Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Film Lesson: Schindler's List


The movies Schindler's List was about how the Jews went through the Holocaust. In this movie the Holocaust was illustrated as being very cold hearted and brutal. The movie conveyed to the viewer how the Jews were moved out of the own homes and houses into the "ghetto". Here it didn't matter if the Jews were rich or poor they still were forced and crowed into the ghetto. In the ghetto they were packed and moved in very uncomfortably. Many families tried to take as many things as they can however many lost their things because the Nazis threw them away. In the movie there was one family that placed their jewelry into a piece of bread and that piece of bread they eat so that the Nazis wouldnt take their valuable things away. Additionally in the movie the Nazis killed anyone who wouldn't listen to orders or instructions or anyone who looked sick. Also the Jews were moved from the ghetto into concentration camps where they took everything the Jews own and threw it away. If the Jews were able to work or were sick they would killed them one by one shooting them. Many of the children were killed as well which is very sad even though some would hide in the bathrooms full of nasty dirty things. In Auschwitz, the Nazis would cut off all the girls hair in order to use it for the war that was going on. It was very sad and dissapointing to see how people try to dehumanize a group of people. I would mostly remember when Schindler saw the little girl in the pink dress walking through the streets when the Jews were being sent to the concentration camps from the ghetto and then Schindler saw her dead bodies going into the hole where they would burn the bodies.

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