I learned about Schindler's List when I was crazy about Oscar-winning films, but at that time, for some reason, I brushed Rain Man, The Shawshank Redemption, Saving Private Ryan and other blockbusters and left them behind. I watched the film review of Dying and found a similar film, Schindler's List. Yes, now that I have read it all at once, there is no need to regret it.
This is a documentary commemorating the 600,000 Jews brutally slaughtered by Nazi Germany during World War II. The gloom and pallor of black-and-white movies can't hide oskar schindler's outstanding temperament. The actor liam neeson's tall and handsome appearance and cold eyes made Schindler play so perfectly. Suit and tie, shiny hairstyle, double fingers with a cigarette, and melancholy eyes look at you deeply, which makes you unconsciously fall into his charm, ignoring that this starting point is a ballroom where high-class people come and go, and it is also the first stop of Schindler's public relations.
As a businessman, Schindler knows very well that only the brain can't make money in this chaotic war. You must also establish good military relations. People with guns are always the most powerful people. So he made friends with all the officers he could, and spent a lot of money, which also played a key role in opening an enamel factory behind him. During the war, military equipment became popular, and Schindler saw the business opportunities and began to prepare to set up a factory. With the military officer's card, the factory still needs workers. At that time, Poland was defeated, Jews had no place to live, and tens of thousands of Jews poured into the city every day. The daily wage of polish workers is 7 marks, while Jews only need 5 marks, and they don't need to give it to Jews, just send it directly to government departments. Schindler took a fancy to cheap Jewish labor. He found a Jewish accountant as an assistant first, and then a large number of Jewish workers. The enamel factory was established, and with the help of the officers, it was easy to sign the contract, and Schindler made a fortune in the war.
At that time, Jews were living in dire straits. First, he was ordered to live in a designated area, and all items were managed collectively, and it was forbidden to buy or sell them privately. He had to deal with the oppression of Nazi officers every day, and sometimes he accidentally blocked the eyes of commander Amon Gott and died in minutes. Compared with the misery of Jews, Schindler's life is simply prosperous, going in and out of high-level places, talking and laughing with Nazi commanders, being romantic and having countless lovers. The money earned by the factory is enough for him to squander. Facing the situation of Jews, he was unsympathetic, even indifferent, and did not care about the life and death of slaves at all. He only cares about whether his factory earns enough money. Schindler was a selfish, cold and hedonistic businessman at this time.
During World War II, mountains and rivers were broken and many people lost their homes. How many people died in this cruel war? No one knows that Jews are just one of them. How many ethnic groups have been slaughtered and enslaved like Jews, living in dire straits and never seeing the sun? But there are always some speculators who smell the business opportunities in the war and take the opportunity to oppress the workers and make a fortune in the war. If you make money, you will only use it for pleasure, regardless of other people's lives. This kind of person is extremely selfish and has only himself in his eyes.
Jewish accountant Gooden also plays a more important role. At first, Gooden was employed by Schindler. While helping Schindler run the factory, he helped many compatriots to enter the factory without telling him, so as not to be escorted away by the train, because once he left, it would mean the end of his life. Gooden is also the only one who didn't receive many jokes in the film. When helping a fellow professor to apply for a skilled worker's certificate, he deliberately frowned and spilled a brand-new certificate all over the floor. The one-armed old man came to thank Schindler. When Schindler saw through the plan, he stared into Schindler's innocent eyes. When Schindler came to see him, he talked about what Schindler had to do every month, big and small, and how powerful he was. He is afraid of Schindler and doesn't take notes at all. It was also because of Gooden's persuasion that Schindler began to secretly bribe Nazi officers to help Jews. A pack of cigarettes and a watch are Jewish life. These are the fruits of Gooden's efforts.
Later, when the massacre began, Schindler rode on the Ma Zaishan and witnessed the whole process. The massacre first started in Jewish area B, and the mighty army soldiers rushed into the building. First, they shot the sick Jews, and those who fled were shot directly. Later, they found that all the people who were hiding were killed. Black and white photos show bloody cruelty. In order to escape the killing, many Jews chose to run and hide. Floor, sewer, stove, bed bottom, some even tied themselves under the bed, and some children endured the stench and jumped under the swamp pool.
Dignity, the bottom line, in order to survive, Jews do not hesitate to choose any method. Living is their greatest luxury.
Some are lucky, such as the mother and daughter who were helped by German boys, and some men who were found smart when they fled, but they are all in the minority. More lives will stay in that nightmare night forever and never see the sunshine the next day. Schindler on the mountain witnessed everything, and the massacre happened right under his nose. So he was shocked that life was as thin as paper, so he felt sad and sad for those innocent Jews who died tragically. What happened in the city gave him a great shock, which was also the turning point for him to change from a selfish and heartless businessman to a good man with a clear conscience.
