Schindler's list is a movie directed by Stephen Spielberg. The movie is set in the time of the holocaust. It is about a man named Oskar Schindler who came to Munich as an unsuccessful businessman. He was a part of the Nazi Party and when the Jews were first displaced from their homes to go to the Krakow Ghetto, he took full advantage of this fact. He started a business that made pots and pans for the army. He employed Jews as his workers, and proclaimed himself as a profiteer of slave labor. He was helped in the running of his business by the Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. But after the emptying of the ghettos, Operation Reinhard in Krakow, Schindler is affected, and starts to use his business as a haven for Jews, to prevent them from being killed. He was able to his factory to save the lives of more than a thousand Jews.
The word power to me means two things, power- as in electrical or other form used to run machines and devices, and power- as in political power, having control over many people. What power means to Goethe is the ability to have absolute control over people, to even be able to control whether they live or die. To Schindler power means having money and having a large workforce, working for him. Power was misused often in Schindler's list one huge example, the holocaust, Goethe also misused his power, by taking the lives of innocent people, on a whim.
Schindler's transformation from antihero to hero was cause by a few key events, the first was the emptying of the ghettos, Operation Reinhard in Krakow. He saw the horrors committed against the Jews. It was during this event when he saw a girl in a red dress, who he saw later killed, and being burned along with countless other corpses. These horrors prompted him to want to help save the Jews.
I think this film was very effective, it was very powerful, it was amazing that Schindler was able to save over 1000 people from certain death. I especially liked the use of, or rather lack of color in the film, except for a few key objects.
