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Schindler's List

Schindler's List

By yahoo.comPublished 3 years ago 13 min read
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After watching Schindler's List, which lasted for three hours, I had too many things to say but could not express in words. Don't be too depressed in your heart. You can vent with this film review.

The color of the whole film is almost black and white, depressing, dull, dark, lifeless and hopeless, except for the little Jewish girl who was wearing red clothes when she escaped Nazi raids and the faint red candlelight when she announced the surrender of German troops. Yes, only black and white colors can show mourning and respect for the dead, and only black and white colors can show people's helplessness and despair at that time.

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Schindler was originally a Nazi party member in Germany, and he was a businessman who took the opportunity of war to speculate and make a fortune in the country. He hired Jews cheaply to produce goods for his factory, so these Jewish workers were also saved from killing, and he made a fortune quickly. At first, when some of his Jewish workers were killed by Nazi soldiers, he only felt that it harmed the interests of his factory and hindered his way to make a fortune. However, when the Germans started to kill, When he witnessed one life being brutally killed so easily, his heart was greatly shaken after witnessing scenes of human tragedies. At this time, a Jewish girl came to him, because this girl heard that his factory was a refuge for Jews, and she prayed for him to save his parents who were in danger of being slaughtered in the concentration camp. He refused at that time. He refused to turn his factory into a refuge, and refused to take this responsibility, but also had risks. However, after some psychological struggles, kindness finally overcame selfishness, and the goodness of human nature was awakened. Through his own relationship, he dropped the girl's parents into his factory, thus avoiding the killing of the Nazis. After that, his factory really became a refuge for Jews. He bribed senior Nazi officials to protect Jews from being killed in various ways. When the Nazis tried to kill all Jews, he used these workers as an excuse to bring profits to himself. Spending a lot of money, he wrote a long list with the names of more than 1,000 Jews he wanted to take away, "bought" more than 1,000 workers in his factory, and transported them to his hometown. When women were mistakenly transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, Schindler spent a lot of money to save them. Finally, with the defeat and surrender of Germany, because of his identity, he began to flee. On the night he left, The Jewish worker who was saved by him pulled out his gold teeth, cast a ring, and gave it to Schindler. The famous Jewish saying "When you save a life, you save the world" was written on the ring, but after Schindler saw it, he blamed himself and wept bitterly. He said that he could have saved more people.

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Gert, the leader of Nazi military officers, gets up in the morning and starts his day with shooting Jews. He will shoot passers-by with a gun for no reason. Why, he just wants to kill them. When Schindler discussed with him what power is, Schindler said that only those who can control power have real power, killing innocent people. That is not the embodiment of rights, it is dictatorship. This conversation seems to have touched Gert. The next day, facing the wrong woman worker and the little boy who didn't clean the bathtub, he was uncharacteristically saying to them: I pardon you. He stopped in front of the mirror in the bathroom for a long time, looked at himself in the mirror and said: pardon me. At this time, his weak goodness seemed to be awakened. However, in the end, he shot at the little boy, and the dark side still defeated the goodness. Finally, he let human nature fall, self-salvation failed, and human nature completely disappeared from him. He's totally a killer.

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In fact, everyone has a dark, evil and cruel side, as well as a kind, just and bright side. It is up to us to decide what to choose, just like Schindler in the film, and he is not a saint. He was selfish at the beginning, only for his own benefit. At the beginning, he hesitated whether to save the girl's parents or not. He also struggled and made a trade-off. After listening to Schindler's persuasion, his heart will shake more or less, which shows that his heart also has a good side. However, that kind of good is too small, and he does not have strong enough mind to overcome evil. In the end, he let evil spread, gave up self-salvation, and won the good in a fierce battle.

Slaughter

I cried when I watched a few movies, but this was the first one that brought tears to my eyes several times. Forgive me for being a woman.

