Schindler's List

"Schindler's List," is about a German man named Oskar Schindler who saves many Jewish people by allowing them to work for him. Oskar was a business man and came to Munich, Germany during the beginning of WWII, he was also part of the Nazi party and only used the Jews as his work slaves. Many of the Jews were sent to concentration camps and ghettos and Oskar saved their lives by making them his workers. Originally, Oskar didn't care about the Jews and was just using them for cheap labor but as the movie progresses his feelings for them begin to grow. In the end, he feels like he could have done more and saved more Jews.
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To me, having power is being able to influence a large group of people to think the way you do. Goethe believes that power is just controlling people's lives, his way of gaining power is scaring people so that they respect him. Schindler makes it seem that he believes power is money because that's all he uses the Jews for, but I think that he also believes that power has to do with being able to respect and forgive people. This movie is a huge representation of how power can be misused. During WWII, Hitler used his power to attempt to eliminate an entire race and Goethe took part in this. He could have used his power to stop the killing of innocent people but instead he helped make it happen.

During the movie Schindler goes from "anti-hero" to "hero," and many events during the movie caused this. I think that the main reason that Schindler goes through this change is because he interacts with the Jews everyday by using them as his workers and the more that he talks to them, the more he likes them. After he starts to get to know his workers, he starts to realize that they are no different than he is and that they should not be treated any differently.

"Schindlers List," was definitely an effective movie in my opinion. I believe this because, I think that it is a good representation of how horrible the Holocaust was and what the Jews had to go through on a daily basis. It also showed it's audience that change is possible and that we shouldn't judge people before getting to know them.