Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler is a German industrialist and casual womaniser, who is using cheap Jewish labour in Poland in the hope of making his millions from war profiteering. He's also a Nazi. His business runs into trouble however when the Nazis begin to implement the Holocaust, and his cheap labour is rounded up and deported to a labour camp under the baleful eye of Amon Goeth. Schindler bribes Goeth at first to release the Jews to him, because he needs the cheap labour and he's fast approaching bankruptcy without them, particularly his pin-sharp accountant Itzhak Stern. But something else is stirring inside Schindler, a feeling that he should be doing more. Something not designed solely for profit. Something human.

In this movie, there is a scene that excite people's mind. In the crowd of black and white, there is a little girl who wear a red coat was walking in the throng, without any purpose. This is a monochrome movie, with a black and white background, the red coat was been more conspicuous in the frame. I think red is the color of life, brilliance but fragile. Live in the war times, lives have no safeguard, people might be dead the next second, but in this situation, it makes lives been more precious. Just like what the mother said in the movie, "An hour of life is still life."

Another scene that always stay in my head is the night Schindler makes that list. An oil lamp, a typewriter and two men. In a slient night, we can hear the Jewish names were said from a clear and firm voice, one by one, more and more names were been typed on the list. “This list is an absolute good. the list……is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.” Everytime when a name said from his mouth, that means a life was been saved.

I like this movie not just because the moving story but also the score and editing, those things all make the movie great.