It doesn't get any better

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2008)

Schindler's List epitomizes everything film making, at its best, can be. For Spielberg to make a movie about the holocaust, the most delicate of subjects, after previous "close encounters" with popcorn fare is a testament to his vision and devotion to humanity.
I particularly like the use of black and white in the film, and the colorization of the one girl in red. The one moment of color brings the mass depravity and destruction of the holocaust into focus by demonstrating that all of the thousands of bodies were once an individual, living, laughing, loving human being.
I also recommend watching Spielberg's Munich sometime after Schindler's List. It is, in some sense, the sequel asking, after the holocaust, how does that affect the Jewish sense of justice -- right and wrong?