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samee_hoerman4moviesSophie's Choice, Unforgiven, Shane, China Town China Town Director: Roman Polanski Year: 1974 Genre: Mystery, thriller, crime Rating: R Where you can get it: netflix number of classmates: 0
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Shane Director: George Stevens Year: 1953 Genre: Drama, western Rating: UR Where you can get it: netflix number of classmates: 1

Sophie's Choice Director: Alan J. Pakula Year: 1982 Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: R Where you can get it: netflix number of classmates: 0

Unforgiven Director: Clint Eastwood Year: 1992 Genre: Drama, western Rating: R Where you can get it: netflix number of classmates: 2


 * __Sophie's Choice__**

The first thing that anyone who watches this movie needs to realize is that a good portion of it is a flashback. It goes beetween Sophie's past and her present.

In 1947 Stingo, a young writer from the American South, travels to post-WW II Brooklyn. He becomes friends with Sophie who is a Polish immigrant. He also becomes friends with Nathan, Sophie's boyfriend. Stingo quickly learned something about Sophie...he saw the serial number tatooed to her arm and that's when he realized that she had a painful past.

Stingo talks with Sophie and learns even more about her past. He learns that she was married, but her husband was killed in a work camp and so was her father. When Stingo notices scars on Sophie's wrists he asks her what happened, Sophie explains that after being rescued from Auschwitz she was taken to a refugee camp in Sweden, and she had cut her wrists with broken glass. Then Sophie explained Nathan's obsession with the Holocaust.

Sophie and Nathan's relationship is in trouble because of Nathan's obsession and his violent temper,mental illness, and Sophie's ghosts. When Stingo visits a man who knew Sophie's father, he discovers she's been lying to him. He learns that Sophie's father who was a Polish college professor, absolutely hated Jews. When Stingo goes to talk to Sophie about it, she explained it.

Sophie tells that her father was working on a speech called "Poland's Jewish Problem". Sophie makes some mistakes and rushes to the university. Her father read his speech in front of a large crowd and became extremely angry.

Józef turns into Sophie's lover who lives with his half-sister, Wanda who is a leader in the Resistance. Wanda tries to get Sophie to translate the stolen Gestapo documents, but she refused. Later, Józef is killed by the Gestapo, and Sophie is arrested and sent to Auschwitz with her children. Upon arrival, the Germans decide who will live and who will die. Jan, Sophie's son, is sent to the children's camp, and her daughter, Eva, is sent to in Crematorium Two to die.

Sophie learns about an epidemic in the children's camp and asks that her son be removed. She gets the Commandant to let her son into the Lebensborn program. Then he tells Sophie she will see him later. The Commandant breaks his promise about letting Sophie see her son. She never found out what happened to him.

Nathan asks Sophie to marry him and she says yes. Nathan's asks Stingo to be his best man. When Nathan goes into another of his violent moods, Sophie goes to Stingo. At this point, Nathan makes a threatening phone-call which ends with him firing a gun, and more threats.

Stingo and Sophie leave and go to a hotel. Stingo wants to start a family, but Sophie hasn't told him her final secret - her choice. She recounts the night she arrived at Auschwitz with her children, and of how a Nazi officer forced her to choose life for one child, and death for the other.

Despite what she says to him about not making her choose, he makes her. When a young Nazi is told to take both children away, she releases her daughter and tells them to take her. Sophie watched as they took her little girl away to die. After she told Stingo she asks him not to talk about marriage and children.

They sleep together that night. Later Stingo woke up and Sophie had left and by him was a not from her saying she went back to Nathan. Stingo goes back to the building where he met Sophie and Nathan, and saw everyone in shock. Stingo wasw taken up to Sophie and Nathan's room where he sees that they have committed suicide. He picked up Nathan's book of Emily Dickinson poems, and recites "Ample Make This Bed", as if he was talking at their funeral.

The film ends with Stingo leaving Brooklyn and an image of Sophie's face fading.