GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

runamokprods This basic documentary is shot simply and full of talking heads, and loaded with an often over-the-top score… and it doesn't matter a bit. This is the deeply moving story of how a tiny Tennessee town of 1600 people, a town with no Catholics, let alone Jews, decided to teach their middle school students about tolerance an diversity by teaching them about the Holocaust. The program caught on and deeply affected the students, who came up with the idea of collecting 6 million papers clips as a way of honoring the memory of the 6 million Jews who dies under Hitler. The program attracted attention first across the country and then from around the world as Presidents and movie stars sent paper clips, and Holocaust survivors traveled to the town to meet the students, and were greeted with unbelievable shows of love and respect. Eventually this tiny town created a permanent and impressive memorial to not only the 6 million Jews who perished, but also the 5 million gay people, gypsies, mentally and physically handicapped and others killed in the death camps. I found it impossible not to cry, and to really be touched by the good in these small town folk, making me realize my own prejudices in my assumptions that small town southerners would all be racists and closed minded. A wonderful reminder that, in the words of Anne Frank, "people are good at heart".

Gambitt I have a couple of nits to pick with Paper Clips. As commendable as the actions of the students and teachers were, the movie was simply not very interesting. I would have preferred that the film at least try to challenge the viewers, considering the complexities of modern race matters.Instead, we receive a brief introduction to what the school set out to do, and then we are treated with 45 minutes of teary eyed commemorative speeches and dedication ceremonies. The movie feels like 10% journey and 90% destination celebration.Also, the movie is described as an experiment about the Holocaust, leading to a miracle. There wasn't really any experiment (more of a project), and what happened was hardly a miracle. What was achieved was the product of hard work, dedication, and perseverance of all involved. Calling it a miracle actually cheapens their work.

Caspian007 Everyone who participated in the paper clip project at Whitwell Middle School is to be commended--the students, teachers, administrators, and many other volunteers. However, the movie pitches their efforts in a way that is too self-congratulatory, and this detracts from this otherwise wonderful story. The movie tries too hard--from the theme music to the frequent footage of participants tearing up--to make the case for a "miracle" in this small Tennessee town. A more objective and unemotional presentation would have let the events speak for themselves. As it was, I really wanted to like all of the participants, but I found the syrupy presentation almost constantly getting in the way. Rather than being a movie about the enduring significance of the Holocaust and its relevance for people even in very distant places, it became a movie about how darn great the whole paper clip project was and how special its participants were. So, great idea--I really mean that--but flawed execution.To those who say they are tired of "only Jews" being pointed out as victims of genocide: reformulate your criticism. There cannot be too much about the Jews being exterminated. The problem is that other genocides don't get enough press, not that the Jewish Holocaust has received too much. But this isn't the fault of those who pay attention to Jewish suffering. The presumption that there is some sort of competition among genocides, a zero-sum game for genocide coverage (as if there were some set amount of coverage to be carved up) is ludicrous. In general, we need to pay more attention to the atrocities people have committed and continue to commit against each other. So it's "both/and" not "either/or." There should be paper-clip-type projects in schools throughout the world to remember the victims and survivors of other slaughters in modern history as well as the Holocaust (NOT "instead of" the Holocaust). What about the Atlantic slave trade's Middle Passage, the Congo Free State, the WWI Armenian genocide, Ukrainian mass starvation in the 1930's, Cambodian killing fields in the 70's, Rwandan genocide, Bosnia, Darfur? I agree with those who criticize the tendency to turn a blind eye to American atrocities, but don't ever allow this to lead you to dismiss the importance of mass killing. Stick to the principle that mass killing is evil regardless of who commits or enables it, and you won't go wrong.

metinmustafa I think this movie is a fiction on Jews again. I do not believe Nazis killed so many Jews. For political reasons Jews making such films to make their name in the political world. It is not emotional anymore to watch such movies that mentions about Jews. However "Life is beautiful" is one of the greatest movie I have ever seen. That is I have no prejudice about Jews. This movie is not worth to watch. I think Jew community have to rethink when they are filming movies like this. They are losing the reality in World War II. After the World War Jews exaggerate the number of killed Jews by Nazis to establish their state Israel. I think they make movies to justify their reasons of killing innocent people.