The reason she picked the little girl to go to the gas chamber and her son to go to the labor camp is because there's NO way her daughter would have survived the labor camp at that age. As soon as the NAZIS spotted her they'd deem her ineligable to work and gas her anyways. Subconsciously the mother knew this. This scene is sickening and so were the nazis.
@brixton92 Yes I still say that Germany got off way too easy after the Second World War. For the record I am not even Jewish, but still horrified of the millions of innocent people slaughtered by fascism. This scene by Meryl Streep is one of the dozen or so greatest acting moments in film history by any actor, in my opinion. I think she may have used her art knowledge of Edwund Munch's "The Scream" to show her horror and desperate anguish. Glad Meryl got her 3rd Oscar this week,she's the best
I came here thinking I could watch this, but I can't. I remember seeing this many years ago. But I stopped the scene. Too awful. Horrifying beyond imagination. My kudos to all the actors, in particular the brilliant Miss Streep. And God bless all the people who have had to endure such nightmarish moments. My he give their souls and the souls of their children comfort.
#13 Steve Jobs has cried only once during his life – while watching the movie Sophie’s Choice. It wasn’t the heart-wrenching plot that made Steve tear up, it was reportedly the idea of a person being given “choice” that got to hi
I never forget, when she went to babysit the nazi's kids, that little girl, about 4 years old, calling her "filthy polack" (not sure about the word "polaca" in English). My blood froze with that. Racism being taught to little kids is monstruous.
@adib68 Yes racism,anti-semitism&homophobia,alongwith slaughtering 5million Jews, Hitler alsokilled 2.5 million Polish Catholics,1million handicapped people, 1 milliionGypsies,a halfmillion homosexuals&several hundred thousand politicals( liberals,socialists,peoplewho helped Jews escape). I'm not even Jewish and I know of this from friends,one from Denmark whoseDad helped some escape on a fishing boat to Sweden. Germany should've been carved into 5or6small perm.demilitarized neutral countries.
@SuzLa1 I think this is not far from reality - but reality was even more horrific.. there were thousands of Sophies who lost their children.. my english sucks I know..
I was impressed with this film since the first time I watched it.
But since I discovered there's actually a large jewish branch in our family (although I'm Dutch and catholic), of which many members (more than 80) were killed in the concentration camps, it grabs me even more!
No-one should ever have to make the same choice as Sophie had to... no-one!
Ms. Streep on an interview knew this scene was so ballistic that she could only do it once, and the Director allowed this great artist to play the Harrowing scene that way.
I'm not really aware of the situation in this scene. But had Sophie not spoken to the guard as he was walking away, wouldn't she had been able to keep both the kids?
my film and literature teacher talked about this scene over and over again. someone wrote a WHOLE PAPER on this scene. this is crazy good. in a bad way. meryl is AMAZING :) (i can't believe she spoke that)
the man is evil!!!!! but i guess not as evil because he gave her a choice. but HOW can you do that?!
I still can't understand. Why would anyone do something like that? Play such a sadistic game with a frightened woman and her two children. Because he can? I just don't understand.
@Elisha2Kings SS guards/ Nazis, didn't see people in camps as significant, let alone valuable. Hence why 60 million people (Jews, disables people, elderly and intelligent people) died in concentration camps. Similar to what happend in Rawanda and whats currently going on in Darfur.
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That was the funniest thing ever. I was LOLing so hard I thought I'd puke. She was totally the fail, if she had acted quickly it might have gone better, but she was slow and her little kids suffered, but best of all she just sat there gaping like a fish. SUper funny clip, i think I'll repost it with a laugh track.
I had always wondered what people were talking about when they referenced Sophie's Choice so i watched this clip - which is the only part of the movie I've ever seen - and good god that was heartbreaking. That had to be so hard. I can't even imagine...
Its a horrible thing that the poor little actress girl had to go through that scene. If I had a daughter that age and was invited to do that scene (cause it wasnt acted of course), I wouldnt stand it... no matter how much money I was offered... Because is obviuos the money went to the parents... maybe a barbie-doll for de girl and thats it.
That's a very disturbing scene,however,Why did she yell "We're Poles!" when he walked past them? What would have happened if she didn't yell anything then or said it when he was in front of them?
When I watched this movie with my mom, she said she'd ask for a bullet in her head rather than have to choose. I agree. There is no life once you make that kind of choice
Meryl Streep is always breathtaking to watch, but very few times has she been so devastating as in this film (and in this particular scene)!! No wonder she refused to make more than one shot; so the scene had to be finalized in that shot we all saw.
wow such a sad and powerful scene! Meryl really shines in this movie, notice how when they take her daughter away, she opens her mouth to scream,but instead you hear her daughter scream
But even being shocked, one cannot help noticing how great Meryl Streep is. I don't even talk about her acting. Enough to say that, as an American, she can speak German with a Polish accent! Amazing.
