When you save a life, you save the whole world.
The film is presented in front of people in black and white throughout, truly restoring the dark history of the World War II period, the imprint that should have been forgotten but could not be forgotten. The story takes place in 1939, when Nazi Germany quickly occupied Poland, when Hitler ordered Jews not to own any property. They are driven into the Jewish Quarter, where the protagonist, Oskar Schindler, is a German businessman who has failed many times. The outbreak of war made him acutely aware of business opportunities, and he used his tax status to enter a high-end restaurant and began to observe everyone.
He observed every soldier, and their ranks. Then, with his excellent eloquence, he successfully talked to them with a good bottle of wine. Eventually, he got to know an officer, and through the officer, he met a senior officer at a cocktail party. Drinking with them, Schindler went to the Jewish controlled area, found the leader of the control area, and invested in a munitions factory. He made his fortune through the Jews, and the Jews escaped death by working in his factories in exchange for daily necessities.
In 1941, this was the last time limit for Jews to enter the control zone, and all Jews had to go to the control zone to administer it centrally. Schindler bought high-end red wine, cigars, and cans on the black market in a resource-poor situation. Come and bribe Nazi officers to facilitate themselves. More than a dozen tall young secretaries were also carefully selected in exchange for the officers' favor. So he gave the green light all the way, won the military's orders, and made a windfall in the war.
On this day, a one-armed old man from the factory came to him and thanked him for providing a job without being shot without warning in nazi-controlled areas. This left Schindler a little overwhelmed, and he didn't feel like he was doing good. On the other side, groups of Jews were transported onto trains and about to go to "hell," all like lambs to be slaughtered, and their possessions were all gathered together. Valuables like diamonds, gold teeth, watches, etc. were left behind. And each gold tooth represents a passing life.
This captain Amun took over the concentration camp, and he killed indiscriminately. Anyone can be ruthlessly killed. In 1943 Amun and his men made a clear plan to drive everyone in the controlled area to concentration camps. Indiscriminate killings began in the controlled areas, because for every time another country transported Jews, the current concentration camps needed to clean up the Jews. All of this was in the eyes of Schindler on the hillside, and then a little girl dressed in red appeared in the crowd. She wanted to find a place to hide, but there was nowhere to hide. Almost all of the camps were loaded onto trains that day, and Schindler knew they might never be able to return this time. In the scorching sun, dozens or hundreds of people were crammed into a carriage. Schindler had the officers pour water on the carriage with water guns, knowing he couldn't change the outcome, just wanted them to be comfortable before they died.
One day, the sky was floating with gray "snowflakes", and he picked up a handful and quickly realized that it was the ashes, the decay of the German army on the main battlefield, in order to cover up their incriminating evidence. They began to massacre Jews in large numbers. The corpses were burning in piles of fire, and Schindler saw the little girl's body in the pile. At this moment he had a lot of thoughts, he had accumulated a wealth that he could not spend in his lifetime, and the Jews who helped him in a few days' time would be killed. He stayed up all night and came to Amun and made a great decision, telling him that he wanted to build an arsenal in his hometown in the name of running a factory. Bought back all the Jewish workers who worked under him. Of course, he also paid a huge ransom on a per-head basis, and Schindler and his accountant printed out more than 1,100 names on the typewriter. This is "Schindler's List"
Schindler took them back to his native Czech Republic and set up an arsenal that lasted for seven months until the defeat of the Germans. He deliberately adjusted the size of the shells and did not produce a qualified shell and warhead, and he invested all his money in the workers and factories until the surrender of Germany.
Even though all Jews knew Schindler was a good man, others did not know that he was a member of the Nazi Party and had been delivering shells to the Germans. So everyone jointly wrote a collective signature letter. And other Jews removed their gold teeth and gave Schindler a ring inscribed with a sentence: "When you save a life, you save the whole world." Schindler, who wore the ring, felt deeply remorseful for not saving more people. But he has done his best within his power. After Schindler's death, there were fewer than 1,000 surviving Jews in Poland, and the Jews Schindler saved established a small town. It has grown to 6,000 Jews, and at the end of the film, all of them are in color, which symbolizes freedom and light.
What is the difference between humans and animals?
I think it's human nature. It can be, great and glorious, or vicious and dirty. There is no way to change a person's birth, nor can we change our own origin. All we can do is to fear life and respect life.