Sunday, December 6, 2009

Schindler's List

Okay, now I finally got around to doing it before I got distracted by something else. So I watched the movie and it was really good. The one part of our reading that came to mind the most during the movie was when Schindler was up on the hill watching the liquidation of the ghetto. The book said Schindler was most likely never up on that hill during that event. The reasoning was: if the SS are rounding up a lot of people as well as killing them, wouldn't they have a perimeter around the area to catch any possible escapes, therefore making it hard to Schindler to just ride past the security on a horse with a woman? Also, it said Schindler would most likely be in his apartment during the time because he kept getting in trouble with the SS or Gestapo and it wouldn't really be safe for him to go out.

Some parts of the reading I didn't really get, like ones that mentioned specific characters besides Schindler and Amon Goth because I never really caught a lot of their names in the movie so I couldn't tell if they were true or not. Also, I was reading Aaron's analysis and he had a good point too. He was a businessman first and a savior to them second. But then I think near the end was when he did lean a bit to the other way because he was using all of his money to keep his Jews safe and all the ammunition his factory made was faulty. I think that was his way of rebelling against the war since he didn't want what he made to be able to kill others.

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