Schindlers List Movie Review

Rating: 8/10 (25 November 2014)

Schindler's List is a movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Based on a true story about Oskar Schindler, this movie is about how a luxurious Nazi Party Members ends up saving more than 1000 Polish Jews from the Holocaust, also known as Schindlerjuden (Which translates into Schindler's Jews). He owed a factory to produce enamelware, and Stern, his Jewish assistant, mainly hired Jews as they cost less. Also, by having Jewish workers and deeming them essential, they realized that the they wouldn't be removed and sent to concentration camps and be killed. Because of this, Stern, Schindler's Jewish assistant, immediately filled the factory with more Jews, preventing them from being sent to death.
Originally, Schindler was a wealthy man that was focused on making money. He was only concerned about himself, and all his profits and investments. He joined the Nazi Party not because he was interested in their ideology and fully supported their goals, rather because by joining the Nazi Party, it will help him make even more money. He had no intention of saving Jews initially, it did not matter to him. The factory and his new apartment were originally confiscated from wealthy Jewish, but he still felt no guilt at all. Later, he realized that Stern was abusing his position in the factory by saving Jews.
He scolded Stern for hiring Jewish people at first. A new concentration camp in Plaszow is opened, and all the people from the Krakow Ghetto are moved and sent to the extermination camp. Seeing this, he started to actively save Jews. He persuades Goeth to send him his workers, and are moved to the factory. Over time, he also gives Stern more of his belongings for bribes to bring people to his factory. One of the times is when a train was transporting children and women was being redirected to Auschwitz, and he bribes the commander with a bag of diamonds to give them to him. He forbid SS soldiers to enter the new factory. Once the war ends, Schindler tells his workers that they are free and is bankrupt, but he will have to leave at midnight as he will get hunted as a war criminal. They give him a ring, he cries, then he flees.
This movie really did feel realistic and everything seemed true. After reading the real Wikipedia page on Schindler, I can say that most of what happened in the movie was true. Obviously, certain events that happened in reality were not included, and some of the things that happened in the movie did not happen in reality. One of the things that I didn't like about the movie was how everything was black and white, and there was only color for a few seconds in the beginning and end. Also, throughout the movie, it was hard to pickup what the actors were trying to say. Overall, I really did enjoy this movie, it presented the historical facts really well. I would give this movie a 4/5.