A Timeless Snapshot

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2015)

I finally had a chance today to watch this movie in full, and literally my only complaint about it is that I had to remove the double-sided DVD partway through the film in order to flip it over and watch the rest of it.
Looking back on it, it is hard to believe that Spielberg made this movie in the same year as Jurassic Park (1993); both movies are great in very different ways.
With Schindler's List, I feel that every technique used within is used deliberately and with purpose. The film is in black-and-white because that is actually how Spielberg envisioned the Holocaust from the documentaries he had seen; we see the coat on the little girl in red in color in order to indicate that Oskar Schindler is focused on her; and so on.
It is wholly evident that Spielberg wanted to make this movie the best movie possible so that, in turn, it becomes a timeless document depicting but one story of the Holocaust. And indeed, while we still enjoy the fun adventures in Jurassic Park, E.T. and the like, it is Schindler's List that will be remembered, years from now, as one of the greatest films of his entire career, if not the greatest.