Schindler's List (1993) by Angiela Mae H. Conte
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directed by: Stephen Spielberg
Synopsis:
Schindler's List is based on true story. The horrid events that occurred during the reign of Hitler, an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. Oskar Schindler was a greedy German business man who decided to start his business, making cookware and utensils, in Poland. For his business to grow he used flattery and bribes to be able to win himself military contracts and friends in high places. He takes a Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, and hires Jewish workers to work for his factory. Also, because of his business he was able to save thousands of Jews despite the fact that throughout the movie he kept on denying the fact that he was giving the Jews refuge within his factory.
Review:
In this brilliant film, Stephen Spielberg was able to make everyone who watched this film somewhat experience what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. Many claim that "this film Spielberg has done the best directing of his career" and I must say, I agree. The film was very raw and didn't censor any of the scenes that would have offended some people. It really depicted the horrors or the horrid series of events that occurred during those times, the type of pain and fears the Jews must have felt during the Holocaust.
Schindler's List was filmed in black and white which really gave an old feel to it. As though the film was a sort of documentation during the Holocaust. I also believe that it was filmed in black and white to heighten it's impact, to be able to give the viewers a more vivid feel of the contrast between black and white or good and evil. Also, to be able to give emphasis to the little girl in a red coat. At first I really did just think that the little girl in a red coat represented the innocence of the Jews and how much they did not deserve what happened to them. Eventually, I learned that the girl in a red coat most probably represented the Jews as a whole and the fact that despite that fact that their suffering and all of the tribulations that they went was just so ridiculously obvious, no country had the balls to actually try and help them during those hard times.
Schindler's List is just a beautiful film that you would never tire of seeing, except for the whole dying of the multitudes thing. Spielberg was able to direct the film and that cameras that it was able to capture the Nazi's savagery. But what really got to me was the ending, when Schindler, surrounded by thousands upon thousands of Jews that he was able to save broke down and fell on his knees. It was the part where in Schindler realized that if it weren't for his greed, he could have saved more Jews. Despite that, the Jews that he managed to save, and those who are descendants of the Schindler Jews still see him as a hero.
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes Directed by: Stephen Spielberg
Synopsis:
Schindler's List is based on true story. The horrid events that occurred during the reign of Hitler, an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. Oskar Schindler was a greedy German business man who decided to start his business, making cookware and utensils, in Poland. For his business to grow he used flattery and bribes to be able to win himself military contracts and friends in high places. He takes a Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, and hires Jewish workers to work for his factory. Also, because of his business he was able to save thousands of Jews despite the fact that throughout the movie he kept on denying the fact that he was giving the Jews refuge within his factory.
Review:
In this brilliant film, Stephen Spielberg was able to make everyone who watched this film somewhat experience what the Jews went through during the Holocaust. Many claim that "this film Spielberg has done the best directing of his career" and I must say, I agree. The film was very raw and didn't censor any of the scenes that would have offended some people. It really depicted the horrors or the horrid series of events that occurred during those times, the type of pain and fears the Jews must have felt during the Holocaust.
Schindler's List was filmed in black and white which really gave an old feel to it. As though the film was a sort of documentation during the Holocaust. I also believe that it was filmed in black and white to heighten it's impact, to be able to give the viewers a more vivid feel of the contrast between black and white or good and evil. Also, to be able to give emphasis to the little girl in a red coat. At first I really did just think that the little girl in a red coat represented the innocence of the Jews and how much they did not deserve what happened to them. Eventually, I learned that the girl in a red coat most probably represented the Jews as a whole and the fact that despite that fact that their suffering and all of the tribulations that they went was just so ridiculously obvious, no country had the balls to actually try and help them during those hard times.
Schindler's List is just a beautiful film that you would never tire of seeing, except for the whole dying of the multitudes thing. Spielberg was able to direct the film and that cameras that it was able to capture the Nazi's savagery. But what really got to me was the ending, when Schindler, surrounded by thousands upon thousands of Jews that he was able to save broke down and fell on his knees. It was the part where in Schindler realized that if it weren't for his greed, he could have saved more Jews. Despite that, the Jews that he managed to save, and those who are descendants of the Schindler Jews still see him as a hero. 
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