We say in polish "Polak" (Pole in english) so germans say the same way, but in german it's Pole, just like in english. When you say "Polack" this is mean :(
@lmfaolol9 Seriously? POLACK; derogatory word for POLISH person. YID; the same for a JEW. YID is derived from YIDDISH, an international language of the Jews, much like the German language.
If the film is gutwrenching, I can't be less appalled by what is going on everyday in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, everywhere where the Empire's Beast can reach its nemesis hand. Without a healthy mind, it is completely depressive to merely read the news! But hope is the least to fade away - and knowledge is my best surviving tool against the insanity perpetrated by those contaminated by the empathy-less-ness of 6% of the World's population.
The monstrous decision that Sophie is forced to make (sometimes idiomatically used as way of describing a choice between two unbearable options, is not even fully portrayed in the film version. In the novel, Sophie describes the fussing and whining and crying of her daughter who was sick with an untreated ear infection prior to being forced to make the choice. It is suggested that her choice was partly influenced by her irritation at the child which makes it all the more monstrous
Streep did this in one take. She flatly refused to even contemplate doing it a second time. Filming it once must have been devastating for all involved in the film.
@lmfaolol9 bloodline. Jews preserve the birth right of the son. In our culture it would've been the boy. Let him become a man for the sake of his sister. Sad but true. Humans are the scourge of the earth and it would be a much happier and healthier place if we never existed. How beautiful would it be.
@billionear Actually you are incorrect about the bloodline thing. According to halakha a child is not Jewish if the child's mother is not Jewish. So if her intention was to preserve Jewish heritage her choice would have been to preserve the girl. I don't think preservation of Jewish heritage had anything to do with this situation. I doubt you would be in a state of mind to think at all faced with that...
I think it was out of pure panic at the thought of losing both of them. She saw the men coming for them, and knew she had to make a choice. So, I imagine she just shouted for them to take her daughter because it was the first thing that came to mind. That's the only reason I can imagine, as a choice such as this should never be put upon anyone.
@lmfaolol9 Yeh i was thinking this too, she had to give one of them but why the girl...? I guess this cant be answered because she probably just picked randomly but still a bit odd.
This scene is one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever watched in a movie. I would have killed myself if I was put in this position. Truly horrible.
What makes this scene so gut-wrenching and hard to watch is hearing the little girl's screams. If she was acting, she deserves an Oscar because she looks & sounds truly petrified.
@Muggle423 Yes, her terror is so real it makes you uneasy. Scenes like this must be difficult enough for adult actors to handle emotionally, think what it does to very young children, especially when they're forced to do take after take. You can see the child begin to get upset in Meryl's arms...she obviously knew what was going to happen and was truly frightened. Someone once said young children in show business was basically child abuse. Watching this you know what they mean... awful.
@residentevilmann haha sorry but I'm sure a well educated man like yourself knows that the reason this happened fair skinned blonde headed men and women living in a dusty town were too brainwashed to question the pungent smell of burning hair coming from what they thought was a military training camp in the woods nearby. Oh and residentevilmann your a prick
I don't understand your problem. Are you saying that people shouldn't feel horror and outrage at things like this, that the holocaust was exaggerated, or both? Also, it's odd you call it Jewish propaganda. The victims this scene is wholly focused on are not Jewish. If it is Jewish propaganda why choose to make the victims that stay with you after viewing it fair haired Christians?
wow- I remember seeing this in the theater when it was out. i would have been 22. imo, i didn't have the depth of Character at that time to fully understand or "feel' the incredible Hurt, that i do NOW, watching this again, at 50. Oh my god. just unreal. that is probably the most horrifying thing that could ever happen to a parent. right there. although i would add, would a true parent, simply "Choose" to stay with their Kids, and Die, rather than, give one up. so shocking to the core
wow im 13 told to watch this for homework and what do i do got pissed at the german slammed my keyboard and my keyboard broke so i had to put all the pieces back on .............. and the worst of it all that that shit actually happened
Horrifying. What would you have done in that situation? Perhaps choose the stronger child to live? Even if you don't have children, the thought is tangible.
he was a fallen angel. Remember he was trained as a doctor. He knew he had fallen as low as anyone could fall as a human being. Therefore by forcing her to choose he made the mother a fallen angel of her as well. That is a wicked despicable scene. It really shows the dark side of human nature when it's allowed to thrive!!
I don't understand why she chose for her daughter to die. Was it because she was so young she didn't want her to suffer? I mean the little girl probably wouldn't have made it in a camp like that. I can quite honestly say that those people were horrible and I just don't get how somone could do that to another human being.
