SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)

Country: USA
Language: English | Hebrew | German | Polish
Director: Steven Spielberg

Schindler’s List is a film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman established in Poland. It is directed by Steven Spielberg and, in my opinion, is his best work ever.

The film revolves around the Holocaust as Schindler struggles to wit it out in the beginning and later on tries hard to save each life he can. This is probably the most graphic film on the subject and at times you feel grateful that it is shot in black and white.

It kind of works as a documentary that takes you inside the Nazi occupied Jewish ghetto, Auschwitz and other such places, you see the live telecast of atrocities with very profound background music.

Spielberg has surpassed himself and directed one of the best pictures on the subject. He really makes you feel the pain of so many innocent people and you wonder how and why did it happen at all…

I, personally, never judged Nazis and even praised them subtly as they were the real reason that weakened the English and forced them to abandon their colonies, and hence, India became independent. But Schindler’s List made me realize what I had done and made me feel guilty for even having pronounced the word “human” in a sentence that carries the word “Nazi”. So, if a film can change one heart, I think it is successful.

Liam Neeson is a very talented actor but he is too underrated. He really deserved an Oscar for this performance. Precisely, Liam Neeson is Oskar Schindler.

Ralph Fiennes is so good an actor that you don’t even want to praise him for his role of Amon Göth. Fiennes is also much underrated.

The use of color in the filming is so precise that you sometimes wonder if it is a film or a painting trying to communicate something to you.