Schindler's List Essay

1. The Schindler’s List Directed by Steven Spielberg in 1994. Starting Liam Neeson, Ralph Fienne, Caroline Goodall and Ben Kingsley. The Schindler’s List is based on a true story of a German businessman named Oskar Schindler. Oskar helps Jewish people by giving them jobs in a factory, which is in Poland. As more of World War two is in progresses the fate of the Jewish people becomes clearer to Oskar. He understands that they will be killed simply because they are born a different race; Oskar is still “friends” with the Nazi only to save the Jewish people. At the beginning of Oskar’s business plan he uses the Jewish people because he will make more profit but Oskar being a human starts to see the horror and sympathy sets in and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death. The Schindler’s List to me is more of a Realism movie because it was based on a true story, one of the biggest difference between this film and another Holocaust films is that Jewish people are shown before the war gets started for example Schindler’s occupies a lavish apartment that once owned by a rich Jewish family. The film would not be considered a formalism style because the director does not bend the truth. Spielberg production makes sure that the Holocaust is portrait as a classicism film because he does not leave any
The main ideologies in this film are Ethnocentrism, Capitalism, and Patriarchy. The Germans represent ethnocentrism in this film being that they are far better than anyone because of their own race, nation or culture. The second ideology in this film is important because Schindler is a full capitalist by taking advantage of the war and starting a business using Jewish money and labor. For example in a scene while Schindler is eating lunch a one armed Jewish man comes in and thanks him for giving him a job and Schindler is not interested because he doesn’t care about the people but only the money, soon after he sees what is really happening he has a change of