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Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2020)

At first, I learned about the movie from the director's teacher, and at that time, I thought it was called 'Hitler' list. Strong curiosity drove me to download the movie. I was originally not interested in such overly profound films, but I couldn't help but watch the director spielberg's great fame. It has to be said that such art-house films about human nature in the context of war abroad, although they often take nearly three hours, are not boring at all.
The film's black-and-white images give a sense of historical vicissitudes, creating a documentary-like atmosphere. The main theme of the film is peace and redemption, which clearly shows the transformation of a German arms dealer named schindler from his greed for personal gain at the beginning to his sincere desire to save every Jew persecuted by the German nazis.
The war has brought death and fear to every corner of the world. Those ruling parties are willing to wage war in order to safeguard their own interests, totally regardless of the lives of the people. War distorts human nature, but it also shows the good side of human nature. Under Hitler's leadership, the nazis developed a hubristic sense of racial superiority in which they saw the jews as animals with no human rights.
They raised their butcher's knife to kill innocent jewish people, they used a ruthless face to the fascist brutality of take in everything in a glance, I can't forget those who hid in the floor to avoid the nazis came for the wardrobe and under the bed, trembling of women and children forget German soldiers in found that after surviving jews rushing a leave their guns, a gentleman's officers sitting in the elegant piano of fiddling with the keys of the jews, like Mozart's music is accompanied by the way, like punctured beans gunfire as dance music is a god of death. The director satirizes the Nazi's cruelty and perversion in a seemingly absurd way.
When schindler and his wife rode up the hill and witnessed the beastly behavior of the German soldiers who were massacring innocent jews in the city, and when he saw the little girl in red running in a panic in the chaos of the crowd, he was enlightened by his inner goodness. He understood that, in this troubled world, even if earn more money can not buy the living human life, no human nature, even if there is no amount of wealth is just a walking corpse. There are plenty of details about schindler's transformation, such as the way he began to use his connections to get a lifeline for the jewish workers at the factory, and the way he treated the jewish women at his birthday party with full respect by passionately kissing them regardless of the eyes of others. The contrast with schindler is that of the Nazi lieutenant, whose air of militarism and fascism cannot be concealed. Even though he is elegant in front of outsiders, his loneliness is revealed when he meets Helen, a jewish woman. He didn't kill Helen. Maybe he needed someone to comfort him. He may not really like Helen, just want to have someone to express his feelings, but his inner racism is already in his
There is a deep and indelible imprint on the soul. When schindler exhorted him to try to forgive others, I seemed to see a silver lining in him, and he seemed to shake a little at that moment in his own soul about what he believed in. When he caresses Helen in the basement as a maid, he is infatuated with her beauty, but can not express his love for her, because he is a German Nazi officer, his identity and beliefs make him helpless. His inner contradictions make him irate, fascist thoughts take over his soul again, he madly beats poor Helen, and the director USES a parallel montage to contrast schindler's kindness to jews at the party with his perversion. This is perhaps the director of war warped human another way of saying.
When wrapping film, schindler met German soldiers dug up the bodies of those in the concentration camps were slaughtered, the audience was surprised that the figure of a wearing a red dress sitting in a pile of dead bodies for cremation, the little girl's body already decay, schindler did not think of a child can't escape from fate, due to the particularity of color film, director of the little girl's figure used alone and local color, which have a certain impact on the vision. In the black and white of the body, the red is very dazzling, in this dark age, the child is buried by the ruthless killing, hope is destroyed in an instant.
Schindler understood the meaning of the list and what he was supposed to do. He didn't want to eat or sleep, he just wanted to save one more person. This reminds us of the businessman schindler at the beginning of the film, who only wanted to make money from the war but didn't care about the lives of the jewish people. It turns out that a person can change, and the jews let schindler complete a self-redemption. Let him understand save a life, is to save the truth of the world.
The film can be described as a memoir by spielberg himself, who is a Jew. He deeply criticizes the distortion of human nature caused by the war, and at the same time praises the humanity that has not been lost in the war.
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