"Power is when we have every justification to kill and we do not." - Oskar Schindler
Schindler's List, one of the film among other films throughout the telling of the Holocaust and World War II. Adaptation of the true story about the efforts of a German man and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler which saved 1100 lives of Polish Jews. I do not know what the original intention which brought Schindler to employ approximately 350 Jewish people who are in the German occupation in Poland as labor in pots and pans factory which he owned. Perhaps on the beginning, Schindler acted on the basis of profits as the Jews labors weren't paid at that time.
Existing systems for the Jews at that time was to put them in a special Jewish ghetto or township and later transferred to the camp like in a concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland that became the setting for this movie. Working in a metal factory owned by Schindler provided free space for the workers of the Ghetto because that place bounded by a wall, a high wall that separated the ghetto from the city. More advantages when the entire Jewish Ghetto cleaned and then transferred to Plaszow camp, they were freed from hard labor in the camps and wicked treatment from the German officers.
Oskar Schindler gradually awakened humanity, even in the end he paid every soul of Jews and brought them out from the camp then moved to Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) to work on new military equipment manufacturer founded by Schindler and free from intervention of German troops until they were freed by the Russians after the war ended. Obviously Schindler's efforts in rescuing the Jewish workers weren't easy, various bribes and suck up to the seniors of SS he did as the attempts to keep these people safe. The Jews who worked for him, later listed in the so called Schindler's List or Schindler's Jews.
Directed by my favorite director, Steven Spielberg. Born in 1993 in black and white format but colorized at the beginning and at the end of the movie. I think the black and white format was used to keep the audience from the disgust of the dead bodies, blood, and shooting directly on the head when German troops kill the residents of the camp, but instead evoking our emotion of how cheap a human life was at that time. Starring Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Sir. Ben Kingsley as Ytzhak Stern, a Jewish accountant who helped Schindler in building factories, and Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth, SS officers who was the chief of the Plaszow camp, spearheading figure of an antagonist and representation of the German troops' atrocities at that time.
The players who acted in this movie are not worth the negative criticism, because as an audience, I really felt as like i'm watching the original scene of the incident. Perhaps because of the demands of morality and respect for the victims of this crimes against humanity that's been a dark record in human civilization. Acting of the extras were also quite showing the suffering of the Jews in the camps or their happiness when they were rescued from the gas chamber. Even hundreds of people dared to get naked for the scene that captured the selection of the sick and elderly Jewish from the healthy ones to be sent to the gas chamber.
One of the heartbreaking scenes was when the Ghetto cleaning, Schindler could only saw from a distance. From a distance he saw among the chaos and shooting everywhere, a little girl in a red coat separated from her parents and ran herself in confusion. Why do I know the little girl's coat color, because the filmmaker deliberately colorized that girl's coat among the monochromatic image. Schindler continued to watch the little girl until she sneaked into the building and hid under a bed in a room, just like any other ghetto residents who build a hiding place inside the building. What they did not know that later the Germans still do the cleaning by checking every little part of the building and fired bullets indiscriminately in the building.
On another day a year later, when the Germans excavated and burnt the bodies of the Jews who were killed in the camps and in the Ghetto, Schindler was in that place to have a talk with Amon. He later saw the little girl in red coat, lying dead above the pile of dead bodies and were taken by cart to the burning place, still colored. Ironically the movie poster consists of a picture of a man's hand that was holding a child's hand who wore a red clothes with a semi-transparent writing of Schindler's list. My interpretation was those were Schindler's hand holding the hand of that little girl in red coat. Maybe what Schindler did after all was for the sake of remorse that he could not save that little girl's life, just maybe.
