Schindler's List (1993)
Director:
Steven SpielbergStars:
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben KingsleyThe List Is Life.
Schindler's List grips from it's first moments and holds audiences far
beyond the final credits. Spielberg documents Otto Schindler's success in
saving many Jews from the horror of Nazi death camps. More importantly the
film chronicles, in horrific detail, the nightmare that Polish Jews went
through.
Thankfully avoiding sentimentality or romanticism Spielberg takes us into the ghettos and camps, dispassionately observing moments of heartbreaking tragedy, we watch horrified as a young Jewish woman, an architect, is shot for being right, or as the camp commander 'plays' with the Jewish prisoners by shooting them from his balcony.
Shot in stark black and white (except for the final ten minutes) the film conveys beautifully the worst and the best of humanity. One exceptional touch is worth mentioning; as Schindler watches, in black & white, the Jews being hearded from the ghetto, he spots a little girl in a red coat, the camera follows her until she is swallowed into the teeming crowds. Later we see the red coat on a lorry of discarded clothing, but no little girl.
Spielberg has never been better and no Hollywood film has captured so accurately the human tragedy of the Holocaust
Thankfully avoiding sentimentality or romanticism Spielberg takes us into the ghettos and camps, dispassionately observing moments of heartbreaking tragedy, we watch horrified as a young Jewish woman, an architect, is shot for being right, or as the camp commander 'plays' with the Jewish prisoners by shooting them from his balcony.
Shot in stark black and white (except for the final ten minutes) the film conveys beautifully the worst and the best of humanity. One exceptional touch is worth mentioning; as Schindler watches, in black & white, the Jews being hearded from the ghetto, he spots a little girl in a red coat, the camera follows her until she is swallowed into the teeming crowds. Later we see the red coat on a lorry of discarded clothing, but no little girl.
Spielberg has never been better and no Hollywood film has captured so accurately the human tragedy of the Holocaust
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