Is Schindlers List an Accurate Representation?
Schindlers list, it is one of the many historical films, like Titanic which impressed audiences world wide. It received record gate reciepts throughout America and the rest of the world and undoubtly owes its success of particularly the western world in the horrific events concerning the treatment of the Jewish nation of Europe by Hitler and his nazi party during the second world war.Not only did it achieve maximum audience appeal but it also reaped the beneifits of being such a supererb film by picking up 7 oscars, 3 golden globes and y other prestigious awards. The film depicts the heroic actions of Oskar Schindler, a German war profiteer, who because of his fundamental humanity and great courage saved more then 1,100 Jews from death in the holocaust. The film was directed by Steven Speilberg, a highly popular figure who has directed such huge screen plays as E.T. and Jurassic Park. Steven Speilberg is a Jew and there are some critics might suggest that the film is biased. Although, what is true is that this film is his attempt at explaining the Holocaust, it is his representation and his "historical view". This in turn does have its own reliability although it is a different type of reliability.
Therefore we could say that the film was a very reliable source as it describes the event experienced by real people and it also backs up many of the sources we have been studying. Another very important character in the film was Itzhak Stern, he was the head accountant for a large Jewish owned import -export firm located in ? (Poland) After the occupation of Poland the Germans "organized his business by seizing ownership. Stern later became Accountant for the weapons factory which was owned by Schindler. It was this partnership that saved the lives of 1,100 Jews during the years of the Holocaust. In the first play Hollywood films are not usually very long because the audience might lose interest, therefore the film was condensed down into around two hours, this is very ? as how can these years of blood shed and be portrayed in two hours. We could argue that it was edited out a lot of very important events and perhaps forgot some others.
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