1. Schindlers List
The Film opens with an extreme close up of a hand lighting three candles in a Jewish household. ... This scene then fades out, and the Jews have disappeared, leaving the table empty with the three candles burning out. There is then another close up in which we see one of the candles burnout into a cloud of smoke. ... The candle represents the Jewish population, and the burning of these candles is a symbol of the holocaust, which will soon follow. ... The use of burning out candles is frighteningly symbolic of the literal burning out of the Jewish population. ...
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- Grade Level: High School