Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg’sblack-and-white Holocaust epic of 1993, will be streaming very soon.What’s on Netflix reportsthat the war film will stream on everyone’s favorite platform on New Year’s Day.
Schindler’s Listtakes viewers to Europe as the Third Reich advances to invade the entire continent. The Jewish community became the victim of genocide when the Nazis came up with concentration camps, forcing the few survivors to hard labor.
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Oskar Schindler, a businessman and a member of the Nazi party, witnesses the horror of what the Germans are doing to Jewish people and decides to take action against the injustice. Schindler decides to recruit hundreds of Jewish people to work in his factory, thus taking them out of the camps and avoiding a torturous death.
It isn’t the most uplifting movieyou can see, and it will probably take the post-holiday blues further down. Nevertheless, it is also one of the essential film experiences everyone should have at some point in their life — an extraordinary portrait of human evil and the counterpart of a man’s innate kindness.
Needless to say, Spielberg pulls no punches when attempting to be as realistic as possible. It’s famous for lacking fancy shots and any camera work that defies expectations, a staple of Spielberg’s filmography. Instead, Spielberg pushed cinematographer Janusz Kamiński to make an intimate film that felt like a documentary but didn’t hide the antagonism. Good versus evil is a theme that is constantly seen in the movie’s use of light and shadow in the cinematography.
Why ‘Schindler’s’ List' Is Such an Important Film in Spielberg’s Career
Film scholars considerSchindler’s Listto be his finest work, and we’re talking about the director who madeRaiders of the Lost Ark,Jaws,E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, andClose Encounters of the Third Kind. However, Spielberg has voiced his preference forSchindler’s Listabove everything else:It is the film he’s proudest of.
Spielberg, a member of the Jewish community, took it upon himself to make the best homage to his ancestors. It wasn’t an easy journey for him, as he found himself making an emotionally scarring film. Just before shootingSchindler’s List, Spielberg had completedJurassic Park, a movie with a peculiarly difficult production (weather conditions destroyed the entire set at some point). When he traveled to Kraków to make the Holocaust film, he spent the evenings supervising editing work on the dinosaur film. It’s rumored that Robin Williams constantly called him to cheer him up, and Spielberg insisted on watchingSeinfeldepisodes for a few laughs. No, it wasn’t easy for the director.
After finishingSchindler’s List,Spielberg enjoyed a brief hiatus from any directorial efforts. He joined Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in founding DreamWorks, and eventually, he would return to directing withThe Lost World: Jurassic ParkandAmistad. Nevertheless, in 1998, he returned to World War II and madeSaving Private Ryan, a film that deserved him a second Oscar for Best Director and alsoa fantastic depiction of war.
Schindler’s List
