard 2 years ago 8
I think the real acting here is that little girl's SCREEEEEAM- horrifying.
saturnsoldier990 4 years ago 2
oh man that wos horrible to watch, cant believe they did stuff like that during the holocaust - fucking pigs!!! i hope they all rot in hell for eternity...
Myview246 4 years ago 2
no entiendo como pueden haber personas q esten a favor de los nazis,asesinos despiadados,por eso alemania se merece lo q tinen,si mueven un dedo se lo corten,malditos alemanes.
petrorianus 4 years ago
What happen to the little boy? He died later as Sophie was in the camp or taken away too?
jewelsjewelsjewels 4 years ago
Before the Russians liberated Auschwitz, the Germans wanted to make sure the kids were annihilated.
In the book, Sophie recalled that all the children were marched to the river to 'bathe', in the freezing winter cold. Then essentially left out to die of pneumonia
jackhon 3 years ago
wow, i read this book, and im just so thankful for the fantasic prformance given my Meryl Streep! WONDERFUL
amorichka 4 years ago
heartbreaking. damn....
saphique 4 years ago
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PLEASE take this video down - I've been waiting for ages to see Sophie's Choice and now I know exactly what happens - it has completely ruined it for me. Please take away the "comment" so it is not immediately visible and enter a **SPOILER** warning. Thank you!
starfish6188 4 years ago
No! It's your fault!
sxcboi2005 4 years ago
it's so sad.. but the worst thing is that stuff like this really happened.
Anyway the acting is excellent
DEDeLOOp 4 years ago
thats sooo sad
Abacanao 5 years ago
That has got to be the most frightening part of that movie...
lanarchyfan521 5 years ago
Meryl Streep is an Oscar-winning performance. That performance is absolutely believable and beguiling.
She can act...the woman can act.
reikosan07 5 years ago
Holy crap, that is incredibly disturbing the way her daughter was crying and screaming like that.
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lemoenie 5 years ago
No thanks.
ConnorShannon3393 2 years ago
Is that her speaking ? ;O Heard she did it all, but if that's her, she's good ! (Known that a long time though)
Geminie1 5 years ago
I think it was because she thought the boy had a better chance to survive. you should read the book, it's really good.
robinthefrog 5 years ago
wonder why she chose the girl?
echosaisis 5 years ago