My Reflection on Schindler's List

The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. The main characters were the German businessman--Schindler, the Schutzstaffer officer Amon Goth,and Schindler's accountant Itzhak Stern.The film was both a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film eighth on its list of the 100 best American films of all time.
The movie is mainly about how Schindler's factory kept the Jews employed, or alive during the World War Ⅱ while the Nazis invaded the Jewish culture in
Germany.Schindler started some new factories of making pots,and the workers that he had hired were all Jews. At the beginning, he opened his factory was just for his own profit. But then, the Germen started to take the Jews into concentration camp, which turned out to be a 'death camp',and the only way to keep those Jews alive was to keep them employed in 'Schindler's factory'.In addition,with loads of encouragement from his account, which was a incredibly smart person who helped Schindler to held his factory, and was also trying to save as many of Jews as he could by persuading Schindler to hire them to work in his factory. And although Schindler wasn't really agree with him at the first,however, the kindness inside of him had gradually come out.Eventually,at the end the war, he had saved the lives of more than a thousand Polish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories or availing himself of bribing those Nazis.
I think this movie is quite meaningful because it sends the message of the reality of how people have changed their behaviors in such extremed situations. For example, because of the strong prejudice between Germen and the Jews, there was a little German girl yelling 'good-bye Jews' when the Jews were expeled from their houses. And for some of the Jews, they've given up the thought of fighting for themselves. And instead of taking this risk, they just followed the orders however depressed they were.There are far too many places where hate, intolerance, and genocide still exist. Thus Schindler's List is no less a "Jewish story" or a "German story" than it is a human story. And its subject applies to every nation. Schindler's List is simply about racial hatred which is the state of mind that attacks not what makes us people but what makes us different from each other. It is my hope that Schindler's List will awaken and sustain an awareness of such evil and inspire this generation and future generations to seek an end to racial hatred.Through the story of Oskar Schindler, a war profiteer and member of the Nazi party who saved over 1100 Jews during World War II, Schindler's List explores the human capacity for monumental evil as well as for extraordinary courage, caring, and compassion.