Schindler came to his senses. He sympathized with the Jews and protected them. For the sake of the Jews, he spared no expense in bribing Nazi commander Amon Gott. There is a very touching picture: the surviving Jews are locked in train carriages and forced to be exposed to the scorching sun. Schindler joked that he teased Jews with water pipes for fun. After being approved, he personally guided and helped. For exposed Jews, this is the fountain of life. Nazi officers sitting by laughed at the Jews who were sprayed with water pipes at first, but they didn't understand until they saw Schindler's abnormal behavior and began to doubt Schindler.
Nazi commander Amon Gott was actually a complicated man. On the one hand, he is cruel, ferocious, changeable, greedy for money and good wine. Shoot women and children with guns on the balcony, but kill them at the first sign of trouble; On the other hand, he was weak and timid, but he was afraid to admit that he was in love with a Jewish slave, so he always expressed his love by beating and insulting slaves. I have been obsessed with falling in love with the wrong person, wandering in love and the future, and refusing to let slaves leave. Later, after listening to Schindler's exhortation, he forgave several Jews who had touched his bad luck. But later, because the boy didn't clean the bathtub, dirt stuck on his nails and he resumed his nature of killing. This is a cruel and murderous Nazi officer, a poor man trapped by love. Poor and hateful executioner.
What really made Schindler immortal was that he saved 1 100 Jews. Nazi Germany was ordered to send Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp for execution. Schindler was shocked when he found out. He went to see the commander, Amon Gott, and said that he would take these workers to Zvitao Brenlitz, where the Czech Republic's arms factory is located. He wants to make arms to make money. Amon Gott doesn't believe it. Schindler spared no expense to pay the head fee of the Jews. In the factory office, Schindler dictated the list of Jews while smoking, and kept wandering around the office. This time, his memory is surprisingly good, and the names are all spoken from his mouth and printed by his assistant Gooden. Throughout the evening, they compiled a page-long list, which is a life-saving list, and all Jews on the list can avoid death. Thin pieces of paper carry heavy Jews, which is the measure of life. Schindler did the greatest thing in his life: saving lives.
The Jews who were sent to the munitions factory escaped, but the Jews who were sent to Auschwitz were doomed. In the film, through the eyes of Jewish women, a tall chimney is drawn, and white smoke billows from the chimney. Looking at the Jews queuing up on the ground to enter the underground, they can't help but be frightened by a frightening guess: that is the end of life, where all Jews finally die. That smoking chimney is the harvester of life! Who knows how many Jews died there? Therefore, when the women on the list were sent here by mistake, Schindler was anxious and rushed to save those women.
In seven months of operation, this arsenal did not produce a qualified weapon. Therefore, Schindler had to pay bribes to the military to maintain the livelihood of all Jews in the factory. Schindler spent all his money to help Jews and prevented the army from entering the factory and killing Jews at will. After the German surrender, he successfully persuaded the army to give up killing and saved the lives of all Jews. He had to flee with his wife himself.
Among the Jews who survived in Poland, 1/4 was saved by Schindler, so those Jews were also called Schindler Jews. Before Schindler fled, he was respected by all Jews in the factory and received a ring cast by Jews with gold teeth and engraved with Hebrew. Gooden explained to him: When you save a life, you save the whole world. Schindler was emotional and began to regret it. He hated his profligacy and his failure to save more people, and he burst into tears. Then everyone surrounded him, hugged him and thanked him in the simplest and most sincere way.
At the end of the film, the survivors came to Schindler's tombstone together, and each of them put a stone on it. After watching the movie, I don't know why I put stones. It took Baidu a while to know that Judaism advocates simple funerals and generally only sets up a tombstone on the flat ground. People who come to mourn or sweep graves usually just put a small stone on the tombstone. 1958, the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial awarded Schindler the Medal of Justice and invited him to plant trees on the Avenue of Justice. That tree has survived to this day, attracting the onlookers and mourning of countless younger generations. The living will always remember, and the dead will live forever. Schindler saved so many lives in his way that people should admire him.
A selfish businessman saved more than 1 100 Jews from making money and enjoying life to awakening conscience. In this way, he completed his redemption. Kindness will never die, it will exist in everyone's heart and appear when people encounter difficulties. Only some people's conscience is still visible and useful; Because of cowardice and selfishness, some people voluntarily abandon it in an unknown place or ignore its existence, and live in another way of being spurned, as if they were dead, and no one will remember him.
The measure of life lies in the individual. It takes a long time to care, and a short time to ignore it.
May you still have a kind heart, and may you always be willing to believe in this absurd world. May goodness last forever.