Agatha Christie's Use Of Stereotypes In Film

War is atrocious. People hear this everywhere they go and hear it in every class they have ever taken. Novelist Agatha Christie once said that "one is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." What she means by this is that war does not accomplish anything, rather, it exists as a settlement between two factions who think they can take control of the other. Merely, war is a conflict between nation's governments, rather than anything else. So it's a shame to even comprehend that many innocent lives are at stake because of the bad decisions of their leaders. Many people do see this and understand war's atrocious goals, and in many films, directors choose to approach this theme in their use of cinematography.
Suddenly, chaos occurs as German soldiers swarm into the ghetto, tearing it apart. They go into Jewish apartments, throw out it's occupants, and throw out all of their belongings from the patios. While the Jewish people are round up and shot outside, Oskar Schindler and his wife arrive on horseback to view the atrocities from afar. They both show expressions of mortification and fear. Among the black and white horizon, Oskar Schindler finds a little Jewish girl wearing a distinctive red coat who's walking among the carnage. The camera pans as the girl walks to an apartment to hide. Schindler's wife tells him that it is horrible what is happening and asks for him to leave with her. They both ride off. Viewers are able to see that this was the first time Oskar Schindler is able to see the immoral and dehumanizing nature of war. There is a great use of mise-en scene in these scenes that first shows off the girl in the red coat, representing the innocence of the Jewish people in war, among violence and inhumanity. The entire movie is black and white, but the only thing that is