Schindler's List (The Saving of the JEWS)

         Amidst the horrible fate, struggle for life and the fear that the Jews had been facing, there comes this man who had change everything. Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) who came to the city of Ghetto to make his fortune there did the opposite. This man became the hope of the Jews and serves as the refugee of those slaves who struggle for survival and who longed for peace, happiness, and acceptance

            The movie tries to imply the theme of the good versus the evil. The character of Oskar Schindler who possesses many hidden dimension and a man named Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) who has one constant dimensional attitude, pure evil.The story proves the wreckage of war and the overpowering of goodness against the evil ruler.

         

   

             Violence and persecutions where showed in the movie, making it more brutal and cruel. The story started in a man who wants to make a fortune, as a member of the Nazi party; he bribes the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and the SS officials for him to acquire a factory producing enamelware. He appointed Itzhack Stern (Ben Kingsley)  to help him run the business and bought the Jews to be his workers for the fact the Jews slave are less expensive. As he does everything for the growth and development of his business, he at the same time had lived with the Jews and saw the horror that these people had been facing every day. He had felt the fear that these people had, and the brutal treatment of Goeth  and the Nazi Officials.

            

              

            Killing is a norm in that city. Goeth  had done lots of killing, shoots people from the balcony of his villa, many people were killed just to empty the Ghetto, the officials treated these Jews like animals, no humanity, purely evil; no forgiveness, purely massacres yet the Jews still lived with hope and faith that one day, maybe one day, they could live a life wherein fear is the least feeling they could feel.

          

 There is this scene in the movie wherein Schindler saw a girl wearing a red coat who tries to hide from the officials, and then he saw that red coat in the place wherein all corpses were meant to be burned then he made an inference that the girl had face her tragic death.

          

               Upon seeing the people strive for life, Schindler pity them, instead of focusing on his business, he does everything like bribing Goeth and the Officials, spending his own money, telling them that he wanted to build another factory and again bought the Jews slaves to be his workers just to hide his true objective and that’s to protect the Jews from Goeth. On the other hand, the Officials and Goeth accepted Schindler’s gifts and bribe, clueless of Schindler’s main motive. Some of the most dramatic scenes includes Schindler rescuing  Stern in the death train, snatching his workers from the maw of death, redirecting a trainload of his male workers from Aushwitz to  his hometown Czechoslovakia and when the women’s train is misrouted to Auschwitz, Schindler finds ways, bribing the commandant to ship them back out again.

            Itzhack Stern had found out that Schindler is not into making money but cares more on saving life. Schindler, commanded Stern to make a list of Jewish people to be sent on his hometown, the Czechoslovakia. Stern told Schindler that the list is a life and that all around its margins lies the gulf, and thus, that statement made Schindler to be more obsessed in saving the life of the Jews.As the Jews were moved on the Czechoslovakia, Schindler ordered his officials that in his factory killing were not allowed or else, the official who does the killing will be condemned to death and that makes the Jews slaves secured and safe. Also, Schindler allowed the Jews to have their Sabbath; this is the day of the week wherein the members of some religious groups (the Jews) do not work instead had their prayer, offering their thanksgiving to their God.

            Then, the war was over, yet the Nazi Official was said to kill the Jews but Schindler persuaded them, giving them two options either to kill the Jews,and then return to their family as a murderer or to let the Jews live and return to their family as a man. The Nazi Officials choose the latter making the Jews more thankful to Schindler. On the other hand,AmonGoeth was persecuted because of killing hundreds of Jews yet Goeth believed that he has done nothing wrong making me conclude, that indeed, he is a mad man. 

            The Jewish people thank Schindler for saving their life. He became the hero of the Jews, the protector and their shield. Yet, Schindler burst with tears, with regrets, telling the Jewish people that he should have done more; that he should have saved more life but the Jewish people said he had done enough.

            The movie is a holocaust. It has showed the brutality, the unlawful killings, and the destruction of family and life due to war. It perfectly showed the deliberate murder of the Jewish race that made the viewer’s sympathize more to the Jews and effectively portrayed the Jewish people’s life during the war. Also, it has showed the almost destructed hope and how it was renewed by the arrival of a man who became their Savior (Schindler). Now, they were called as the Schindler’s Jews.

            The ending had nurtured the hope of the viewers by showing the Schindler’s Jews visiting his grave, giving him flowers as a sign of gratitude. They are the Jews who survived the horror and the terror caused by the war, who had witnessed the brutality of man and found goodness and entrusted there life to a German person named Schindler.