I happenned to hear about this film in my Writing class.
It's about the life of the Jews in German-occupied lands and a Nazi party member, Oskar Schindler. I was moved when I watched this film.
Oskar Schindler was a businessman. He had quite a good number of relationships with Nazi high-rank officials. At first Schindler took advantage of the Jews, who had been forced out of their houses after German force defeated Poland, because the wage for them will be cheaper than that for the Poles. Through out the film, he witnessed the massacre of innocent Jews performed by German force. I was shocked when I saw a normal Jewish woman with her daughter being shot by the German when she was walking on the street. The lives of the Jews there were worth nothing to the German. If a Jew could not show that he was a "useful" worker, he would be shot down immediately without mercy, or he would be sent to a train which would bring him to German concentration camps where he would also find no happy ending. The crime done by the German force to the Jews could not be described simply in a few words. It was a crime against human. During World War II, the Nazi killed more than 6 million Jews. In the film, I caught a scene in which German killed 10000 Jews and burned their bodies to ash. The ash from the fire was like snow. And the German just looked at them, laughing wildly. The children of the Jews were separated from the parents and brought to concentration camps where finally they would be packed in large rooms and be gassed to death. I saw the sufferings of the Jews, witnessed the children, at a very young age, tried to find a place to hide from the German force in panic. A lot of kids even had to hide in an excrement-holding place. In the factory of the German, no Jew was allowed to sit still for a while. German killed them whenever they wanted. A Jewish worker would be killed if he could only do 10 things instead of 11 things as ordered. No reason for mistakes could be accepted by the German. The end of the Jews in thoses camps and factories finally was death. But in the factory of Oskar Schindler, no Jew was killed. In fact, Oskar at that time paid little attention to the workers, the only reason his workers were not killed was because Schindler only cared about money, not killing people like many Naziers, but later his accountant, a Jew named Stern, made he change. And when Schindler heard that the Nazi intended to ship his workers to a concentration camp, he used his money to buy their lives. The name of 1100 Jews made up the famous list named "Schindler's List". Thanks to the list, 1100 Jews were rescued from Death. Oskar spent all his money to sustain his workers and during the war time, though his factory was a military one which was supposed to produce weapons, none of his product could be used in the war. And when the war ended, he also went bankrupt. Because Schindler was a Nazi party member, he had to flee. I remembered most his tears when he said farewell to his workers. He said that it was his wasting money in the past that didn't allow him to save more Jews. The film end with the scene of a Soviet soldier guided the Jews to a new place to live and the Jews buildt another life.
While the German out there killed the Jews, Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, saved people. Although he couldn't help all the Jews, his 1100 workers brought up a whole generation.
This film is really of lesson of humanity.