Lens one

When Nazi soldiers came up to arrest and kill Jews, the mother took out the gold ornaments of the whole family, wrapped them in bread, and swallowed them for everyone in the family. The doctor made every patient in the hospital bed drink poison. It was really hard to see here. What kind of courage and determination should the mother and the doctor take to end the lives of their loved ones and patients? What kind of helplessness and sadness is this for them?

Lens 2

Gert made an excuse to kill the worker who produced the hinge, but the bullet got stuck. The gun pointed at the worker's head and pulled the trigger again and again, but there was no bullet shot. Some people thought it was ironic, and some people might find it ridiculous, but I think, with the sound of the bullet getting stuck, it was a psychological torture for the worker, scared, and could die anytime and anywhere, and the stuck pistol seemed to be.

Lens 3

Children in Germany were playing and swinging, and suddenly snow began to fall in the sky. However, as the camera went back, it was discovered that it was not snow, but the ash produced by burning Jewish corpses. Seeing this, I felt creepy. In sharp contrast, on one side, children were playing happily and carefree, and on the other side, burning Jewish corpses, dancing all over the sky, not romantic snowflakes, but dead souls, which was right.

Lens 4

When Nazi soldiers went to the room for the second time to search for Jews who had escaped, a musician hiding in the piano accidentally touched the keys and made a sound, which was discovered by the Nazis. Later, the Nazis discovered several people hiding in the room. When the machine gun sounded, at the same time, the sound of playing the piano sounded, facing death and killing. The pianist accompanied the killing with music. Seeing this, I suddenly feel that the director is cruel and cruel, but in fact, it is not the director, but history and fact that is cruel.

Lens five, lens six .......

At the end of the film, it was switched from black and white to color, and from past to modern times. One by one, the Jews or their successors who were rescued by Schindler put pieces on Schindler's tombstone to represent Stone who is always grateful. Life goes on and on.

Schindler saved more than 1,200 people at that time, but what about others? What about the 6 million slaughtered? Isn't life equal? Who can say whose life is inferior? Whose life is destined to be deprived? Who but heaven has the right to deprive others of their lives? The slayer and the slain, aren't your lives essentially the same? The restriction on killing, religion and law, in my opinion, are not the most essential methods. Respect for human life and understanding of life equality can really stop human killing each other.

Schindler's list film review 4

If oskar schindler is a hero who fights for his beliefs in the traditional sense, it will be easier to understand him. But in fact, he is a man with defects, drinking, gambling, playing with feelings, being driven by greed and longing for luxury life; So, this made his life a mystery. At the beginning of World War II, he saw the opportunity, came to Poland under Nazi occupation to set up a factory, and hired Jews to work for himself with extremely low wages. His goal is to become a millionaire. At the end of the war, he risked his life and sacrificed his personal wealth to save the Jews; He deceived the Nazis for months and set up a non-existent military factory.

Why did he change? What happened, which made him change from a person who harmed others to a humanitarian? The film Schindler List didn't try to answer this question at all, which must be attributed to Steven Spielberg. Because any answer may be too simple, it will be an insult to Schindler's life. The Holocaust is a huge evil engine, driven by racism and fanaticism. But Schindler overcame it with wisdom in his own small corner. However, he seemed to have no plans, and acted purely on impulse. Even he couldn't fully understand these. This is Spielberg's best work so far. He restored the truth of the Holocaust and the miracle created by Schindler; In this process, he did not use those simple narrative programs.

This film is 184 minutes long. Like all great films, it still looks too short. At the beginning of the film, Schindler ([Liam Neeson]) appeared. He was tall and big, giving people the feeling of not being angry and arrogant. He is well-dressed and often lingers at night, buying caviar and champagne for Nazi officers and girls around them. He also likes to take photos with senior officers. He proudly pinned the Nazi emblem on his clothes. He is also very popular on the black market, and can get nylon, cigarettes and brandy. The authorities are happy to help him set up a factory to manufacture enamel kitchen utensils for the military cookhouse squad. He is also very happy to hire Jews, because their wages are lower than normal, so that he can make a fortune.

