Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

I consider the "Schindler's list" as one of the most powerful movies of all time. At the beginning of the movie Schindler did not see how the Jews worked hard for him, his main objective was money. He didn't even care about their living conditions, of how the Jews were treated in the concentration camps. The treatment that the Jews received was so inhumane. All the scenes of the movie were so powerful to me, how the workers were jammed in small carriages without water, made them sick or others even died in their trip.

One of the scenes, which I consider most powerful, was the brutal ways the Jews were killed, losing loved ones or loved ones being separated. I was shocked when little kids were running trying to escape from the Nazis. The Nazis had no heart; I don't understand how they could kill millions of innocent people without feeling any compassion for them.

I think what will really stay in my mind was the end of the movie when Schindler was moved by how the Jews submitted themselves for hard labor. Somehow he felt some kind of guilt. Schindler’s had had some changes of mind, because of his pained expression as he saw Jews running and getting shot by the Nazis. So he saved the lives of over one thousand Jews. If it would not being for him, I think all the Jews would have died.

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