Text Review Assignment – Schindler’s List

The film Schindler’s List is adapted by Steven Spielberg, a famous film director, screenwriter, and filmmaker, from Schindler’s List written by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film truly reproduces a German speculator named Oscar Schindler during the Second World War, hoping to use cheap Jewish labor to help him make a fortune during the war. However, after witnessing the brutal killing of a large number of Jews by German Nazi officers, he realized that his factory could protect those innocent Jews. Schindler’s inner goodness was awakened by the ruthlessness of the war. He used his assets and strength to protect more than 1100 Jews from Fascism in the Holocaust. The Jews he saved had a common name – “Schindler Jews”. The film reproduces the horror scene of that year in a documentary style. The ugly face and great human nature of human beings in the works are fully reflected.

This film embodies de Beauvoir’s thoughts of “the other”. Jews are regarded as “the other” and can be killed wantonly by German fascists. In the film, Schindler saw Nazi soldiers slaughtering Jews madly on the hillside. The appearance of the girl in red shocked Schindler. However, the girl in red appeared again, but she lay quietly in the cart carrying the body. Jews like girls in red are subaltern described by Spivak. They have no chance to speak for themselves and be slaughtered.

When he learned that Germany was defeated, everyone thanked him for making a gold ring. Schindler, who received the ring, began to repent that he had not exhausted all his resources to save more people. He has always been a “man”. When he tried to save the refugees, he still maintained his life. He did not sell his car or clothes. He still lives in a luxurious house. This is people, people should have their own desires and norms. Such “good people” are convinced and recognized by the audience. He went beyond the ordinary, but he was still close to reality. He is a great man, but not a saint. This is the greatest part of the whole film, successfully shaping a great “man” rather than a “Saint”.

Reference:

Spielberg, S. (2004). Schindler’s list (No. Nd441). Universal,.

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