This just goes to show that the Nazis didn't have any ideology. They pretended it was about politics, or religion, or race... in reality they were just cruel violent bullies.
Hitler was content to have his own people's civilian population killed by the approaching Allies rather than surrender. The Nazis had no respect for life, not anyone's.
somebody should have just put a bullet in that son of a bitches face, just to show him you can't do that, even though it means getting gunned down yourself
Un film qui m'a bouleversée, et le mot n'est pas assez fort, en particulier à cause de cette scène, insoutenable pour la mère que je suis et l'humaniste que j'essaye d'être tous les jours...
Hope this will never happen again ... My mother survived Holocaust as a child ... she was also snached away from her parents ... I just hope that any of the today's NAZI hear the screams of that little girls for ever in their heads ...
@hktrpanito i think she should have chosen the other kid too, cause the boy would be more likely to be kept alive working for them, and the girl was probably just raped and killed. either way, its a horrible choice that now one should make.
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Raped for sure. Little girl all on her own now. Her last hours would probably be spent 'learning' all about sex. I can imagine some of those SS guards wanting her. She was very pretty, these days known as a 'pedophile's dream'
@hktrpanito Most likely so that if the son survived, he would carry on the family name and lineage. Quite often during that era sons were more coveted than daughters for that reason.
I think what you are saying is true but I don't think she chose to keep her boy because she could continue the family lineage. I think it was simply because she knew that her son had a better chance of surviving if she was separated from her children then her daughter would (the daughter is younger). Either way, it is a terrible choice to make and no one should ever have to chose between their children or see them die.
I'm pretty sure she chose to save her son because she believed he'd have a better chance of survival in the concentration camp. It's so horrible though, having to choose which one of your children to be sent to the crematorium....
If you want to read the most beautiful true story of unending love during this horrible time read the book "To see you again" by Betty Schimmel. I cried like a baby at then end...so moving. The author is alive and lives in U.S. now. Such devotion!
That HeartLESS NAZI SON of a BITCH that not even what "suffer the little children to come unto me" mean. Suffer during jesus' time meant Allow or permit
I'd never noticed before, but that child actor is amazing. She's really screaming. Think of how less real this scene would seem if she were cast differently.
Kids pick up on emotion and at that age she probably wasn't old enough to really understand what was going on. It's very likely that the kid was terrified out of her little mind. Hence, the screams
:,(((((
crazywild28 1 month ago
The reason she picked the little girl to go to the gas chamber and her son to go to the labor camp is because there's NO way her daughter would have survived the labor camp at that age. As soon as the NAZIS spotted her they'd deem her ineligable to work and gas her anyways. Subconsciously the mother knew this. This scene is sickening and so were the nazis.
brixton92 1 month ago 3
@brixton92 Yes I still say that Germany got off way too easy after the Second World War. For the record I am not even Jewish, but still horrified of the millions of innocent people slaughtered by fascism. This scene by Meryl Streep is one of the dozen or so greatest acting moments in film history by any actor, in my opinion. I think she may have used her art knowledge of Edwund Munch's "The Scream" to show her horror and desperate anguish. Glad Meryl got her 3rd Oscar this week,she's the best
155gerard 2 days ago
HE WAS LEAVING!!! WHY DID SHE CALL HIM BACK!??!?! Hdskdhfjkshf. :'(((
megahungry100 2 months ago 2
lilium202, um, how about because she was holding her?
ChaneyBrinkmanBurlin 2 months ago
deep.
ChaneyBrinkmanBurlin 2 months ago
This made me sob but not my mom. The movie's a little slow but this scene is so powerful, it makes up for the whole movie.
megahungry100 2 months ago
Holy shit I think I'm crying.
loranceb 3 months ago
why did she pick the little girl?
claudiabutlerxx 3 months ago
@claudiabutlerxx Because the little boy can carry on the family name, if the girl were to grow up and get married the last name would be lost.
Having this kind of choice is horrible, but she didn't want to see them both die, and as much as this rips her apart, it's what she had to do.
DeevilSpork 3 months ago
@claudiabutlerxx Because she was younger, and had a lesser chance of surviving the camp. Read the book! Its excellent!
lilium202 3 months ago
@lilium202 thank you! and ok!
claudiabutlerxx 2 months ago
I came here thinking I could watch this, but I can't. I remember seeing this many years ago. But I stopped the scene. Too awful. Horrifying beyond imagination. My kudos to all the actors, in particular the brilliant Miss Streep. And God bless all the people who have had to endure such nightmarish moments. My he give their souls and the souls of their children comfort.
