Schindlers List Paper

Schindler’s List in its entirety, depicts the life of Oskar Schindler, and his perseverance as a German leader, to save the lives of eight hundred and fifty Jewish people during the time of the Nazi regime, the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, and World War II. Oskar Schindler used his influence as a leader, along with his wealth, to become a voice of the Jewish people, even in the moments, that Hitler was commanding those under his power to burn and kill as many as ten thousand Jewish men, women, and children daily in the gas chambers, all out of hate, and despite from his darkened, and revenge sought past. Yet as Steven Spielberg, directed this film he used three different means to enact imagery in the audiences mind, to portray how truly wretched, devastating, and demoralizing, it was for over six million Jewish people to have been given an undeserved, and murderous death. This three imageries are as follows: 1) Documentary film creation via black and white screening, 2) the use of specific instruments to enable the audience to grasp the true sadness of those horrifying moments, and 3) The use of actual on site filming to depict the realism, over the tragedy of the terror that occurred inside the concentration camps.

In this film, it begins by taking the audience into a Jewish families home, during the hours of Shabbat, also known as the Sabbath Day. The movie portrays this to show how in Jewish home’s tradition, and the sacredness of family, and their beliefs are kept strong even when life’s events take a turn for the worse, and at times even costing some their lives. Spielberg, as he wrote this film chose to use black and white screening, because he wanted the audience to see the story as if it were an actual documentary into the lives, and homes of the Jewish people, during the events of the holocaust. However, he also chose to use this imagery, because it shows it opens the eyes of the audience to how loving Oskar Schindler was to these people. He spent