Schindler's list
When we think of the name Steven Spielberg we instantly think "action packed film", after all he is the creator of such films as Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Arc. However most movie critics will agree that Spielberg's most action packed film is one that retells the story of Oskar Schindler. In the movie Schindler's List Spielberg takes us inside the soul of a man who made a choice, a man who valued humanity more then greed. It is remarkable how man is fascinated with the idea of free will and just what exactly drives us to make the choices we do. The counterpoint between Oskar Schindler's greed and Oskar Schindler's kindness -- the kindness that saved over one thousand Jews from being swallowed up by the Holocaust -- cannot be overemphasized, for greed and kindness are two of the basic, natural factors that motivate human action, and they are fundamentally opposed to each other. The idea that a single human being, compelled by those two forces, would choose to save others while risking his own life, is as uplifting as any other. The fact that we cannot tell when Schindler decided why he should save those lives matters only a little. The fact that he decided at all tells us what we need to know: first he did it because he rea
It is said that no act of earthly justice not even the vision of Hitler and his minions burning in Hell forever -- can ever make amends for the tragedy. But what can be done is to preserve the memories of what happened and for Hitler's "final solution" to continue to be rejected. The film celebrates those who are, as Holocaust survivors and descendents of survivors (saved by Schindler or not), living acts of defiance, their very existence a cry of rage against the Nazi's attempt to stamp out the Jewish race. Meanwhile, thousands of Hitler's "undesirables" were being exterminated. Gradually, and with no shame, Schindler realizes then, he was not only in a position to save a great many lives, but that he was obligated to do something to resist the genocide. It is a climactic moment in the movie when the viewer can actually see and feel what Schindler is feeling he has made a choice he will not stand for injustice and he will continue to do what he knows is right. He hires only workers who would otherwise end up in a concentration camps. He fed them, gave them a place to live, and essentially protected them from the Nazi storm. Soon he was spending so much on maintaining his haven that his business began to lose money -- he became like the gambler or the alcoholic who exhausts all his funds in order to keep gambling and drinking, and he was able to carry about eleven hundred names to safety through the end of the war. At the center of it all is Oskar Schindler (played by Liam Neeson), a tower of a man with an
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