HoustonKeith72 3 months ago
oh my god.... that little girls face.... broke my heart. :(
madasrabbits06 3 months ago
I can't watch this...its too brutal.
lilium202 4 months ago
#13 Steve Jobs has cried only once during his life – while watching the movie Sophie’s Choice. It wasn’t the heart-wrenching plot that made Steve tear up, it was reportedly the idea of a person being given “choice” that got to hi
PianoCoverWorld 4 months ago
I too wish it was just a movie. But face it, it did happen. And it was done mostly by Germans in their nice photogenic uniforms
dinosauros2010 6 months ago
Any dimwit who says this is just a movie should read some history books. Reality was much, much worse
dinosauros2010 6 months ago
@dinosauros2010 Very well said!!!
155gerard 2 days ago
@SuzLa1 Fascism is not "just a movie".
adib68 6 months ago
Some good acting. Really pulls at heart strings.
SuzLa1 6 months ago
so, did the bible really say that?? if so then wow-what a dick
turtonmatt 7 months ago
@turtonmatt Jesus is recorded as saying that. But what he probably meant was that he will looks sfter children who suffer in life.
canuckleful 3 months ago
Dear lord that scene is heart-wrenching. No wonder Meryl refused to do it twice. :(
MagzWLGB 7 months ago
what's happen to the little girl?
Lankastersss 7 months ago
I never forget, when she went to babysit the nazi's kids, that little girl, about 4 years old, calling her "filthy polack" (not sure about the word "polaca" in English). My blood froze with that. Racism being taught to little kids is monstruous.
adib68 8 months ago
@adib68 It's just a movie.
SuzLa1 6 months ago
@adib68 Yes racism,anti-semitism&homophobia,alongwith slaughtering 5million Jews, Hitler alsokilled 2.5 million Polish Catholics,1million handicapped people, 1 milliionGypsies,a halfmillion homosexuals&several hundred thousand politicals( liberals,socialists,peoplewho helped Jews escape). I'm not even Jewish and I know of this from friends,one from Denmark whoseDad helped some escape on a fishing boat to Sweden. Germany should've been carved into 5or6small perm.demilitarized neutral countries.
155gerard 2 days ago
FUCK YOU GERMAN BASTARDS!!! YOU ALL DESERVE TO DIE SLOWLY IN A GAS CHAMBER!!!
hellraiser7974 8 months ago
@hellraiser7974 Wow, you're easily led into what to think by movies.
SuzLa1 6 months ago
@SuzLa1 I think this is not far from reality - but reality was even more horrific.. there were thousands of Sophies who lost their children.. my english sucks I know..
hellraiser7974 6 months ago
I was impressed with this film since the first time I watched it.
But since I discovered there's actually a large jewish branch in our family (although I'm Dutch and catholic), of which many members (more than 80) were killed in the concentration camps, it grabs me even more!
No-one should ever have to make the same choice as Sophie had to... no-one!
PSVfanaat 9 months ago
this is a terrible and sad scene, i cried a lot.....she's a great actress!
Saretta87 9 months ago
Holy shit, that was terrifying.
blazerAGD 9 months ago
she is the greatest actress of all time... period!
nijo87 10 months ago
I am German and I'm really impressed by Meryl's perfect accent! amazing actress!
WhoKnew71207 10 months ago
The poor little girl. :(
FUCK THE NAZIS. .|.
kodatastical 10 months ago 6
Ms. Streep on an interview knew this scene was so ballistic that she could only do it once, and the Director allowed this great artist to play the Harrowing scene that way.
Evil. Evil Evil Nazi's
ToughXArmy69 11 months ago
The Chinese would make the same choice.
Reach1335 11 months ago 2
I'm not really aware of the situation in this scene. But had Sophie not spoken to the guard as he was walking away, wouldn't she had been able to keep both the kids?
MisterItai 11 months ago
@kickmeout1 i didn't mean to thumbs UP your cruel words
Wind4Dancer 1 year ago
my film and literature teacher talked about this scene over and over again. someone wrote a WHOLE PAPER on this scene. this is crazy good. in a bad way. meryl is AMAZING :) (i can't believe she spoke that)
the man is evil!!!!! but i guess not as evil because he gave her a choice. but HOW can you do that?!
Wind4Dancer 1 year ago
I still can't understand. Why would anyone do something like that? Play such a sadistic game with a frightened woman and her two children. Because he can? I just don't understand.
Elisha2Kings 1 year ago
@Elisha2Kings There is no logic or method to people who are just plain assholes eh
RFKFANTS67 11 months ago
@Elisha2Kings SS guards/ Nazis, didn't see people in camps as significant, let alone valuable. Hence why 60 million people (Jews, disables people, elderly and intelligent people) died in concentration camps. Similar to what happend in Rawanda and whats currently going on in Darfur.
