My Summary on Schindler's List
Oskar Schindler is a German businessman who opens a factory in the early '40s using Jewish laborers from the nearby Ghettos. He builds monetary wealth off of the labor and in return, as he sees the pure madness of the Third Reich's "Final Solution" unfold, he sees his unique position as one who can help. He soon does everything in his power to make the conditions as best he can for those who work in his factories. Eventually he 'purchases' nearly 1,100 Jewish prisoners and moves them to another camp where their lives are spared. Schindler's List had a profound affect on me. I had seen the movie when it was first released in 1993 so this was my 2nd time to see it. It may be because I am older and more socially conscious, but the movie affected me more than when I was younger. I now know a little more about what went on in Europe during that time, so I am better able to empathize with the people in the movie than in my previous encounter with the film. Indeed, this is one of the best films ever made and it stands as a timeless chronicle of what is truly one of the darkest chapters of human history. It's important to mention how films such as this are often times one of the best ways to get a mas
One of the main reasons is because of who did the killing. Many of the examples of genocide that the 20th century produced where from South America, Asia, and Africa. Through the lens of the "developed" world, these killings are often seen as nothing more than 'peasant versus peasant' killings. In the Jewish Holocaust, both the Nazis and the Jews were European. In that sense, it tends to scare the Western World all the more to think that it was 'developed' people who were carrying out these crimes against other 'developed' people. It is much more comfortable for 'the West' to think that atrocities of this magnitude would only be carried out by 3rd world regimes as necessary consequences of civil wars or tribal feuds. Unfortunately, there have been many examples of massive ethnic cleansing carried out in the last century (indeed, in the last 50 years). Why does the Jewish Holocaust stand out in our heads above others? This is one of the most chilling parts of the movie. It is hard to even imagine how an entire group of people were so dehumanized by another group of people that they were treated like animals and killed as if they were nothing but 'bodies' without minds or emotions. On the other hand, it is amazing to consider that the human drive to survive is as strong as it is. There were Jewish people survived the Holocaust. It is truly amazing to me that they were able to survive such hardship and persecution. As an American, I have always enjoyed privilege and freedoms which are easy to take for granted. It is hard to imagine if I would have been able to endure what the Jewish people of the late 30's and early 40's went through. The very definition of 'Human Rights' is best portrayed in this movie because of the complete lack of them in Hi
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