Liam Neeson smoking a cigarette as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List.
There is an argument to be made that Steven Spielberg is the greatest American director of all time. Fifty-year careers don’t come around often in Hollywood, especially not for directors, and Schindler's List is, without a doubt, his crowing achievement. The story of Oskar Schindler is as complicated as it is riveting and Steve Zaillian’s script, adapted from the book by Thomas Keneally, tells us the story in a way World War II films never had before.
Zaillian's script is careful not to make light but to make room for light. Even towards the back half of the film, when any sense of a caper is lost and it's truly just a movie about the Holocaust, there is a funny moment with Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goeth's gun not firing. What makes the movie so visceral is that it shows the humanity as much as it shows the inhumanity. It's not easy to get through because of its subject matter, but it's no less powerful.
✕ Remove Ads For a movie made in the 90s, the film stock is so true to form you might think it was made in the 50s or 60s. When we see film used today to emulate decades past, it can certainly work, but Schnidler’s List looks like a film that would have been made about the same subject at the same time. The immersive nature extends to the lighting, which uses shadow to show the Jewish people's plight and harsh light on the gods the Nazis perceive themselves to be.
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