LoveCiaran 11 months ago
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MsGefan 11 months ago
@Elisha2Kings It happen a lot during holocuadt.
A lot of horror stories about nazis asking Jewish mothers to chose which kid to kill first, or forced them to watch how they shot their kids.
MsGefan 11 months ago
That guy is terrifying.
OpinionatedChica23 1 year ago
HAHA
ODST1123 1 year ago
this is why I'm only having one kid
kth1177 1 year ago 11
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omg this wud be like my dream come true if i had a daughter. who wants a daughter anyway they r useless they cant even play sport or make money
kickmeout1 1 year ago
@kickmeout1 i kickyouout hhaha
SMOFG 1 year ago
@kickmeout1 they can strip for money
ODST1123 1 year ago
this scene made me cry so so much..
eyesoar101 1 year ago
I'm getting the vague suspicion that he didn't want his name associated with this role, for his own safety...he's a good actor, though.
plumeyful 1 year ago
@plumeyful Nevermind, it was Karlheinz Hackl
plumeyful 1 year ago
Who plays the SS officer in this scene? Truly chilling, this brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.
plumeyful 1 year ago 2
wow thats messed up. To think that they literally did that to children is sick.
Fatality0217 1 year ago 2
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That was the funniest thing ever. I was LOLing so hard I thought I'd puke. She was totally the fail, if she had acted quickly it might have gone better, but she was slow and her little kids suffered, but best of all she just sat there gaping like a fish. SUper funny clip, i think I'll repost it with a laugh track.
preparehandbook 1 year ago
@preparehandbook
ur sick , that scene is disgusting . The both kid's both died .
jensen895 1 year ago 2
@preparehandbook Obvious troll is obvious.
TTwoo 1 year ago
@TTwoo You are made of win. Obvoius troll slinks away, defeated.
preparehandbook 1 year ago
I had always wondered what people were talking about when they referenced Sophie's Choice so i watched this clip - which is the only part of the movie I've ever seen - and good god that was heartbreaking. That had to be so hard. I can't even imagine...
burtonlabs 1 year ago
jesus christ i have no idea how people made it through this, not just physically but emotionally. if it were me id be gone in 2 days
InvaderZimFan101 1 year ago
watching this brought tears to my eyes
CoolBeagle 1 year ago
Why did Sophie wait until the Nazi walked past her to say it,instead of saying We're Poles more quietly,when he was in front of them?
snoochy2 1 year ago
Its a horrible thing that the poor little actress girl had to go through that scene. If I had a daughter that age and was invited to do that scene (cause it wasnt acted of course), I wouldnt stand it... no matter how much money I was offered... Because is obviuos the money went to the parents... maybe a barbie-doll for de girl and thats it.
luisaspo 1 year ago
This is the saddest thing I have ever watched. If I ever had children, I'd die for them. I'm only 14!!!!! Still..... so sad..... :-(
MsLolo1246 1 year ago
That's a very disturbing scene,however,Why did she yell "We're Poles!" when he walked past them? What would have happened if she didn't yell anything then or said it when he was in front of them?
snoochy2 1 year ago
@snoochy2 Both children would have been sent to the crematorium. By playing her race she managed to save at least one.
CloudyThisMorning 1 year ago
When I watched this movie with my mom, she said she'd ask for a bullet in her head rather than have to choose. I agree. There is no life once you make that kind of choice
katarzyna1415 1 year ago
@katarzyna1415 You have a very wise mom there.
Cali5556 1 year ago
@katarzyna1415 If that happened in the film,The kids would see their mom be shot and be murdered shortly after that.
snoochy2 1 year ago
I'm reading the book right now. Terrible...
polkadotzeaturfaceup 1 year ago
I am ashamed to be an human person. Perla.
perla51 1 year ago
Meryl Streep is always breathtaking to watch, but very few times has she been so devastating as in this film (and in this particular scene)!! No wonder she refused to make more than one shot; so the scene had to be finalized in that shot we all saw.
thedrmat 1 year ago 2
horrible,how people could tolerate happened bad things..at least now there are not
those kind o abuse...but woman had to choice..her little girl instead of her boy.
MrLalolagos 1 year ago
@MrLalolagos Only in first world countries.
That kind of barbarity and worse still exists in the world.
fossdog 1 year ago
horrible,how people could tolerate happened bad things..at least now there are not
those kind o abuse...but woman had to choice..her little girl instead her boy.
MrLalolagos 1 year ago
He just did that on a whim.
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too bad this never happened.
Delroc88 1 year ago
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too bad this never happened.
Delroc88 1 year ago
@Delroc88 - I was going to go off on you for that B.S. comment, but then I realized that you're too stupid to understand my choice of words...
randomeddie 1 year ago
She should have just kept her mouth shut about being "racically pure".
