The movie starts out in a Jewish family's home. The Jews are reciting in prayer for the Sabbath day around a table full of lit candles. When the Jews are gone from the house the candles slowly burn out.
The German forces defeat the Polish in weeks. Soon afterward, the Jews …show more content…
The entire movie is in black and white and the music that goes along with is unexplainable. The tone of it plays on the viewers' emotions. Schindler's List is not your typical movie. Most movies contain humorous parts or even emotionally uplifting parts, however Schindler's List is totally the opposite. After sitting through this movie for about three hours, we almost felt sick to our stomachs, not only from the emotional scenes, but also from the graphic ones.
On the other hand, Schindler's List might install a feeling of hatred towards Hitler and the Nazi Army. Viewing piles upon piles of dead burning Jews makes a person question the humanity of Hitler and the Nazi's. In this situation, pay back seems inevitable towards such ruthless people. To add to this, children weren't treated any differently. They worked side by side the adults and were killed side by side with the adults.
It's too bad that there weren't more people like Oscar Schindler willing enough to give their lives for a human race. The credits, at the end of the movie, revealed that approximately six million Jews were persecuted. With so few Jews left over, Oscar was one of the very few that helped save a small percentage of the