It was like one of those days in college. I left office early for a movie!
It was a Friday, but afraid to say, it started all!
I went to see The Reader. An Oscar acclaimed movie with some strong theme. That was all that I knew. But it turned out to be more than that.
I got to know about the Auschwitz. The Jews, the Germans and everything!
In the quest to know more about what the entire thing was all about, I searched through the Wikipedia. Coincidentally though, Schindler’s List also was based on the same theme and the actor in The Reader also had acted in it, Ralph Fiennes.
Schindler’s List was a movie which I had started some time before, but did not feel like progressing with.
But, this time, donno why, I was determined to persist through the movie. I wanted to know all about what happened with the Jews.
I was startled seeing the way they were treated. I had just started seeing the movie, but felt really really disturbed after seeing the first half itself.
The scenes where the Jews are taken to Krakow with their belongings left behind and the Germans sorting and weighing them to be sold thereafter, another scene where the Jews wrap the valuable belongings in bread and swallow it, the thankfulness that the one handed man shows to Oskar when he’s saved from the SS (he gets shot later), women getting separated from their husbands, the cries of the children, the German boy saving a Jewish mom and her kid, she says, “ an hour of life is still life”…oh god!!! They were all sooo touching.
I remember during my college days, friends talking about Auschwitz and the deep injustice that Jews had to undergo, but never did I realize that it was such deep.
The scene where a small girl hides below the cot trying to save herself from the crouching barbaric gun shooters was moving. The affection shown between Oskar and Stern is something rare, especially when Stern says out his gratitude, which is so unexpected of him.
I particularly liked the incident where Amon shoots a random person for stealing chicken and seeing that, a small boy moves forward sobbing. On questioning him, the small boy admits that he knew the person who did that, and points towards the dead man. That was so likely a gesture from a boy belonging to a community of highest IQ!
How relieved and horribly happy the daughter Perlman would have felt when she saw her parents walking into the Schindlers’ factory! I bet she would have danced with joy. Now, I call that joy, for it comes from heart, true and pure. In that moment, Oskar was her savior I would say, and her GOD!
Then comes Helen, who says to Schindler that there are no set of rules, which you believe that you obey and you are safe! How bad can the situation for a person be, when he/she is bereft of freedom, forget freedom, that does not seem to matter, but to be under the constant fear that one day, you are gonna be shot! Knowing not when, that’s deprivation. That’s what I term horrendous deprivation. It’s thousand times better to be one in the random lot, the suffering is so very less.
“Control is power! That’s power!”...Amon says.
“Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don’t! “ Oskar replies.
“The truth, Helen, is always the right answer”…Amon says. All these dialogues are so catchy and apt.
What I am wondering is that how can a whole lot of population be kept like this and made to work. What about each of their ambitions, their desires, what about them? Doesn’t that matter at all? How can so much injustice be inflicted upon a whole community? Where were all the human rights people? Dead or acting like they never existed? I wonder if there were any! With a caring heart at all!
The sight of the shrieking women when their children are taken out of the ghetto for (donno what?!), will never fade from my memory. Children hiding the shit galore! Oh good god.
The list is life….
Whoever saves one life saves the world entire!
I am sure; every one among them would have at least at some moment of their lives in the Nazi control, cursed themselves for being born a Jew. But that is not their choice either, isn’t it?
Thinking about all this, I feel very lucky to be born at this point of time, to be blessed with everything, at most with FREEDOM.
It was a Friday, but afraid to say, it started all!
I went to see The Reader. An Oscar acclaimed movie with some strong theme. That was all that I knew. But it turned out to be more than that.
I got to know about the Auschwitz. The Jews, the Germans and everything!
In the quest to know more about what the entire thing was all about, I searched through the Wikipedia. Coincidentally though, Schindler’s List also was based on the same theme and the actor in The Reader also had acted in it, Ralph Fiennes.
Schindler’s List was a movie which I had started some time before, but did not feel like progressing with.
But, this time, donno why, I was determined to persist through the movie. I wanted to know all about what happened with the Jews.
I was startled seeing the way they were treated. I had just started seeing the movie, but felt really really disturbed after seeing the first half itself.
The scenes where the Jews are taken to Krakow with their belongings left behind and the Germans sorting and weighing them to be sold thereafter, another scene where the Jews wrap the valuable belongings in bread and swallow it, the thankfulness that the one handed man shows to Oskar when he’s saved from the SS (he gets shot later), women getting separated from their husbands, the cries of the children, the German boy saving a Jewish mom and her kid, she says, “ an hour of life is still life”…oh god!!! They were all sooo touching.
I remember during my college days, friends talking about Auschwitz and the deep injustice that Jews had to undergo, but never did I realize that it was such deep.
The scene where a small girl hides below the cot trying to save herself from the crouching barbaric gun shooters was moving. The affection shown between Oskar and Stern is something rare, especially when Stern says out his gratitude, which is so unexpected of him.
I particularly liked the incident where Amon shoots a random person for stealing chicken and seeing that, a small boy moves forward sobbing. On questioning him, the small boy admits that he knew the person who did that, and points towards the dead man. That was so likely a gesture from a boy belonging to a community of highest IQ!
How relieved and horribly happy the daughter Perlman would have felt when she saw her parents walking into the Schindlers’ factory! I bet she would have danced with joy. Now, I call that joy, for it comes from heart, true and pure. In that moment, Oskar was her savior I would say, and her GOD!
Then comes Helen, who says to Schindler that there are no set of rules, which you believe that you obey and you are safe! How bad can the situation for a person be, when he/she is bereft of freedom, forget freedom, that does not seem to matter, but to be under the constant fear that one day, you are gonna be shot! Knowing not when, that’s deprivation. That’s what I term horrendous deprivation. It’s thousand times better to be one in the random lot, the suffering is so very less.
“Control is power! That’s power!”...Amon says.
“Power is when we have every justification to kill and we don’t! “ Oskar replies.
“The truth, Helen, is always the right answer”…Amon says. All these dialogues are so catchy and apt.
What I am wondering is that how can a whole lot of population be kept like this and made to work. What about each of their ambitions, their desires, what about them? Doesn’t that matter at all? How can so much injustice be inflicted upon a whole community? Where were all the human rights people? Dead or acting like they never existed? I wonder if there were any! With a caring heart at all!
The sight of the shrieking women when their children are taken out of the ghetto for (donno what?!), will never fade from my memory. Children hiding the shit galore! Oh good god.
The list is life….
Whoever saves one life saves the world entire!
I am sure; every one among them would have at least at some moment of their lives in the Nazi control, cursed themselves for being born a Jew. But that is not their choice either, isn’t it?
Thinking about all this, I feel very lucky to be born at this point of time, to be blessed with everything, at most with FREEDOM.
1 comment:
well nice!!!!!!!!!
it wud hv been nice if i knew who oskar,amon were...
u cud hv gone on to explain it..
a movie review wud hv been better tat way... :):)
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