Chapter 144: Redemption (I)

The most outstanding in this year's North American summer season is Stephen Spielberg, because the three-year "Schindler's List" has finally been released.

Compared with the original time and space, "Schindler's List" can be described as ill-fated, although with Wang Jie's full support, and the film's preliminary preparations were also smooth, but at the beginning of filming, it caught up with the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, and the crew was forced to stop work for more than a year, and the film was not restarted until early 1991.

On June 30, "Schindler's List" opened in 2,000 theaters in North America, and a week later, the film began to be released in Europe.

On June 29, Wang Jie stopped filming "Tales of the Night" and attended the premiere ceremony of "Schindler's List". The premiere of Schindler's List was held at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

At the premiere, after the director and actors answered questions from reporters, the film began to be officially screened. The lights in the theater went out, the candles on the big screen lit up, and at the sound of Jewish prayers, the candles burned to the end, leaving only curling green smoke, and the colorful picture stretched farther and farther away, finally turning black and white.

The very bland beginning of the movie, except for the whistle of the train, is the name of the Jews.

The story unfolds, after the Germans captured Poland in two weeks, the Nazis ordered that Jews throughout Poland must be concentrated in designated cities for registration, and more than 10,000 Jews came to Krakow from the countryside every day.

The Jews in Krakow elected a committee of 24 Jews to help the Jews gathered in the city to settle the problems of accommodation, meals, labor, and disputes.

Tall, handsome, and well-mannered, Oskar Schindler was not only a mercenary speculator, but also a member of the Nazi Party.

Aware of the weaknesses of human nature, he was a great communicator, spending money in hotels and at various social occasions, generously befriending German officers and SS leaders, and using their greed to create opportunities for his own fortune.

Schindler recruited a Jew named Yitzhak Steyn, who had worked as an accountant in an enamel factory in Liebz, and bought the poorly run enamel factory by all means to produce edible utensils, supply military supplies, and make war money, and asked Steyn to be his accountant and assistant to manage the factory.

The funds were re-funded, the factory was renamed Emalia, and the Jews received no penny in view of the SS regulations that the wages of Jewish skilled workers were 7 marks per day, and that all other trades and women workers were paid in full, directly to the government treasury.

As a result, Jews became Schindler's natural target, and Steyn carefully gave effective guidance to the recruits, helped his compatriots find suitable places, and secretly forged various qualifications for teachers and musicians who did not have the conditions to enter the factory, in order to avoid being blacklisted and pushed away by the Germans in trucks.

At this time, Oskar Schindler was an insatiable businessman and a playboy, he was not much different from other Nazis, and the Jews were in his eyes just tools that could be used to make his dream of making a fortune come true.

Soon after, Amungus arrives in Krakow, where the Jewish catastrophe begins, and on his first appearance, he orders his men to shoot a conscientious Jewish female engineer, revealing his evil and crazy nature.

Under the orders of his superiors, he led the SS into the ghetto in military vehicles with herds of wolfdogs, and Krakow was in a state of slaughter, and the Jews were like frightened birds.

This is a tragic 20-minute scene that tells the world the cruel history of the Krakow Reckow with the tragic experience of countless Jews.

In the midst of the bloody storm, Schindler, who had returned from riding a horse with his mistress, stopped on the hillside, and he was greatly shocked by what he saw, a little girl in red, staggering through the slaughter fields, dodging one danger after another, and finally finding a hiding place for herself.

In the black and white shot, the red is so vivid, so shocking, like the blood of the Jews, Oskar Schindler's eyes follow her closely, as if he wants to see through the fate of the other party.

This shocking tragedy caused Schindler to slowly change, and an irrepressible sympathy developed in his heart, and then he changed his treatment of the Jews.

Looking at the empty factory, Schindler was worried, and after much thought, he decided to go to the SS commander Amungers and ask him to approve the establishment of the Emalia factory as an auxiliary labor camp to resume production.

The Nazi officer reasoned that many conditions must be met to achieve the goal, and in order to take advantage of the opportunity to earn a lot of votes, Schindler naturally understood and said that if he helped him, he would give a satisfactory reward.

Schindler arrived at the Prashov labor camp and met with Steyn, who told him not to forget to give birthday gifts to SS officers and their families, and to pay their respects to the Ministry of Finance and the Quartermaster Bureau on time, and that the SS headquarters had to pay for it on the first day of every month. In exchange for the right to open a concentration camp metalworking plant.

During the days of the German slaughter of Jews, the factory became a refuge for many Jews, and when Schindler celebrated his birthday, the Jewish girls in the factory took a Jewish girl and also held their cakes to wish him a happy birthday on behalf of all the workers, and Schindler kissed them, but he did not expect that this would cause trouble.

When the Gestapo arrested Schindler for violating the racial laws of the mustache and inadvertently kissing the Jewish girl who was delivering the cake, Amon Gus explained to the head of the Gestapo, Julius, and interceded for Schindler, settling the problem with money.

Of course, the reason why he helped Schindler was only so that he could squeeze more money out of the other party's hands.

Soon, Amungus ordered the extermination of all the sick Jews, and when the officers told them to strip and check their bodies, the women broke their fingers and squeezed the blood to add blood to their faces and lips, which for them was the boundary between heaven and hell.