MrElucidate 1 year ago
@MrElucidate True, she wouldn't have had to make a choice. All three of them would have gone to the gas chamber.
jefffreemanpresents 1 year ago
fucking nazi scum.. i'm fucking glad the lot of them burn in hell as we speak.
as for the neo-nazi's of today. they don't know half the shit the nazi's did. fuck them as well.
RobZombieTheSecond 1 year ago 4
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realfuckingbitchy 1 year ago
That was horrible... really... that was so.... sick,
xxFallenxxAngelx 1 year ago 5
This movie has impressed me so much. Not only the story but also Meryl's acting. SHe is just amazing and talented!!
gebruikersnaamnodig 1 year ago 16
wow such a sad and powerful scene! Meryl really shines in this movie, notice how when they take her daughter away, she opens her mouth to scream,but instead you hear her daughter scream
CSImiamiLOVER01 1 year ago 2
A really shocking scene. :-(
But even being shocked, one cannot help noticing how great Meryl Streep is. I don't even talk about her acting. Enough to say that, as an American, she can speak German with a Polish accent! Amazing.
yndividual 1 year ago 34
i cant stop crying...it is as if this scene actually happen and Meryl was there.
ArbelBashLoberant 1 year ago 2
This is heartbreaking.. incredibly well acted..
Qlaarzy1 1 year ago
ok im only 15 lol whats a polack and wtf is a yid????????
lmfaolol9 1 year ago
@lmfaolol9 A polack would be someone from Poland. I believe that a Yid would be a Jew because they speak Yidish.
genesislover 1 year ago
@genesislover
Yes, it defines person who is from Poland.
We say in polish "Polak" (Pole in english) so germans say the same way, but in german it's Pole, just like in english. When you say "Polack" this is mean :(
zryciuchy 1 year ago
@lmfaolol9 Seriously? POLACK; derogatory word for POLISH person. YID; the same for a JEW. YID is derived from YIDDISH, an international language of the Jews, much like the German language.
senoramariposa 1 year ago
If the film is gutwrenching, I can't be less appalled by what is going on everyday in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, everywhere where the Empire's Beast can reach its nemesis hand. Without a healthy mind, it is completely depressive to merely read the news! But hope is the least to fade away - and knowledge is my best surviving tool against the insanity perpetrated by those contaminated by the empathy-less-ness of 6% of the World's population.
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
The monstrous decision that Sophie is forced to make (sometimes idiomatically used as way of describing a choice between two unbearable options, is not even fully portrayed in the film version. In the novel, Sophie describes the fussing and whining and crying of her daughter who was sick with an untreated ear infection prior to being forced to make the choice. It is suggested that her choice was partly influenced by her irritation at the child which makes it all the more monstrous
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
The little girl is amazing, incredible fear!!
dbasto1 1 year ago
Streep did this in one take. She flatly refused to even contemplate doing it a second time. Filming it once must have been devastating for all involved in the film.
traod8 1 year ago
the worst disaster in my opinion but hitler is rottening in hell right now and that makes me happy
brandonhytr 1 year ago
so she gave the girl why?
lmfaolol9 1 year ago
@lmfaolol9 bloodline. Jews preserve the birth right of the son. In our culture it would've been the boy. Let him become a man for the sake of his sister. Sad but true. Humans are the scourge of the earth and it would be a much happier and healthier place if we never existed. How beautiful would it be.
billionear 1 year ago
@billionear she was not Jewish tho she was christian but her father helped the jews i think lol could be wrong does anyone no if i'm right?
lmfaolol9 1 year ago
@billionear Actually you are incorrect about the bloodline thing. According to halakha a child is not Jewish if the child's mother is not Jewish. So if her intention was to preserve Jewish heritage her choice would have been to preserve the girl. I don't think preservation of Jewish heritage had anything to do with this situation. I doubt you would be in a state of mind to think at all faced with that...
TheMagicalSalmon 1 year ago
@TheMagicalSalmon I stand corrected. In that case it makes her decision all the more tragic.
billionear 1 year ago
@lmfaolol9
I think it was out of pure panic at the thought of losing both of them. She saw the men coming for them, and knew she had to make a choice. So, I imagine she just shouted for them to take her daughter because it was the first thing that came to mind. That's the only reason I can imagine, as a choice such as this should never be put upon anyone.
traod8 1 year ago
@lmfaolol9 Yeh i was thinking this too, she had to give one of them but why the girl...? I guess this cant be answered because she probably just picked randomly but still a bit odd.
