World War Two was a dark time in the history of the world. During this brutal war, the Holocaust took place. Although Schindler’s List has this historic aspect, it also holds many other film characteristics that I will be discussing in this blog post.
Schindler’s List takes place in the Holocaust and surrounds itself around one human being who saved many. There are many aspects of Schindler’s List that contributed and made it such a strong and influential movie. However, Mise en scène plays a crucial role in the film that causes it to be so powerful. The setting of the film mostly takes place in the concentration camps where countless people were tortured and murdered, creating both a sense of location and a mood that reflects a character’s emotional state of mind. This creates a connection that between the characters and the audience. The audience begins to really pull for the characters.
There were many ideologies that were shown in the this film. The ideology that seemed the most interesting to me was the ideology of which party belonged. The film opens with the Nazi occupation of Poland and their decree forcing all Jews to relocate to the cities. This is when we see the character, Oskar Schindler. He was credited with saving a great number of Jews during the holocaust. This is important for the ideology of the film for the sense of fighting back against the more powerful Nazi party. Schindler knew that what he was doing was the right thing, and what the Nazi’s were doing was pure evil.
This film is incredibly interesting in the fact that the lighting for this film was done extraordinarily well for a black and white film. Usually films in color can be more creative with its lighting. This is not the case for Schindler’s List. The lighting goes along with photography in this film. The lighting during this film represents and instills uncertain and unwanted feelings in viewers. It almost gives it a creepy feeling that it gives the audience. Also, during Schindler’s List the color red played an important role in the film. The red color filter was used in the film to highlight the little girl in the red dress. The lighting in this scene also highlights the girl’s innocence and how the Nazi’s irrepressibly steal it from her. The color filter exhibits the contrast between Oskar Schindler and the girl as the defiant red represents the blood of war.
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