Schindlers List

“Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great - so called - told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history,” (Schindler’s List) the SS officer, Amon Goeth said. In fact the truth is that it is not a rumor. It did happen, and on such massive scale that it is almost unbelievable.
The author Thomas Kneally and director Steven Spielberg, were both able to show the horrors during the Holocaust. One of the ways that Spielberg shows us the reality is through the movement of his camera in different scenes. He makes the camera shake in the intense scenes as if you were there and were being pushed. In these scenes show a lot of people in chaos running around, and it was chaos. The innocent Jewish race hardly knew what to do when they were being marched somewhere, Spielberg just shows them being pushed around and occasionally shot for no apparent reason. He shows many graphic moments, which again show you the reality, in which the Jewish are shot in the head. Although it’s in black and white, the blood that was shown was as real and red as if it were in color.
I think that shooting in black and white has some risks involved but for this movie was perfect because it seems more serious and more like a documentary. Spielberg wanted to show the audience that it was a very serious event that happened, and is in no way right or acceptable in today’s society. Murder and torture is frowned upon today, which is why Spielberg intensifies these...