Schindler's List: Review By MovieWiz001

Warning: This review may contain spoilers.

Well you guys were right, I have really enjoyed this film. Thank you for the comments on my last Spielberg review, "Munich". I was given this DVD on Christmas day, 2010, and I couldn't wait to watch it. I watch my new movies on my computer. But I had a tough time to watch this because it is suffering a bit of a virus by hearing ads when the audio is on. But I watched it when it wouldn't be on for a while. But I really enjoyed this film so much.

Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us.

Although the film is primarily shot in black-and-white, red is used to distinguish a little girl in a coat. I really hated to see her dead body, later in the film. But I really liked the style, how the fires and the coat of the little girl was colorized. Like Spielberg said, "to start the film with the candles being lit...would be a rich bookend, to start the film with a normal Shabbes service before the juggernaut against the Jews begins." When the color fades out in the film's opening moments, it gives way to a movie in which smoke comes to symbolize bodies being burnt at Auschwitz. Only at the end do the images of candle fire regain their warmth when Schindler allows his workers to hold Shabbat services. For Spielberg, they represented "just a glint of color, and a glimmer of hope." It's just a really neat style.

Liam Neeson was the perfect role for Oskar Schindler. He has done a fantastic job, portraying him. So were the jews. You can Just feel the innocence.

This is a fantastic and very well-made film. It is now, one of my favorite movies. btw, In my last review of "True Grit" I mentioned a review for "Saving Private Ryan", but I can't, because I had to leave, and I didn't get to see the whole film. And I really recommend this film. Thanks for reading.

The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. Two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust were killed.

Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including Romani, Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents, which occurred whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.

The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Various legislation to remove the Jews from civil society, predominantly the Nuremberg Laws, was enacted in Nazi Germany years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. The Germans required Jews and Romani to be confined in overcrowded ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were systematically killed in gas chambers. Every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics that led to the genocides, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state". Opinions differ on how much the civilian population of Germany knew about the government conspiracy against the Jewish population. Most historians claim that the civilian population was not aware of the atrocities that were carried out, especially in the extermination camps located in German-occupied Europe. The historian Robert Gellately, however, claims that the government openly announced the conspiracy through the media, and that civilians were aware of every aspect of the conspiracy except for the use of gas chambers.