Schindler's List is a 1993 film by Steven Spielberg that focuses on the "contributions" that Oskar Schindler made to the war effort during World War II and the Jewish people that he saved through his business endeavors. While Schindler allies himself with the Nazi Party and several high ranking Nazi officials, he uses these connections to hire specific Jews to work in his various businesses, first of which is an enamelware factory and the second of which is a munitions factory. Throughout the entire film, Spielberg manages to dramatically capture the plight that Jews underwent in Poland during World War II, specifically how they were dehumanized by the Nazis and forced first to give up their possessions and live in the ghettos and then forced from the ghettos to labor, concentration, or death camps. However, despite the fact that all, or most, material objects were forcefully ripped from Jews, the one thing that the Nazis could not take away from them was their culture and traditions, which play a prominent role in the film. In the film, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) is initially depicted as being an opportunist who will do anything in his power to gain favor with high (er) ranking Nazi officials who will eventually enable him to profit from the war and the cheap labor, Jews, that is available to him. In order to profit from a war, one must have a business that is in demand, therefore, Schindler moves to open an enamelware factory that will not only benefit him financially, but also provide supplies to Nazi soldiers. In order to open a business, Schindler enlists the help of an extremely competent accountant, Iztak Stern (Ben Kingsley), who happens to have connections with formerly successful Jewish business leaders. With the help of Stern, Schindler acquires the investors necessary to bankroll his enamelware endeavor and subsequently hires Jews to work for him because they are the workforce that requires the lowest amount of payment, which of course they will never see, however, Schindler compensates them by paying them in pots and pans which he contends they can trade in the ghetto...
Eventually, there comes a time when the ghettos need to be condensed into a single ghetto and eventually evacuated altogether. It is during this time that SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) is brought in to oversee the evacuation of the ghettos and the construction of the P-aszow concentration camp, which he will run once it has been completed. With his labor force relocated to a concentration camp, Schindler is forced to shut down his enamelware factory, however, he is not out of business long before he opens an munitions factory that employs the same Jews that were previously working for him. Ultimately, through his efforts and the almost exclusive employment of Jews, Schindler managed to save approximately 1,200 people from certain death (The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise).
This section has incredible sound editing with the camera bobbing up and down out of the water and the sound going from muffled to vibrant. Spielberg then gets to the beach and goes back and forth between individual shots of one or two men, and then wider shots of the full scope of the battle. This gives the view the sense of the personal and the large-scale event. Hanks'
Schindler's List Today, all the numerous discussions and discourses on the issue of human rights no longer refers to the traditional belief in an 'ordained chain' of being, wherein the idea of there being a 'natural hierarchy' was widely accepted everywhere in the world. This was probably the main reason why there were some people considered 'inferior' to others, on the hierarchical scale. These inferior people would more often than not
Schindler's "essential workers," as the film shows, are not just strong, able-bodied men and women, but also (and this shows Schindler's compassion in addition to his business sense) people missing arms; children, and elderly men and women. After the Krakow Ghetto itself is next destroyed, Schindler bribes the Nazis to let him keep his workers, although some of them actually have few or no skills, which puts the factory
Hitler's anti-Semitism was an integral compound of German nationalist ideology in its radical form and his ideas of Holocaust and expropriations from Jews were met with enthusiasm of Nazi fanatics. Such practices led to the feudalist brutalism, as a majority of German military enterprises were using slave labor of Jews and Slavs, turning on of the most democratic European economies, into a totalitarian one, which practiced slave labor. Besides mercantilism
As with any production coming from Hollywood, the audience expects Schindler's list to present numerous false facts only because the director wants to add continuity to the film's plot. There are several cliches meant to captivate the audience and reach their hearts. The scene where Schindler watches the little girl dressed in red running through the crowd is clearly an act of fiction. Also, the episode in which the German
Schindler's List is based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, with the film released in the United States in December 1993. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie includes a cast of stars including Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle and Embeth Davidtz. It was produced by Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, with screenplay by Steven Zaillian, cinematography by Janusz Kaminski and music by
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