Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

To me Schindler's List, illustrated the Holocaust just like someone would have picture it after read a textbook about it. Too me, the first time I read about Hitler and his goal to have the Jewish race genocide I was dumbstruck. And while I read about what the Nazi party did to accomplished such a goal, vivid images of what it was like back then disturbed my mind. People being burned and such wasn't a pretty thing to imagine at any age. But what really pissed me off when reading about it, was the fact that the Nazi killed them, but then reused the Jewish body for soap and carpet production. Anyway, the way the Holocaust was illustrated for me was much, much worst from what I pictured when reading about it. The history and the process the Germans when the Jews through was there, right in front of my face. For most of the video I was horrified of the images before my very eyes. I was happy for my safety but at the same time sadden because of what the Jews were put through. Even though it was a long time ago, I felt sympathy for those millions of Jews that died for nothing.

I love little kids. I believe they are the cutest little things that walk the earth, the meanes
t but still cute nonetheless. Because of my admiration of children the most powerful scene in the movie was with this little girl in a pinkish dress. I first saw her around the beginning, or mid-way to the middle of the movie. I don't really know. But she was walking on the streets completely alone in the ghettos. The Jewish people were just leaving, well being taken out by force, and the little girl hid under a bed. She was the cutest little girl, ever. A part of me wanted her to live throughout the whole movie. Those hopes were crushed later on. The girl was dead when reaching the around the end of the movie, when they were burning the bodies. The little girl was on a carriage with a bunch of other dead people. I was struck. A wave of sadness rushed through me. The scene was so depressing because a little girl like that died, for nothing. I know I will forever remember that. Some other would have to be when they women were sent to cut there hair. They were all sat down, and a women behind them would just being cutting away there hair. It was a sad scene. Lastly, there was one part where this women was trying to build this building correctly. She went to the commander and told him that the foundation was incorrect and that the building would fall if they kept building it like that. She was simply shot in the head in front of her fellow Jews. It was sad and so wrong.

What you are seeing on the right is the little girl.
She is walking alone about the streets.
Unprepared for the fate of death that awaits her.