In April 1944, more than 10,000 Jews had been killed in the Jewish ghettos of Krakow and Prashov, however, as the war turned against the odds and the Nazis wanted to destroy the evidence of the Holocaust, Amungoggarth was ordered by his superiors to exhum the bodies that had already been buried and incinerate them, and transport the remaining Jews to Auschwitz.

Krakow was shrouded in a sky full of 'snowflakes', and countless Jewish ashes were scattered all over the streets, although it was only a black and white picture, but such a shot still gave people a huge impact.

Originally, Schindler was still dissatisfied with the ashes that fell from the car, but when he came to the incinerator, he saw the red again.

The little girl in red lies in the pile of corpses, her life has long since left her, the bright red not only stings Schindler's eyes, but also his heart, and this moment finally begins to metamorphose, from a sympathizer to the path of becoming a hero.

Seeing that the factory would be unsustainable, Schindler planned to return to his hometown, but Steyn said that he could continue to open the factory, of course, he had to hire new workers, Schindler thanked him from the bottom of his heart, and tears fell from the eyes of Steyn, an accountant whose future was uncertain and his life and death were uncertain.

Something suddenly awakened by the red stinging heart, and Oskar Schindler took out all his money and came to Amon Gus, saying that he was going to buy his workers.

He embarked on a journey of salvation, not only of the Jews, but of his own heart, of his own soul.

In the factory office, Schindler smoked cigarette after cigarette and dictated the list to Steyn, who was typing, and he finally bought Amon Gus and Julius with money, he left all the children, he saved one innocent life after another, and his list became longer and longer, and he showed a strange "greed" at this time, he went to the SS leaders again and again, and spent all his tongue and money, just trying to get more places.

Steyn held the long list he had typed, his hands shaking......

This machine-made list is the door to life, and it is Schindler's list!

On the last page of the list, there is a blank slot, which is reserved for Helen Kath, the Jewish maid of Amungus. The killer wouldn't give her to Schindler, of course, and said helen Kath would rather take Helen Kath into the woods and shoot her in the head than give it to anyone else.

In the face of Schindler's exorbitant price, this guy still retreated, compromised, and handed Helen Kath to Schindler for 14,800 marks to work in the labor camp.

After the Jews on the list were registered in the square, they were to be transported by train to Zvitau-Brunnliz in the Czech Republic, where the munitions factory was located, and Schindler told the Jewish men who had arrived earlier that the women's train had left Prashov and would soon arrive at the munitions factory.

The women's train was moving, and the carriages were full of jubilation, but the train arrived at Auschwitz, where the women were ordered to strip naked and bathe and disinfect, and the people were horrified when the terrible thing finally befell them.

In a fit of rage, Schindler rushed to Auschwitz to ask the camp leaders for his workers, rescuing more than 300 women and children with a combination of hard and soft measures, and instructing the German soldiers in the factories not to shoot and kill the Jewish workers in the arms factories at will.

When Germany finally surrendered unconditionally, Schindler solemnly announced to all the factory workers that they would be able to go to find their relatives from tomorrow, and looked back to dissuade the German soldiers guarding the factory, lay down their arms, return to their hometowns, and stop being the Nazi executioners, and the soldiers hung their heads and quietly left.

Afterward, Schindler proposed a three-minute silence in memory of the countless innocents who had been killed. Before leaving, Schindler instructed Steyn to give all the things in the factory to the workers, who took gold from their teeth and cast it into a rustic ring, on which was inscribed a verse in Hebrew with the verse "To save one man is to save the world!"

The rescued Jews gave Schindler not just a ring, but a co-signed letter attesting to what Schindler had done for them!

In the next plot, in Wang Jie's opinion, Spielberg made the usual old mistakes, a little too sensational, and Oscar Schindler's monologue inevitably ruined the atmosphere created earlier.

Moreover, there is enough glorification and artistic processing of Schindler in the film that continuing to sensationalize will leave some people with a handle to attack.

Schindler was gone, and with a sense of uncertainty about the future, he embarked on the road of escape, and at this time he could not have imagined that after 1958, Israel would award him the Medal of Justice and invite him to Jerusalem's Avenue of Justice, where he planted his own tree.

Schindler's Jews were given a new lease of life, and they were equally confused about what to do, and the words of the Soviet officer aptly reflected the current situation of the Jews.

"Don't go east, the people there are very hostile to the Jews, and if I were you, don't go west!"

Thousands of Jews marched arm in hand, and in the midst of hopeful songs, the camera cuts to Amungus on the gallows, and the murderous demon gets the end he deserves.

The picture has long since returned to color, with 'Schindler's Jews' walking by, stones placed on Schindler's tombstone, and finally a bouquet of flowers.

The camera zooms out farther and farther away, leaving only Liam Neeson standing alone in front of Oskar Schindler's grave.

Composed by John Williams and played by Yitzhak Perlman, the melodious violin music sounds, and the gentle and delicate, mournful but not sad melody makes the music full of persuasiveness and appeal, reminding people of the suffering people in the movie who have been striving for self-improvement.