The movie Schindler’s List is an extremely moving and interesting movie. Liam Neeson did an incredible job in this film as he played the lead role of Oskar Schindler. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and this could possibly be one of his best movies the Steven Spielberg has directed. The film is a touching story during the start of World War II when the Third Reich was starting to imprison Jews in Concentration Camps. At first Oskar Schindler thought it would be smart to take advantage of the Jews not being able to own businesses and get help from them to run one of his own. He then started a pots and pan factory and hired in all the Jews from the ghetto. Through a lot of hardship Oskar is able to save over 600 hundred Jews because he makes so much money to pay off guards to protect them. This movie is even based on a true story.
One of the most interesting scenes in the movie is the little girl with the red coat. One really important thing to note in this movie is that the movie even though it was filmed in 1993 is not in color except for the little girls red coat. The scene is shown below.
We see in the clip a little girl walking around in a red coat at this point in the movie the viewer does not know why but the movie obviously makes a point to emphasize it. We see also in the film a lot of different shots. We see a low angle; close up shot on Oskar Schindler and his horse. It is a close up shot because we only see from his chest up to his head. This combination of low angle and close up shot gives a sense of empowerment towards the protagonist. When we are looking at the little girl it is a long high angle shot until we see at the end it is a medium shot of her hiding under the bed. When thinking about mise en scene this scene in particular and the really the whole movie is in an open form. The open form tends to be stylistically recessive. The movement in the scene is very critical. The camera at the beginning of the scene does not move we only see reaction shots of Oskar as he looks on at the massacre going on at the bottom of the hill he is on. The camera moves when we see the little girl. The camera makes a tracking shot as the little girl moves a long in the street. The scene is mostly edited to be seen from a bird’s-eye view. I think this was very smart from a viewer’s stand point because you are now able to take in all that occurred and really understand how bad the situation was. The sound also is what makes the scene very chilling. There is music being played that sounds as if it were children singing a somber song and the only other things you here are screams and gun shots. Towards the end of the film the viewer gets one more glimpse of the girl in the red coat. The image of the scene is shown below and it is at that moment when the emotional effects of the movie and the real situation of the holocaust are made known.
Understanding Movies Thirteenth Edition Louis Giannetti
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