Schindler's List: The Horror Of The Holocaust

Schindler’s List The movie Schindler’s List is a heartbreaking film displaying the metamorphosis of Oskar Schindler. Throughout the horror of the Holocaust, Oskar changes his ways and goes from a goes from a greedy womanizer to a kind-hearted hero. He risks his life daily so that others may have the chance to live. Schindler gave up his freedom in order to save the freedom of the Jews he had grown so close to in his factory. In the beginning of the movie, Oskar was a greedy and self-centered philanderer. He constantly cheated on his wife, Emilie, with other women and didn’t even bother to think about how she felt about it. When she asked him to stop seeing other women, he couldn’t agree to it, so he sent her off on a train. When a Jewish woman who worked at his factory made him a cake for his birthday, he kissed her out of the blue and got arrested for it. Oskar hired multiple female secretaries for his …show more content…
The most important lesson being that when you know something is wrong, you need to stand up for yourself and for others and try to make it right. Two wrongs do not make a right, so you need to defy the bad and try your very hardest to make it good. Oskar Schindler did just that through the Jews in his factory. He made a safe haven where the Nazis could not hurt them and gave all the money had toward the cause.
If I were to rate this film on a scale of one to five, I would give it a four. The movie was heartbreaking, yet incredibly interesting. The story is awe inspiring. The only downfall to this movie was all of the nudity. I understand Spielberg showed so many naked women to make you understand that Schindler was a womanizer and a cheater and show the way he treated women, but it was excessive and seemed unnecessary to me. I personally could’ve done without it. The movie would be much better if I didn’t have to look away every thirty seconds. Besides the rated R scenes, I really enjoyed the movie and its overall