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Title: 'Schindler's List'
Release Year: 1993
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz.
Plot: Thanks to his social skills and his inteligence, Oskar Schindler rises as a businessman in World War II. When he's given the property of a factory in Krakow, he realizes that he has the perfect chance to save the life of innocent people.
Review: The quintessential Nazi drama, Spielberg left his blockbuster era with this film and directed a comprehensive story about the Holocaust. Raw, powerful and morally challenging, 'Schindler's List' is Steven Spielberg at his best.
A part from the talented director, we find a high quality cast with a set of unforgettable performances. First, we find Schindler, beautifully portrayed by Neeson. He's the main protagonist, usually opposed to the idea's of Amon Goeth. Obese and a real tyrant, the complex character that Fiennes delivers is one of the film main achievements, a real basilisk that imposes the horror among the jews he commands. He has secretly fallen in love with Helen Hirsch, up to the point of loving her even if he 'doesn't consider her a human'.
Fiennes' Amon Goeth is a marvelously complex character, a psychotic tyrant out of his mind, that gives both redemption and death in the rollercoaster that his feelings towards Helen creates in his mind
Another of the high points of the film is its visual and sound quality. From the black and white colorization, created to stand out the red of the little Jewish girl who Schindler wanted to save and ultimately is cremated, to the incredibly powerful score developed by John Williams. They both contribute to making of 'Schindler's List' a sober yet emotional tale in which even the most atrotious of the deaths is shown with not even an inch of morbidity. Scenes like the one in which the Jews are brought to the showers and suddenly they are relieved to see that water comes out of them make of this movie a modern time masterpiece that every moviegoer should see.
Finally, we have the moral dilemma of deciding whether Schindler was good or just was taking advantage of the situation. I strongly believe that the answer is a mix between both situations. Let's face it; if he hadn't had the chance of earning money I doubt he would have started with his strange enterprise. But in spite of that, he was a brave man. Maybe not a hero but yes, a fair one, capable of seeing that what was being done with the Jews was an unfair massacre, a genocide of massive proportions. In the last scenes, he finally understands that having given the money he spent in his luxurious life, he could have saved many lives, and it is for that redemption that he is honoured at the end of the film, when the actors (not the characters, people with ordinary clothes!) leave each of them a stone on his grave. The perfect ending? Schlinder standing in front of his own death body.
A part from the talented director, we find a high quality cast with a set of unforgettable performances. First, we find Schindler, beautifully portrayed by Neeson. He's the main protagonist, usually opposed to the idea's of Amon Goeth. Obese and a real tyrant, the complex character that Fiennes delivers is one of the film main achievements, a real basilisk that imposes the horror among the jews he commands. He has secretly fallen in love with Helen Hirsch, up to the point of loving her even if he 'doesn't consider her a human'.
Fiennes' Amon Goeth is a marvelously complex character, a psychotic tyrant out of his mind, that gives both redemption and death in the rollercoaster that his feelings towards Helen creates in his mind
Another of the high points of the film is its visual and sound quality. From the black and white colorization, created to stand out the red of the little Jewish girl who Schindler wanted to save and ultimately is cremated, to the incredibly powerful score developed by John Williams. They both contribute to making of 'Schindler's List' a sober yet emotional tale in which even the most atrotious of the deaths is shown with not even an inch of morbidity. Scenes like the one in which the Jews are brought to the showers and suddenly they are relieved to see that water comes out of them make of this movie a modern time masterpiece that every moviegoer should see.
The little girl with the red coat is murdered at some point in the movie and Schindler contemplates her cremated body, a fact that strongly impacts him and leads him to question what is happening in society. It's the turning point of the film
Finally, we have the moral dilemma of deciding whether Schindler was good or just was taking advantage of the situation. I strongly believe that the answer is a mix between both situations. Let's face it; if he hadn't had the chance of earning money I doubt he would have started with his strange enterprise. But in spite of that, he was a brave man. Maybe not a hero but yes, a fair one, capable of seeing that what was being done with the Jews was an unfair massacre, a genocide of massive proportions. In the last scenes, he finally understands that having given the money he spent in his luxurious life, he could have saved many lives, and it is for that redemption that he is honoured at the end of the film, when the actors (not the characters, people with ordinary clothes!) leave each of them a stone on his grave. The perfect ending? Schlinder standing in front of his own death body.
Real life Schindler's grave. His persona is one of the most difficult to understand, with many moral debates over the nature of his action and the side he supported in the Nazi-against-the-Jews war
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