"The Schindler's List" Review

"The Schindler's List" review

Many people define the film "Schindler's list" as a film about the holocaust, some others mention the film is about World War II. However,  both events of the World History were portrayed by its director. Steven Spielbierg wanted to portray the reality of the world from his point of view. Notwithstanding, in "the Schlinder's List" Spielbierg tried to emphasize the importance Oskar Schlinder had during the Holocaust Germany during the Second World War.

Steven Spielbierg had a period of his life when he decided to emphasize the real history and portray it in the big screen. In 1993, the Schlinder's List was created and launched. This movie was produced by Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig. Even though, The Schlinder's list was based on a real fact, it was based on a book as well. The name of the book has the same name of the movie but it was written by Thomas Keneally.

The main actors are Liam Neeson (Oskar Schlinder), Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Caroline Goodall. 

The Schlinder's list was distributed by "Universal pictures" in Washington on November 30th in  1993, and it has a length of 197 minutes.

It was said that the budget at the beginning of the movie was about US$22 million, while the earnings reached US$321.2 million.

The movie starts with the presentation of Oskar Schlinder as a powerful, fine, rich an elegant person, member of the Nazi party. He loved spending money in expensive drinks and opulent parties.

He decides to travel to Cracow in order to build up his adquisitive power by investing money in a factory. As he is looking for cheap manufacture, he starts to acquire Jewish people since their work is cheaper than others.

Then, Jewish people is taken away from their homes and jobs, and sent to the different camps in Germany. As a consequence, Oskar decides to purchase the staff he has. The movie continues portraying the reality of the different life conditions (imposed by Nazis) Jews had to deal with.

In a moment, Oskar realizes of the cruel practices Nazi soldiers carry out toward Jewish so he decided to create a list of people he needed for his factory. He starts to invest the whole fortune he desired at the beginning in order to save Jews lives.

Having reflected upon the film, we would like to point out that what really called our attention was how real were the scenes in terms of the emotion and feelings actors could convey. You can really feel the pain, the anguish and the desperation when you are watching the film. Moreover, we can highlight how can a person change his point of view and life objective since Oskar became in a solidary and well-heart person during his adventure as an entrepreneur and ambitious man. Finally, the film is so well made that you do not feel the length.

We thoroughly recommend this film since "The Schindler's list" contributes to the development of our cultural memory from a different point of view. More than Jewish reality in those years, the film aims to make auditors understand

By Pía Montecinos, Sergio Loyola.