"Schindler's List" was a Hollywood version of the holocaust. Most of us know that Hollywood movies usually end with a happy ending. Although in this movie they do show horror and pain, it does end with the satisfaction that some people were able to survive. That was one thing that bothered me. A lot of people don’t believe that the holocaust ever happened and for someone to make a movie that had a little bit of a happy ending, shows they don’t understand the true meaning of the holocaust.
That’s why sometimes the Hollywood version of things isn’t that great. However, I still wanted to see the whole thing of “Schindler’s list” because it showed me what happened in a period of time were genocide was almost completed. It scares me to know that’s almost possible.
For me the most powerful scene was when the children were being taken away. As they rode in the cattle car they waved to their parents with extremely happy faces. Did they not realize that day would be their last? Of course they didn’t. They were just happy to finally have the feeling of seeing their parents. That’s all they cared about it. But they were so innocent and naive to not realize that in a few minutes or hours they would be thrown into a crematoria.
How could this actually be happening? I think watching these two movies I felt like if I was one of them, I would want to go to sleep and never wake up. Or just convince myself that I’m stuck in a nightmare. That none of this could be true...
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