Without looking at the background history, I was curious about what is the story behind Schindler’s List, and what so special about the list that created by a person. Not until almost the end of the movie, I got to know that it is a list of people that Schindler had saved.
Schindler's List, 1993
The whole movie was very long that took almost half a day to re-watch it again. Nevertheless, the story is so impactful that will keep audience attentive throughout the whole movie. It depicted a business man, Oscar Schindler, who was initially selfish and money-minded, do whatever good just for own benefit. The fact that this person is very smart to build his own career from zero to own a factory which hires 350 employees and more after, he then spent all of his money to save people who were unrelated to him. He changed to become a savior of 1100 Jews after watching thousands of people died because of war.
The movie has portrayed the evil and cruel side of war, especially the tortures, and killings without any mercy. Goth, the SS-Lieutenant appeared to have obsessive killing behavior without feeling of remorse. His behavior makes me ponder that what makes the cognitive thinking of soldiers to be such evil. Refer to classic prison experiment by Zimbardo and electric shock experiment by Milgram, these researchers held perception of doing good for more people, therefore it is okay to sacrifice small number of people. “It’s situations that make ordinary people into evil monsters, and it’s situations that make ordinary people into heroes,” said Philip Zimbardo. Perhaps there is a need to have evil in existence in order to show the heroic side of people?
“Whoever saves ones life saves the world entire” (Schindler’s List, 1993)
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