Essay On Schindler's List

Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg, is set in World War II, when Jewish concentration camps were formed. At the beginning of Schindler's List you are unable to tell if Oskar Schindler is kind, you think this because he buys clothes from the black markets and goes out drinking with all the German soldier’s to form a working friendship. Which helps Oskar to get Jewish people working for him in his newly form “Pots ‘n’ Pans” business, with a Jewish accountant running the accounts side of the business (Itzhak Stern which who is in the concentration camps). At first Stern doesn’t trust Schindler because he thinks he is like Amon and kills innocent Jewish people, for just who they are and because he is part of the Nazi party. We know …show more content…
This makes Schindler look big and powerful. We find out that Oskar is doing the right thing, by trying to save the Jewish people. Him and Stern form a list to save “Schindler's Jews”, which then later on, Oskar pays Amon for every Jewish person on the list to save them from dying in the camps. The important message that Steven Spielberg is trying to get across is “War brings out the worst in people, never the good, always the bad”, Schindler. When he is saying this, the camera is showing a mid shot of him talking to Amon at eye level. When Amon is drunk and Oskar has to talk to him like a little kid, so we can see who the better/more grown up person is. This piece of dialogue is important because we can see this a lot in the film. For example Amon’s actions in film, how he gets out of bed and takes his gun and walks out onto the deck and shot any Jewish person that doesn’t look to being doing any work. We see this in a tilt shot that tilts up of Amon standing on the deck and this makes him look like he is in charge and somewhat important. In the Lone Ranger we see a tilt shot on Cavendish and his gang on top of the canyons, when the texas rangers are about to go through before the deaths of 7