Schindler's List Analysis

The film Schindler's list, produced by Steven Spielberg in 1993 was based on the book "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally. Schindler's List was set in Germany during the period of World War 2. Schindler's list is a true story about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the life's of more than one thousand, one hundred Jews during the 1940s holocaust. The following quote is used to describe the themes in the movie, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ~Edmund Burke. This quote is relevant to Schindler's list as it relates to the idea of everyone else in the world sitting by and doing nothing as Hitler and Germany continued to invade, attack and expand its empire. The symbolism, music, …show more content…
When we first meet Schindler he is shown using a assortment of different shots like the wide shot to show how powerful and dominant he is. Schindler continues to be the laid back guy, exploiting the Jews for money for a lot of the movie, but as his relationship with Stern strengthens, the camera angles around Schindler aren't as sharp and slowly we can see the camera angles levelling out as if they are now equal. All along Schindler was a good man but he just ignored what was going on around him like most of the Germans to stay alive and live luxuriously. It only took Sterns influence for Schindler to realise that he could

Schindler's list is mainly black and white. The opening is a coloured scene of a yellow flame on a burning candle, the flame burns out and the smoke fades the scene to the smoke on a black and white train. The colourless scenes show us how cruel, merciless and how much despair the Jews would be feeling. The movie is also black and white to make it that much more