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How Does Schindler's List Relate To David Spielberg

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The film I selected to analyze for this paper was Schindler's List, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. I selected this film specifically, because I always found the subject matter relating to the events of the Holocaust interesting. All of the subject matter I had been exposed to about the Holocaust was from books and through oral teaching, so I thought a film that focused on the Holocaust could give me a more deeper meaning of the actually event itself. One of my high school history teachers use to reference Schindler's List in class, which is what originally pin pointed me to the movie itself. In 1994 Schindler's List was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and received seven, including best movie, best direction, and best adapted screenplay, …show more content…

All of these awards were also another motivation behind why I chose to watch Schindler's List for this paper.
Schindler's List was set back in time from the year 1939 to around 1945 in Poland, specifically Krakow. A ton of conflict was occurring at the time, due to World war II. The beginning of the film showed Jews being judged by the Polish, Germans, and other ethnic groups. The Jews were treated like diseased rats by people who would taunt and yell at them out in the streets. The Jews were represented by a Jewish council consisting of 24 elected Jews who were responsible of carrying out favors and protecting the group in large. As time passed the Jews were forced from their homes to all live in a 16-block area, which was referred to as the ghetto. As this transformation is occurring Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, comes along and gives the Jews an opportunity to work. Oskar was the son of a well-known businessman and he hoped to be even more successful than his belated father. Schindler ends up opening up a factory in Poland that produces steel pots, gun shells, and other war time supplies that need to be massed produced. Jews who were unable to work in the factory were forced to work endlessly at Nazi labor camps that were controlled by …show more content…

The Nazis thought they were superior to the Jews and lashed out at them to show how truly powerful they could be over them and they discriminated the Jews, because of their ethnicity. They gained this power by torturing the Jews in variety of ways including killing Jews who expressed their own personal opinions, forcing individuals into disinfecting tanks, and abusing female Jews who functioned as slaves. Some Nazi officers would even target shoot Jews just for their own personal entertainment. I think the Holocaust was an issue at during this time, due to the fact, that there was an uneven distribution of power in the world at that point in time. The war made people think irrationally and made them take out their frustrations on other groups that were varied from themselves. One example from the film I found most shocking was a woman who went to college for construction tried telling officers how a recreational building needed to be fixed, so they shot her right on the spot and then proceeded to actually follow the orders she gave before her death. The issues that occurred were solved by Schindler taking some of the Jews under his wing and by the war itself completely ending. The marginalized people in this film were portrayed essentially as stateless, low ranked rats. They were seen as people who weren't worthy of any kind of basic rights and could be treated inhumanely just

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