Schindler's List Essay

Schindler's list directed by Steven Spielberg, is a historical true drama that’s primarily based on the novel by the title of Schindler’s Ark, written by Thomas Keneally which is tells of true event that occurred during the holocaust involving a far from perfect, Nazi man. Oskar Schindler was many things such as war profiteer, womanizer, and Nazi Party member before he became the unlikely hero and saviour of about 1,100 Polish Jews during the Holocaust, this film has many attributes that allow the audience to feel exactly what the persecuted Jews felt, some of these attributes include camera angles, colouring and characterisation and representation.

Spielberg’s representation of Oskar Schindler was affective and believable, he was able to portray Schindler as accurately as possible. When it comes to the girl in red coat, Spielberg used her as a key element in the story, turning her into just another dead body on a pile of other corpses to be burned. Schindler becomes mortified as minutes earlier; he saw the ash and soot of burning corpses piling up on his car as just an annoyance. Professor André H. Caron of the Université de Montréal wonders if the girl in the red was there "to symbolize innocence, hope or the red blood of the Jewish people being sacrificed in the horror of the Holocaust?" Spielberg himself has explained that he only followed the novel. …show more content…
This is done to represent how even in these times of war and destruction even children are not spared from the horror and