Schindler's List
...d character whose story is moving. After he shows his gratitude to Schindler for giving him a job, the Nazis shoot him because of his handicap. And nobody could forget the girl in the red coat, who was separated from her family during the Krakow ghetto massacre and eventually burned. There are several other characters whose experiences are portrayed in the film and touch the viewer very deeply, but the mentioned characters had the biggest impact. Schindler’s List would not have such a great impact if a director other than Steven Spielberg had directed it. Spielberg is a brilliant man, and he created a cinematic masterpiece from a dreadful series of events in history. His vast research on Oskar Schindler and the Schindlerjuden allowed Spielberg to accurately recreate the story of Schindler’s List nearly fifty years later. The decisions Spielberg made and the risks he took while directing this film were what caused it to be so riveting and practically mesmeric. The conclusion to omit all color but the girl’s red coat from the film made it seem more like a documentary, thus making it easier to accept as true. The black and white picture suggested that you were viewing actual footage of what happened. Color would have made the movie too unrealistic. Another fine decision made by Spielberg is to have the very end of the movie in color. The impact this makes on the audience is unbelievable. After seeing over one thousand Jews survive through the war and then seeing them by Schindler’s grave fifty years later it makes it all too real that this really did happen to people. The color in this segment of the film helps show the gratitude of the Schindlerjuden and their children to Oskar Schindler still to this day. Spielberg also focuses on the importance of family with the Jews. No one wanted to be separated from their loved ones, and when they were, the camera angles and shots Spielberg used made you see and almost feel how horrifying this was for them. Spielberg made Schindler’s List what it is today, and that is a historical masterpiece. World War II and the brutalism of the Nazis to the Jews have enthralled millions of people since the end of the war. Schindler’s List represents the realities of the war better than any other movie or book. The devastation is so real it is almost difficult to watch. Seeing thousands of Jews being herded up and shipped off to extermination camps like cattle being sent to the butcher makes you wonder how anyone could have done this to another human being, no matter how extreme their hatred was. To watch while the German officers murder people randomly because of their religion or a handicap is dreadful. The film consumes the viewer into it, and makes it seem like you are there with the Jews. The most difficult part of the film to watch is the children being ripped away from their mothers. Every time the officers separated the children I was holding back tears. The children are so innocent and dependant on their mothers and would be terrified without them. It was especially difficult to watch when the children are loaded on the back of the truck and sent to Auschwitz. They are so happy to leave and the parents are so scared for them that it causes a burning hatred for the Nazis. Anybody that could do such a horrid thing to people, children especially, must be evil. These are the most memorable parts of the movie, however sad it is that they are the most horrifying to watch, also. The Holocaust was something that never should have occurred. However, it was inevitable. When the economy of nation is in recession, the people of that country speculate what the cause of the recession is. Germany’s economy was in recession for many years, and the Germans sought after an explanation. For whatever reason, they began to listen to Hitler, who believed Jews and invalids were the cause of Germany’s tribulations. Germany wanted answers; Hitler gave them answers. If the J...