CaptainYossarian 1 year ago
@CaptainYossarian i think she chose the girl because the boy can grow up and carry on the family name
MsLollipop005 1 year ago
did*
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
This scene is one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever watched in a movie. I would have killed myself if I was put in this position. Truly horrible.
stevemcanullamovies 1 year ago
What makes this scene so gut-wrenching and hard to watch is hearing the little girl's screams. If she was acting, she deserves an Oscar because she looks & sounds truly petrified.
Muggle423 1 year ago
@Muggle423 Yes, her terror is so real it makes you uneasy. Scenes like this must be difficult enough for adult actors to handle emotionally, think what it does to very young children, especially when they're forced to do take after take. You can see the child begin to get upset in Meryl's arms...she obviously knew what was going to happen and was truly frightened. Someone once said young children in show business was basically child abuse. Watching this you know what they mean... awful.
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago
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this is jewish propaganda everyone here watching this is being spoonfed their white guilt fantasy
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
@yrSWRDvsmyDGGR: Please. I suppose you think the holocaust never happened too. Jerk.
stevemcanullamovies 1 year ago
@stevemcanullamovies the holocaust dip happen asshole but this movie is a clear cut example of white guilt
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
@yrSWRDvsmyDGGR Wow your a real fuck aren't you?
residentevilmann 1 year ago
@residentevilmann one gets flamed for saying things others don't want to hear
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
@yrSWRDvsmyDGGR No people get flamed for being ignorant douchebags. You are the reason things like this could happen.
residentevilmann 1 year ago
@residentevilmann haha sorry but I'm sure a well educated man like yourself knows that the reason this happened fair skinned blonde headed men and women living in a dusty town were too brainwashed to question the pungent smell of burning hair coming from what they thought was a military training camp in the woods nearby. Oh and residentevilmann your a prick
yrSWRDvsmyDGGR 1 year ago
@yrSWRDvsmyDGGR
I don't understand your problem. Are you saying that people shouldn't feel horror and outrage at things like this, that the holocaust was exaggerated, or both? Also, it's odd you call it Jewish propaganda. The victims this scene is wholly focused on are not Jewish. If it is Jewish propaganda why choose to make the victims that stay with you after viewing it fair haired Christians?
TamRiver 1 year ago
wow- I remember seeing this in the theater when it was out. i would have been 22. imo, i didn't have the depth of Character at that time to fully understand or "feel' the incredible Hurt, that i do NOW, watching this again, at 50. Oh my god. just unreal. that is probably the most horrifying thing that could ever happen to a parent. right there. although i would add, would a true parent, simply "Choose" to stay with their Kids, and Die, rather than, give one up. so shocking to the core
drumdude46 1 year ago
This made me almost cry :'(
TheTingTingFan 1 year ago
wow im 13 told to watch this for homework and what do i do got pissed at the german slammed my keyboard and my keyboard broke so i had to put all the pieces back on .............. and the worst of it all that that shit actually happened
Dukeian2014 1 year ago
sooo fucked up
mynamejonas 1 year ago
true that this was horriable.why do we has humans hurt each other ?when i think about this movie and roots movie this shit shouldnt ever happen again
mmmli1 1 year ago
Horrifying. What would you have done in that situation? Perhaps choose the stronger child to live? Even if you don't have children, the thought is tangible.
pegleg747 1 year ago
he was a fallen angel. Remember he was trained as a doctor. He knew he had fallen as low as anyone could fall as a human being. Therefore by forcing her to choose he made the mother a fallen angel of her as well. That is a wicked despicable scene. It really shows the dark side of human nature when it's allowed to thrive!!
thegreatimpostor 1 year ago
My God, what a choice to have to make. The Nazis were trained to be without compassion.
bananasplitsable 1 year ago
the soldier is portraying satan and mocking christ
angelad39 1 year ago
@angelad39 No he wasn't. He was a human being just like you or me, which makes the whole nazi phenomenon so terrible.
Sconz32 1 year ago
actually this soldier was portraying sata...mocking christ
angelad39 1 year ago
I don't understand why she chose for her daughter to die. Was it because she was so young she didn't want her to suffer? I mean the little girl probably wouldn't have made it in a camp like that. I can quite honestly say that those people were horrible and I just don't get how somone could do that to another human being.
purple3phoenix7 1 year ago
OMG meryl is soo soo touching!!!! she is the best actress for ever,OMG I have to cry and this part!!!!...
MerylStreep27 1 year ago
This is easily the most heartbreaking scene I've ever seen. Brilliant acting. Tragic movie.
idontlikecreativity 2 years ago 2
@idontlikecreativity Watch the end of the film "The Boy With Striped Pajamas" just as difficult to watch.
richiebear1969 1 year ago
That screaming just goes on and on in your head
dsperlin 2 years ago
This just goes to show that the Nazis didn't have any ideology. They pretended it was about politics, or religion, or race... in reality they were just cruel violent bullies.
