About the Film
This movie was directed by famous director Steven Spielberg. The movie is 184 minutes long, and like all great movies, it seems too short. The cast in this movie are Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Embeth Davidtz, Caroline Goodall and many more. It was released on 15th December, 1993 in the USA.
It was a box office success as it earned $322 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. And it is ranked 8th on the list of top 100 movies.This film is a silhouette of creativity and a real live portrait of the events that went on during World War II. What’s great about it is that you have to go back to it a million times over to truly understand it.
The magnitude of something that great is not easily discovered nor explained. The film portrays the story of Oscar Schindler who starts out as a greedy war profiteer with the motive of earning money. But with the onset of the gruesome cruelty of the Holocaust, he transforms into a man who is willing to sacrifice the last drop of his fortune in favor of life.
The film demonstrates several instances referring to the complete stripping of the identities of the Jews. The statistics have been changed into names and faces to ensure that the viewers can make a personal connection with characters on the screen and they can be confronted to experience the horror on a personal level.
The victims regain a sense of individuality and uniqueness instead of being put into a group. The whole story is heartfelt at the point of remark- "The List Is Life".
Main Highlights of the Movie
The film has been shot in black and white and Spielberg uses this opportunity to highlight certain key scenes and emotions. One of the strong characters in this film is a little girl in a red dress who represents the embodiment of life and hope. Besides heavy symbolizing, parallel editing is also used to highlight the contrast between the cruelty towards the Jews and the comfort of the Schindler and the Nazis.
Itzhak Stern subtly demonstrates Schindler's conscience and influences his morality. Amon Goeth, The leader of the concentration camp with high respect for Nazi morality visualizes us the vivid and horrific situations of the holocaust and expressed his traits of greed and self-centeredness
Final Scene
The final scene depicted in color represents the Schindler Jews along with the actor counterpart. There were roughly 1200 jews who were saved by Oscar Schindler during Holocaust. Now the "Schindlerjuden" or the "Schindler Jews" are estimated to have over 8500 descendants in the US, Europe, and Israel.
This is one of the masterpieces created by Steven Spielberg and it went on to win several academy awards.If you are free then I’ll definitely suggest watching this movie. This is one of the best movies in hollywood. And will be remembered forever in the future.
Written By- Akash Agrawal
Edited By - Nidhi Verma
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