Schindler's genius lies in bribery, scheming and cheating. He knew nothing about running a factory, so he asked [Ben Kingsley], a Jewish accountant, to take charge of it. Stern walked the streets in Krakow and hired Jewish workers for Schindler's factory. Because this is a protected military enterprise, if you can work there, it will undoubtedly help Jews save their lives. Spielberg handled the relationship between Schindler and Stern very delicately. At the beginning of the war, Schindler only wanted to make money, but at the end of the film, he only wanted to save his Jews. We know that Stern is very clear about the things inside, but we have never seen two people talking about it in the film; This may be because, under the circumstances at that time, talking loudly about something might lead to death.

This delicacy is Spielberg's strength throughout the film. The screenplay was adapted by Steven Zerian based on Thomas Keneally's novel. It has no affectation of melodrama at all. On the contrary, Spielberg has chosen a series of events, which are presented clearly and unmistakably, and there is no problem of deliberately manipulating emotions. Seeing these events, we can understand how secretive Schindler and his plans are.

He also presented the Holocaust to us in a vivid and horrible way. There is a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp chief named Ralph Fens in the film, which is the best case to study the stupidity of evil. He stood on the balcony of his "villa", overlooking the prison compound, and shot Jews at random just to practice marksmanship. Schindler was able to persuade him to give up this habit by catering to his vanity, which Schindler did so obviously that it almost seemed to insult him. )

Gothic belongs to the fragile hypocrite, trying to maintain an ideal, but excluding himself; On the one hand, he preached the practice of killing Jews, on the other hand, he chose a beautiful Jew named [Embeth Davidtz] as a maid, and fell in love with her. Her compatriots are being devastated, but she is spared because of his sudden love. He is not surprised to face such a situation. In his view, his personal needs are more important than right and wrong, survival and destruction. Studying him, we realize that Nazism relies on the American serial killer whose thinking is similar to Jeffrey Dahmer's nickname "Milwaukee cannibals". During his lifetime, he brutally killed 17 men, mostly African-American or Asian-American. -Some people like this.

The film uses black and white photography, and many of the locations used are the real places where this scene was staged (including Schindler's original factory site and even the gate of Auschwitz). Spielberg showed us how Schindler dealt with the Nazi system crazily. He bribed, he coaxed, he boasted, and he managed not to be seen through. In the boldest paragraph of the film, the train full of his hired workers mistakenly drove to Auschwitz, and Schindler personally went to the death camp, boldly persuaded the managers, spared the Jews, saved them from the brink of death, and put them on the train to his factory.

The most surprising thing about this film is that Spielberg serves the story so completely. This film is excellent in acting, writing, guiding and looking. Every single play is a masterpiece of production designer, photography, special effects and extras management. However, Spielberg himself, with his outstanding personal style, and the gorgeous scenes that made us pay attention to and remember in his previous works, disappeared into his works this time. Nissen, Kingsley, and other actors, also did not have that kind of dazzling performance. Everyone works for the same goal.

At the end of the film, there is a paragraph full of overwhelming emotional impact, which is presented by those who were rescued by Schindler. We know that there are now 6,000 Jews in Schindler and their children, while there are only 4,000 Jews in Poland. This seems to tell us an obvious truth: Schindler alone has done more than one country in saving Jews. But this conclusion is too simple. The message of this film is that in the face of the Holocaust, someone did something, while others were insensitive. Perhaps, if you want to do what he has done, you must have an unpredictable, reckless, unplanned and risk-free liar like him. It is impossible for anyone with a rational plan to go so far.

French writer Flaubert once wrote that he didn't like Uncle Tom's Cabin because the author constantly preached against slavery. "Do you have to comment on slavery?" He asked, "describe it; That's enough. " He added, "When the author writes a book, he must be like God in the universe, ubiquitous but undetectable." This can also be applied to Spielberg, the author of this film. He described the evil of the Holocaust and told an incredible story about how some people who should have been victims survived.

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