Hitler was content to have his own people's civilian population killed by the approaching Allies rather than surrender. The Nazis had no respect for life, not anyone's.
zammmerjammer 2 years ago 4
omg that clip was awful i can't stop crying.
lisadav 2 years ago
Poor Sophie.
TheChai18 2 years ago
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so what the hell happens for the rest of the film? It seems a bit sick and pretentious to base an entire movie on this 'choice'.
jegspillerpiano 2 years ago
@jegspillerpiano
I agree. I always though the "choice" had to do more with the two men than this one. It seems more fitting especially with the end.
PepsiGurl93 2 years ago
She makes a LOT of choices throughout the film.
connectikat 2 years ago
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jegspillerpiano 2 years ago
somebody should have just put a bullet in that son of a bitches face, just to show him you can't do that, even though it means getting gunned down yourself
jegspillerpiano 2 years ago
Un film qui m'a bouleversée, et le mot n'est pas assez fort, en particulier à cause de cette scène, insoutenable pour la mère que je suis et l'humaniste que j'essaye d'être tous les jours...
Et l'admirable talent de Madame Merryl Streep !!
Sylvibrato 2 years ago
Meryl streep is an amazing actress. I really want to watch this film but the local dvd shops don't have it. bah!
FIL086 2 years ago
Hope this will never happen again ... My mother survived Holocaust as a child ... she was also snached away from her parents ... I just hope that any of the today's NAZI hear the screams of that little girls for ever in their heads ...
sashamataya 2 years ago
HOLY SHIT....This movie makes me cry EVERYTIME!!!!
Cinderaly001 2 years ago
why did she choose her daugther?
hktrpanito 2 years ago
@hktrpanito i think she should have chosen the other kid too, cause the boy would be more likely to be kept alive working for them, and the girl was probably just raped and killed. either way, its a horrible choice that now one should make.
sbm00 2 years ago
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Raped for sure. Little girl all on her own now. Her last hours would probably be spent 'learning' all about sex. I can imagine some of those SS guards wanting her. She was very pretty, these days known as a 'pedophile's dream'
jegspillerpiano 2 years ago
@jegspillerpiano ur a fucking freak
trilbypinstrip 2 years ago
Eh, idk about that, not to give them any credit, they prolly just threw her into the group of Jews and others who went into the gas chamber
dsperlin 2 years ago
@hktrpanito Most likely so that if the son survived, he would carry on the family name and lineage. Quite often during that era sons were more coveted than daughters for that reason.
MarnieReeves 1 year ago
@MarnieReeves
I think what you are saying is true but I don't think she chose to keep her boy because she could continue the family lineage. I think it was simply because she knew that her son had a better chance of surviving if she was separated from her children then her daughter would (the daughter is younger). Either way, it is a terrible choice to make and no one should ever have to chose between their children or see them die.
BYBBARRACUDA 1 year ago
@MarnieReeves Still is that way in China.
Lovinsoaps 1 year ago
he's such a mother fucker...he thinks hes god!
misssunshine1062 2 years ago
yer innit...He is SO not though lol :) xx
Cinderaly001 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure she chose to save her son because she believed he'd have a better chance of survival in the concentration camp. It's so horrible though, having to choose which one of your children to be sent to the crematorium....
lazyk87 2 years ago
If you want to read the most beautiful true story of unending love during this horrible time read the book "To see you again" by Betty Schimmel. I cried like a baby at then end...so moving. The author is alive and lives in U.S. now. Such devotion!
jodiescookin 2 years ago
That HeartLESS NAZI SON of a BITCH that not even what "suffer the little children to come unto me" mean. Suffer during jesus' time meant Allow or permit
abcusuk 2 years ago
I cried when I watched this... I felt terrible for the mother and her children and profound hatred for the Nazi bastard
coachwayned 2 years ago 2
" we were less than the beasts " holocoust survivor
katerush 2 years ago 2
what made her say he daughter though? like was it out of panic? i never understand exactly though but i cry :(
bobeano23 2 years ago
Maybe because she is the smallest one, she might not understand as much as the bigger one. But I don't know why.. It is so sad.. :(
JannikSay 2 years ago
I'd never noticed before, but that child actor is amazing. She's really screaming. Think of how less real this scene would seem if she were cast differently.
claritypixie 2 years ago 4
Kids pick up on emotion and at that age she probably wasn't old enough to really understand what was going on. It's very likely that the kid was terrified out of her little mind. Hence, the screams
RememberSobibor 2 years ago 11
that was hard to watch
ConnorShannon3393 2 years ago 5
yes, it is fictional. sophie isnt a real person but things li