Schindler's List Critique
Schindler's List-1993-Steven Spielberg It was a cold and dreary day outside as I walked to the bus stop. My friends and I boarded the bus at 7:15 a.m. to take us to school as usual. Today, however, would be different than any other school day because we were going to be watching Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List-- a movie about one of the most significant events throughout our world's history. Hundreds of students gathered into the auditorium of SGS Junior High School for what was going to be an unforgettable experience. We sat there for three straight hours, watching this mesmerizing film while tears filled the eyes of my classmates. As the film came to a close, silence filled the air like smoke filling a burning house. Not one word was spoken the entire way back to our classes. All of the discussions that we had throughout the year in class could never have prepared us for what we had seen. While this film was extremely powerful, it is an absolutely amazing story about an astonishing man named, Oskar Schindler. The film is about an upper-class German businessman who brilliantly manages to save thousands of Jews from being killed in concentration camps. This man drew up a list consisting of more t
I would be destroyed if all of my hard work and dedication to succeed in life were taken in one single breath. My appreciation for the freedom that we possess has definitely been renewed after viewing this film. The amazing story of Oskar Schindler's sacrifices for the Jews is the difference that sets this film apart from other Holocaust dramas. Difficult to shoot or poison the three and a half million Jews in the General Government, but we shall be able to take measure which will lead somehow to their annihilation. On the contrary, however, Rita Kempley from the Washington Post explains her thoughts of the film as: "a ruthlessly unsentimental portrait of a German war profiteer's epiphany that inspires neither sorrow nor pity, but a kind of emotional numbness. How and why should innocent human beings that were intelligent and successful in society, be taken from this plentiful Earth? Winter 1942 One of the most disturbing parts of this film was the scene that took place near the construction of a half-finished barracks at the Krakow. It's as if Steven Spielberg, so famous for emotional manipulation, here has let the material speak for itself. Jews were now forced, by German soldiers, to pack their belongings and move out of their homes into Krakow where these ghettos were established. If not, there will be at least a subsidence at the southern end of the barracks. Stepping out of character, those stories were tremendous additions to the story and extremely successful in evoking such empathy and emotion. My jaw dropped with awe as I viewed this horrific scene. A female Jewish worker trained as a civil engineer at the University of Milan acts as the supervisor of this construction site. As she pleads for her life, a shot rings out. .
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