I want to tell you all about an excellent movie with a message that is relevant to this day and age. I first watched Schindler’s List when I was doing research for a project about the holocaust. I choose to write about this particular movie because it presents the topic of the Holocaust from a more human perspective. The movie creates an emotional connection between the viewer and the characters of the movie. I literally sat at the edge of my seat for a large portion of the movie because I was so immersed in this movie. Steven Spielberg directed and co-produced Schindler’s List which dramatically tells the story of Oscar Shindler (played by Liam Neeson). Oscar Schindler was a businessman who arrived in German-occupied Poland with the intent of using the Jews in the ghettos as cheap labor for several business ventures he has in mind. The rapidly escalating war irreversibly transforms Oscar’s life in ways that he could not predict, but he would try to make the best of it for those around him.
Steven Spielberg shot the movie in black and white on purpose to emphasize the bleak lifelessness of Poland during the holocaust. This creates a feeling of dark despair that allows the viewer to know just how melancholy life was for the occupied people of the 3rd Reich. In contrast, the lavish parties thrown by the
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When the war is finally over, Oscar is penniless, but his only regret is not saving more. For example, there is a scene in which Oscar remarks that he could have sold the car he owned to acquire more money to save more Jews. When he died, his surviving family buried him in Israel. Jews he saved and their families frequently visit his