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Schindler’s List
Many events have shaped history for the good and for the bad. The Holocaust was an event that has remained in the memories of many throughout the world and is still a very sensitive subject to this day. There were many people affected by its gravity, and its backlash is still mourned today by its survivors and those who lost loved ones during that time period. It is easy to sympathize with the pain that people went through during that horrific time. Steven Spielberg’s film, Schindler’s List, does an excellent job at tugging at the heart strings of its audience and invoking emotion. Throughout the movie, the filmmaker’s ability to captivate the audience provides viewers an insight into the suffering that the Jews endured during World War II at the hands of the merciless Nazis.
In Schindler’s List, when the smoke of the candle becomes the smoke from the train, the filmmaker uses the editing technique of GRAPHIC MATCH, which consists of two successive shots joined so as to create a strong similarity of compositional elements, in order to emphasize the sad journey that was forced upon the Jews. This contributed to the overall theme because the story is based on the hardships and the suffering that the Jews faced. Moreover, the filmmaker uses a change in COLOR from full color to black and white to depict the horrible and tragic occurrences happening to the Jews. This is important to the overall theme of the movie because it sets the dark somewhat unpleasant mood of the film. The filmmaker cleverly uses PAN, which is when the camera moves from the right to the left or vice versa, in order to emphasize a smooth transition into a completely different scene. This contributes to the overall theme since the ongoing turmo...

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...going on throughout the ghetto. This contributes to the never ending persecution and assassination that plays a major role as a theme in the film. The director uses both CONTINUITY , a system of cutting to maintain continuous and clear narrative action, and MATCHES, which is joining or separating shots together, to make the killing and shooting throughout the ghetto seem like it lasted the whole night. Once again this contributes to the overall theme of the movie that focuses on the suffering of the Jews.
At last the cinematography used throughout the film truly makes it one of a kind. The fact that black and white was chosen to be the main colors of the movie add to the overall mournful, despairing mood of the movie. Even though Schindler used the war for his personal gain, thanks to him, hundreds of Jews were able to survive the atrocities of the Holocaust.

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