Too many of us lost family members to the dreams of a genius and a madman. This movie is the story of a few who lived through the Holocaust, and the man who listened to his heart instead of the money in his pocket and the propaganda floating around him.
The story starts out with the humiliation of the Jews, continuing on until they are eventually carted off to various labor camps. We meet Schindler, a man who is well-off, who uses Jews for cheap labor, until they are taken from them. Being a decent businessman, he then decided to go into the ?labor camp? business. Eventually, he was forced to buy off as many Jews as he could, for labor purposes, eventually seeing this as a chance to save the lives of as many Jews as possible. He then set up this production company, waiting out the end of the war.
The end of this movie was the most riveting point, as he points to the broach on his lapel. ?This...is gold. With this, I could have bought one more Jew... I could have saved one more.? He was concerned not with what he had done, but with what could have been done. He cared for those people, with a love uncharacteristic of someone with his lineage and social status. He spent everything he had, and yet was crushed by what he hadn?t done.
We see in here many facets of communication that can be seen once you peel back the image of heavy grief and pain that overlay this movie. The first thing that comes to mind is the simple group dynamic that develops. The people survive by keeping in groups. There are also evident the levels of cultural diversity, ethical questions, and problems of perception.
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