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Schindler’s ListA CRITICAL ANALYSIS In 1993, The Greatest Filmmaker Of Our Time

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Schindler’s ListA CRITICAL ANALYSIS    In 1993, the greatest filmmaker of our time did exactly what we expected, and then he turned around and surprised us. That year, for the third time in his career, Steven Spielberg broke the record for the highest-grossing film of all time. Big, grand, and exciting, with dynamite special effects, Jurassic Park was a typical Spielberg film. But while Jurassic Park was breaking records, we heard that Spielberg was in Europe filming, of all things, a black-and-white Holocaust drama. This came as a surprise, but it could never have prepared us for the experience of Schindler's List. And what an experience it is. It's not just another day at the movies, another piece of escapist fare. It is entertaining to be sure, but it is much more than that. It is gut-wrenching, emotional, and visionary. Sitting in the theater, I knew this was something special, a film and an experience I would never forget. Schindler's List is the true story of Oskar Schindler, an undeniably flawed man. A native German, he relocated to Cracow, Poland after it fell into German hands so he could capitalize on Jewish labor at slave wages. There he established an enamelware factory and made obscene amounts of money while wining, dining, and bribing Nazi officials to get his way. But while Schindler was profiting from the Jews' work, he was disgusted by the way the they were treated. He underwent an important change, slowly realizing that this was wrong and that he could do something about it. He began to use his money and influence to bring more Jews to his factory, a haven where they were not beaten or killed. By the end of World War II, Schindler's list of Jews to be saved had grown to over 1,000, and he had spent his entire fortune to buy their lives from the Nazis. To put it quite simply, the acting in Schindler's List is perfect. There is a literal cast of thousands, and all of them seem to fit so perfectly into their roles that we forget they are acting. The t...

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