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"Whoever Saves One Life, Saves the World Entire"
Schindler's List may well be Steven Spielberg's crowning masterpiece. This is quite an achievement considering his other great films like E.T. and Saving Private Ryan. Schindler's List is one of the most compelling films that I've ever seen. You find yourself horrified and moved at the same time. Anyone who truly believes that one person can't make a difference should add this film to their list. <
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>The story concerns how Oskar Schindler, and philandering, womanizing businessman finds himself with opportunity to literally save the lives of over a thousand Jews. This is not what he initially sets out to do. His intial desire to to make money. He has the charisma and money to sway and bribe high military officials to do what he wants. There is a scene where a Jewish woman comes to him to ask that he take her parents into his factory because she knows it's safe. Schindler becomes angry concerning this. However, as much as Schindler would like to distance himself from his Jewish workers as well as the tragic events surrounding the holocaust, he can't. The initial reason for him using Jewish workers is because they are the cheapest. <
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>The first scene that starts to make an indelible impression is during the elimination of the Jewish population in Krakow. He watches horrified as Jewish people are slaughtered. Spielberg uses a brilliant touch here as we follow a small, blond girl in red as she runs and weaves herself through this mass murder. Schindler is unable to take his eyes off of her. <
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>The power behind this story really begins when Schindler decides to use his mass fortune to literally buy the lives of his workers. And the one seen that still touches me so powerfully each and every time I watch this movie, is at the end when Schindler is sobbing uncontrollably for not saving even more lives because he wasted so much of his money. <
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>This is Liam Neeson's best performance, in my opinion. And as good as Tom Hanks was in Philadelphia, I really believe that Liam should have taken the Oscar for this film. He gives Oskar Schindler such humanistic qualities that changes throughout the film. At first, he's simply a powerful businessman whose sole desire is to make money. He loves women, find foods, and clothes. Finally, his attachments and deeper feelings develop toward his workers. <
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>Ben Kingsley is wonderful as Itzhak Stern, Schindler's personal secretary and accountant. Kingsley plays Stern as a vey skeptical man who really isn't sure of Schindler's motives. This is especially true when Schindler talks the Jewish businessmen into giving him all of their cash so that he can get is factory running. Stern's views of Schindler slowly soften as he realizes that there is something deeper in Schindler than he ever realized. And, of course, this comes forth when Schindler confesses to Stern that he is, in fact, using his money to buy his Jewish workers. And while Schindler never says so outright, we know that he is NOT buying them to be his workes as much as he's trying to save their lives. In the end, Stern knows and understands this. <
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>One can't talk about the performances of Schindler's List without mentioning Ralph Fiennes as the sadistic Amon Goeth. Here is a German commander who sees the Jewish people as nothing more than animals. He shoots them arbitrarily from the top of his villa which overlooks the Jewish camp. The slightest offense is met with execution. There is a brief time when Schindler explains to Goeth what true power is. "Real power is when we have every reason to kill, but we don't. This is why a king pardons a person who's done something wrong." At first Goeth practices this, but ultimately, he takes too much pleasure in killing the Jewish people. He could easily top the list as one of the most disliked characters in film history. <
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>I think an aspect of this film that really makes it powerful is the cinematic score of John Williams. The use of the violin, especially from world renowned violinist, Itzhak Perlman, is so effective in how it conveys the tragedy of the holocaust. The tune is simple, but it finds a way to burn itself into your mind until you hear the tune well after the film has ended. <
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>Schindler's List can be a difficult film to watch, but in so many ways, it is important to the history of humanity to understand what transpired among the Jewish population, with the hopes and assurances that nothing like this will ever happen again. <
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>Most people don't realize that most "heroes" are not perfect beings. And Oskar Schindler, in this film, is certainly not depicted as being what you might think of a saint to be. He's simply a man who does something amazing. Each and every person out there is capable of doing the same thing. There are many such examples throughout history, both in the past and today. But it's always great to hear about these people, for they help to bring true inspiration to our hearts and souls that even admist the darkest hours, there is always the light of hope.

Trivialization of the Holocaust
This movie is downright offensive. Six million Jews had to die so that Stephen Spielberg could get his Oscar? (With "The Color Purple," black people only had to be enslaved for 400 years). Once again, Spielberg offers his spiffy, childish treatment of an important subject matter--the Holocaust. The movie tells the story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a factory owner who employed Jews (and profited handsomely from their toils) in his pot plant during World War II, and supposedly was able to save them from the gas chambers. I cannot stand this romanticized vision of the Holocaust. I recommend some other films, such as "Europa, Europa" and "Downfall"--they were much less Hollywoodish and had much more gravity.