Film Analysis Essay: Schindler's List

Schindler's list as a title came originally from a novel written by Thomas Keneally that he published in 1982. It had different titles in the US called Schindler's list and in Europe had replaced the list with an ark and that is what Spielberg got to use. In the movie, it all about Schindlers and all he did to help the Jews in his factory. There was a drive to kill them all, and this film is an emphasis on what was done to preserve them. The film is said to be about a holocaust. The Holocaust was like the general idea that came to have a subject using this film.in general the film is about two character traits. The first being a con man and the other being a psychopath. Oskar Schindler the swindler and Amon Goeth the man who represents the evil in the movie are all created by war opportunities. Oscar did business but was never prosperous both before the war and even after. But he took advantages of the cover he had to run factories and this factory, in the end, saved the lives of many Jews.so in a real sense even the factories had no real profit that's why he said he would be happy if the factories gave forth anything in the end. Goeth, on the other hand, was executed. This was after the way and became his way to cover his murderous pathology.

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Steven Spielberg's 1993 film hence is a powerful and in sighting one. The power and insight come from the fact that it focuses on the lives of two individuals and experiences of people who faced the war. This was the Nazis' Holocaust victims during the Second World War. This film is made so real depicting all the events people encountered during the war and even the aftermath after the war.

Hence now it can be said that the movie shows the real exact events that occurred. Schindlers list as a film I can tell should have been released as a documentary, not a movie because at times a video may not show really what happened. Hence Spielberg saw it best to view it as a documentary (McBride 432). The story format of it makes it more captivating and adequate to the eyes of the viewers and listeners. The storyline part of the film also helps to reach a broader audience while showing the real history of what the people of holocaust went through in their personal lives.

The disadvantaging part of the film is that it fails to show all the representations of the people in the war. The film has just mainly focused on the religion of the Jews. Historically from the past, the Jewish faith has occupied a significant part in the making of the history. It's been documented, and other films also made on the religion. In this context of the Holocaust, the doctrine was not the primary objective. The movie was made in black and white which was also symbolic .the symbol that may have been portrayed here is the lack of race because it was dulled and ethnicity was reduced. This cinematography version of the film also captured the attention of the audience and made it look so unique .the version also represented a long-ago movie that has been viewed in the present. German Nationalism that was present in the nineteenth century became clear evidence for racial purity during Hitler's obsession time. In the film, the Jews are the main holocaust victims of which this is not a lie basing on the fact that all the people Schindler kept in his factory were all Jews. The real list of Schindlerjuden can be used to access the factual accuracy of the fact that most victims were jews.it was released in a PDF file by a group calling themselves Yad Vashem. In this film, the stereotypes about the Jewish people are all presented clearly. These beliefs were held e en before the second world war happened.in this film what is mainly presented are what I call the money lenders who were Jews, and these people were Schindler's investors and the tempting Jewess of which they were mostly shown in the person of Helen Hirsch. These characters have appeared In literature so many times throughout the history of anti-Semitism. This has been presented in the writing of famous historical people such as William Shakespeare's Shylock and Jessica and Sir Walter Scott's Rebecca. Scott in his literature wrote his character Ivanhoe in a pro-Semitic way but his heroic figure who was Rebecca faced an admirer, and a captor was ordered to kill her as well as the spiritual support of another Christian man. This context provides a similarity with Helen Hirsch. Scott courage is also visible in some of his stories like Rebecca and Rowena. Rebecca in the story converts into a Christian for the sake of one Christian man by a devoted reader who was not on track.

The film symbolism also portrayed real people as plot vehicles that in the end show an aspect in a holocaust. Helen Hirsch who was physically abused, chaja and Danka familial loyalty, and Amon Goeth who had irrational cruelty and insanity which portrayed the evil part of the film were all characters who had to give a representation of some aspects. The people I have mentioned here have documented their lives. The stories seem to follow the film way, and it seems the movie took the liberty of making them a representation of the many people who went through the experiences.

Based on the analysis of the movie, there is no shown way in which the people living with mental illness were treated that is both the Nazis and their victims. According to Nazis, after a heart to heart conversation with Schindler, it came out that Amon Goeth was cured of his illness and he became nonviolent for a full day. This does not represent his character in the film. Then there is a part Schindler prevented the death of more Jews by stopping the guards with just one phrase. This was not practical of the movie. For the victims of the Holocaust, no one showed symptoms of PTSD though there was one survivor Imre Kertesz who has an object to a hopeful epilogue. The real people placed stones on the graves of Schindler and other young actors because to them they didn't suffer the real holocaust.

The film according to some writers like Kertesz and John Mackay is a big business. Steven Spielberg though refused to accept any money gotten from it because they were blood money (McBride 439). The film on itself is not entertaining since its stimulating and emotionally haunting. The viewers of the film have stated that it's not a pleasant experience and you won't come out of it smiling. These factors hence show that the filmmaker's real intention was not entertainment or profit but the need for the history of what really happened and also give the victims the respect they deserve. The filmmaker might have thought that the best medium for something like that to reach a broader audience was through the use of an entertainment industry.

Conclusion

Spielberg mentioned that the drive to make the movie was centered on Holocaust deniers (McBride 427). He wanted to show them that the Holocaust happened and that people suffered for it. It was inspired by Neo-Nazism which was in Europe and the fact that people never respected the Holocaust as a topic. Hence the film acted as a reminder small but vital reminder of the horror the victims of the Holocaust went through. The filmmaker made it an entertainment because many people of the world through history have loved entertainment. At first, it may seem something not real, but it invokes a certain interest in the mind of the viewer that will make one seek more information. Hence, in the end, the history will have been passed with all the experiences of the victims. It was not easy for them, but they endured hence the need to preserve their memories as a legacy and something that should not be repeated. The film also served to create images in people's minds that can't be forgotten so quickly.

Works Cited

"Shindler's [sic] List." Yad Vashem, n.d. PDF file.

Cole, Tim. Selling the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler; how history is bought, packaged and sold. Routledge, 2017.

Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for Thomas Keneally's" Schindler's List." Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.

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Kertesz, Imre, and John MacKay. "Who Owns Auschwitz?" Yale Journal of Criticism, Volume 14. Number 1 (2001): 267-262. Print.

McBride, Joseph. Steven Spielberg: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Print.

Pemper, Mietek. The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List. Other Press, LLC, 2018.