Schindler's List

In Film Theory we watched Schindler's List. Schindler's List is about a man, Oskar Schindler, who saved many Jewish people during the Holocaust. He employs them in a factory that will save their lives. He works out a deal with Amon to allow him to move the factory to Poland. Amon leads the concentration camps and isn't at first aware of Schindler's good intentions. Those who were taken to the factory in Poland were on "Schindler's List".

The whole movie is black and white, except the ending and one article of clothing. A little girl is seen early on in the movie with a red coat; it sticks out because her surroundings are all black and white. Later on, the red corpse sticks out from the numerous dead bodies around her. It's a very sad part of the film---she was just an innocent, young girl who had her life taken from her.

Overall, Schindler's List is a very sad movie. It shows how terrible the Holocaust really was and how many innocent lives were taken away. I think it does a good job of showing some realistic events of war and how upsetting it really is. However, it does show that some people, like Schindler, realize that and have good intentions of helping others. I think the goal of this film is to be realistic and accurately tell the truth of the story.

Slaughterhouse Five talks a lot about how war is glorified and is portrayed inaccurately in the media. That's similar to Schindler's List because they both point out all of the awful things that war includes. I think that they both have similar intentions; it's clear that Kurt Vonnegut wanted the message about the truth of war to be spoken through the book, and I think that Schindler's List did that well, too. The film itself was based on a true story, and it was undoubetdly an intention of the director to tell this story accurately. They both point out all of the innocent children who are a part of war---the soldiers in Slaughterhouse Five and the Jewish and German children in Schindler's List. In Schindler's List, many children were forced to follow the Nazi's orders and commit terrible acts.

Yes, Mary O'Hare would like Schindler's List. The Holocaust was not glorified in any way. Yes, the movie had some good moments, but it was all about a struggle. The scenes and images throughout this movie were upsetting and showed you how terrible the Holocaust was. You get a real idea of what the concentration camps were like and how helpless those people must have felt.