Schindler's List

I've spoken on here about certain movies. Some are experiences and provide an overall immersion into the film. Some films are a journey that require you to question your very outlook on philosophy, politics, or life in general. There are however, certain films every once in a while that do something more something greater; something which encompassing the meaning, feeling, and experience into a film and in itself becomes. A document of an entire people, or event. that in a nut shell is what Steven Speilburg's Schindler's List is about. 

Set at the very dawn of  Hitler's final solution, also known as "The Holocaust", Schindlers List follows the story of business man and member of the Nazi Party Oskar Schindler as he struggles to save the many Polish Jews that now suffer in the ghettos and eventually the death camps.  through out the years Oskar Schindler schemes to employ Jewish works to his factory in order to protect them from the looming dangers of Overseer Amon Goeth as he runs the newly built concentration camp. What follows is a  document to the harsh truths of  the darkest period in human history, but also shows the goodness in all men. This is Schindler's List.

The thing about movies like this are that there is something so fundamentally pure and emotionally charged that you feel the need to see it to let it wash over you and to understand. If anything you watch it to simply understand what it was like. Films like this don't come too often and when they do you find yourself overwhelmed with the beauty ad the power the give.  And that's schindlers list. It's one of the few movies that actually bring me to the point of wheeling because I not only feel an emotional experience I feel a damn near religious experience. Everything g  about what these people are going through and how they must search within the,selves for ways to overcome this very horrible thing is  chilling . He'll I always did it incredible hen a character is able to crack a smile. 

Some people will obviously say that Schindler is the protagonist of this story, but I don't believe it's quite that simple. I believe people are the protagonists of this story; it's about how people react to adversity and prejudice and how some will over come it, some will fight it, some will fall to it, and others will embrace it. I say that people are the protagonists because the Jewish inmates are truly what this film is about. The film just brings you into their perspective so with every death, every hardship, every obstacle you experience it. You know what it's like to. Wake up and be harassed for Ed from your home and into a place where you'll never survive. The people of this film break my heart because as far as they know there is no tomorrow and every day is just another day to be Alive, 

Oskar Schindler is another xcellent character as he himself struggles with this obsessive need to secretly help the Jewish people. Every cent he has is worth nothing to him compared to how much a single life is worth. This is what makes his final monologue so meaningful a the end because this man is truly ones of the greatest souls who existed and despite everything he still believed he didn't do enough. But he's not a man who openly acknowledges his kindness. partly as an effort to remain on good terms with the Nazi's but also as a way to keep him self strong. he even comes off as a hard man to the jewish people he protects. in fact, we don't see his true emotions until after the war has ended when he has to leave them and he can no longer contain the sadness he feels over so many deaths It gives me chills just to think about it.

The antagonist, whom even though he's evil as it gets. He too struggles with the troubles of war. There's this constant fascination with Oskar Schindler he doesn't quite understand this compassion he has for the Jewish people even if its unspoken. Schindler attempts to offer the wisdom of kindness onto him and it sends him on a struggle with his own beliefs. Fr every man he kills he attempts to secure his position as a forgiving and kind man but every time his own prejudice comes into play and he takes a step backward never able to becom the great man Schindler was.

Lastly thes the final unseen character. Adversity itself. We never see a commanding officer of the Nazi Party high ranking we only hear spoken word of Hitler and his orders but the power that Anvers over all these people is never seen and it still finds itself to be the driving force of the film. you just feel the pits heavy presence as the film progresses, and at points you come to question whether the prejudice is blind hatred or acting out in fear of the father figure with controls them. 

The cinematography is top notch for a film like this. Everything is done in such a way that you cannot held but feel immersed in the sort. using visual imagery in order to give information, the story lends itself to objects, which have become synonymous with the Holocaust.  suitcases that will never be reunited with their owners. Piles of Shoes now emptied of purpose an life. clothing and jewelry. the brief use of color that is used in an other wise black and white film to hit home the importance of a single person or to signify y the entrance and departure of a dark time in history.   All those things come out extremely well. I particularly love the basic shots. the entire time you watch this film and you'll believe that you're watching a documentary. Something else to note is the music man is it powerful and it just hits you in your heart every time you hear it. the themes song itself brings with it the heavy emotion and struggle that these people are going through. 

I got worked up right before I wrote this article because this is one of those films that is just zoo powerful that I result in Weeping. Schindler's List is a movie that has to be seen if only to better understand the Holocaust. It's a film that makes you understand the dangers of ignorance mixed with intolerance but also goes as far as to assure you there will always be good in the world and that it will triumph over evil. The ending always wrecks me every time i see it. when you see the actual survivors come over the hill top to commemorate the real Oskar Schindler's grave in Jerusalem. What this film did was show me that men can do great things, and if I'm i want anything in life it is that I might do something have as great as what Oskar Schindler did.